Tottenham Hotspur Starlet Oduwa Poised To Make Nigeria Debut Against Brazil

It is all but confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur winger Nathan Oduwa will play his first game for the Nigeria U23s against their Brazilian counterparts on Thursday, March 24.

The Nigeria Football Federation is reporting that Oduwa and the other invited foreign-based professionals arrived the Hotel Ilha Do Boi camp of the U-23 National Team on Monday.

Liverpool loanee Taiwo Awoniyi and Musa Mohammed were the first to arrive and they were later joined by Oduwa, Sodiq Popoola, Imoh Ezekiel, Agboyi Ovbokha, Theophilous Solomon and Godswill Ekpolo.

The delegation from Nigeria, led by NFF Deputy General Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme, departed from Lagos via South Africa from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Sunday, aboard a South African Airways flight.

The team had their first training session on Brazilian soil on Tuesday morning local time.

Igho Kingsley


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