The crisis rocking the senior national team of Nigeria in the area of goalkeepers has dominated discussions around Nigeria football the past week following the howler by first choice goalkeeper Francis Uzoho in back to back friendly games, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Uzoho made a mess of a cross turning a simple ball into his own net in an attempt to tip it over the bar in the 2-2 draw against Saudi Arabia, he followed it up with another error in the 3-2 win over Mozambique as he was caught in no man’s land for the cross that opened scoring in the game.
The situation made Germany based Nigerian journalist Oma Akatugba to suggest the first choice goalkeeper of Germany Bundesliga side Freiburg Noah Atubolu to the Portuguese coach.
Born to a Nigerian father and a German mother, Atubolu has kept goal in all of Freiburg’s seven games of the season and currently boast of three clean sheets. He is yet to be capped by Germany as he has only represented their U21.
It means he is eligible for the senior national team of Nigeria but Peseiro according to Oma has no knowledge of the goalkeeper, he even had to show the coach the profile of the 21 year old on his phone.
He said Peseiro didn’t sound really interested but he will rather go ahead to speak with the shot stopper to pledge his senior future to Nigeria. He made all of this known in a post on X formerly known as Twitter.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
