Levante winger Kareem Tunde is not in the immediate plans of the head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia to a Nigerian father and a Spanish mother he has made 11 appearances in the LaLiga, in what is his first season in the Spanish top flight.

A talk about international football has been mooted for the 20 year old, who is eligible for Nigeria and Spain but hasn’t been capped by any of the above mentioned countries.

Chelle made a check on him, but decided against handing him a call up in the immediate, and rather will allow him to continue to grow in the LaLiga until at least the end of the season.

Tunde is open to the idea of playing for Nigeria and will be hoping Levante stays up to further bolster his chances of getting a look in. They are presently 19th on the 20 team table. Four points away from safety.

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Iran won’t be taking part in the Four Four-Nation Invitational Tournament in the capital of Jordan Amman owing to the ongoing war with Israel, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

The tournament scheduled to start on the 27th of this month with Nigeria taking on Iran , will no longer go ahead as planned with Iran no longer a part of it.

Organisers are on the lookout for a replacement but if one isn’t gotten on time, then it will be a one game showpiece with Nigeria taking on Jordan but not in the Middle East.

A new venue in Europe is been proposed according to veteran Nigerian journalist Colin Udoh on social media platform X.

He said the president of the NIgeria Football Federation (NFF) told him that they will have a clear picture in three weeks. “We are monitoring the situation for now, we still have three weeks”, he was quoted as saying by Colin.

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Top division Argentina side Deportivo Riestra have announced the signing of 24 year old Nigerian winger Johnson Kalu Nsumoh on a free transfer, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

He met his new teammates at Speed Camp after a routine medical upon the completion of a routine medical earlier today. He spent the last year playing for OFK Baník Lehota in the Slovenian second division.

His contract will run till December 2026. He signed his contract and was registered with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) on January 26, before the transfer window closed.

The process to obtain his work visa took more than two months, until Nsumoh was finally able to arrive in the country.

Nsumoh will be the second African player in the club’s history to wear the Malevo jersey, following the time in the youth teams, in 1986, of Juan Carlos Ecomba, who was born in Equatorial Guinea.

At national level he is the third Nigerian player to reach the Argentine First Division, following in the footsteps of Félix Orode at San Lorenzo de Almagro and Okikiola Afolabi at Talleres.

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Head coach of English Championship side Coventry City Frank Lampard has once again heap praises on Nigeria international midfielder Frank Onyeka shortly before their 2-0 win over Bristol City in the English Championship.

Onyeka who was battling fatigue before the game was introduced with 13 minutes left to play in the bad tempered game, which saw players from both sides receiving their marching orders.

As it has been since his move to the team, they picked up another win which has moved them closer to their dream of gaining automatic promotion to the English Premier League.

The table toppers currently hold a nine points lead over third place Millwall, with top two gaining automatic promotion to the English elite division.

28-year-old Onyeka joined the Sky Blues from Brentford on transfer deadline day in February and has been part of a winning side in all of his appearances so far for the Championship leaders.

“When we recruited him the playing profile was different as we are quite light on Premier League experience,” Lampard told BBC CWR before the game.

“Not many of our players have been exposed to the Premier League, some other Championship teams have lots of exposure to the Premier League.

“So there’s an experience about it, a knowhow in his game but he’s been a big impact on and off the pitch for us. His professionalism is really good and he’s clearly come in and helped our upturn in recent weeks.”

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Nigeria international midfielder Alex Iwobi has lifted the lid on his shock exit from Arsenal to Everton during the 2019 summer transfer window, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Iwobi who made the step up to the first team from the youth team under Arsene Wenger, was a regular in the previous season under new coach Unai Emery, making his exit from the coach more surprising to many.

He left for Everton in a deal reportedly worth around £40m. A move which the 29 year old who is now at fellow English Premier League side Fulham said was against his wish but feels he was being forced out after the signing of Nicholas Pepe for a club record fee of £72m from Lille.

“I was away at the Afcon. Had a good Afcon. I’ve come back. I’ve been told by Unai Emery you have got two weeks extra. I’ll go enjoy holidays. I’m in Dubai with my family having a good time. they signed Nicholas Pepe.

