Cyriel Dessers, Ademola Lookman and Ovie Ejaria are the latest players to pledge their international allegiance to Nigeria while the NFF are also on the heels of Queens Park Rangers midfielder, Eberechi Eze. “There’s a cause before an action,” NFF President, Amaju Pinnick told Sports Extra exclusively on the need for players of Nigerian descent to play for the national team. Why do we look at the Nigeria Professional Football League and say it is not good enough? If you look at most players who play for Algeria today, (Riyadh) Mahrez, he was born in France, (Islam) Slimani, they went for these players. We would not say because we are patriotic and allow our players here (Nigeria) to take charge.

Source: Punch January 31, 2020 01:08 UTC