Soso990240:
The thing tire me.some people keep comparing our team building to Germany or Congo dat use 10years to build their team..I laugh u guys.atleast they were inviting their Best Legs,wat do we invite now? Nwofor is gud,bt Uche is Beta.Azeez is gud,bt Aluko is beta.Keshi has forgoten about sunday Mba bcaus Mba denied him d huge amount he was asking for after Mba's transfer to Bastia.And why hasn't he invited Iheanacho to d eagle's camp? Thank God d guy has shown his ability on Man.city shirt.

Kingjames:


Thank you my brother, I imagined the difference Mba would have made if he was the one the came in when Onazi was pulled. Mba scored the goal that eliminated Ivory Coast and scored the one that won the cup, Keshi took the glory and dumped Mba from the National team.
All because we have a bunch of greedy and incompetent fools in the Football house who we are not even holding accountable for our money.

Zikdik:

Sunday Oliseh is a UEFA "A" Licensed coach.

edimat007:
Yes he has lost it, Wen Keshi hv started inviting players frm China, Iran, Kuwait den I knw dat D man is on gambly path.

hydrocarbon:
....I see u don't understand nigerian football,,who are the guys he's callin up for the games when we'v got better and more experienced players,I do agree with ikpeba,he has lost it

natureblack:
Coming from a failed football pundit

maestroferddi:
There is no point bringing sentiments into the whole issue.

Nobody is denying the fact that Keshi has recorded successes as the national team football coach. However, it is very clear that Keshi has allowed complacency and arrogance to get the better part of him.

Just take a look at the Super Eagles from the World Cup till date and tell whether there is anything inspiring hope and confidence in the team. You keep citing coaches that dropped certain players prior to tournaments, but have you asked yourself whether we have the talent pool to grant Keshi the ill-advised luxury he wants to be enjoying?

You demonise tested players like Ike Uche and Obafemi Martins, prolific goalscorers for the Super Eagles, and in their place you put the likes of Uche Nwofor, Shola Ameobi, Nnamdi Oduamadi and co. What kind of team are you building?

Why hide under technical inadequacy to drag our football twenty years back? Do you watch Keshi in big matches and see that his team is almost on auto-pilot most of the time?

Don't be carried away by our winning AFCON, after all a pedestrian Zambian team won the tournament as well.

What do you say when a country like Greece is making steady progress in football while a supposedly football giant like Nigeria is still mired in stagnation?

vislabraye:


Why didn't Keshi renew his contract? We heard SA was interested in him. Why didn't he sign for them? I don't understand how Naija dey do their thing ?

thegoodjoehunt3:
After Nigeria won the 1994 AFCON, Coach Clemens Westerhof invited new players to the camp to try out for a place in the World Cup squad. The same squad of the Nations Cup made it. However if any of the new players were as good as the old ones, they would have broken in.

Our Super Eagles team is not top notch, so more players will be invited till the coach is satisfied. Even after then, he has to keep the chosen team on their toes by letting them know their positions are not permanent.

Daninya1:
A African proverb goes thus :as goat take stand, na so them go price am... An ugly truth is better than a beautiful lie.. As coach Stephen Keshi has decided to sacrifice national glory for personal glory, he will fail... NIGERIANS FORGET ABOUT MORROC 2015...you can quote me anytime, anyday and anywhere...

thegoodjoehunt3:
See as you are talking as if Coach Keshi left out our Super stars in the first eleven of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man City, PSG, Dortmund etc.

The Coach has to scout and discover hidden gems.

Emeca:

'Building' a team involves getting d right mix of players to give u want u want, den 'tweaking' it from tym to tym. The 'building' is not supposed to take forever. Dats what Ikpeba is talking abt. Some of d players he took to d world-cup are nowhere to be found in his recent list. He simply replaced dem with a bunch of UNTESTED average players. It makes d team dysfunctional.

What Barca and Bayern are doin is 'tweaking' their team. They have gone past building. They drop and add one or two players....but their system of play remains d same. Even the players they added are quality players that made a difference at their former clubs. You cant say d same for players Keshi invited.

Same for Germany. The core of d team that took them to d semi-finals in 2010 still remains. D coach only replaced those that retired and those who lost form with BETTER players......compare d line up against Spain at d 2010 semi-final and d 2014 finals team; there are only two players he dropped on account of form, d other two retired. He picked Sami Khedira for this year's event (notwithstanding d fact he only played 2 matches in d last 4 months for Madrid prior to d competition and was an injury risk) because he was already a TRIED and TESTED player. Keshi dropped Sunday Mba - a player who was crucial to Nigeria's success in d last AFCON - because he 'wasnt motivated enough' . We all saw hw d midfield collapsed against France when Onazi was taken off....Keshi had no reliable person to bring on to fill dat gap. All d tym he spent testing was for notin when it mattered most. He even wasted d opportunity afforded him by d Confederations Cup to build on d team.

