Everton defender Joseph Yobo has been hailed by Nigeria assistant coach, Daniel Amokachi, for fighting his way back to the starting XI of his English Premier League club.
Yobo started and finished Saturday's game against Stoke City after several weeks on the fringes of the Goodison Park outfit.
“I'm happy to see he is playing again because he's a young man who deserves to be starting games,” said Amokachi.
Yobo lost his place in the Everton first team after he returned to England from the Africa Cup of Nations with a hamstring injury.
So unsettled has he been at Everton that speculations have linked him with a move in the summer to either promoted Newcastle United or Bolton.
But despite his lack of playing time this year, Yobo was included in Nigeria's provisional squad for the World Cup in June.
Nigeria New World Cup Base To Cost More Nigeria's new World Cup base, the Waterfront Hotel at Richards Bay, will cost a lot more than the country's previous choice, officials have disclosed.
Last week, Nigeria officials chose not to use the New Hampshire Hotel in Durban ahead of the World Cup and decided on the Waterfront Hotel after an inspection visit led by the country's sports minister, Ibrahim Bio.
“One of the reasons we chose Hampshire was that it was within our budget, but following government's intervention, we can now take up the Waterfront Hotel, which is about 200 dollars-a-night more expensive than Hampshire,” said Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) official, Tunde Aderibigbe.
Officials raised security issues over Hampshire, who failed to beat an April 28 deadline to complete a perimeter fence around its premises.
Paper work as regards this switch of training site is expected to be perfected on Monday with officials of world football governing body FIFA, officials disclosed.
The Super Eagles are due in South Africa on May 31 after a training camp in England.
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