Cyriel Dessers has hit back at a section of the Belgium press for criticising his decision to snub Belgium and pledge his international future to Nigeria, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
The 24 year old who is presently the top scorer in the Dutch Eredivisie with 11 goals that has also earned him the player of the month in the league rejected a chance to team up with the senior national team of Belgium insisting on Nigeria.
His decision has been severally criticised by a section of the media in Belgium with many saying he choose the easy path of representing Nigeria because he isn’t as good as the options ahead of him in the Belgium national team setup.
Dessers has hit back at them by insisting that he has always wanted to play for Nigeria even when the team was loaded with top players because of his strong connection with the country of his parents owing to how he was raised.
” It’s not about picking the easy option. It’s more about fulfilling my childhood dream of wanting to play for Nigeria. It’s a dream I have nurtured for years and now that I’m so close I won’t be distracted by talks of picking the easy option”, Dessers told Owngoalnigeria.com.
” Nigeria is blessed with quality players especially in attack. There’s Victor Osimhen, Samuel Kalu, Samuel Chukwueze, Ahmed Musa and a host of others and that’s some competition. However I am willing to push for a spot in the team when I hopefully get a call up to the team”, he concluded.
