One of the fascinating stories in English football this season has to be the promotion of Luton Town FC to the English Premier League from the Championship via the play off.
The team joined the duo of Burnley and Sheffield United in the English Premier League after seeing off Conventry in the playoff. The win dominated the headlines considering the small size of the club, who were not in the promotion spots until two weeks ago.
At the heart of the defence was a certain Gabriel Osho who was a part of the 2015 Nigeria U17 team at their camp in Abuja but didn’t make the cut for the World Cup, which was won by Nigeria with the likes of Victor Osimhen and co.
In a post on his official Twitter handle, Osho who celebrated his team’s promotion with a Nigerian flag wrapped around his waist in the company of another Nigerian teammate Elijah Adebayo has always flaunted his Nigerian heritage, despite the fact that he was born abroad.
He even celebrated his invitation to the camp of the Nigeria U17 with a post that read thus ” Buzzing to have been selected for a Nigeria U17 camp this week”, he posted on the 8th of June 2015. Before that time he posted about the Super Eagles AFCON 2013 win.
The 24 year old joined Luton in 2020 on a free transfer following his release from Reading, where he played for their U21 team. He had two loan spells at Yeovil Town and Rochdale respectively before returning back to the team in 2021.
He has his breakthrough this season playing a total of 35 games with three goals and an assist to his name. This season he played 33 games as a left sided center back, one as a left full back and he was deployed once as a defensive midfielder.
As the team heads into the English Premier League, Osho is one name that Nigerians should put an eye on particularly the handlers of the senior national team of Nigeria with the ageing backline of the senior national team a big issue of concern.
Mohammed Mowiz
