I started my career as a striker – Uzoho

Super Eagles goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has revealed that he started football as a striker before he was advised to try out as a goalkeeper.

Uzoho: “I did not take football serious up until the age of 13, an agent of Aspire Academy told me while I was 12 years old that I will do better as a goalkeeper because I was very tall and too slow to be a striker.
”I worked hard and two years later I was recruited to Aspire Academy as a goalkeeper, because I worked very hard after the advice, and due to my early days as a striker I find it very easy to distribute balls from the back as a goalkeeper” told NG FOOTY.

Uzoho, a 2013 FIFA U17 World Cup Winner with the Golden Eaglets, made his Super Eagles debut on November 14 as Nigeria thrashed Argentina 4-2 in Krasnodar.