Barcelona defender Ekpolo, Oduwa earn Dream Team call up

Published on: 25 October 2015
Barcelona defender Ekpolo, Oduwa earn Dream Team call up
Elohor Godswill Ekpolo

Dream Team VI coach, Samson Siasia, has invited Barcelona defender Elohor Godswill Ekpolo and Tottenham Hotspur loanee Nathan Oduwa to camp ahead of the Africa U-23 Nations Cup which begins in Senegal next month.

This is not the first time the former Nantes forward has handed a call - up to Ekpolo as he was supposed to run the rule over the stopper last December but the player could not attend the get - together because he was recovering from injury.

“After the All Africa Games in Congo, I noticed some departments of the team that needed to be worked on, ” Samson Siasia told thenff.com.

“So I decided to extend my dragnet in search of players who have shown interest in playing for Nigeria in a bid to building a solid team that will be the pride of all Nigerians. ” 

La Masia Academy product Ekpolo has appeared 9 times for Barcelona B team in the Segunda B division this season.

Glasgow Rangers winger Nathan Oduwa has racked up 13 appearances for the youth teams of England but none of those caps  came in a competitive fixture, therefore, he does not need Fifa clearance to switch allegiance to Nigeria.

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