Chelsea defender Tosin Adarabioyo visited Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday amid reports linking with a nationality switch to Nigeria.
The centre-back is in Nigeria for his grassroot tournament tagged ‘ Tosin Adarabioyo Youth Cup’, which he is organising in conjunction with the Lagos State Football Association.
The competition will hold at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan Lagos.
36 Lions FC, Seamoriow FC, Mavlon FC, and Eko Football Boys are the four clubs that will participate in the competition.
The four teams will compete in a mini-tournament format, culminating in the crowning of a champion.
Adarabioyo will have an interaction with the young players, while there will also be a session to meet the fans, and sign autographs.
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Meanwhile, Governor Sanwo-Olu has praised the former Manchester City player for the gesture.
“Tosin Adarabioyo, who plays for Chelsea, stopped by to visit while he’s in Nigeria,” Sanwo-Olu wrote on his social media page.
“It’s always inspiring to meet young Nigerians making their mark internationally, who remain grounded and stay connected to home.”
Adarabioyo was born in London, England to Nigerian parents.
The 27-year-old has represented Nigeria at the youth level but is still eligible to play for Nigeria.
By Adeboye Amosu
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This guy should not play for Nigeria o… otherwise tomorrow they will be pricing him like chew gum in the market…
Playing for England is more prestigious than playing for Nigeria let’s be honest…only NFF and their gbese etc will make you cry..
Do not worry bro, he will play for Ghana. Funny man
He shunned the question of playing for Nigeria again when journalists asked him at the govt house. We can’t be begging people to play for us for years while they await another national team….Buddy might even flop in African football. He is not a regular for chelsea.
You Make a Good Point @MONKEY POST After this transfer Window and what is going on with Osimhen’s issue and having to see out his Best years at Gala and the Arabia after, then with Lookman and everything stagnating after Inter Links Hmmmmm! I start to wonder, but then I see Kudus Moving to Tottenham Hotspur seamlessly It really rattles the brain., But what I would say is We will need all the help we can get against South Africa in South Africa for World Cup Qualifiers and Tosin will be a much Needed addition to the Defence in-fact if he Joins SE he Joins as the best Defender we would have in our Team even Miles ahead of Ekong, Like I have been screaming for years. Anyway that said We need Him In SE for World Cup Qualifiers, if he are to stage an unlikely comback and also for AFCON charge
A person cant visit his home country? A person cant visit lagos before it gets completely robbed from his people? Bukayo saka went to Nigeria and met with Sanwo Olu. I dont get with all these ultra nationalistic people here. What is the benefit for playing for africa? Tammy abraham did the same thing when they asked him if he was going to play for nigeria
A lot of top clubs or winning clubs are not signing African playing players or they will sign them but they aren’t a strong starter or important player to the team, but will most likely come off the bench. Man city, real madrid, bayern, etc win without having an african playing players or an african who is very important to the team or plays a major part.
Teams want south american and european players because they play in the summer with their national team. If a team is trying to be on top of the table having a player that plays for Africa, they will get burned in the long run. The best thing to do is to get the most out of the player before afcon rolls up. Literally why players won’t switch allegiance to african countries, nothing good comes out of it when you are trying to have a successful club career. The only thing is making the african fans happy. But for europe, quality pitches, top care and actually getting paid. Afcon is coming later this year and I think clubs know and want to win the league. They are not gonna pay a lot of money to players that will soon handicap the team later in the season. I mean asian cup comes every four years so clubs sign asian players too.
Pep guardiola always wins with non african playing players. He only gets south americans and european players, I saw that fact on sky sports. Now look at chelsea, a lot of african european players and they are doing well. When afcon came man city was the least affected. The most affected were the bottom teams which is where most nigerians play lmaoo. I remember seeing how forest lost half of its squad and that season they finished just above relegation. Now look at forest now, they changed their lineup. Look at Awoniyi. Hes a scrub and a bench player. Chris wood, a new zealand player is now the star of the team, he replaced Awoniyi. Other than Aina, most of the African players are on the bench like Willy Boly. Forest changed it up, now the starting team is mostly europeans and south americans. When top clubs are signing African players, it will be the european ones, france, uk, netherlands, etc. Forest had elenga who plays for sweden and hudson odoi who plays for england.
Chelsea no longer need to hear it from mikel on osimhen because of brazilian jaoa pedro and english delap. Nicholas jackson is on the bench or not in the starting team next season. There is already news that there are teams looking to get him which means that they will loan him out. Chelsea can now challenge for the league again
Mbeuno plays for cameroon. Mbeuno went on the man utd. But Man utd are known to always be desperate. Kudus might come from the bench, they already have solanke.
All these English lads with low mentality in big games and championships. They are trying but they are scared just like the 3 lion players. One of such moved from Fenerbache to Birmingham city and you think Nigeria will go far with such calibre of players raised in England.
NPFL players have better winning mentalities than these init boys.
Yuh pipo needs to make tings wunu say make sense nah haba!
When wuna players dey sign and play for all de big big teams like chelsea, Arsenal and other europe big teams nobodi hear pim from wunu but dese days wen na Ghana players end other other country players like mbeumo and wissa wuna go dey cry cry like goats, dis ting na turn by turn an na only God dey decide wetin go happen, abegi rest!
Den yuh con talk sey wuna needs Tosi for south hafrica game, show sey yuh be really mumu guy, she na Tosi wit hin long stegomaya mosquito legs na hin go dey chase all dose short small fast SA players arand for field jkjkjkjkjkjk I laffing in Icelandic mtcheew!