Ahead of the International friendly double header coming up next month on October 9th and 13th for the Super Eagles in Austria against the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia respectively, the Nigeria Football Federation has made available a 25-man list of invited players to execute the matches.
Super Eagles’ coach, Gernot Rohr named 8 uncapped players in the list and they would be in contention to earn their first cap for the Super Eagles come next month.
Three goal keepers were called up, eight defenders, five midfielders, and nine strikers made up the 25-man list.
GOALKEEPERS
(1) Dele Alampasu (FK Ventspils, Latvia)
(2) Matthew Yakubu (SKF Sered, Slovakia)
(3) Maduka Okoye (Sparta Rotterdam, Netherlands)
DEFENDERS
(4) Kenneth Omeruo (CD Leganes, Spain)
(5) Leon Balogun (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)
(6) Chidozie Awaziem (FC Boavista, Portugal)
(7) William Ekong (Udinese FC, Italy)
(8) Olaoluwa Aina (Fulham FC, England)
(9) Jamilu Collins (SC Padeborn 07, Germany)
(10) Oluwasemilogo Ajayi (West Bromwich Albion, England)
(11) Zaidu Sanusi (FC Porto, Portugal)
MIDFIELDERS
(12) Mikel Agu (Vitoria Guimaraes, Portugal)
(13) Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City, England)
(14) Frank Onyeka (FC Midtjylland, Denmark)
(15) Oghenekaro Etebo (Galatasary SK, Turkey)
(16) Samson Tijani (TSV Hartberg, Austria
ATTACKERS
(17) Ahmed Musa (Al Nassr, Saudi Arabia)
(18) Alex Iwobi (Everton FC, England)
(19) Victor Osimhen (SSC Napoli, Italy)
(20) Moses Simon (FC Nantes, France)
(21) Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal FC, Spain)
(22) Cyril Dessers (KRC Genk, Belgium)
(23) Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City, England)
(24) Samuel Kalu (Girondins Bordeaux, France)
(25) Chidera Ejuke (CSKA Moscow, Russia)
A list of 5 players were also put on standby should any of the called-up players have any reason of the other to pull out of the invitation.
(1) Abdullahi Shehu (Bursaspor, Turkey)
(2) Ramon Azeez (Granada CF, Spain)
(3) Joshua Maja (Girondins Bordeaux, France)
(4) Henry Onyekuru (AS Monaco, France)
(5) Tyronne Ebuehi (FC Twente, Netherlands)
Super Eagles would be in action for the first time in 11 months as they have not played any match in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, recall the last time they played a match was November 2019, a 4-2 AFCON qualifier win against Lesotho at the Setsoto Stadium in Maseru, Lesotho.
