Gernot Rohr has picked captain Ahmed Musa for forthcoming AFCON qualifiers against Benin and Lesotho even though he is without a club and has not played for several months after he was released by Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr.
“The list is done, NFF will release the list soon,” Rohr told NationSport.
“We have a list of 23 plus captain Musa, six players on standby.”
Rohr has over time insisted that players who are not active in their clubs will not be considered for the national team.
However, he has now gone against such standard with the inclusion of Ahmed Musa on the squad for the games against Benin on March 27 and versus Lesotho three days later in Lagos.
The winger’s search for a new club after a shock departure from Saudi Arabia has not gone to plan after a proposed transfer to Premier League strugglers West Bromwich Albion crashed recently.
Ahmed Musa is pressing hard to become only the third Nigerian player to win a century of international caps after Vincent Enyeama and Joseph Yobo.
why many people hate the northerners in everything even in the football they no want to see any of the northern person be included, always people against the progress of the northerners
Let me chip in my little Cents on Musa’s invitation……..I believe it is well deserved. Musa needs SE at this point in his career so much that it will be a disservice to leave him out completely. He is looking for a club but he’s unattached at the moment, the only way to assure the prospective team will be to showcase his talent in the SE colours and show them he is still the real deal.
Before guy will castigate me that SE team is not an advertising agency…………let me take you back to memory lane on the sojourn of Musa in the National team set up:
He set the NPFL alight in 2010 becoming the highest goal scorer with 18 goals at age 17+ years old. he then earn a national team call up and a transfer to VVV-Venlo. He represented Nigeria U-20 in 2011 U-20 WC scoring 3 goals, despite the fact that he is still settling down at VVV-Venlo he never used that excuse to decline U-20 invitation, he even played 1 match for the U-23 same year and still honours SE invitations as well. Ever since he became a regular in SE team, he has never decline any single invitation till date, never came up with any excuse and always gave his best whenever called upon , highly dedicated and motivated in the White & Green jersey. Even before the 2018 WC, he sacrificed the Big Pounds sterling earnings in Leicester to opt for a loan stint in Russia just to be in the team and he delivered with 2 stunning WC goals that was nominated for the tournament best goal award.
So all am saying is that, this young Man has demonstrated his Patriotism, sacrificed a lot when Nigeria needs him and served us creditably well. So now that he needs Nigeria, should we now turn our back on him?
Anyone that watched our last four games in 2020 will see that he still has much impact in the matches than your referred Onoachudowsky……………..1 flick assist and causing a penalty against Tunisia are the key moments in that game, against S/L the team collapsed totally after his substitution.