Two Tremendous Eagles’ stars, Victor Osimhen and Ola Aina have been named in an inventory of 11 prime gamers who won’t be at subsequent yr’s FIFA World Cup because of non-qualification of their international locations.
Sports247 gathered that Osimhen and Aina, who’re each at present injured, after copping knocks on worldwide obligation, are amongst 5 African gamers whose names seem on the unenviable roster.
Osimhen, who has been in prime kind this season with Galatasaray of Turkey, bowed out at half time of the Tremendous Eagles’ loss by way of penalties to DR Congo this previous Sunday, in the course of the remaining of Africa’s 2026 World Cup qualification play-offs in Rabat, Morocco.
Aina, who performs for Nottingham Forest of England, was floored towards South Africa, in the course of the unique qualification collection, and has since not featured for membership or nation.
Whereas each gamers nurse bodily wounds and rue their lack of ability to assist Nigeria attain the World Cup for a second straight version, their woes have been compounded with the inclusion of their names in an undesirable squad checklist of 11 impending absentees at USA/Canada/Mexico 2026.
The ignominable roster, as revealed by BBC Sport, goes thus – iJan Oblak (Slovenia); Ola Aina (Nigeria), Willi Orban (Hungary), Nikola Milenkovic (Serbia), Milos Kerkez (Hungary); Bryan Mbeumo (Cameroon), Dominik Szoboszlai (Hungary), Carlos Baleba (Cameroon), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Georgia); Serhou Guirassy (Guinea), Victor Osimhen (Nigeria).
