Bordeaux winger Samuel Kalu first tested positive for Coronavirus last year and the latest information from the Super Eagles camp in Cape Verde is that he has again tested positive.
Kalu was a late substitute for Moses Simon in Friday’s game against Liberia in Lagos.
He is one of Coach Gernot Rohr’s favourite players and he was tipped to start tomorrow’s match for a Super Eagles team heavily depleted by the absence of seven players who started on Friday.
It has been a difficult past year for Kalu as besides his Coronavirus infection, he was sidelined for several weeks after he was injured on international duty against Algeria last October.
Last month, he collapsed on his own during a Ligue 1 game at Olympique Marseille.
Venezia defender Tyronne Ebuehi is the other Super Eagles player who turned in a positive test and has been ruled out of tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier in Mindelo, officials disclosed.
Both Kalu and Ebuehi did not travel with the rest of the squad to Cape Verde Monday morning.
