4 August 2011
Nosa Igiebor would have featured in next week’s friendly against Ghana but for the difficulties of securing a UK visa for him in time.
“Igiebor would have been picked for the London match but because of the difficulties we anticipated to get him a visa to the UK, we had to leave him out,” said NFF technical committee chairman, Chris Green.
Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has also confirmed in an exclusive interview with MTNFootball.com in Colombia that Igiebor is very much in his radar.Norway-based midfielder Igiebor has been the stand-out star for the country’s Olympic team.
He was first called up by Siasia for the high-profile Argentina friendly in Abuja in June.