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He would rather choose to play for England.

He is not fit to play for super eagles now! Flying eagle almost..

He should play for the country that nurtured him when he was nothing!
Nigeria should stop looking for shortcuts and develop the younger ones here!
We have so much talent in every sports activities but we hardly invest in them!
Look at the Nigerian league today....how many players can you pick out as the future okocha,or Taribo west or mutu adepoju or Peter Rufai?
I haven't even talked about their questionable age!
The really young players with huge prospects are told to wait for their 'time' while the older ones falsify their ages in order to get contracts abroad!
If Rio won't even be recruited in the U21 team of any Nigerian club as he will be advised to come back in 6 years time to feature!

dominique:
He's eligible to play for England, France and Nigeria. He's currently in England's U-17, it will take a lot of village people to ruin his career to the point of having no choice but to play for Nigeria. I cast and bind and reject it for him

In England and France team , he would need to do alot of convincing in the pitch to play for them cause competition plenty ...

.But for Nigeria?? , he would waltz right in like it's birth right and get alot of chances to play in the world cup ...


So it depends on is ambitions and how wise he is less he ends up like his predecessors aka Abraham and the likes...

Silentgroper:
In England and France team , he would need to do alot of convincing in the pitch to play for them cause competition plenty ...

Atleast he will keep developing and in no time,the national teams will be begging him to play for them!
He will still enjoy the previliages of playing for an European clubs as he won't need to have a number of caps to play in an EU club!

.But for Nigeria?? , he would waltz right in like it's birth right and get alot of chances to play in the world cup ...

Nigeria will use and dump him once he is no longer playing!
He should play for the country that gave him the opportunity to blossom!
Nigeria should develop her talents in Nigeria!

So it depends on is ambitions and how wise he is less he ends up like his predecessors aka Abraham and the likes...

But there are also success stories like Saka!

Mabuggi88:
Ngumoha my little magician. Fans has been expecting Slot to start playing you despite your age but he feels recalcitrant, now he has no option than start playing you.
The first time I saw you play in preseason I already knew you are ripe for a start in the league. What they just saw on Monday night was your scoring skill, they don't know your dribbling skill is terrifying. Make your choice of national team to play with, you can comfortably excel in any national team. As a Nigerian home team is better though.
YNWA

He can't be on the bench for england national team for now. A player like palmer is still coming from the bench for england mostly.

Treasure17:
I mean. You nailed it. And peradventure something happens to him, they will abandon him as if he never existed.

What is reap. He can't even make the England bench from now till even two years time. Do you the quality of players in England at the moment.

Kog45:
Oga forget about the tribe and talk about the boy....okay his name RIO BASS CHIMA NGUMOHA ADIGUN...in Wikipedia NGUMOHA but in transfer market ADIGUN so make una rest about tribe

Bros calm down nah,no be quarrel ,I was only confused about the name.....in sports mo one cares where you are from😃

Lanre1st:
Forgot above "if na you"?

Playing for Nigeria is opportunity for many of them to have senior international play.

Ademola, Moses, Tosin Adarabioyo, play for England at under age level but no chance for them in Senior team .

Ademola is getting more recognition for switching to play for Nigeria, Tosin is trying hard to court NFA so he can play for Nigeria. I can bet you not switching is what Saka will later regret because white player will always hype over him.

saka has been playing for England for 5 years with over 40 caps. He cannot regret anything. Ademola snubbed Nigeria for the longest time hoping to play for England but he switched to Nigeria. England is always their preference

Lithiumite:
The name even sounds Cameroonian,what tribe is he?

igbo. Full name Rio chima ngumoha

NewDigitalWorld:
Liverpool forward, Rio Chima Ngumoha, is eligible to represent Nigeria.



Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/08/26/epl-liverpool-hero-rio-ngumoha-eligible-to-play-for-nigeria/

Now he is not Igbo, IPOB, or developer. He is now Nigeria not chimaobi Ngumoha.

ednut1:
Nigeria always want to reap where it didn’t sow. Is na you will you play for Nigeria?

Soccer allowed in it's.
Allowed in it's soccer.
In soccer it's allowed.
It's allowed in soccer.

These players should have been invited for CHAN not these players in npfl.

Una don start, una no go leave d guy make e fully ripe. No rush make dem no dumb u oo

JustAndy:
Is funny how you use the word Now, how many days did it take them to implement and increase the judiciary salaries ?
Let me ask you what about ASUU, Doctors, Police etc.

Oga, I'm commenting based on the topic. I'm not into politics, u hear. Dont push this matter a lot too far.

Thanks

dominique:
He's eligible to play for England, France and Nigeria. He's currently in England's U-17, it will take a lot of village people to ruin his career to the point of having no choice but to play for Nigeria. I cast and bind and reject it for him

🤣🤣🤣 Nigerian employing lazy coaches that can't groom home players to win chan, they only want ready made players.

The boy now no be coach discover am, where are our under 16,18, 22 players that have represented us in tournaments where are they, must u carry na babas to play in super eagles where are the young talent ts.

We have abundant talent but wee gat Bunch of lazy Nigerian coaches, just to call up foreign players na im dem sabi

timilehin007:
U are 3rd actually. U like to be amongst 1 to 3rd to comment? If e matters to u, I fit give u scope to dey meetup 😁😁

Bro give me scope na