The duo of Gent’s Moses Simon and Granada's Isaac Success are in danger of missing Nigeria's opening game of the World Youth Championship owing to visa issues.
Both players sent their passport to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for a New Zealand visa to be issued to them in Abuja but they received their passport yesterday without the visa in them.
Kelechi Iheanacho of Manchester City is already in the team hotel in New Plymouth as he came in ahead of the travelling contingent from Germany.
On Success and Simon the NFF have expedited action on their case and the duo are set to be offered visas which will only be ready on Thursday at the earliest. With Nigeria scheduled to play her first game of the tournament on the 1st of June (next Monday) the duo are in a race to be available for the Brazil game.
A top source in the team made this known to SL10.ng and even though, according to him, Success and Moses are pivotal to the team they are confident of getting a result against Brazil in their opening game as the players on ground are good enough to execute the game.
Nigeria is still looking for its first win over Brazil at the U20 level and they are hopes that the Manu Garba lead team will break the jinx.
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