I just got this at nigeriaworld: http://odili.net/news/source/2006/apr/30/804.html

After reading, I didn't know whether to take this as a complement (i am not ibo by the way) or an insult, whether to say "na true o" or "how dare he?".

It's like a stereotype gone wrong.

Your thoughts??

That's just crap, am ibo and i will not stake ma life for money

I think he chooses Ibo because they are the best at that time.

To call Diramba a moroccan, i beg

Diramba is not a Moroccan.

Who told you Ben Iroha is an Ibo man?

Uche okafor,okechukwu,emeka ezeugo,mike emenalo were our best defenders but austin eguaveon (d weak link in defence)wasnt ibo

spikelord:

Who told you Ben Iroha is an Ibo man?

Ben Iroha was pretty awesome in his days. . .
So dude is not Ibo?
Dont care anyway. . . The best should be playing regardless of tribes!

That is why foreign coaches may always be the best for Nigeria because they will not choose a team on tribal sentiment.

na true

I read Ngodigha's comment with a smile not because of what he said but the remembrance of 9ja's glory football years which peaked between 1993-1996. This was a time period watching Super Eagles brought a smile to your face and a spring to your step. This was a time period an about to marry bachelor could dare to bet with a certified sex maniac using his virgin to be wife as his punt and not lose
A time 9ja's green white green was proudly displayed by our supporters globally
A time the Eagles could literally 'die' on the field of play
A time you saw raw passion mixed with skill and unmasked patrotism
Don't dare try that with the current hypertension inducing Eagles we parade
Eagles who bring tears to your eyes when they play
The younger generation may be carried away by their one flick skills & shout to high heavens but the older generation are like the the priests ,Levites and heads of the fathers’ houses, old men in the days of Ezra who had seen Solomon's temple and knew the greatness they had seen in it then couldn't be compared to what they know saw as Ezra rebuilt it [Ezra 3:10- 13]. So sad, So sad

10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests stood[d] in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the ordinance of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD:

     “For He is good,
     For His mercy endures forever toward Israel.”[e]

  Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of the fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes. Yet many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard afar off.

Tribalism is killing our football.

Ben Iroha (Iro-oha) is 100% an Igbo man. He grew up in Igboland, his education was in Igboland and he started his caeer in Igboland.
Please, it is Igbo and not Ibo.

spikelord:

Who told you Ben Iroha is an Ibo man?

Ben Iroha is a proud Igbo. He is married to a proud Igbo sports lady and former captain of Grasshoppers HC of Owerri.
Saying that Iroha is not an Igbo is an insult to his identity.