The Nigeria Football Federation , NFF, has initiated contact with Newcastle United striker William Osula over a possible switch in international allegiance, reports Completesports.com.
Osula was born in Copenhagen to a Danish mother, and a Nigerian-French father.
The 22-year-old forward is eligible to play for Denmark, France, and Nigeria, but has previously represented Denmark at youth level.
The 22-year-old was called by Denmark for the games against North Macedonia and Czech Republic in March.
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Osula, however but did not feature in both games, leaving the door open for Nigeria to step up its pursuit.
Football journalist Farzam Abolhosseini reported on X that the NFF has already made initial contact with the forward.
“William Osula has been contacted by the Nigerian Football Federation through his background, who want the bomber from Newcastle to represent the African country instead of Denmark,” Abolhosseini wrote.
“He was selected for the Danish national team in March, but did not make his debut.”
By Adeboye Amosu
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Good one. This is the kind of thing expected of NFF.
Hope they will not owe him though!
This is why I have never supported having a local coach for any of our senior national teams (read as men and women).
Do they know the profile of players Eagles or Falcons need?
Do they have the mind to converse with players to change allegiance to our national teams when they are more fixated on local league players that use affidavits to determine their ages?
Only foreign coaches will tell NFF the mould of players to pursue and damn them if they don’t.
Waldrum carried falcons to US invitational when he resumed and some of the players had flight hitches. Behold, Alozie was “born” and the likes.
Today, Alozie and co are nearer 30 than in the prime. The “itti” local coach we have has not introduced any adequate replacement to the team since he carried “Waldrum babes” to win 10th Wafcon last year.
Compel NFF to fix friendly matches for falcons? No way. Even little cape Verde turned us down.
I spit.
Most likely, if God has mercy on us and we reach WAFCON semis and qualify for Brazil 2027 (as it stands now, we might settle for playoffs instead), these same girls will be used to prosecute next years world cup – because the local coach will neither introduce new players nor force NFF for grade A friendlies.
I seriously doubt he even had a 2026 programme.
Chelle doesn’t even have any near competition to prepare for but eagles have played more matches since December than falcons played since May 2024.
We think other female African national teams are sleeping for us to walk over.
July will tell.
See how local coaches killed all our cadet teams. Foreign born players are largely overlooked for academy and man know man home based, half baked, uncouth, uncooked and high-libido-uncontrollable players whose careers end after the tournament they appear in after money exchanged hands.
Where are the under 17, under 20 and Olympic teams today? Zero. Home based coaches.
Continental football, zero. League football, away wins are forbidden and we want them to appear in our senior national teams? Pushing mediocrity upwards ba.
Whoever clamours for home coaches in our senior teams again is demonic.
MRI scans exposed our previous cadet teams successes and since its introduction, our talent pool locally fizzled quietly.
Age cheats yet players meant for development phase are already old and past their sell by dates.
Nonsense.
I forbid such mediocrity ruins our senior football teams.
It can happen in and to our league.
It will be ETERNAL SHAME that SA used largely home based players to top us in 48 teams world cup qualifiers.
Yes, our overfed foreign pros and NFF conspired to thwart our chances twice in a row but WE WOULDN’T HAVE STOOD ANY CHANCE WITH LOCAL PLAYERS who achieved zero success in cadet and CAF competitions anyway.
Give npfl players a chance in super Eagles my foot.
CAF will soon rest chan but we NEVER WON IT while morocco won it three times. Shame.