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Gbenga Elegbeleye has described Chibuike Nwaiwu’s debut for the Super Eagles arsenic a “massive bragging rights” for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, DAILY POST reports.
Nwaiwu featured arsenic a 2nd fractional substitute successful Nigeria’s 2-1 affable triumph implicit Iran’ Team Melli successful Antalya, Turkey connected Friday afternoon.
The 22-year-old was a fashionable fig successful the NPFL earlier travelling overseas to proceed his career.
The versatile defender played for Heartland and Enyimba successful the Nigerian top-flight.
Nwaiwu won the NPFL rubric with Enyimba successful the 2022/23 season.
He aboriginal moved to Austria to nexus up with Wolfsberger AC, wherever helium won the Austrian Cup.
NPFL chairman, Elegbeleye said Nwaiwu’s monolithic emergence volition motivate different section players.
“This is simply a monolithic bragging close for the NPFL. It volition motivate our league players to up their crippled to get scouted by overseas clubs and our nationalist squad handlers,” Elegbeleye told the NPFL media.
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