The Nigerian vice-captain, William Troost Ekong, is set to miss the remainder of the footballing season due to an injury.
The former Watford player picked up a hamstring injury in the group-stage clash between the Super Eagles and the Elephants of Ivory Coast where he missed the next game against Guinea-Bissau.
He, however, chose to play through the pain, playing every minute of the competition from there on, including a hundred and twenty minutes against South Africa, and that decision has now caused a ripple effect for the sacrifice he made.
Ekong, who featured in six of Nigeria’s seven games at the AFCON 2023 tournament in Ivory Coast, scoring three goals, was an integral part of Jose Peseiro’s team.
As Nigeria made its way to the AFCON 2023 final in which he scored, he fell short to a late Ivory Coast winner, Borussia Dortmund’s Sebastien Haller.
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Reliable media sources have said that, the PAOK defender will undergo surgery in Finland today to repair a ruptured biceps femoris in his right leg.
Troost Ekong joins the likes of Victor Osimhen, Ola Aina, and Zaidu Sanusi on the list of Super Eagles players who chose to still wear the Nigerian jersey and represent the Super Eagles in Abidjan despite being in pain.
What happens to PAOK now?
Ekong’s absence will definitely be a blow on the team as they continue their European run. They will play against Dinamo Zagreb at the Stadion Maksimir in eight days.
PAOK will welcome the twenty-four-time Croatian champions to the Toumba Stadium for the first leg of their UEFA Europa conference League round of sixteen tie on March 7th.
Currently, PAOK are sitting second in their league only behind AEK Athens.
