Ex-Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has conceded that it was troublesome stopping the national group, however added he needed to take the choice in the wake of wrapping everything up with Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua.
Ighalo expressed this during an Instagram meet with a Ghanaian columnist.
Ighalo helped Nigeria to a third-place finish at the 2019 AFCON in Egypt as competition’s top scorer with five objectives, however the 31-year-old reported his retirement from the group shorty a while later.
“I expected to stop since it is excessively long from China to Nigeria for national group obligations. I’m not getting more youthful and we have a great deal of youthful energizing players coming up, Victor Osimhen doing so well, Alex Iwobi and Samuel Chukwueze are there.
“I considered it, ‘this is the opportune time for me to leave.'”
He included, “It was a troublesome choice since I love playing for my nation, it’s a nation that gave me all that I have today. In this way, whenever I was called upon to play for my nation it was a delight to play.
“That choice was troublesome however I need to do it for my wellbeing, for me to play longer in my club, so I needed to quit voyaging far.”
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