The fine performance of Dominic Iorfa Junior at English Championship side Sheffield Wednesday has led to questions on why he was sold by English Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer.
24 year old Iorfa has been massive this season and was even voted the club’s player of the month in what is slowly becoming his best season in a long while after his breakthrough at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Iorfa was once upon a time rated as one of the best upcoming defender in English football when he made 42 appearances for Wolves during the 2015/2016 season and his performance earned him a spot in the English U21 team.
He was later picked to train with the senior national team of England during one of their training session with many tipping him to be a future senior international for England but things didn’t go as expected the next season.
From cementing his spot in the team, the next season he was a bit part player and only made 22 appearances before he was finally shipped out on loan to Ipswich Town the next season. Upon his return from the loan spell where he didn’t have enough game time he was once again not given enough game time at Wolves and that led to his eventual departure from the team.
According to his father in an interview with the Cable in 2016, his son ran into trouble when he met with the senior national team coach of Nigeria Gernot Rohr who came to Wolves to see then first choice goalkeeper Carl Ikeme. Rohr had a chat with Iorfa who declared his intention to switch allegiance to Nigeria.
“You know Rohr came to Wolves recently and met with my son (Dominic Jr) and Carl Ikeme (Wolverhampton’s first choice keeper),” Iorfa Snr told the Cable in 2015.
“Since he learned that my boy wants to play for Nigeria, he (Kenny Jacket) has been benching him. He believes there is no need developing him for Nigeria.
“I have said it that my son must play for Nigeria. Just that I want him to play for Nigeria when he is 23. But as long as I am alive, he must play for Nigeria. No be me born am?”
Iorfa senior said that didn’t go down well with the then coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers who decided to put the player out of his first team for opting to represent Nigeria ahead of England. The father is however optimistic that his son will one day play for Nigeria.
