Spanish club Leganes have stopped Kenneth Omeruo from attending Nigeria’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures against Benin Republic and Lesotho, reports Completesports.com.
Omeruo broke the news to Completesports.com in an exclusive chat from his base in Spain on Saturday morning.
“My club refused to let me go. I won’t be coming to the game because of Covid,” the versatile defender declared.
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It would be recalled the duo of Moses Simon and Sadiq Umar were also stopped by their respective clubs from honouring invitations for the qualifiers as a result of travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Paul Onuachu and Anayo Iwuala have been named as replacements for the two players by head coach Gernot Rohr.
There are growing fears that more players will also be forced out of the qualifiers.
The Super Eagles will confront Benin Republic on March 27 at the Stade Charles de Gaulle, Porto-Novo, before hosting Lesotho three days later at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
By Adeboye Amosu
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COMMENTS
Lol,now we are seeing the dangers of over reliance on foreign based players.i hope this goes well.
What affects us will also affect them. So no challenge.
Infact the Beninoise side are even experiencing something more worse than ours because almost all their foreign players ply their trade in France. And for us here, sincerely we haven’t had a very painful withdrawal. There has been like for like replacement for them so far apart from that of Sadiq. Until someone like Oshimen, Ndidi, Chukwueze, Aribo, Balogun, Nacho withdraws before we can really say there’s fire on the Mountain. So far this ones have not withdrawn, No problem
Every African national team is in the same COVID-19 soup as Nigeria. No panic.