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Orkpekyandega:
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The Kehinde Fatai Snub: Should Nigeria chase the hitman?
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Evidently, Fatai seems a ready-made option to take-up this role compared to Iwobi (19), who is still honing his trade at Arsenal, for example, or Obafemi Martins (31), who can’t have too much longer in the tank.

Furthermore, to gain Fatai’s services, the NFF and coaches do not need to embark on a fierce do-or-die high-way chase for his signature, as was the case with Ibe, Alli and many others.

He has confessed his readiness and ‘dream’ to play for his fatherland, with the only obstacle a lack of opportunity and faith in his abilities, hence the attraction from Romania.

“It’s my dream since I was little, I really wanted to play for Nigeria,” he told Goal.
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“I will not say I deserve (to play for Nigeria) or maybe they do not think I deserve it. But not all Nigerian football players playing in Europe play in these tournaments (Champions League and Europa League), and I’m not just present there, I’m playing very well there. So I think I deserve (a chance) maybe; I am not saying it is obligatory.”
John Fashanu, perhaps, tops the lists of players of Nigerian origin who were, in the words of Rafiu Ladipo, “used and dumped”, by other nations, with little or nothing to show for their international football careers.

To think that Nigeria may be at the end of such scorching mockery in future should not be discounted.

“Why did we let Kehinde Fatai go?” we may ask in future, and bitterly, too.
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Orkpekyandega:
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The Kehinde Fatai Snub: Should Nigeria chase the hitman?
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https://static.goal.com/di/F208386C4953CB779912436F5A69F20E.jpg
Evidently, Fatai seems a ready-made option to take-up this role compared to Iwobi (19), who is still honing his trade at Arsenal, for example, or Obafemi Martins (31), who can’t have too much longer in the tank.

Furthermore, to gain Fatai’s services, the NFF and coaches do not need to embark on a fierce do-or-die high-way chase for his signature, as was the case with Ibe, Alli and many others.

He has confessed his readiness and ‘dream’ to play for his fatherland, with the only obstacle a lack of opportunity and faith in his abilities, hence the attraction from Romania.

“It’s my dream since I was little, I really wanted to play for Nigeria,” he told Goal.
https://static.goal.com/di/8BA72C9D7FA98D31BA450BDA3C03F125.jpg
“I will not say I deserve (to play for Nigeria) or maybe they do not think I deserve it. But not all Nigerian football players playing in Europe play in these tournaments (Champions League and Europa League), and I’m not just present there, I’m playing very well there. So I think I deserve (a chance) maybe; I am not saying it is obligatory.”
John Fashanu, perhaps, tops the lists of players of Nigerian origin who were, in the words of Rafiu Ladipo, “used and dumped”, by other nations, with little or nothing to show for their international football careers.

To think that Nigeria may be at the end of such scorching mockery in future should not be discounted.

“Why did we let Kehinde Fatai go?” we may ask in future, and bitterly, too.
m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/4079/features/2015/12/21/18491232/the-kehinde-fatai-snub-should-nigeria-chase-the-hitman
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CC: Icon4s, Forgiveness, Mikron, e.t.c...............

Icon4s:
A former youth international that flopped when it mattered. We have seen better prospects than this one.

Not every player is Super Eagles material.

mikron:
thanks Bro for this info, but if I might ask, is he playing for Romania presently? I mean has he been capped by Romania?

Orkpekyandega:

Chair Sir, you mean am?
This guy at the moment is in the Class of Musa abi more sef.

Icon4s:
No be Kehinde Fatai?
Nt trying to write him off bt we have heard abt and seen such kind of players and at last they flop when invited.

Nt all players are Super Eagles materials.

Orkpekyandega:

But every body deserves a chance.
Besides you don't have to use one or some players performance with the national team to make such generalizations.

Am afraid, we are about to miss another good striker (Alaba) in Forgiveness' voice.

You can't tell, he might be our another saving scorer if we had done the needful earlier on. It's too late now though.

Orkpekyandega:
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The Kehinde Fatai Snub: Should Nigeria chase the hitman?
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https://static.goal.com/di/F208386C4953CB779912436F5A69F20E.jpg
Evidently, Fatai seems a ready-made option to take-up this role compared to Iwobi (19), who is still honing his trade at Arsenal, for example, or Obafemi Martins (31), who can’t have too much longer in the tank.

