As head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro continues to sound out players born abroad who are eligible to represent Nigeria, a lot of players are keen on hearing from the Portuguese.

Peseiro confirmed he will speak with Atalanta defender Caleb Okoli and this week he was in England for talks with more players of Nigerian descent. His visit to England came a week after the technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Austine Eguavoen visited England on the invitation of Tosin Adarabiyio.

The Fulham defender is expected to go straight into the Super Eagles squad for the AFCON qualifiers in March but it appears more players are willing to hear from the coach as regards his plans, owing to the fact that they are eligible for the team.

One of such players is PSV Noni Madueke, who has represented England at various youth levels but still remains eligible for Nigeria at senior level and he hasn’t close the door to representing the senior national team of Nigeria.

” Of course I am focus on playing for England at the moment because Nigeria haven’t ask me to play for them but if they do. I will be open to having a chat about it, I really want to hear from them to be honest”, he said in an interview made available to OwnGoalNigeria.com after scoring twice against AC Milan in a friendly game last week.

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Sweden’s top division side Mjällby AIF says Nigeria U23 defender Ejeh Isaiah  has started trials at the club in a bid to get a deal at the team before the start of the new season, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

In a statement on their official website, the club said the 2021 Nigeria U20 captain will spend a month at the club, where he will take part in training and test games before a decision will be reached on signing him.

Last season, the 20 year old who made over 17 appearances in the top division of the Nigeria Professional Football League while at Kwara United was key in helping the club snatch a continental ticket at the end of the season.

He was rewarded with a call up to the U23 where he played a role in the win over Tanzania, that helped them qualify for the next round of the Olympics qualifiers.  Coach Salisu Yusuf who also doubles as the head coach of the B team also handed a spot in the squad for the friendly game against Costa Rica.

Ejeh was on from start to finish in the game which ended 0-2 in favor of the South American team. His rise according to Mjällby is why they are having him around their facility for a month for proper assessment. He will immediately start playing test games.

“Ejeh is a centre-back we have had our eye on for a long time, we tried to get him here already last summer but unfortunately did not succeed then. Big, strong and fast player who has a good passing foot. We bring him here for a trial game to be able to see him in our training and matches, this allows us to evaluate him further before we make a decision about a transfer or not,” sports manager Hasse Larsson told the official website of the team.

Top Italian journalist Luca Cerchione has revealed why French Ligue 1 giants are confident of signing Nigeria international forward Victor Osimhen from Napoli, Owngoalnigeria.com reports.

Paolo Bargiggia was the first Italian journalist to write about PSG interest in signing a player of Napoli ahead of the start of next season and Cerchione has now revealed the identity of the player as Osimhen and talks took place few days ago.

He said the move is powered by PSG’s coach Christophe Galtier who had Osimhen as his player for a year at Lille, the club’s sporting director Luis Campos is also a big admirer of the forward as he also wanted to sign him while he was at the helm of recruitment at Monaco.

“During the trip to Paris a few days ago, Giuntoli spoke not only of Fabian Ruiz and Navas with PSG, but also of Victor Osimhen, highly regarded by Galtier and by sporting director Campos. The French have an option for next season ,” said the journalist.

Napoli will however maintain their push for Osimhen to sign an extension but will consider letting him leave if he turns it down. He is three years into the five year deal at the club and although he said he wants to stay at the club longer he still hasn’t committed to them.

The battle for the international future of on loan Arsenal forward Folarin Balogun has been narrowed down to just two countries in Nigeria and England, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Balogun who has ten goals in Ligue 1 where he is on loan to Reims is eligible for Nigeria, England and the United States of America at senior level but he is presently a youth international for England.

However while speaking on his senior international future, he confirmed he is open to the idea of representing all three countries, he made this known in an interview with BBC last year.

” Nigeria is very close to my heart. I haven’t heard anything from Nigeria, but I’m open to anything because Nigeria is very close to my heart,” he was quoted as saying

” My family’s from there. I always have love for Nigeria. That’s a conversation that I need to have with people around me, my agent and obviously my family.

“But if I was asked about the opportunity to play for Nigeria, then I can have that conversation. But first, I need to be asked.

However sources close to the forward revealed he is only considering Nigeria and England at the moment and doesn’t feel he stands a chance with the United States of America at the moment.

” It’s between Nigeria and England and he will make a decision at the end of this season. His club future needs to be sorted out and then international football at senior level. For now he will continue representing England until at least he gets a call from Nigeria then we can have a conversation”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

Following the official confirmation of his invitation to the Nigeria U20 team ahead of the U20 Africa Cup of Nations, Trelleborgs record signing Abel Ogwuche has voiced out his mission in the team.

Abel is among the players based abroad called up by coach Ladan Bosso and will report to the camp of the team in the second week of January to prepare for the tournament which runs between 19 February and 11 March in Egypt.

Nigeria has been drawn in Group A along with host country Egypt, Mozambique and Senegal and Ogwuche said he looks forward to the tournament with pride of putting on the colours of the Nigeria U20 team known as Flying Eagles.

