The U20 team of England who recently played two games during the international break had five players of Nigerian descent in the squad.
Five of them led by goalkeeper Owen Goodman, Daniel Oyegoke, Carney Chukwuemeka, Sam Edozie and Tim Iroegbunam were in the team that defeated United States 2-0 before playing a 2-2 draw with France.
According to UK based Nigerian journalist Michael Kayode, who works with the backroom staff of the production team of the English Football League, he see as many as four of them representing Nigeria in the future.
” I think out of the five of them only two stand a realistic chance of playing for England at the top level and that leaves the rest with uncertain future with the English set up. I can tell you that the duo of Chukwuemeka and Edozie will no doubt have a go with England at senior level”, he explained.
” But you see the trio of Iroegbunam, he is even ready now if called up, Goodman who was invited to the U20 team for the AFCON and Oyegoke who has a strong connection to his Nigerian roots. They will end up playing for Nigeria.
” They are with England now because that’s what is in front of them but in the long run. They will know that a better senior international future is sure with Nigeria than England. We have walked this road before with a lot of them”, he stated to OGN.
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