Furthermore, to gain Fatai’s services, the NFF and coaches do not need to embark on a fierce do-or-die high-way chase for his signature, as was the case with Ibe, Alli and many others.

He has confessed his readiness and ‘dream’ to play for his fatherland, with the only obstacle a lack of opportunity and faith in his abilities, hence the attraction from Romania.

“It’s my dream since I was little, I really wanted to play for Nigeria,” he told Goal.
https://static.goal.com/di/8BA72C9D7FA98D31BA450BDA3C03F125.jpg
“I will not say I deserve (to play for Nigeria) or maybe they do not think I deserve it. But not all Nigerian football players playing in Europe play in these tournaments (Champions League and Europa League), and I’m not just present there, I’m playing very well there. So I think I deserve (a chance) maybe; I am not saying it is obligatory.”
John Fashanu, perhaps, tops the lists of players of Nigerian origin who were, in the words of Rafiu Ladipo, “used and dumped”, by other nations, with little or nothing to show for their international football careers.

To think that Nigeria may be at the end of such scorching mockery in future should not be discounted.

“Why did we let Kehinde Fatai go?” we may ask in future, and bitterly, too.
m.goal.com/x/en-ng/news/4079/features/2015/12/21/18491232/the-kehinde-fatai-snub-should-nigeria-chase-the-hitman
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CC: Icon4s, Forgiveness, Mikron, e.t.c...............

Orkpekyandega:

But every body deserves a chance.
Besides you don't have to use one or some players performance with the national team to make such generalizations.

Am afraid, we are about to miss another good striker (Alaba) in Forgiveness' voice.

You can't tell, he might be our another saving scorer if we had done the needful earlier on. It's too late now though.

Orkpekyandega:

The Romanian FA have been on his neck for a while now. Recently he was invited by the Romanian FA President, so he has agreed to debut for them officially, since his chances with Nigeria are so slim.

Icon4s:
Nigeria has so many players doing well presently in Europe. The only way we can "give everybody a chance" is if we have over 100 Super Eagles teams con-currently. How many games do the Super Eagles play in a year? And how many players can play at a time? Except u are suggesting we keep presenting a different set of 11 players in every of the Super Eagles games so that every Nigerian player will get to play. Obvious talents like Isaac Success and Imoh Ezekiel have not even gotten the chance to feature yet (Imoh jst 10mins of jst one pre-world cup friendly). That should tell u something: we have a large pool of players from which to chose from. Nobody is ruled out and every performing player will have his turn someday.

mikron:
damnnnn, hope the Nigerian FA knows about this? I wish we cap him before they does, but again it all boils down to how good he is, though I ve not had d pleasure of watching him play.

Tomtoxic:
this NFF sef the guy has been performing in Europe them nur call am say e flop b4 which striker never flop sef from ighalo to Muhammed gambo to Anthony ujah.everyone deserves a second chance NFF cap this guy before we lose another player na.the guy even said he wants to play for Nigeria dem nur care but if na the players wey make us 2nd choice like Jordan ibe dem go dey woo am.

TheGoodJoe:
I do not think it is wise for us to trap a young man with a call up if he is not going to play regularly for us. Our attack is filled and the competition is high.

The article said his chances of playing for us is slim and he can get a lot of games playing for Romania. I say we let him go if he gets more games with them than us.

Icon4s:
Kehinde Fatai is not a Super Eagles material. Take that to the bank. Romania can have him if they want. We've got better players lined-up already waiting for their call-up.

Don't you guys remember him from the 2009 Flying Eagles? Odion Ighalo was the main striker then and Kehinde only featured as a sub in our 3-2 lose to Germany in the second round. Person wey been no fit trap ball well sef. Odion Ighalo, Danny Uchechi (another flop) and Kehinde Fatai were the 3 centre forwards we paraded at the 2009 U20 World Cup. Only Ighalo managed to put up an average performance the other two (Fatai and Uchechi) were flops.

It is good enough that we are getting updates on the progress of some of our Europe based players here. But not all of them are Super Eagles materials.