What Keshi has been doin is what Man U is doin now....building a team.....are u not seeing d mixed results Man U are getting. Man U will soon get past dis stage once they get their acts right but I cant say d same for Keshi with d way and manner he goes abt his coaching.

vislabraye:



How many changes did Westeroff make in the USA 94 squad? The first 11 in the Nations Cup was the same in the WC. And those were the best we had in the country that time.

dabossman:


Semantics my friend, semantics. Has Keshi's team changed that much in the last two years? Can yo not predict at least 8 of his starting 11? The back four hardly changes barring injuries; Ambrose, Oboabona, Omeruo, Echejiele. His midfield trio always has Mikel and Onazi, the only trouble spot being who completes the 3. That has rotated between Igiebor, Mba, and recently Ramon Azeez. Front 3 same scenario, Musa, Emenike are almost constant, while the third man has rotated between Oduamadi, Ideye and recently Osaze with his World Cup recall and Babatunde.

So Keshi too has basically been tweaking. I would say his bench even experiences more of the tweaking largely because we don't have solid replacements for most positions. And that problem dates beyond Keshi. We are yet to replace Okocha, Finidi, Yekini, Oliseh and the likes. The guys we have now can't tie those dudes shoelaces.

vislabraye:



How many changes did Westeroff make in the USA 94 squad? The first 11 in the Nations Cup was the same in the WC. And those were the best we had in the country that time.

thegoodjoehunt3:
What you guys do not get is that our World Cup group was tough. The Iranians put up a good match against Argentina. The Bosnians were tough against Argentina. With the likes of Dzeko and Vedad Ibisevic. The French team had to injure Onazi and Ambrose to stop us. How can that be a poor performance with a team who lack real Super Stars.

duni04:

Keshi's fault or the FA? They were the ones promising to make him the highest paid coach in Africa to persuade him from resigning. When he chaged his mind and said he wasn't resigning again, no contract again. Instead we're hearing rumours of a german coach. Keshi's coaching is rubbish but our FA is also rubbish.

abatically:


That is a silly comparison right there. 1994 was out golden era and we haven't produced real talents since the class of 1994. In fact the only world class player we had post 94 was KANU nwankwo and since then we never had a world class player.

But since u want names, I can tell u that Chidi nwanu never played in the 1994 nations cup but was an integra part of 1994 world cup.

dabossman:


Semantics my friend, semantics. Has Keshi's team changed that much in the last two years? Can yo not predict at least 8 of his starting 11? The back four hardly changes barring injuries; Ambrose, Oboabona, Omeruo, Echejiele. His midfield trio always has Mikel and Onazi, the only trouble spot being who completes the 3. That has rotated between Igiebor, Mba, and recently Ramon Azeez. Front 3 same scenario, Musa, Emenike are almost constant, while the third man has rotated between Oduamadi, Ideye and recently Osaze with his World Cup recall and Babatunde.

So Keshi too has basically been tweaking. I would say his bench even experiences more of the tweaking largely because we don't have solid replacements for most positions. And that problem dates beyond Keshi. We are yet to replace Okocha, Finidi, Yekini, Oliseh and the likes. The guys we have now can't tie those dudes shoelaces.

thegoodjoehunt3:
You would have put Mba to battle with Matuidi?

Matuidi would have slaughtered Mba, just as he would have slaughtered Azeez if he had graced that field that day.

thegoodjoehunt3:
What you guys do not get is that our World Cup group was tough. The Iranians put up a good match against Argentina. The Bosnians were tough against Argentina. With the likes of Dzeko and Vedad Ibisevic. The French team had to injure Onazi and Ambrose to stop us. How can that be a poor performance with a team who lack real Super Stars.

vislabraye:


Some of you here just claim to be wise. Who were our key players then ? Yes Chidi Nwanu was included but he was not an inexperienced player. He was already mature. Can you call that rebuilding? He was a fantastic player no doubt about it but did Westerhoff change the whole setting ? Yekini was still our points man, Amokachi, Okocha, Finidi were amongst our best attackers. That's why the team became so good because the played 2geda for a long time.

My point is, where are the players that won the NC ? Now do you use green horns to execute a match you need to win at all cost ? Even if we have to build a team, this is not the right time.

vislabraye:


Some of you here just claim to be wise. Who were our key players then ? Yes Chidi Nwanu was included but he was not an inexperienced player. He was already mature. Can you call that rebuilding? He was a fantastic player no doubt about it but did Westerhoff change the whole setting ? Yekini was still our points man, Amokachi, Okocha, Finidi were amongst our best attackers. That's why the team became so good because the played 2geda for a long time.

My point is, where are the players that won the NC ? Now do you use green horns to execute a match you need to win at all cost ? Even if we have to build a team, this is not the right time.

vislabraye:



How many changes did Westeroff make in the USA 94 squad? The first 11 in the Nations Cup was the same in the WC. And those were the best we had in the country that time.

Emeca:


every group in d world-cup is tough. No team is a walk-over. D Iranians proved tough and almost qualified because they basically parked d bus. Dat also qualifies as performance. We went with a defensive approach and dats what got us dat far. When our key defensive midfielder was injured, we broke apart. An ideal team ought to be all-around.