Bright Osayi-Samuel is delighted with his maiden invitation by Nigeria for their international friendly against Portugal, reports Completesports.com.
Osayi-Samuel is eligible to represent both Nigeria and England, but has now decided to pledge his international allegiance to the former.
The 24-year-old was named in Nigeria’s 23-man squad for the highly- anticipated game on Friday by head coach, Jose Peseiro.
The versatile winger took to the social media to celebrate his call-up.
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“Honored to be called up for Nigeria 🇳🇬🙏🏾,”he wrote on his Twitter handle.
Osayi-Samuel has made 10 league appearances for Turkish Super Lig club, Fenerbahce this season.
He has previously played for Blackpool and Queens Park Rangers.
Fenerbahce will host Giresunspor in a league clash on Saturday (today).
By Adeboye Amosu
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Watch how his career will blossom after this call up.. I just finished watching Ebube duru of rivers united how he is destroying teams from the left back position just because he had some games with the super eagles.. I expect bright to improve the more and get a better club.. thjs was the same way aino improved , a player that could not compete with ebuehi in the world cup in Russia got so better than he is the first name to be called when Nigeria plays
Such quality addition to SE. Osayi is fast, strong, aggressive and skillful. Have always been his fans. His like is what SE needs. But we must be a little bit patient with all new additions as it may take a while to get on their stride.
@Glory, please tell them.
Let them remember that these new players are making their debut against one of the best in the world.
Like they did for Bassey and Lookman after the game against Ghana. Now! They are few from the best we have.
Honestly speaking @ brodaman Sean. This is where fans are failing these true patriots as I will call them. We must understand that this country leadership has let majority of us down and these foreign born leaving their comfort zone to still proudly come to identify with their root is huge sacrifice and worthy to be applauded. So we have to try go easy with these players if only to encourage more of our children to proudly want to come give part of their gains in football back to a country that was never there. David Alaba, Moses Simon, Musa, John Fashanu etc just a case in point.