mrvictor: Just imagine Moses Simon and Iheanacho attacking for the senior team in the next 3-4years. That is if they should maintain this tempo. They will be too hot to handle by any team's defense.

rickkid: We have by far the best upcoming generation in Africa, and globally only behind Brazil, Portugal and maybe Germany. The 2016 Olympics should be when we transition them to our senior team finally. No need to rush them like we rushed Mikel. I think we can still win AFCON 2015 with our current S.E but afterwards we should make these new guys the nucleus of the team going into AFCON 2017 and beyond.
If only we had a decent league to retain some control over their footballing progress because currently they're all at the mercy of European coaches and managers who can decide to bench them or play them out of position like was done with Mikel's 2005 set.

kris: The only problem you guys are forgetting is that most of our Naija born players dey fake their age. This is the right time to use them in the National Team, not when dem turn 30 for real, and we think say dem be 22.

That's why our youngsters always fade fast. The boy is good, so make dem invite am now before him old.

wordychap: He's good n should be invited now, let's forget this waiting for maturity talk, these boys are men!

modextus: same name and surname wtf!!!!!

micfoley: One problem is obvious looking at the video. This very skilful Nigerian player, like many others of his kind , is playing in near empty stadia in an obscure league somewhere. It will be extremely difficult for his club career or international career to progress if he remains there

kris: The only problem you guys are forgetting is that most of our Naija born players dey fake their age. This is the right time to use them in the National Team, not when dem turn 30 for real, and we think say dem be 22.

That's why our youngsters always fade fast. The boy is good, so make dem invite am now before him old.

Syenite:
MRI has now ensured that players of the right age are fielded. This crop of U20 players are truely U20 except u are telling me d MRI scan is a scam.

Btw that was how Victor Moses started, I hope Simon Moses doesn't tow the line of Victor.
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arsetalks: @ mrvictor, are you his agent or something? Just kidding. To be honest, Nigeria has a lot of talented players in Europe and NFF only just need to ensure the coaches go after this players.

We should forget about winning tournaments for a while and concentrate on actually building a strong team for the future. So many players.

At Arsenal we have - Akpom, Iwobi, Ademola ( and 3 others whose names I can't remember off hand ) plus Aneke, Arinze both of who just left Arsenal for other clubs.

We also have Tiago Ilori at Liverpool, 3 ( one Demola who was one of the reason Barca got banned ) at Barca, Real Madrid just signed one. Ac Milan has like 3-4 as well.

We should not wait till this players get snatched ( Patrick Owoyemola comes to mind, though he didn't end up doing well mainly because he didn't get the chances ) by other countries and then cry wolf.

iconize: The rate at which Nigerians hype their footballers is really appalling.

mrvictor:
...and so what will say of England?
Football is the only thing that brings out patriotism out of Nigerians and should remain so. That's almost all we've got at least to smile about collectively in this country.

kris:

And you think the MRI scan is perfect?

Let's keep a tab on the shelf life of our players. If by the age of 25, they start to be on a downward spiral, you know they are old.

Did you hear about that American soccer player (Maduabuchi "Abuchi" Obinwa) that failed the MRI test? This kid was born in the US, he cannot falsify his birth certificate. He was truly underage, but the scan failed him.

So it's not perfect. I believe that if your age is close enough, you can beat it, depending on your bones o!