Nigeria Players To Be Age-Tested

This is hilarious, 
they should have tested them Aghaowa (who claimed 24 about 3yrs ago),Kanu, Okocha e.t.c,
Lucky "boys" i must say!!!!

This one will hurt some peeps, I hope they stay afloat.

what applies to one should apply to all.

And all the NL'ders wey dey claim under age 

We just have to accept the reality at hand. Our practice of fielding overaged players has not helped us much. The casualties are just too much to bear. I'm not trying to pontificate or be a saint here. Most of us on this thread attended high or secondary schools in Nigeria. Most of our schools had football teams and we knew the school soccer stars back then. Inter-house Football competitions were also held in our schools. Not to talk of inter-class soccer tourneys some weeks to the end of each term. I am not saying other countries do not cheat in age-grade competitions but there must be a reason for Nigeria to have been singled out for accusations. Now lets look at some of the teams we fielded in cadet competitions in the past.

A. Saudi 89 U-20 team: We had players like Nduka Ugbade, Sam Elijah [ real egbon ], Mike Onyemachara, Christopher Nwosu , Christopher Ohenhen, Bawa Abdullahi, Peter Ogaba et al. The shocking thing is that none of Coach Tunde Disu's squad to Saudi Arabia apart from Mutiu Adepoju, played a part in the qualification matches for Italia 90 or even featured actively in Clemens Westerhof's fairy tale build-up to USA 94, except Nduka Ugbade who was used sparingly by Westerhof What happened to the rest of the boys. Some of them got clubs in Europe but soon faded into oblivion. Dimeju Lawal held a lot of promise but he soon faded away. A guy like Dimeji Lawal should have gone on to greater things. This is because less talented players like Luis Figo and Rui Costa went on to do great things for Portugal. Same thing with Hierro of Spain and Oleg Salenko of Russia who played in the same competition with our 'boys'.

B. Scotland 89 U-17 team: This team had lots of talented players like Segun Fetuga and Godwin Okpara and Victor Ikpeba,  Many of the boys' chances to play in the U-20 competition in 1991 were crushed and destroyed when FIFA banned Nigeria for age discrepancies. Many of the members of the team to Scotland simply faded away. I heard some of them ended up as cab drivers and cleaners in Europe and Asia. Godwin Okpara and Victor Ikpeba made good progress. Victor Ikpeba was the sole survivor of that squad. He made it to the top in Nigerian colours. Godwin Okpara later featured for the Super Eagles at the tail end of his career. A rape and assault case ended his career decisively

C. Trinidad and Tobago 2001 U-17 team: This team was exciting to watch and had stars like Temile Omonigho, Victor Brown, Femi Opabunmi and a host of others. They crushed many teams in the competition and scored loads of goals. However, the team was full of aged guys. It was very glaring to Nigerian soccer fans these guys were older than they claimed. Femi Opabunmi was a shadow of himself when Onigbinde took him to Korea-Japan 2002 World Cup. Temile and Brown ended up playing for teams in Ukraine and Belarus. No one remembers them today.

I could go on and on. We need to go back to the basics. Lets hand the Golden Eaglet shirts to boys in the secondary school and Football Academy systems. Lets watch them grow up into World Class players. Our boys can win competitions in Europe and other parts of the world without much exposure. Football is about skills, stamina and team work. How old was Segun Odegbami when he started playing for the Green Eagles? He was very young then. Pele played his first game for Brazil's senior squad when he was barely 18. Same for Diego Maradona. WQe can rule the world with our youngsters. God bless Nigeria.

thank God, no more daddies on the field  

everyone beware of altidore.he might b our future " U-20" player.







 

You guys reminded me of segun Odegbami's article.
Metusela in Eaglet. 

Companies, organizations e.t.c should deploy this technology in their recruitment excercise lolo.

Let them do d  bone scan ,possibly if there 's anything bether than 'MRI bone scan' they will all pass it cos  most of them looks younger than 17 in stature ,but 32 in real age,even their bone is  13years old ,
 

  i beg leave these boys make them play wetin them fit play !


   

           so na oyinbo wey you dey blame berra get out of here. useless ppl age cheats       abi oooo thank you. No mind dis ppl wey dey blame everyone under da sun.     hehehehehehehehehe . Can u imagine metuselah playin for da eagles. If metuselah can play 4 da eagles my grand pa who is almost 100 to can play . Bloody cheats thunder fire all of una backside.

chei! All dis thingz wey una dey yarn dey pain me o! cos I jst dey strategise on how man utd go tak sign moi as a 14yrs old youngster.
Abeg, any fifa agent around? Is 'ere any way things can be maneouvered ???u know now (Geez,i 4got i'm in Naija)

This cant work except they bring their secondary school result or confirm from jamb or waec the period they took their o' level examination

@topic:
The coach berra begin to fall back to plan B(if there's any), not when they'll play for say 2 or 3 wrld cups,they become tired legs. 
Officer aghawonder is a living(testimony ) suffering from goaldroughtincytis