Kehinde Fatai is dumping Nigeria for Romania. Photo: Getty Images
A former Flying Eagles striker, Kehinde Fatai is set to switch nationality from Nigeria to Romania.
According to Goal, the Sparta Prague forward will be joining the European country after failing to get a call up to the Super Eagles 6 years after playing for Nigeria at the U-20 world cup in Egypt.
The talented striker, who moved to Romania in 2007 and has since stayed there, revealed that the move was being delayed by lack of a Romanian passport and FIFA approval.
‘It was last year the Romania FA came after I played some Europa League games for my club in Romania, before I moved to Prague. So the national team coach approached me and talked with me personally,’ Fatai is quoted.
He speaks further, ‘Two days after then, they announced on TV that they want me to play for them and the president of the Romanian federation invited me and had some discussion with me about it.’
‘And they went to Fifa to talk about it that they want me to play for them. So [the fact that I’d played] for Nigeria in the youth team, [made them] put in [application] to fight for this.’
Born on February 19, 1990 in Lagos, Fatai has also previously played for the U-23 side in a friendly match against Costa Rica in 2011.
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