Nigeria could lose winger to USA at the 2022 World Cup

Nigeria might free Gboly Ariyibi to the US after the 27 yr previous had a powerful particular person season along with his Turkish membership MKE Ankaragucu.

MKE Ankaragucu completed the 2021/22 season on prime of the Turkish second division desk, incomes promotion to the highest flight as champions within the course of.

One of many key contributors to Ankaragucu’s ascension to the Turkish Tremendous Lig is Gboly Ariyibi, the American-born winger of Nigerian descent.

The 27-year-old ahead solely simply joined the membership final summer time and featured in 30 out of 36 attainable league video games in what was a strong debut season in Turkish soccer which is now reportedly incomes him worldwide consideration.

Gboly Ariyibi ended the season with three league objectives however his expertise is clearly past discovering the again of the online because the winger is now stated to have been contacted by the US males’s nationwide staff in preparation for the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Gboly was born in Arlington County, Virginia which makes him a United States citizen by start below circumstances that might finest be described as fortuitous.

Ms Agoro (Gboly’s mother) lived in Nigeria and would typically go to her sister in the US and it was on certainly one of these journeys that Gboly made his grand entrance into the world on the 18th of January 1995.

That makes him eligible to characterize the ‘Land of the free and the house of the courageous’ which he has achieved already, as soon as at below 20 stage and 4 occasions for the below 23s.

Although the person clearly loves Nigeria and has dreamt of representing the Tremendous Eagles identical to his idol Jay-Jay Okocha, it might be unfair to count on him to show down a USA call-up in a World Cup yr with out assurances from Nigeria.