darkelf:


No sir, we insist on ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE or nothing more

ChrisKels:


No where in that link did it state that onyedinma turned down an approach from Watford in contrast to ur earlier claim that he turned down Watford to remain in millwall. Bro like I said, there was no bid and when his contract ran out at millwall, Watford never invited him to offer him any contract, hence he resigned for millwall.


Ur claim that he turned down Watford is way off the mark.

Chrismario:


These things you put up there is more of 'Akuko'. Don't blame coach for his predicament. He should sought things and try other club if he's that good.

Certitude:

I don't take that bench warming talk seriously. The World Cup highest scorer of all time was at one time of his career a benchwarmer.

Joebie:
Players go through different handlers that may affect their progress. Does he think such predicament is only experienced
By the the UK based players? Granted, he only knows about the UK based players. But that’s where bias come in. He should also open his mind to the possibility of similar things happening to other players plying their trades in the so called backwater leagues. To have a level playing ground, put behind the “ifs” and the “what ifs”, and judge based on what actually took place on the pitch from one matchday to the other.

Icon79:
Same here. Methinks, he sees it as one step toward the EPL. Our players are obsessed with the EPL for a reason that I cannot understand


O pari

pelezico:
The problem is not the manager but the country. You cannot ignore the obvious problems that have plagued Nigeria socially and economically for years and think that Nigeria can magically do well at the WC. Our league needs a massive overhauling to turn it into a PRODUCT that earns CAPITAL. It must be run efficiently so that the standard of Nigerian football within Nigeria gets better and becomes more competitive. Nigeria locals ought to be scrambling to play in the Nigerian league not looking for the out of Nigeria route.

Only then can Nigerian football unleash the kind of football players we once had. Van Gal will not help Nigeria because we have nothing in place that he can work with. We have no youth system thats productive yet we somehow win the youth WC cup which ought to say that Nigeria has the raw talent more so than any country in the world but we do not have the structure to get them to WC standard beyond 17.

So unless the manager comes in and does the impossible and radically changes the league, youth program then lets just forget it

elyte89:



D German national team dt were outsed out d group stage played,deir 1st 11 played mostly all d minutes in dis past season

Nigeria case was just ill-luck and to some extent d coach tactics,if not,I c no reason y we shldnt qualify to d 2nd round at least

Humility017:


Franco-German yusuf...got me laughing hard.

rohr had the opportunity to make name for himself...
but messed it up.
but we just have to keep up with him..because he will help us unearth some of the foreign born indigenous coaches can't reach.....how I wish a brillant coach like yusuf was...he would have been helpful

indigenous coaches like siasia and amuneke will still messed it up with their biased selection.....so better we stick to rohr...he is the foreign coach we can afford at the moment...

Kog45:
Yes chief we will continue to lag behind in Africa especially Nigeria cos of age factor.A graduate of 5 years ago playing for U 20 says a lot.

It's high time we correct the abnormality by just requesting for primary school cert or ordinary primary school terms results with this age falsification will come to an end.

The younger the better to learn new tactics of the game,just check out new Waec results,14-15 years pupils have the best results.

The only way out is having right age for our underaged teams and not getting players who are above with 5 years of stipulated age for our teams.

MRI is not the solution cos just too glaring we are not getting it right save for our WC qualification,Nigeria football has been in static mode since 2014.

asha80:
to be honest this English team has something going for them that other English team in recent past didn't have.. unity, drive and passion to perform for the country.

BascoVanVeli:


People should praise this boy because they sure would have bashed him if he accepted

soetanoreoluwa:


Me too... I want France but England is looking real after winning under 17 and under 20...

Croatia should work very hard cos Russia might shock them...

See Croatia wining though...

edi287:

I hope not. Nacho should know that time waits for no one. Like play, like play, that U17 tournament was 5 years ago. Slowly he'll lose that "golden ball" hype he had.

AIG07:
World Cup is not meant for a team full of professional bench warmers.

Our players lack of playing time at their various clubs affected them at the World Cup. We are not known for ball possession. A team that doesn't play possessive style must be agile. Cos they will expend more energy chasing every ball. Cover more distance and have the ball less which can be frustrating at the same time.

The bitter truth is this-we wouldn't have stand any chance of progressing beyond the round of 16 even if we had qualified ahead of Argentina.

Our players struggled to play 90Mins football. 90% of them gases out at the 70th minute. They become so tired that they Struggle to keep./hold on to the final minute. It was really glaring through out our friendlies and the world cup matches.

The few that performed were those playing regular 90mins for their clubs e.g Musa thanks to his CSKA move, Ebuehi, Etebo, Moses and Mikel to some extent.

I tthink we need to tell ourselves the plain truth. Players warming the bench are not good for competitive matches. Moses was the culprit in 2014. But this year, it wasn't one or two players but almost the whole team.

