As new coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro settles down into his role, it is expected that he will hand first time call up to several players doing well for their respective teams.
Peseiro has already led the team in two competitive games winning against Sierra Leone and Sao Tome and Principe respectively. The next competitive game for the team will be next year.
That extension means the coach can now decide to try out new players in proposed friendly games against Cameroon and Portugal respectively next month, as first reported by OwnGoalNigeria.com.
A call has been made to the Portuguese manager to hand a chance to 26 year old Blackpool defender Marvin Ekpiteta. He is presently the captain of the English Championship side and was last season voted as their player of the year.
Yesterday he picked his second man of the match award in four games this season in their 1-0 win away to QPR. A perfomance that led us to the gate of his management agency Elite Management Agency.
” Of course he deserve a chance with the senior national team of Nigeria. Marvin has been phenomenal for two seasons now and I will write to the coach of the Nigerian team to hand him a chance”, a representative of his agency told OwnGoalNigeria.com.
Ekpiteta trained with the 2013 Nigeria U17 team but failed to make the team to the tournament, where Nigeria emerged as champions. He has since grown into a defender rated among the best in the English Championship.
