Icon4s:

joseph1013:


Chai...I remember Yusuf Ayila. Whatever happened to that guy. There was a time they said he was Edgar Davis and Seedorf rolled into one. At a point, Juventus was looking to buy him. He played one champions league match he played against Borussia Gladbach in 2011 or so where he completely dominated the Germans. Memories!

BascoVanVeli:
Chisom Egbuchulam has scored 2 super goals.

TheSuperNerd:
1984? Whaaaatttt?? Chaaaaaaiiiiiiii...... My indomie generation tag just got super cemented!!!

Abeg ooo Oga Icon4s... Come carry your man into your experience halls and quarters ooo... Ojibijibijibijibijibi.... Kaaiiiii

In the midst of...... gosh!!!! See them!!!! And many of them dey for ghostmode while people like us dey for driving seat for here?? Kaaaiiiii... I don suffer..... Chaaiiiii...

Quick exchanges with Godwin Aguda in the Rivers United area set up Egbuchulam who unleashed an unstoppable strike that broke the deadlock.

The stunner had the crowd on their feet and
while it recovered, Egbuchulam waited ten
minutes then repeated the feat.

Skinning past Gabriel Olalekan, Egbuchulam
curled his strike goalwards. It flew, past Rotimi's
best effort, grazing the crossbar and into the net.

TheGoodJoe:
Jurgen Klopp Takes Liverpool First Team To Watch Barcelona V Borussia Monchengladbach

It is not always about game time. There are times "You Sit And Learn".

Thumbs Up to Jurgen Klopp.

TheGoodJoe:
Jurgen Klopp Takes Liverpool First Team To Watch Barcelona V Borussia Monchengladbach

It is not always about game time. There are times "You Sit And Learn".

Thumbs Up to Jurgen Klopp.

TheGoodJoe:
Jurgen Klopp Takes Liverpool First Team To Watch Barcelona V Borussia Monchengladbach

It is not always about game time. There are times "You Sit And Learn".

Thumbs Up to Jurgen Klopp.

krattoss:
this is an unnecessarily waste of funds.. they could have watched it on plastic television screen.. unless their is more to it.

tbaba1234:


I doubt, it was about learning. It was probably more about building team spirit and morale.

TheGoodJoe:



Learning. Which kind team spirit. So when Vieira took Emery Huws to watch Busquets, it was to build individual spirit.

tbaba1234:


Learn what exactly, They are not kids. It is not as if, you are trying to inspire kids.

Klopp is a fantastic manager in his own right. They can watch tapes of the match if there was anything to learn.

Going on a trip as a team, offers them a chance to improve morale after a bad loss at the weekend.

TheGoodJoe:


Yes they learn regularly from watching tapes and breaking it down through analysis. Still, the coach felt his players will learn more watching it live. Or, do you think coaches can not learn from tapes too? Yet, they take the trouble a lot of times to study teams live.

Orkpekyandega:
Why Tosin Adarabioyo And Other Man City Stars Call Iheanacho “Uncle”

On September 13 2015 after Kelechi Iheanacho scored a last minute winning goal for Manchester City against Crystal Palace in an English Premier League game, Social media went overboard when Sterling called the 19 year old “Uncle” in a tweet congratulating him for his goal that gifted them all three points on twitter.


The tweets lead to a whole lot of insinuations which some even saying the tweet brings to question the real age of the Nigerian for Sterling who is older than him to refer to him as uncle.


Same debate was reignited when Anglo Nigerian Tosin Adarabioyo referred to the 20 year old as “Uncle”once again, after smashing his record as Manchester City youngest debutant in the UEFA Champions League.


However in our traditional way of unraveling the mystery behind most stories owngoalnigeria.com can authoritatively reveal that the tweet had nothing to do with his age rather it’s the nickname most of the senior players call the Nigerian who refers to most of them as “uncle” in training.


The word uncle is mostly used in Nigeria to refer to someone who is older during conversation and not necessarily what it means in the real sense and Iheanacho use the word very well in most of his chats with the senior players who in turn jokingly refer to him as uncle once in a while.


Sterling’s tweet was more of the same joke from the training pitch whenever the Nigerian is talked about by senior players of the team and nothing close to all that have been speculated.

owngoalnigeria.com/2016/12/08/why-tosin-adarabioyo-and-other-man-city-stars-call-iheanacho-uncle/

Orkpekyandega:
Infantino backs 48-team World Cup with 16 groups

FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants to expand the World Cup finals to 48 teams featuring 16 groups of three starting with the 2026 tournament, a source within world football’s governing body told AFP on Wednesday.


Infantino, who had until now proposed a 48-team event but with a traditional 32 countries advancing to the finals, will submit his latest proposal at a FIFA Council meeting in Zurich on January 9-10.


A letter outlining the new format was due to be sent to the members of the FIFA Council on Wednesday, the source said, adding that the format was “preferred by president Infantino.”


Under the new format, the source said, “every qualified team would play at least two group matches.
The top two in each group would then go through to the last 32.”


The FIFA Council will vote on several proposals at their January meeting: whether to maintain the current World Cup format of 32 teams, extend it to 40 teams or go to 48 teams.


In the latter case they will vote on whether to have an initial play-off before 32 teams go into a group stage, or whether to go with Infantino’s now preferred option.


The successor to the disgraced Sepp Blatter had previously floated the idea of having 32 teams going into a play-off round, with the 16 winners joining another 16 sides in the group stage.


The play-off matches would be staged in the country hosting the finals, but would mean the losers go home after just one game.


“This way, every team is guaranteed at least two matches and then we have knockout matches from the last 32,” the source added of the 16-group proposal.


“Furthermore, this formula offers two advantages. Each confederation has a guaranteed number of qualified teams and it is easier to understand for spectators, television companies and sponsors.”


The source added that this format “seems to be liked” by the different federations.


The proposal to change the format of the competition is driven by a desire to increase income from marketing and television rights, even if the costs would also increase with an expanded tournament.


Infantino, formerly Michel Platini’s right-hand man at UEFA, said recently he was in favour of a World Cup jointly organised by several countries to share out the burden of providing facilities for the tournament.


“We don’t want white elephants,” he said in reference to stadiums that have been built for past World Cups and then left without a purpose after the tournament.


“We want facilities that will last.”
Infantino was general secretary of UEFA when European football’s governing body expanded the European Championship from 16 teams to 24 for this year’s finals in France.


They also approved staging Euro 2020 in 13 different countries around the continent.


And the Swiss-Italian has also been looking to expand the FIFA Club World Cup from the current seven-team format to a 32-club competition and hosting it in June instead of December.


This year’s competition in Japan begins on Thursday, with Real Madrid the favourites.

www.soccernet.com.ng/2016/12/infantino-backs-48-team-world-cup-with.html

tbaba1234:
I will support the 48 team world cup if there are no more European teams added. They already have the largest slots.

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