To win, you must be ready to play 120min football see Croatia see Russia see Belgium, see France see England 90% of their players are 90mins regular players at their clubs. The agility required for this stage is there and so, they can all go on to play 120mins football and that's one of the reason they are in the Semis.

The World Cup is not for the faint hearted. Team spirit is good but not enough. There is nothing they can do even when the spirit is willing but the body is weak. They will have no option than to give in.

We need to get rid/minimize the numbers of bench warmers in our national team. Players, irrespective of who they are, where they play, not clocking atleast 70mins football week in week out don't deserve to be in the national team.

*MODIFIED*
This in return will make the players sit up and bend down. We need to stop encouraging mediocrity.

We took a permanent bench cleaner in a second division in Echiejile to World Cup thinking Miracle will happen over night. We were counting on Kelechi, a player who barely clocked a 1000min for his club as a back up striker for one that has been on goal drought since God knows when.
We were hoping for Miracle from Uzoho a relatively newbie who is still an apprentice to save us.
We had bench of pregnant players, half fit/injury prone ones.

We are a joke for thinking we can pull a surprise.

The national Team is not meant to groom players. No. If you are not performing at your club or playing as a starter kindly stay out.

Playing time is very important in modern day soccer. Loew made a great mistake starting Neuer as first choice goalkeeper. The guy wasn't at his best and so couldn't keep his poor team in the competition. Enough of all this training performances. Match day actions are miles different from training performances.

Our technical committee needs to step up their game. Sit Rohr down and talk some sense into him. get a sound coach as assistant for him and if he is not willing to change he should go four years is not far let the planning begins.

eazyjakes:


Luck plays a role in a major tourney wen u match a team tactically,technically and quality wise wit other factors such as hunger,team unity and physical fitness....d germans are not d first defending champions to bow out in d first round and shuld not be a refernce point here....d team av attained d highest acheivement and wud naturally not av dis same hunger as our young team wu shud be motivated to make a name for demselves....secondly,teams study defending champions a lot.... dia system,dia style of play and dia key players et al and figure out how to beat dem hence dey are mostly vulnerable....we lost against a shitty and aging argentine team due to a host of of factors luck being d lowest in d pecking order!

komekn:


Actually I would advise him to accept the money and settle. He is not going to be a world class striker his career may have peeked.

He is now 26 the possibility exists of football age. Which means his competitive playing time is limited and he should get as much £££ as he can get, before its all over.

Unfortunately he never got a chance to impress and show us what he cam do.

Oasis007:


The Thread would never stop being amazing. How is England a Cheat for God's sake?! They won U17 World Cup, won U20 World Cup, and in the Semi-Final of the senior World Cup now......... are they Coincidence?!

England is building a Project to Perfection. They did their Home-work before every Competition, and the Preparation is panning out positively for them.

Both Belgium and England have one thing in Common..... 3 - 5 - 2 Formation and pure attacking Football with Pace. They are tactically setup and disciplined. Each Player knows his Role on the Pitch and doing it closer to perfection.

Let's take England as an Instance; Kyle Walker is playing in a 3-Man Defence and he's excelling there. Who saw it coming?! Whoever imagine Young would be a starter for England at the Mundial?! Raheem partnering Kane in a two-Man Attack?! These are pre-planned Tactics, and are absolutely working for the Team at the Mundial.

Belgium on the other also plan well for the World Cup. Has Chadli ever played as a Wing-back?! So far he's being fantastic in the Role. Until the Quarter Final Game, KDB was playing as a deep-lying Playmaker cum B2B Midfielder, and he was doing fine in the Role.

Mertens was a Starter ahead of Fellaini but the Lineup was tweaked against Brazil and it worked absolutely fine for the Team. Guess we realized KDB played as a false 9 while both Lukaku and Hazard play as inverted Wingers in their last Match.

These are real modern Coaches that know their Onions, unlike Rohr who had to be pressured by the Media, Pundits and Fans that 3 - 5 - 2 Formation is the Deal, and best suited Players at his Disposal.

There is something very apparent in this World Cup and peculiar to the Teams in the Semi-Final, tactical superiority wins the Games. We are in 21st Century, hence football has changed to Science completely.

In fairness, Gernot Rohr is very Dumb. He's not better in any way than the Local Coaches especially Siasia and perhaps Amuneke. He's simply a German-Franco version of Salisu Yusuf.

NFF did everything to prepare the Team for the Mundial. Arranged series of Friendly Matches, even with top Teams - England, Serbia, Chile and Co.

Lobbied with CAF Board to cancel the AFCON Qualifiers slated for March to ensure no Injury is recorded amongst the Teams representing the Continent, so what was the Result? Failure!

