Newly invited Pisa Sporting Club midfielder Ebenezer Akinsanmiro has laid bare the story of his football life saying he almost quit the game for barbing profession out of frustration.
Akinsanmiro is listed in the 28-man list of the Super Eagles for the forthcoming Africa Cup of nations Morocco 2025.
In an interview he granted NFFTV from the Super Eagles’ training camp in Cairo, the 21-year-old said at one time he gave up football as a career, and went into barbing job.
“I was like, football is not like something… 100% you will make it from it.
“I have to like learn a work. So I quit football for some months, years like this. Then I have like, ‘oh, let me learn a barbing work,” he revealed.
Akinsanmiro stated that his invitation to the Nigerian senior national team came to him as a pleasant shock saying, “When I just see the invitation, like, to be honest, I called like someone who is closer to me, then I started crying.
“It has been my dream for so long.”
