Super Eagles’ new invitee, Victor Moses could be in the final season of his football career in the English premiership with Wigan Athletics as the bottom place club could say goodbye to the most lucrative league in the world at the end of the current season. It’s not that his club is being completely written off as the Latics, still have 13 matches to play in this season’s Premier League.
But the fact is that with just 4 wins and 7 draws from 25 matches played so far in the league this season, Premier League observers, analysts and commentators believe it is goodbye to the team, who have spent 7 years in the English top division.?
Wigan is at the rock bottom of the league with just 19 points, one point behind Bolton and two points behind Wolves who had 20 and 21 points respectively. The team’s host today is Aston villa at the DW Stadium and the game is likely to decide Roberto Martinez’s fate this season.
The Nigerian born Victor Moses inspired them to a 2-1 victory at Bolton last weekend. The bottom club, Wigan, really did well at the Reebok Stadium, as Moses was extremely dangerous playing off striker Franco Di Santo.
Goals have been hard to come by for Wigan this season as they have only managed to score 23 times and conceded 40 goals in the process. But they appear to have found their bearing in Moses and the Eagles bound striker’s pace and skills are sure to stretch Villa’s rearguard which has looked cumbersome in recent times.
Victor Moses is expected to fly in on Sunday alongside other three England based Super Eagles players invited by Coach Stephen Keshi for an all important 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifier with the Amavubi of Rwanda in Kigali next wednesday.
The 21-year-old Wigan forward was born in Nigeria but moved to England at the age of 11 and opted to represent his adopted home England, featuring for the English U-16 team, in which he won the Victory Shield in 2005, and U-17, U-19 and U-21 levels. He has now decided to shelve his ambitions of playing for England and help Nigeria make it to the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and 2014 World Cup in South Africa and Brazil respectively.
He was selected by former coach, Samson Siasia for the game against Guatemala in February last year, but the friendly was cancelled and was later called up again by the coach for the Nations Cup qualifier and friendly match against Ethiopia and Kenya respectively before he was ruled out of those games because of his application to FIFA for switch of nationality was not received on time.