Sevilla striker Jerome Akor won’t be a part of the senior national team of Nigeria for the upcoming world cup qualifiers after picking up a muscle injury that will keep him out of action for three weeks , OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
“The Nigerian striker has an injury to the long adductor muscle of his left thigh and will be out against Girona FC,” the club announced with a brief statement on their official website.
He is expected to be out till October at the earliest, effectively ruling him out of the Nigerian team for the upcoming games against Rwanda and South Africa respectively after making the provisional list of 41 players made public by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Since joining Sevilla seven months ago from French Ligue 1 side Montpellier he has only played in six official matches without a goal so far. No thanks to the injury that wrecked his ambition upon his signing in January.
Akor made his debut at the Coliseum in Getafe, coming on for the last 9 minutes and, after spending five weeks injured with a muscle injury in the right rectus femoris , he played 7 minutes against Athletic Club, 25 minutes against Real Betis and the full 90 minutes against Atlético de Madrid.
After playing his first game as a starter, he suffered an identical ailment in the same area with an estimated prognosis of at least two months of convalescence that made him miss the remainder of the season.
Ade Emmanuel
