Like many African professional footballers, the journey is often a long, arduous one to reach the top. Challenges and prejudices faced are just a portion of the price to pay and what it takes to make it in a top-flight division. Much of the same can be said of Paul Onuachu who has slowly proved…
In what felt very much like 90 minutes of post-season football, especially after an intense schedule for all involved. Nigeria versus Cameroon failed to excite. Unsurprisingly betraying the atmosphere of a heated Derby, there were few talking points from Nigeria’s dour 1-0 defeat against their rival neighbours in Austria. The first installment of two friendlies…
As the season continues to coast home in different leagues across Europe, Nigerian players continued to impress for their respective club sides. Gernot Rohr will be more than happy at the moment because his regular attackers in the team have all been tremendous for their employers in Europe. And yet again last weekend, Kelechi Iheanacho,…
Paul Onuachu was the unfancied hero as Nigeria consolidated their spot above Benin in group L of the 2022 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. Nigeria kicked off their penultimate game of the campaign already assured of a spot in Cameroon with two games to spare after Lesotho and Sierra Leone played out a stalemate. The…
