Keshi monitoring RAHEEM LAWAL

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has set his sights on Atletico Beleares midfielder, Raheem Lawal. The 21-year-old Spain-based Lawal turned out for Nigeria’s Under23s at the London 2012 Olympic football qualifying tournament in Morocco where the “Dream Team V” failed to make the cut for the games. Keshi says he is willing to give the youngster a chance in the national team. “Lawal is young and talented and many Nigerians who have watched him have said he will go places in future, those are the type of talents that we are looking up to in raising a team that Nigeria will be proud of in the near future,” Keshi said. Lawal scored a hat-trick for the Nigerian Under23s in their 4-1 victory over Algeria at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Morocco in December, 2011.