TheGoodJoe:


We have junior teams referred to as Feeders. I hardly here of clubs in Nigeria carrying out Academy programs.

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Even with d meticulous development they have not won d U17.

There strength lies mostly in the U19 & U21.
A typical Spanish U21 side would parade players from the la liga hu would have had at list 3 yrs of senior team football.

Bt what we have as U20s are a bunch of academy players

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In as much as i dnt agree 100% with the thinking of that writer, there is a lot of sense in what he said. Particularly in the areas of sticking with his U17 boys and inexperience.

Manu almost made that mistake bt later introduced Wilfred Ndidi, Moses Simon and Kingsley Sokari of which i still felt was nt enough.

I understand ur pt from which u have been defending them bt those pts to me are nt enough to lose 3-4 at home to Sudan. Amuneke himself has come out to say no excuses.

TheGoodJoe:



We can not count on Amunike to make complains. The NFF have a gag order which restricts coaches from complaining. That was why Coach Sylvanus Okpala, despite his brilliance and technical know how does not work with the Super Eagles.

You complain and you lose a chance to work with the National teams.

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Amuneke has failed as an U20 coach.

A person that even openly said he cannot recalled what happened at Chile '87 WYC. Simply means he has nt learnt from history.

Manu is a better U20 coach. Atleast he avoided that singular mistake Amuneke made by inviting early enough players dat were nt part of the U17 winning team. Jst dat at dat time we did nt have enough quality 19-20 yrs olds as we do now.

Amuneke should be taken back to U17 with the 2019 set. Manu should graduate with the 2017 Eaglets to form d 2019 Flying.

Talking about the pitch. Teslim Balogun pitch though astro-tough is abt d best we have in d country. It was jst unfortunate dat it rained in the whole of Southern Nigeria that day. So had they taken d game to Uyo, Port Harcourt or Benin the condition would have almost also been the same.
The northern cities were ruled so as not to give Sudan an due advantage of playing under a familiar wethear condition.

As for the strike before the game, dey have jst shot themselves on the foot bc dey have jst let 180million Nigerians down. Nobody, nt even d press would join solidarity with them in asking for their unpaid allowances. And that team would soon be disbounded so under what platform would dey come and ask d NFF for their unpaid allowances?

Worst still the careers of 90% of them have nt even kicked off so how else would dey have d opportunities to sell themselves?

The players are the biggest losers in all this.
This team when blended with some older, & more experienced boys had d potential of winning the WYC.

Well Nigerians have surely moved on and in d next 2 years another U20 would emerge.

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Amuneke has failed as an U20 coach.

A person that even openly said he cannot recalled what happened at Chile '87 WYC. Simply means he has nt learnt from history.

Manu is a better U20 coach. Atleast he avoided that singular mistake Amuneke made by inviting early enough players dat were nt part of the U17 winning team. Jst dat at dat time we did nt have enough quality 19-20 yrs olds as we do now.

Amuneke should be taken back to U17 with the 2019 set. Manu should graduate with the 2017 Eaglets to form d 2019 Flying.

Talking about the pitch. Teslim Balogun pitch though astro-tough is abt d best we have in d country. It was jst unfortunate dat it rained in the whole of Southern Nigeria that day. So had they taken d game to Uyo, Port Harcourt or Benin the condition would have almost also been the same.
The northern cities were ruled so as not to give Sudan an due advantage of playing under a familiar wethear condition.

As for the strike before the game, dey have jst shot themselves on the foot bc dey have jst let 180million Nigerians down. Nobody, nt even d press would join solidarity with them in asking for their unpaid allowances. And that team would soon be disbounded so under what platform would dey come and ask d NFF for their unpaid allowances?

Worst still the careers of 90% of them have nt even kicked off so how else would dey have d opportunities to sell themselves?

The players are the biggest losers in all this.
This team when blended with some older, & more experienced boys had d potential of winning the WYC.

Well Nigerians have surely moved on and in d next 2 years another U20 would emerge.

Icon4s:


Amuneke has failed as an U20 coach.

A person that even openly said he cannot recalled what happened at Chile '87 WYC. Simply means he has nt learnt from history.

Manu is a better U20 coach. Atleast he avoided that singular mistake Amuneke made by inviting early enough players dat were nt part of the U17 winning team. Jst dat at dat time we did nt have enough quality 19-20 yrs olds as we do now.

Amuneke should be taken back to U17 with the 2019 set. Manu should graduate with the 2017 Eaglets to form d 2019 Flying.

Talking about the pitch. Teslim Balogun pitch though astro-tough is abt d best we have in d country. It was jst unfortunate dat it rained in the whole of Southern Nigeria that day. So had they taken d game to Uyo, Port Harcourt or Benin the condition would have almost also been the same.
The northern cities were ruled so as not to give Sudan an due advantage of playing under a familiar wethear condition.

As for the strike before the game, dey have jst shot themselves on the foot bc dey have jst let 180million Nigerians down. Nobody, nt even d press would join solidarity with them in asking for their unpaid allowances. And that team would soon be disbounded so under what platform would dey come and ask d NFF for their unpaid allowances?

Worst still the careers of 90% of them have nt even kicked off so how else would dey have d opportunities to sell themselves?

The players are the biggest losers in all this.
This team when blended with some older, & more experienced boys had d potential of winning the WYC.

Well Nigerians have surely moved on and in d next 2 years another U20 would emerge.

Icon4s:


Amuneke has failed as an U20 coach.

A person that even openly said he cannot recalled what happened at Chile '87 WYC. Simply means he has nt learnt from history.

Manu is a better U20 coach. Atleast he avoided that singular mistake Amuneke made by inviting early enough players dat were nt part of the U17 winning team. Jst dat at dat time we did nt have enough quality 19-20 yrs olds as we do now.

Amuneke should be taken back to U17 with the 2019 set. Manu should graduate with the 2017 Eaglets to form d 2019 Flying.

Talking about the pitch. Teslim Balogun pitch though astro-tough is abt d best we have in d country. It was jst unfortunate dat it rained in the whole of Southern Nigeria that day. So had they taken d game to Uyo, Port Harcourt or Benin the condition would have almost also been the same.
The northern cities were ruled so as not to give Sudan an due advantage of playing under a familiar wethear condition.

As for the strike before the game, dey have jst shot themselves on the foot bc dey have jst let 180million Nigerians down. Nobody, nt even d press would join solidarity with them in asking for their unpaid allowances. And that team would soon be disbounded so under what platform would dey come and ask d NFF for their unpaid allowances?

Worst still the careers of 90% of them have nt even kicked off so how else would dey have d opportunities to sell themselves?

The players are the biggest losers in all this.
This team when blended with some older, & more experienced boys had d potential of winning the WYC.

Well Nigerians have surely moved on and in d next 2 years another U20 would emerge.