Super Eagles goalkeeper, Francis Uzoho is the youngest stopper in Russia for to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Uzoho is selected alongside Daniel Akpeyi, Ikechukwu Ezenwa as goalkeepers in coach Gernot Rohr’s final 23-man squad for this summer’s tournament. Ezenwa is the country’s No. 1 since Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Carl Ikeme was ruled out with acute leukaemia in June 2017.

Uzoho – born on October 28 1992 – will be 19 years 229 days at the start of the World Cup in Russia and he will become the youngest goalkeeper to play at a FIFA World Cup tournament, if selected in goal in Nigeria’s opener against Croatia on Saturday (June 16). Egypt have the oldest player at the World Cup, taking 45-year-old goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary. Of the 736 footballers, there are two who will perform in Russia despite belonging to third-category clubs: Panamanian winger Ismael Diaz and Nigeria’s Uzoho who play in the Fabril, the subsidiary of Deportivo.

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