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Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by Emmysteve(m): 3:53am On Nov 24, 2013 |
I saw this article writen by one @Deo of KickOffNigeria site. Please read and share your though. For people who think that 94 set is better than the present eagles, i diametrically disagree with them. Remember that agianst Zambia in 1994 nations cup finals, the super eagles struggled against a totally new and home based zambian team (apart from bwayla and one other player) to win the the cup. If we may recall, the main core of the zambian team all perished in a disastrous plane crash just few months before the nations cup and they had to raise an entirely new team for 94 nations cup. Yet with all our said talented players, we came from a goal behind to struggle and win that cup. Yet some people have refused to acknowledge and appreciate the present eagles team who not only played zambia(as defending champion) in the group stage but went ahead to beat ivory coast(which the 94 team struggled to beat by penalty shoot out in 94 nations cup) during regulation time. Also remember that the present ivory coast team is the best that ivory cost has ever assembled and is stronger that their 1994 team in terms of exceptional talents like kalou gervinho, drogba, yaya toure, kolo toure etc and yet the present team beat them during regulation time.. it will also be recalled that the 94 team had to wait anxiously for their last match against algeria to qualify for world cup, but the present eagles already had an advantage from addis ababa before our last match in calabar which invariably means that nigeria already qualified before our last match. without sentiment, prejudice or bias, I humbly submit that from the objective, factual and reasonable point of view, the present super eagles are better (especially in terms of positive results) than the 94 squad, though 94 squad might have had better individual talents. The fulcrum of my submission is based on the fact that football is based on results and not necessarily on exceptional talents. Do not get me wrong, i never said that exceptional talents are not good. All i said is that the nitty gritty of football is on results and not on exceptional talents in a team. Finally, Keshi has done a good job to build the present super eagles team. Let us support, appreciate, and encourage him and our super eagles player instead of making unnecessary comparisons to discredit all his hard works and that of the players who took the bull by the horn even when our super eagles hit the rock bottom by failing to qualify for nations cup for the first time. Let us us stop using such disparaging remarks like " the super eagles struggled to qualify for world cup" just because some of our favorite players are not yet in the team. Up super eagles!! Up Keshi!!!, Up NFF!!! Up Nigeria!!!. I am always proud to be a Nigerian. |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by Nobody: 3:54am On Nov 24, 2013 |
Wetin concern me? Shey ASUU don call of strike ni? |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by Emmysteve(m): 3:58am On Nov 24, 2013 |
naijaborn001: Wetin concern me? Shey ASUU don call of strike ni?Mr man if you dont have a point pls back out, Not every body is a student. |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by Nobody: 4:10am On Nov 24, 2013 |
Emmysteve: Mr man if you dont have a point pls back out, Not every body is a student.Oga sharapp ur smelling mouth jare and go sleep. IDEOT |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by Swiftboy(m): 4:12am On Nov 24, 2013 |
I totally agree with the Op but the 94 team went ahead to win the olympic gold medal soo that should also be mentioned as their achievement as well which seem to cast shadow to this present team's success! |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by badmeat(m): 5:29am On Nov 24, 2013 |
Too much comparisons these days,no two things r ever the same, |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by safarigirl(f): 8:22am On Nov 24, 2013 |
Swiftboy: I totally agree with the Op but the 94 team went ahead to win the olympic gold medal soo that should also be mentioned as their achievement as well which seem to cast shadow to this present team's success!the present team hasn't had the opportunity to compete for the Olympics since the team is relatively new. AFCON was their first tournament as a team, prior to which, we really didn't know who made up the team, I bet if you were asked, you would've said Osaze would be at AFCON. Wait for 2016 to determine that |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by babyboy3(m): 10:47am On Nov 24, 2013 |
Swiftboy: I totally agree with the Op but the 94 team went ahead to win the olympic gold medal soo that should also be mentioned as their achievement as well which seem to cast shadow to this present team's success! I believe the Olympic event was an under 23 tournament which had only a handful of the players from the 94 squad, a Chunk of the Olympic squad came from the U17 winning team in 1993 But 1994 team was our best and strongest squad |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by babyboy3(m): 10:54am On Nov 24, 2013 |
Emmysteve: I saw this article writen by one @Deo of KickOffNigeria site. Please read and share your though. Just bear in mind that the 1994 team got to 12th in the FIFA ranking... Also beat a World cup semi finalist that had Hristov Stoijkov and Kostadinov and alse beat the first team to qualify from Europe (Greece) narrowly lost to a team that has Maradona, Cannigia and Battistuta with Peter Rufai pulling off some world class saves especially a worldy effort from the great man himself after skipping past Okafor easily Lets see how far this team will go up the FIFA ranking |
Re: Super Eagles Of 1994 Vs The Present Super Eagles: The Comparison by newscontinental: 2:24am On Nov 20, 2014 |
Poor analysis, grammatical blunders, meaningless post, foolish op. Yeye the smell |
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