Italian Club Announce Signing of Impressive Super Eagles Midfielder Ogenyi Onazi

• Ogenyi Onazi has settled to join Italian fourth division side Casertana this summer transfer window
• The Super Eagles midfielder was recently seen training with Nigeria’s national team B, before heading to Italy
• Many are surprised about his move, but reports claim the 29-year-old is making moves to get an Italian passport

Nigerian international Ogenyi Onazi has joined Italian fourth division side Casertana after a protracted transfer wait.

The former Lazio star was recently seen training along side Super Eagles B and featured in a friendly before he jetted out to Italy to team up with his new side.

It was gathered that the 29-year-old decided to make the move as he continues to target an Italian passport.

Onazi last played at Al Adalah FC of Saudi and was also at Zalgiris in Finland.

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Casertana, in an official statement via Soccernet, said:

“Casertana FC is pleased to announce that it has ensured the sports performance of the footballer Ogenyi Eddy Onazi.

“The midfielder born in 1992 returns to Italy after wearing the Lazio shirt from 2011 to 2016. Winner of the Africa Cup in 2013 with the Nigeria national team, silver medalist at the Under 17 World Cup, he took part with the selection of his Country at the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 to that in Russia in 2018. With Lazio he wrote important pages.

“It is his decisive goal against Napoli which in 2015 allows the Biancocelesti to return to the Champions League after eight years of absence. In August 2016 he was bought by the Turks of Trabzonspor with whose shirt he collected 69 appearances and 3 goals in three years in the highest seriousness. In January 2020, he moved to Dinizlispor and then flew to Lithuania at Zalgiris.

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“The latter part of last season played with the Arabs of Al-Adalah. Still at the height of his career (he will turn 30 next December 25), Onazi boasts impressive numbers: 76 appearances and 4 goals in Serie A, 24 appearances and 3 goals in the Europa League and 6 appearances in the Champions League.”

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