“It is with pride that I will represent Nigeria in the tournament. It shows that I did something good and I hope that me and my teammates can make the country feel proud of our achievements. It is a dream that every child in the country has, to represent Nigeria at the national team level and not everyone has been lucky enough to have that dream come true”, he told the official website of the club.

It has been a remarkable year for the Tripple 44 Academy of Ibadan graduate who was made the club’s first signing after distinguishing himself during a loan spell at the club. So good that he was made their record signing.

He made a total of 8 appearances. Starting three matches and bagging a total of three man of the match awards from the three starts. As a a matter of fact the club didn’t lose a single game which will he played.

Scottish League One side Airdrieonians FC has officially confirmed the promotion of 17 year old Nigerian striker Bright Osemudiamen Prince Okosun, known simply as Bright Prince to the first team.

The club announced that he has been rewarded for his good form for the youth team with a permanent spot in the first team of the team even though he is just 17 years old. His record of 11 goals in 13 games showed he has outgrown that level.

Born in Spain to Nigerian parents, he has however said he is open to playing for Nigeria if they hand him a call up ahead of the other nations he is eligible to represent but Nigeria appears to be close to his heart.

Speaking on the ability of the forward who has caught the eyes of Nigeria U20 coach Ladan Bosso, the coach of the first team of Airdrieonians FC Rhys McCabe, said he is pleased to see Bright make the step up to the first team after less than a year at the club.

“Bright has done really well, as have a lot of the younger lads. He has good attributes in terms of offering something a little bit different to what we already have”, he said in an interview with the official website of the club .

“Being in and around the first-team environment on a daily basis and learning from older pros will help Bright in the long-term, and in the short term his signing helps to bolster the squad.”

Bright when asked said he is delighted to have taken this very important step in his career and will be committed to giving his best in order to help make his rise to the first team one to remember.

“Of course I’m very happy, it’s clearly a really good thing – you should be delighted if you’re good enough and you work hard enough to step up to men’s football”, he said

“Having played so many games and scored so many goals for the Academy gives you that burst of confidence that I probably need for the step up to first-team football.

“I’m delighted to be here and that the work-rate I’ve given has been rewarded”, he rounded up saying.

Fulham moved up to eight in the English Premier League and also leveled on points with 7th placed Liverpool after a hard earned 1-0 win away at Leicester City, who are now 13th and just three points away from the drop zone.

Aleksandar Mitrović scored his 11th goal of the season in the 17th minute and it ended at the decisive goal of the game. A game which had as many as three Nigerian players on show during the course of the game.

Wilfred Ndidi and Tosin Adarabiyio were on from the start for Leicester City and Fulham respectively while Kelechi Iheanacho was subbed on by the coach of the home team Brendan Rodgers as they went in search of a leveller.

Adarabiyio was the only one who clocked the full minutes of the game as Ndidi was subbed off . The defender who has openly pledged his international future to Nigeria, and also invited the technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Austine Eguavoen to watch him play last week showed what he will add to the defence of the Super Eagles.

He was calm, played out from the back nicely and also showed good aerial strength and awareness which helped him to shake off any threat to the defence . It was his 12th game of the season and despite playing as a defender he has a goal to his name.

Nigeria international winger Samuel Chukwueze is having his most productive spell ever in front of goal with his seventh goal of the season coming in their 5-1 win over Cartagena in the Copa Del Rey.

Chukwueze was on target at the weekend in the LaLiga scoring the opener in their 2-1 win over Valencia and today with five minutes left to play, he scored his team’s fourth goal in what was a convincing win for the yellow submarines.

He has three goals in the Copa Del Rey, three in the UEFA Europa Conference League and one in the La Liga. It is his best run in front of goal and a sign of his progress under new coach Quique Setién.

The 23 year old has already matched his tally of last season where he managed seven goals in all competitions. This time around he has done it with around 15 games less. A remarkable return for a player who hasn’t shown his ability to score goals in previous seasons.

Chukwueze will be hoping to maintain his fine run when they take on Real Madrid on Saturday in the LaLiga. They are presently seventh on the log. Three points away from Atletico Madrid who are occupying the 4th position, which is the final spot for qualification for the UEFA Champions League.

The head coach of the Nigeria U20 team Ladan Bosso says he hasn’t released the list of invited players for the second phase of camping of the team ahead of the U20 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

A list of invited players went viral earlier today with as many as 30 players listed as players who will be in Abuja for the final phase of their camping, which starts on the 7th of January ahead of the tournament in Egypt.

Bosso in a chat with Owngoalnigeria.com said the list of invited players hasn’t been submitted yet and it’s why he is yet to make it public even though the second phase of camping will begin on Saturday.

” That is not my list and I want people to disregard it. The standard practice is to submit to the technical department of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before making it public. We will do that within the week and make it public”, Bosso told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

He however said contact has been made with the players who are sure to be a part of the team for them to be ready for the trip to camp. ” We know those we have contacted already for them to plan their trip. It will be made public before the end of this week”, be rounded up saying.