President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick made a futile attempt to lure England international forward Tammy Abraham to the senior national team of Nigeria four years ago.
Pinnick took pictures with the forward with the official website of the club running an extensive interview on the forward claiming he has decided to switch allegiance to the senior national team of Nigeria.
The forward was quick to deny the report insisting that he is keen on representing England terming his meeting with the NFF president as a friendly one initiated by his father and nothing was discussed in terms of switching nationality.
Pinnick has now narrated part of what he told the forward in that their meeting with the forward who is now at Italian Serie A side AS Roman and hoping to fight his way back into reckoning with England.
“I told Tammy Abraham that he stood a better chance of playing regularly for Nigeria than with England, which has a galaxy of strikers of the English stock ahead of him”, Pinnick said he told the striker in 2017.
