bionicdude: what of our 1-0 wcq loss away to angola in the 2006 qualifiers

CARLISTO77:

Super Eagles lost against Brazil at the inauguration of Abuja's stadium by 0 - 3, 11 June 2003.

Obascoetubi: y play again, after naija beats dem last time?

Emilord: that was not a competitive match

CARLISTO77:

Since you know so much, expatiate the meaning of ''COMPETITIVENESS''.

Trail ii: Chilling wit my antelope pepper soup

LUDE:
This is what I'm gonna do. I will go to Calabar, watch Ethiopia beat Nigeria 2-0 and go celebrate at the marina resort with some Nigerian chicks like Geneveive Nnaji or may be Angela Okorie. Next day I will have some good Nigerian rice and ox tail finish with some local beer. AT about 9:00pm I will call that fine azz Biola Ige to give me a massage. At about 11:00pm hit the night club seen and take one of those Calabar chicks i hear about to my hotel. 2 days after that I will take Geneveive Nnaji back to Addis.

Here we go!

*chilling with my bottle of fayrouz*
It seems we'll have to flog YOU here first before we flog your team!

Kenny4lyfe:

Here we go!

*chilling with my bottle of fayrouz*
It seems we'll have to flog YOU here first before we flog your team!

LUDE:
Come with it. .

Take it!
**slaps coin off his face** KPA!

ayusco85: Breaking news: i just saw on CNN and BBC news that all the ANTELOPES in Nigeria have gone into hiding. They tried to find out why, and a professor of zoology explained that the antelopes probably over heard nigerians saying they will celebrate the victory on saturday with antelope meat pepper soup. Currently the price of antelope meat per kilo has tripled due to dis hide and seek game played by d WALYA ANTELOPES in Nigeria.



***looks left, looks right, sees hundreds of ethiopians coming, spread my wings and soar into the sky****

Kenny4lyfe:

Take it!
**slaps coin off his face** KPA!

LUDE:
I can run faster than any Nigerian for miles and miles and i will have Geneveiv Nnaji massage my feet

Don't raise your hopes bro! She wount even notice your existence!

By the way, you guys have some of the most beautyful girls in Africa!
No hard feelings, football is just a game!
Welcome to nairaland!

Kenny4lyfe:

Don't raise your hopes bro! She wount even notice your existence!

By the way, you guys have some of the most beautyful girls in Africa!
No hard feelings, football is just a game!
Welcome to nairaland!

CFCfan:
'Competitive matches' as used in FIFA parlance, refers to the qualification matches of each confederation's continental tournament, WC qualifiers, the world cup finals tournament, and the finals tournament of the Confederation's competition.

CARLISTO77:

You're typing redundancy! To compete , according to you, entails what?
Do you know what head-to-head mean? You must be joking.
Do you come to term that Nigeria proposed a huge sum of money to Brazil
before that match was played? To your chagrin, since Nigeria defeated France
in their backyard, being a friendly match, it's not competitive, right?
I dislike your charade of frivolousness..

CARLISTO77:

You're typing redundancy! To compete , according to you, entails what?
Do you know what head-to-head mean? You must be joking.
Do you come to term that Nigeria proposed a huge sum of money to Brazil
before that match was played? To your chagrin, since Nigeria defeated France
in their backyard, being a friendly match, it's not competitive, right?
I dislike your charade of frivolousness..

[size=14pt]Exhibition game[/size]

An exhibition game (also known as a demonstration, a friendly, a warmup match, a preparation match, or in some contexts a scrimmage) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the team's rankings is either zero or very greatly reduced. These matches are often used to help managers select players for the competitive matches of a tournament and, if the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, it's an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team.

For example, two professional snooker or chess players, or two ice hockey teams, may play an exhibition to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, or often to raise money for charities.

Association football

In the early days of association football, friendly matches (or "friendlies" ) were the most common type of match. However since the development of The Football League in England in 1888, league tournaments became established, in addition to lengthy cup tournaments. By the year 2000, national leagues were established in almost every country, as well as regional leagues for lower level teams, thus the significance of friendlies has seriously declined since the 19th century.

Club football

Since the introduction of league football, most club sides play a number of friendlies before the start of each season (called pre-season friendlies). Friendly football matches are considered to be non-competitive and are only used to "warm up" players for a new season/competitive match. There is generally nothing competitive at stake and some rules may be changed or experimented with (such as unlimited substitutions, which allow teams to play younger, less experienced, players, and no cards). Although most friendlies are simply one-off matches arranged by the clubs themselves, in which a certain amount is paid by the challenger club to the incumbent club, some teams do compete in short tournaments, such as the Emirates Cup, Teresa Herrera Trophy and the Amsterdam Tournament. Although these events may involve sponsorship deals and the awarding of a trophy and may even be broadcast on television, there is little prestige attached to them.

International football

International teams also play friendlies, generally in preparation for the qualifying or final stages of major tournaments. This is essential, since national squads generally have much less time together in which to prepare. The biggest difference between friendlies at the club and international levels is that international friendlies mostly take place during club league seasons, not between them. This has on occasion led to disagreement between national associations and clubs as to the availability of players, who could become injured or fatigued in a friendly.

International friendlies give team managers the opportunity to experiment with team selection and tactics before the tournament proper, and also allow them to assess the abilities of players they may potentially select for the tournament squad. Players can be booked in international friendlies, and can be suspended from future international matches based on red cards or accumulated yellows in a specified period. Caps and goals scored also count towards a player's career records. In 2004, FIFA ruled that substitutions by a team be limited to six per match in international friendlies, in response to criticism that such matches were becoming increasingly farcical with managers making as many as 11 substitutions per match.

CARLISTO77:

You're typing redundancy! To compete , according to you, entails what?
Do you know what head-to-head mean? You must be joking.
Do you come to term that Nigeria proposed a huge sum of money to Brazil
before that match was played? To your chagrin, since Nigeria defeated France
in their backyard, being a friendly match, it's not competitive, right?
I dislike your charade of frivolousness..

[size=14pt]Competitive Match[/size]

By Stewart Coggin.

Definition:

A competitive match is one played in official competition, generally with points, prize money or a place in the next round of a cup at stake. It differs to a friendly match, which a team would generally play in preparation for the competitive season. There is little riding on the result of these matches.