Portugal friendly: Three exciting Nigerian stars ready for maiden Super Eagles call-up

The Nigeria nationwide males’s soccer staff will within the coming days play Costa Rica and Portugal within the final worldwide matches for the 12 months 2022.

With a document of zero wins in three pleasant video games below his watch, head coach Jose Peseiro will purpose to buckle that pattern when the Tremendous Eagles face the Central Individuals and the Europeans. The important thing to that can be fielding Nigeria’s greatest gamers for the clashes.

The friendlies additionally current Peseiro the chance to check out new stars and new concepts.

And Soccernet.ng’s Imhons Erons highlights three thrilling footballers whose performances in current occasions put them in line for nationwide staff invites.

Victor Boniface

No Nigerian footballer in Europe has been simpler in entrance of purpose this season than Union Saint-Gilloise’s Victor Boniface.

The thrilling younger ahead has accounted for nineteen objectives and 6 assists in all competitions for Bodoe/Glimt and Union SG.

A brand new arrival to Belgium, Boniface has been referred to as the brand new Romelu Lukaku by the Belgian media, together with his energy, tempo, and poise inflicting many a defender a great deal of worries.

It’s within the Europa League, nevertheless, that his contributions have been extra profound. The 21-year-old is Nigeria’s most prolific ahead within the competitors with three objectives. Even general, solely Sporting Braga’s Vítor Oliveira (4 objectives) has scored greater than the teenager.

And with Cremonese’s Cyriel Dessers an enormous doubt for Nigeria’s November friendlies, Boniface may obtain his maiden Tremendous Eagles call-up before later.

Jordan Torunarigha

Torunarigha has represented Getmany in any respect ranges from the under-16 to the Olympics staff however he stays eligible to characterize the Tremendous Eagles.

Son of a former Nigeria worldwide, Torunarigha ended a 16-year affiliation with Hertha Berlin in January to hitch Gent in Belgium. He has sunce change into one of many Jubiler Professional League’s most revered defenders.

With age catching up with Tremendous Eagles stalwart Leon Balogun, 25-year-old Torunarigha could be the proper alternative for the previous Mainz man within the Nigerian nationwide staff set-up.

Alhassan Yusuf Abdullahi

Yusuf has been one in every of Nigeria’s most constantly glorious performing kids in Europe over the past couple of years.

He was the perfect younger participant in Sweden, the place he was named the 2019 Allsvenskan Newcomer of the Yr earlier than he accomplished a swap to Belgium’s Royal Antwerp final 12 months.

A tireless workaholic, a stable tackler and an impenetrable defend for the defence, Yusuf is Wilfred Ndidi and Michael Essien rolled into one.

At 22, the defensive midfielder can be an ideal under-study for Ndidi and it’s only a matter of time earlier than the nationwide staff handlers combine him into the Tremendous Eagles.