We need his experience: Super Eagles players tell Chelle to remember Leon Balogun

The players of the Nigeria Super Eagles have told chief coach Eric Chelle to give a retirement to the defender of the Rangers, Leon Balogun, due to his experience after the 1-1 draw against Zimbabwe in Uyo on Tuesday.

Balogun played for the last time for the team two years ago not thanks to its poor form at the club level in the past, but has shown glimpses of the best of itself in the Scottish Rangers team this season.

The 36 -year -old has played a total of 23 games in all competitions this season. A sign of how well it has maintained its physical form since it shook the injuries and physical condition problems that slowed it for almost two years.

Despite its impressive form this season, Chelle, Chelle, for the World Cup Romananda and Zimbabwe classifiers, respectively, with Nigeria winning 2-0 in Kigali before drawing 1-1 at home against Zimbabwe on Tuesday.

They granted at the end of the game with Captain William Troost-Ekong guilty of letting his man pass with him easily. The goal further aggravated the possibilities of Nigeria arriving at the World Cup next year, leaving some players unhappy with the selection of players for the game.

“We needed a defender and our coach did not have much faith in Igho Ogbu, who is new in the team and Jordan Torunarigha, who was called as a replacement of Nathan Tella. At that stage you needed a player of Leon Balogun’s experience,” said a team player at the airport before departing from his base.

“You can ask the other players. We all feel in the same way after the game. Western Balogun probably can’t play two games in four days, but he can help us see games at crucial moments like Tuesday. We saw that José Pesiro used Kenneth Omeruo in the AFCon when we needed to close a game,” he concluded.

Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman