Paris Saint-Germain right-back, Colin Dagba, is open for selection into the Benin Republic senior men’s national team, Cheetahs.
According to Joueurs Beninois in a post on X, there is the possibility that Dagba could be included in Benin Republic’s list, ahead of next month’s AFCON 2025 qualifier against Nigeria’s Super Eagles.
Gernot Rohr-led Benin Republic side will be guests to the Super Eagles on matchday 1 of the AFCON 2025, billed for Saturday, September 7, 2024 in Uyo.
The last time both teams clashed was in June this year, in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers which the Beninoises won 2-1.
Born in Bethune, France to French and Benin Republic parents, Dagba On 3 July 2017, Dagba signed his first professional contract with PSG on July 3, 2017.
The 25-year-old made his professional debut on 4 August 2018, starting in the 2018 French Super Cup match against Monaco, which PSG won 4-0.
He has won Ligue 1 title three times, French Cup twice, French League Cup once and was part of the PSG squad that lost to Bayern Munich in the final of the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League.
On 6 July 2022, Dagba extended his contract with PSG until 30 June 2025 and subsequently signed for fellow Ligue 1 club Strasbourg on a season-long loan.
Then on 1 September 2023, he joined Ligue 2 side Auxerre on loan for the 2023–24 season.
By James Agberebi
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We all knew that the result from last match with Benin Republic was from coach error and ego of some few players. Let Mbappe of Madrid join them they will always collect slaps from Super Eagles of Nigeria.
When it comes to Super Eagles of Nigeria this news is useless.
God bless Nigeria.
As if we have been beating them 5-0, 8-0 in the past.
We have only always managed to eke out narrow wins against Benin and I cant remember when last we had a flawless victory against us.
They have eliminated us from CHAN once and one of their clubs just booted out our FA cup champions from the CAF Confed Cup this past weekend.
Coaching error or not, they won Nigeria flat out on a neutral ground and have pulled some interesting 1-1, 2-2 draws against the last two AFCON champions in recent past (abi those ones too na coaching error), which shows they won’t lie low to be steamrolled by anyone.
3 or 4 more quality additions like this PSG player in the squad can make them more formidable in the near future.
Learn to show some respect.
We were slapping Angola too left right and centre before they slapped us out of the 2006 WC. If that did not teach yall a lesson, we’ve just been slapped out of the 2026 WC when we’ve not even reached half way point of the qualifiers yet.
Let’s learn some humility from our humiliations. The fact that something has happened before only means it can happen again. The previous time it was “coaching error”, who knows what may happen this time around.
That we will meet both Rwanda and Benin twice, before we meet them again in the remainder of the WCQ calls for some caution in how we blurt out emptily braggadocious statements all over the place.