Get Guardian on GoogleTwenty-four-year-old Nigerian winger Johnson Kalu Nsumoh has signed a one-year contract with Deportivo Riestra in Argentina.
Nsumoh arrived in Argentina on Saturday morning, and within six hours, his contract formalities were concluded. He has already met with his new teammates at Speed Camp.
The club’s head of Press and Communications,
Valentín Torres told The Guardian shortly after the sign-in ceremony on Saturday that the Nigerian winger spent last year playing for OFK Baník Lehota in the Slovenian second division.
According to Torres, the Nigerian joined the Argentine club as a free agent and has signed a one-year contract until December 2026.
“The player signed his contract and was registered with the Argentine Football Association (AFA) on January 26, before the transfer window closed,” Torres said. “The process to obtain his work visa took more than two months, until Nsumoh was finally able to arrive in the country.
He will be the second African player in the club’s history to wear the Malevo jersey, following the time in the youth teams, in 1986, of Juan Carlos Ecomba, who was born in Equatorial Guinea.
Nsumoh is also the third Nigerian player to reach the Argentine First Division, following in the footsteps of Félix Orode at San Lorenzo de Almagro and Okikiola Afolabi
