Rangers striker Cyriel Dessers will end his international exile for Nigeria in their next games, according to manager Augustine Eguavoen.
Dessers hasn't played for his country since March earlier this year and boss Eguavoen opted to pick former Ibrox flop Umar Sadiq instead of him, despite Real Sociedad forward Umar failing to score a single goal this season while Dessers reached double figures for the campaign by netting against Hearts last week.
Now, after the Super Eagles fell to a shock 2-1 African Nation qualifying home defeat against Rwanda, new boss Eguavoen promised to include Dessers in their next international gathering.
He explained: "For this camp, I had to stick with the players I know, it will be difficult to play those I have not worked with previously because of the short time to prepare for these matches.
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"We have had only three, four days for these matches, so the time is not there to look closer at new players.
"But I want to improve our large pool of players so that we could have capable replacements.
"We should be patient. When we have friendlies, we will try to bring some new players like Cyriel Dessers and Chuba Akpom and work with them.
"I know Nigerians love this game so much, but sometimes we’re not patient."
Dessers has won six caps for Nigeria and scored two goals, in friendlies against Mexico and Ghana.
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