“Great player by the way, I don’t say anything bad about this great player, and I thought. Wait you want me so why did you sign another winger? I was like, what’s going on here?

” And my agent told me Everton are interested, I said, oh, that’s nice to hear. I’m in Dubai. My agent is calling me. I’m like, I can’t hear you what he said that, hey, he goes, Mark (Marco Silva) himself he tells me all right, Alex. We want you to join us (Everton). We think you suit our playing style. I appreciate, that’s nice to hear.

“Arsenal already signed my medical documents, so I didn’t even get a chance to say yes or no, awesome. Basically, saying we don’t mind you going? Maybe it’s time for me to step out my comfort zone, become a man, go somewhere different”, he stated in an interview monitored by our editorial team.

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The reason why French giants Monaco decided to transfer 19 year old George Ilenikhena to Saudi Arabia side Al-Ittihad has been explained by the CEO of the club Thiago Scuro, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

George joined the Saudi outfit as a replacement for French forward Karim Benzema, and the move immediately sparked discussions on the rationale behind Monaco’s decision to let go of one of their promising prospects.

He was sold for a deal worth €33m and Scuro explained that it was against their wish, but they had to do it in order to stay afloat as a team in the French League because of financial constraints.

“The only way for French clubs to survive is by selling many more players than we buy,” says Monaco CEO Thiago Scuro. We are now good on Uefa rules.

“I had to make the best choice for the organisation. I wanted to keep George. He is a player with a lot of potential. We are happy to have found a solution for the financial situation, but it is also a shame that a young player with a lot of potential to progress leaves”, he stated.

A target for the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle, his move to Saudi hasn’t deterred the coach whom as we exclusively reported made contact with the player’s camp last week.

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Nicholas Jackson wasn’t the first choice option of Bayern Munich in the summer, when they were looking to bolster their options in attack, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Bayern signed Jackson on loan from Chelsea towards the end of the summer transfer window, a move which hasn’t worked out with the forward struggling to get game time.

So far he has scored just five goals in 22 games , and hasn’t looked anywhere near the player who can deputise for their top scorer Harry Kane.

Jackson who forced his way out of Chelsea wasn’t seen as a player at the club with a long term future, and their preference was Nigeria international forward Ademola Lookman who was back then at Serie A side Atalanta.

Lookman wanted out and pushed for a move by going on strike. Bayern moved to sign him as demanded by head coach Vincent Kompany but only on loan which was their policy last summer.

Their move was blocked by Atalanta who were only interested in a direct sale, and it left them with no option but to settle for Jackson. Lookman moved to Atletico Madrid in the January transfer window and has four goals and three assists in nine games.

The failed move to Bayern Munich was made public on social media platform X by CfBayern, a handle seen as very informative on issues about Bayern Munich.

Below is the post.

Bayern had an agreement with Ademola Lookman and his management at the end of last summer’s transfer window (represented by ROOF, same agency as Laimer, Gnabry, Goretzka). The Nigerian winger wanted to move to Munich but Atalanta refused to sanction the deal. Max Eberl was restricted financially due to the loan-only policy by the supervisory board. Therefore the club had to turn back to Nicolas Jackson [@cfbayern, @AgardiJulian]

The quietness by FIFA on the protest filed by Nigeria against DR Congo for fielding players with questionable nationality in the world cup qualifiers playoff final in November has been described as a support for illegality, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

Nigeria protested after losing the ticket to represent Africa to DR Congo in the final in Morocco. They said at least seven players in the team of DR Congo hold dual nationality which is against the constitution of the country.

FIFA upon receiving the petition demanded answers from DR Congo, and since then haven’t made a decision with just three weeks left to the start of the intercontinental playoff in Mexico.

” They are supporting illegality. It’s not normal that they haven’t passed a judgement. Dismiss it or confirm it. As a governing body you just can’t keep quiet about a protest. They should be a judgement”, a board member of the NFF said.

” We submitted our case on the grounds that having a country’s passport or residency doesn’t mean eligibility to play for them. It’s in FIFA’s laws not like we create them. The players involved can’t be said to have sporting eligibility when they don’t have constitutional eligibility which international football is all about”, he stated.

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