By Babs Oyetoro
Super Eagles Manager, Gernot Rohr, has shown renewed interest in Crystal Palace’s Ebere Eze to persuade him to commit his international future to Nigeria, even as he showers praises on the youngster plying his trade in the English Premier League.

Eze trained with the Super Eagles before a cancelled friendly against Burkina Faso in March 2017, but since then, his status has changed as he is now provisionally cap-tied to his country of birth England, and represented the country in the European U21 Championship last month.

Nigerian Federation president, Amaju Pinnick, has openly courted the former Queens’ Park Rangers dazzler, but he requested to be given some more time to make his decision.

Though Rohr has admitted Eze is a player of interest, the German football tactician has stressed that the decision to represent Nigeria must come from the player himself and he won’t be forced to pledge his allegiance to the three-time African champions.

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“This is a wonderful player, Ebere Eze is one of the best offensive midfielders I’ve ever seen in England and I would like to have him with us, but you know that he can also play for England and already played for one team in England,” Rohr said to Elegbete TV Sports.

“There is a process to do, at first the boy must accept himself and the decision must come from him, from his parents, from his own.

“We cannot tell him he must come, he must come himself and if he wants to come he has to write a letter.

“In this letter, he has to write to FIFA that he wants to switch and to play for Nigeria, this would be wonderful, but I know that we cannot force his decision and he can only take it himself.