21 year old Genk of Belgium defender Christian Akpan has been handed a late call up to the senior national team of Nigeria ahead of their upcoming friendly games against Poland and Portugal respectively, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle is going to be without some of the invited players for both games, due to visa and other issues. Notably the striking duo of Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman won’t be available.

Chelle has now moved quickly to pick replacements ahead of the game against Poland in two days time. He made contacts with Akpan per what we exclusively gathered.

Akpan only made his top flight debut for Genk first team on Sunday, he has however been a regular for the B team in the second division with two assists in ten games.

Comfortable as a right or left full back, he can also play as a defensive midfielder and the fact that he can play multiple roles aided his case.

Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman

Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle has revealed that top striker Victor Osimhen has plans of leaving Galatasaray in the summer transfer window, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Chelle made this known while explaining the reason why Osimhen and his strike partner Ademola Lookman won’t be available for the upcoming friendly games against Poland and Portugal respectively.

He said Osimhen was left out because he intends to switch teams this summer. A statement that will no doubt angered the Turkish side who have constantly insist that he is not sale.

” We have two games Poland and Portugal and I have lot of problem because some players don’t have visa for it. The most important we will miss two players because Victor Osimhen will maybe change a club, we prefer that he stays in his house, because if he plays he might not be 100 percent”, he said at the post match.

Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle says the attacking duo of Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen won’t be available for their upcoming high profile friendly games against Poland and Portugal respectively, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Nigeria yesterday successfully defended the Unity Cup title with a 3-0 win over Jamaica, and will now regroup with an almost different set of players for the game against Poland on the 3rd of June.

Seven days after the game, they will take on Portugal in Lisbon, with the Portuguese using the game as a farewell before heading to the World Cup in the USA.

The duo of Lookman and Osimhen were not included in the squad that won the Unity Cup yesterday, and Chelle confirmed they won’t be part of the team for the upcoming games as well.

” We have two games Poland and Portugal and I have lot of problem because some players don’t have visa for it. The most important we will miss two players because Victor Osimhen will maybe change a club, we prefer that he stays in his house, because if he plays he might not be 100 percent”, he said at the post match.

” Lookman is very tired and Atletico Madrid asked us to let him rest so we will travel with 18 players. We will see what happened after in Poland and Portugal”, he stated.

Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman

Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle says the attacking duo of Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen won’t be available for their upcoming high profile friendly games against Poland and Portugal respectively, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Nigeria yesterday successfully defended the Unity Cup title with a 3-0 win over Jamaica, and will now regroup with an almost different set of players for the game against Poland on the 3rd of June.

Seven days after the game, they will take on Portugal in Lisbon, with the Portuguese using the game as a farewell before heading to the World Cup in the USA.

The duo of Lookman and Osimhen were not included in the squad that won the Unity Cup yesterday, and Chelle confirmed they won’t be part of the team for the upcoming games as well.

” We have two games Poland and Portugal and I have lot of problem because some players don’t have visa for it. The most important we will miss two players because Victor Osimhen will maybe change a club, we prefer that he stays in his house, because if he plays he might not be 100 percent”, he said at the post match.

” Lookman is very tired and Atletico Madrid asked us to let him rest so we will travel with 18 players. We will see what happened after in Poland and Portugal”, he stated.

A brace from Alhassan Yusuf and another strike from Terem Moffi was enough for Nigeria to defend the Unity Cup title with a comprehensive 3-0 win over Jamaica in the final of the Unity Cup.

Yusuf opened scoring as early as the second minute of play taking advantage of a long throw in that wasn’t properly cleared by Jamaica.

Terem Moffi who had two assists in the first game, was at the receiving end of a pass from Femi Azeez, who he gave both assists in the win over Zimbabwe.

His goal set Nigeria on the way to a comfortable win, but with Jamaica pushing to reduce the deficit,Yusuf broke free from a counter attack to round up the game for Nigeria.

Benjamin Fredrick was handed a recall to the senior national team of Nigeria for the high profile friendly games against Poland and Portugal respectively by head coach Eric Chelle, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Fredrick missed the entirety of the second half of last season after picking up a meniscus injury during training with FC Dender where he was on loan from English Premier League side Brentford.

He has since returned to full fitness, and was included in the team for the games in June by Chelle but was stopped from honouring the games by Brentford.

The club has already informed the player’s representative that he will be in their squad for next season, hence they want him fully rested and ready for the start of pre season training.

Chelle was informed of the decision by the club, and he respected it knowing having the recently turned 21 year old in his team for competitive games later in the year is the ultimate goal.

Since making his debut at the Unity Cup around this time last year, he started in all of the eight competitive games he played for Nigeria before missing out on the AFCON due to injury.

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Head coach of Jamaica Rudolph Speid is upbeat on his team’s chances of beating Nigeria in the final of the Unity Cup on Saturday, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Jamaica defeated India 2-0 to set up a final against Nigeria who were winners over Zimbabwe with the same scoreline. It will be a repeat of last year’s final where Nigeria triumphed on penalties after a 2-2 draw in regulation time.

The coach said they are looking forward to an exciting game, but hope for a better result than the last time they met in the final around a year ago.

“We always look forward to playing them. Last year was very exciting, it was a 2-2 draw. This year, I hope we’ll have better results against them.”

“We saw them play on Tuesday night. We’ll do some more analysis on what they will be doing and then we will decide if we need to change anything.”

“Well, they are very, very good but every team is beatable, and we have to be aware of what they bring. We have some things to bring ourselves.

“Jamaica is still in a rebuilding stage, lots of young players. As with the game these days, nobody is a winner before the game is played. That’s where we are right now,” he concluded.

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The Super Eagles of Nigeria held their penultimate training session ahead of Saturday’s Unity Cup final game against Jamaica, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Still smarting from the 2-0 win over Zimbabwe, the team led by head coach Eric Chelle were back on the training ground perfecting strategy in readiness for the final .

Owen Oseni whose inclusion in the team caused a lot of uproar is still struggling to justify why he was handed a spot in the team. The Plymouth Argyle striker was seriously off the pace for the entire duration of the session.

One player who has been at his best since the first day of training is OGC Nice forward Terem Moffi, and he was about the best player among all forwards for the duration of the session.

Alhassan Yusuf who had a very good game against Zimbabwe continue his form in training, breaking up play and setting up attacks with ease.

He appears to have strike a near perfect partnership with the duo of Samson Tijjani and Tochukwu Nnadi in the middle.