Even a Twerp could figure out during the Friendlies that 3 - 5 - 2 Formation would have taken us far in the Competition. Also playing Moses as a Wing-back instead of Playmaker and Mikel as a DM would have been the right Calls.

Was the Muppet really in control of the Team at the Mundial? I doubt it! Coz to me he's more a Puppet to the big Guns in the Squad.

If wanna eat a Frog, we should it a Kind with Eggs. If we wanna hire a foreign Coach, I advise we go for the best, not just a white Man born in Europe with no tangible Record of Success in the Game of Round Leather.

komekn:


Can I ask you a question birthed from deep seated bias.

What do you see as the essential Ingredient that brought those victories into being❓ may I ask.

All in the last year plus literally.

England is becoming like France and who has been pushing that change in mentality Gareth Southgate.

Sam Allardyce would never do what Southgate is doing for sure.

England ate in the best position living football memory to win it.

On paper I can not see Croatia beating England or can you.

[/b]Take away Modric and what's left in terms of top level quality[b].

Kog45:
Sir are you still on unearthing FB players.

Pls forget that,Rohr should just update himself technically or get a solid assistant cos at WC he was naive and always lost when it matter most.

On indigenous coaches being biased?well you are right but is Rohr not biased taking players to WC on loyalties.

Honestly not really convinced with Rohr cos what eagles need now is tactical coach not just unearth FB for us cos i remember Stephen Keshi brought in Leon Balogun,Ekong Troost,Ameobi,Hope Akpan.Also Siasia made it possible for Iwobi,Anichebe and Aluko and Oliseh gave us Carl Ikeme.

I want Rohr to continue based on build up but he need a very solid tactical assistants just like Westerhoff/Bonfrere, Keshi/Sylvanus Okpala and Siasia/Kalika.

edi287:

The friendlies were a warning sign that Rohr might choke...we chose to ignore it and claim we'd show up.
In as much as we weren't favorites to get out of the group, Rohr's in game management especially against Argentina killed us. I'll never ever forgive him for letting Argentina bring in Pavon and Aguero and he just kept quiet forgetting he has a 31 year old Mikel in midfield and his LB was getting tag teamed.
His indecision and Ighalo killed us.

Kog45:
My man have you asked yourself why people always present court affidavits instead of their original birth certificates.

A lot dumped their birth certificates and used court affidavits to beat down their age.

And funny enough NPC issue birth certificate without even asked for any documents.

Truly original birth certificate should be the answer but not in Nigeria.

Oh you have not seen a scenario where you are the youngest and also the oldest cos you have original birth certificate but others have court affidavits to back things up.

It happened to me before in my working place.In our set those with original birth certificates are the oldest cos others tendered court affidavits to support their new age.

The bubble burst when my company HR requested for primary school certificate.Some said they don't have it but my HR said just bring any primary school term result.

At the end the HR was summoned to Abuja and that was the end.

Imagine a graduate of 6 years ago playing for U 21 with birth certificate from NPC which foreign countries recognize as real birth certificate with just attestation from MOFA

komekn:


It's only here we talk of U17 as if it's conclusive evidence of World class quality. Present and future.

I can not count how many former England U17's are playing non league football and or working in Tesco. Within the last 10 years.

I have been having this argument with regards to Osimhen and Nwakali brother's the only one on an upwards progression is Awoniyi.

Oasis007:




You are very spot on Bruh! I keep wondering why the Franco-German Salisu Yusuf didn't make any positive move to kill the Game?!

He should have at least changed the Formation to 5 - 4 - 1 or 4 - 5 - 1 to cut off Argies Wing plays, choked the middle, lessen the Pressure on the Defence and as well switched the Tactics to defensive Mode.

But he was standing like a Pole on the Side Line with no Clue of what to be done to salvage the Point. No matter what Anyone says, I can't ever be convinced Rohr is tactically good, he's simply a lucky Dumbass, and he's building nothing!

Bunique:
reading through this thread i just feel most Nigerians are ingrates. we forget so easily and are very quick to over hype our abilities. i will not forget the general atmosphere of our football before Rohr took over. look at the teams still at the tournament check where their players play compare that with our players.
many persons here before the world cup had no problem with Ighalo making the squad so why the insult on Rohr for taking Ighalo? tactics did not take us out rather our players failed and many persons here were happy with the players selected for the world cup. please let's move on and learn to appreciate because with this attitude no coach would want to work with us.

komekn:


Can I ask you a question birthed from deep seated bias.

What do you see as the essential Ingredient that brought those victories into being❓ may I ask.

All in the last year plus literally.

England is becoming like France and who has been pushing that change in mentality Gareth Southgate.

Sam Allardyce would never do what Southgate is doing for sure.

England ate in the best position living football memory to win it.

On paper I can not see Croatia beating England or can you.

Take away Modric and what's left in terms of top level quality.