Injured Super Eagles player Moses Simon ruled out of World Cup

Super Eagles and Gent forward Moses Simon will not be a part of the Super Eagles squad to the Russia 2018 World Cup.

The winger has been struggling with an injury and sat out the team’s training in Port Harcourt on Sunday as they prepared for Monday’s pre-World Cup friendly against the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Coach Gernot Rohr said “Moses Simon will not be travelling with the team on Tuesday because he’s injured, the nature of his injury is such that he won’t be recovering quickly enough to make the World Cup. It’s really unfortunate but he remains in my future plans.”

The Super Eagles will jet out to London on Tuesday where they will face England on 2 June in another warm-up match. The team will then head off to Austria where they have a training camp and play a friendly with Czech Republic, before going to Russia for the World Cup.

The Super Eagles are in Group D at the World Cup with Argentina, Croatia and Iceland