Some Nigerian players have helped their various teams make the leap into the topmost tier of football leagues in England, Spain, and Italy.
The European football season is ending and some Nigerian players have helped their various teams make the leap into the topmost tier of football leagues in England, Spain, and Italy.2018 World Cup surprise inclusion, Simeon Tochukwu Nwankwo, known simply as Simy in Italy, may have caught the eye of Gernot Rohr once again with his stellar performance for Crotone in Serie B.
Crotone returned to Serie A after the 28-year-old scored seven goals for his team in the last eight league matches to guarantee a return, coming in second to Benevento. He scored against 13 of the 19 teams he faced – Livorno, Pordenone, Cittadella, Benevento, Pisa, Virtus Entella, Pescara, Cremonese, Trapani, Trapani, Chievo, Venezia, Spezia; but the highlight was the hat trick against champions, Benevento, immediately after the restart.
The 26-year-old, capped nine times by Nigeria, played 43 of the 46 matches in the just-concluded season, making the starting lineup in 42 matches and he scored five goals from his central defensive position, four of which were headers. The Nigerian also had the distinction with West Brom, of not losing any game in which he scored. Four of the goals he scored were at the Hawthorns while the equaliser against Fulham on September 14 proved to be a precious goal in the end.
Nwakali played for just seven minutes on his debut, but five games later, he was celebrating with Huesca, as his team was promoted to La Liga, having won the Segunda title by one point from Cadiz. Nwakali played 147 minutes for the entire season, but he will hope that the luck of joining Huesca and more hard work will bear fruit in the top division.
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