Diego Maradona has big plans for young Nigerian striker
Danjuma Kuti at United Arab Emirates
club Fujairah......
Maradona has picked special interest in the 19-year-old Kuti, who only recently moved to the UAE, and has even brought him to train with the senior side.
A statement from UAE Sports Agency to SCORENigeria revealed that Maradona had been most
impressed by how prolific the striker has been.
Kuti is the leading
scorer of the youth team, who top the UAE Youth League table.
Last season, the youth team were crowned champions of the
U19 league after Kuti put them ahead by scoring the only goal in a keenly
contested match against Al Wasl F.C.
Maradona, who guided Argentina to triumph at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, now wants the young striker to join Fujairah’s first-team, but only two
foreign players are allowed by the UAEFA and already Omar Kossoko from France
and one other foreign player have been registered in the first division league
competition.
Maradona is saddled with the task of ensuring that Fujairah are promoted back to Asian Gulf
League after their relegation in 2015.
Fujairah won the right to be in the Asian Gulf League at the
end of the 2012–2013 season.
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