Super Eagles star Ademola Lookman's cousin Hazeem Bakre set to play for Nigeria over England

• Reigning African Footballer of the Year Ademola Lookman’s relative has opted to play for Nigeria
• Born successful South London, the guardant has opted to travel Lookman's footsteps and dump England
• The Middlesbrough younker guardant has named Kelechi Iheanacho arsenic 1 of his inspirations

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has its enactment chopped retired aft a dual-national youngster has pledged his aboriginal to the African country.

The NFF has been successful pursuit of foreign-born stars to correspond the Super Eagles implicit their European countries and has achieved occurrence with immoderate large names.

Ademola Lookman playing for Nigeria successful a affable crippled successful his archetypal planetary interruption successful 2022. Photo by Carlos Rodrigues.
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Reigning African Footballer of the Year Ademola Lookman is 1 of those who made the switch, with others being Super Eagles skipper William Troost-Ekong and Alex Iwobi.

Another subordinate related to the Atalanta guardant Lookman has opted to travel successful his footsteps and correspond Nigeria, contempt being calved successful London, England.

Lookman's relative chooses Nigeria

Middlesbrough youngster and Ademola Lookman’s relative Hazeem Bakre has expressed his willingness to play Nigeria implicit the state of his commencement England.

The 2005-born star, who volition crook 20 successful October, has a duplicate brother, Halim Bakre, who besides plays football and formerly played for Shrewsbury Town.

"I'm eligible to play for Nigeria, I've ever wanted to play for Nigeria from a young age. I privation to correspond my country, and evidently amusement radical however bully I am,” helium told All Nigeria Soccer."Representing my state is ever a young boy's dream, to showcase what I tin bash arsenic well, which is wherefore I privation to play for my ain state Nigeria."I'm conscionable waiting for the accidental to bash so, but hopefully successful the aboriginal I volition beryllium capable to beryllium called up for Nigeria, that would beryllium a imagination for me.”

Bakre starred for Middlesbrough younker successful the Premier League 2, finishing arsenic the team's apical scorer with 7 goals successful 11 games, arsenic noted by Transfermarkt.

Hazeem Bakre successful enactment for Middlesbrough against West Ham. Photo by MI News.
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He spent clip connected indebtedness astatine Dagenham & Redbridge and Darlington and had interaction with Super Eagles guardant Kelechi Iheanacho, who joined Middlesbrough connected indebtedness successful January.

He claimed the Sevilla-owned guardant is his inspiration and the guardant helium is trying to exemplary his crippled after, including his goalscoring records and show for Leicester City.

“He's a subordinate I person ever been watching and taking things from to instrumentality successful my crippled arsenic well,” helium added.

Iheanacho has endured a hard clip since leaving Leicester astatine the extremity of past season. He joined Sevilla arsenic a escaped cause and failed to adapt, prompting a indebtedness determination to Middlesbrough.

He is expected to instrumentality to Seville successful the summertime and measure his future. The manager who signed him, Garcia Pimienta, was sacked and replaced by Joaquin Caparros until the extremity of the season.

Barcelona interaction Lookman’s agent

Legit.ng reported that Barcelona contacted Ademola Lookman's agent to marque enquiries astir the attacker’s plans up of the summertime transportation window.

Lookman volition permission Atalanta this summertime aft 3 seasons and helium has involvement from apical European clubs, including those successful England, Italy and Spain.

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Source: Legit.ng