charlesemeka85:
it was just faith and grace that took the team to the 2nd round. the decisive match against bosnia was won because the match officials goofed by disallowing dzeko's legitimate goal of which if it was counted the rest would have been history. coming to the issue of 23 dead woods ,who was the man that vetoed them good enough for the tournament? i can remember a player like imoh ezekiel was firing at all cylinders in the belgian league in the colors of standard liege but keshi deemed him not good enough, taiye taiwo was still very active then playing on loan at Ukrainian giants dynamo kiev but he was ignored instead oshaniwa made the team, a young kenny otigba was a revelation in the dutch league with heereveen but he wasnt given a chance, sone aluko was tormenting defenders and scoring with ease in the championship for hull city but he wasnt good enough by keshi's standard, haruna lukman was a regular figure in the midfield of dynamo kiev prior to the world cup and performed decently both in the domestic and the europa league but keshi never gave him a look in instead the likes of odunlami,oshaniwa,uzoenyi,gabriel reuben, egwuekwe,ameobi,nwofor,uchebo and babatunde made the team at the expense of more deserving players who performed better that season. after we crashed out of the world cup what next happened? we missed two back to back afcons, not only that suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of congo,sudan,namibia etc. abeg make una no dey allow sentiment cloud una sense of judgement

forgiveness:


Ike Uche with 14 goals in the La Liga was unbelievably dropped with Martins.

TheGoodJoe:


Long story. The simple point is that against a top class France, Keshi's team matched the French side until they resorted to injuring his players to win. That is a clear description of the strength of Stephen Keshi. Remember our two-two game against Italy or our 1-0 defeat of Catalonia. Calling Keshi a scam is nothing but a joke. Heck in the AFCON, we put 4 goals pass a strong Malian side and in the CHAN, Keshi led the team to a Dramatic come back from being down by three goals to win the game in extra time.

Please you should acknowledge him,
Because Keshi deserves some accolades,
He does deserve some accolades.

mank1234:
Ezenwa is our first choice keeper at the world cup, followed by Uzoho. The friendly was just to build Uzoho's confidence in case Ezenwa is out.

TheGoodJoe:

Ike Uche clearly did not want to play to instructions and was not ready to pay attention to the coaching crew. Dropping him was the right choice.

forgiveness:


D ones that played to instructions, how did dey perform in his place?

Afam4eva:

I think the last point is where most of our problem lie. Africans take their greedy and selfish nature onto the field of play. Everyone wants the glory without realizing that only complete team effort wins you the world cup. The only reason why Germany is dominating is because of the collective effort of the players. That's why there's hardly any player who stands out in the German team. A dumb African player, will want to bulldoze his way through a sea of opponents just because he wants that glory when he could have easily passed the ball to another player. The chances of African team winning the world cup is as a direct result of the growth of our countries. Until we leave greed, selfishness and clannishness, we will keep lagging behind in almost every facet of human endeavor and that includes football. If not, tell me why Cote divoire despite their avalanche of world class players could not do well at the world cup.

TheGoodJoe:


Long story. The simple point is that against a top class France, Keshi's team matched the French side until they resorted to injuring his players to win. That is a clear description of the strength of Stephen Keshi. Remember our two-two game against Italy or our 1-0 defeat of Catalonia. Calling Keshi a scam is nothing but a joke. Heck in the AFCON, we put 4 goals pass a strong Malian side and in the CHAN, Keshi led the team to a Dramatic come back from being down by three goals to win the game in extra time.

Please you should acknowledge him,
Because Keshi deserves some accolades,
He does deserve some accolades.

Kog45:
God bless you thegoodjoe.

Keshi was a scam to them but they want Rohr to continue as a coach even if he failed to get a point at WC.

TheGoodJoe:


Long story. The simple point is that against a top class France, Keshi's team matched the French side until they resorted to injuring his players to win. That is a clear description of the strength of Stephen Keshi. Remember our two-two game against Italy or our 1-0 defeat of Catalonia. Calling Keshi a scam is nothing but a joke. Heck in the AFCON, we put 4 goals pass a strong Malian side and in the CHAN, Keshi led the team to a Dramatic come back from being down by three goals to win the game in extra time.

Please you should acknowledge him,
Because Keshi deserves some accolades,
He does deserve some accolades.

isan:
Find nigeria

isan:
Find nigeria

isan:
Find nigeria

ChrisKels:



Ok sir

edi287:

This guy should've just signed for Newcastle.

Oh well...at least he gets to play in the ucl.

goldfish80:
Interesting graphic illustration on how Croatia pressed and cut off Brazil's passing lanes in their recent friendly, resulting in Brazil playing long ineffective balls up the pitch. If this will be their pressing template against Nigeria then our midfield and defence will struggle to play out of the back and build sustained pressure on the Europeans.
Jon Ogu, Mikel Obi and Alex Iwobi will be key in our team because there are the only natural pin point passers in the team who can use their passing skills to get out of the Croatia press. Also, Victor Moses will be key because in the absence of Simon Moses, he is the only line breaker in the Nigerian team.
I can't wait for June 16th

krattoss:
I love this artwork.. It is more than an art.
It depicts the probability of each nations odds of lifting the worldcup title..
Brazil are mostly favorites, followed by Germans,Belgium, Argentina, France etc as u can trace on the picture..

Average teams like Nigeria, Iceland, Saudi, Panama can be seen struggling to get near the cup. It will be a herculean task and a miracle if any pot 3 or 4 team reaches semi finals..

Te potest dare quod non habet.......... You can't give what you don't have.

goldfish80:
Interesting graphic illustration on how Croatia pressed and cut off Brazil's passing lanes in their recent friendly, resulting in Brazil playing long ineffective balls up the pitch. If this will be their pressing template against Nigeria then our midfield and defence will struggle to play out of the back and build sustained pressure on the Europeans.
Jon Ogu, Mikel Obi and Alex Iwobi will be key in our team because there are the only natural pin point passers in the team who can use their passing skills to get out of the Croatia press. Also, Victor Moses will be key because in the absence of Simon Moses, he is the only line breaker in the Nigerian team.
I can't wait for June 16th

isan:
Find nigeria

BascoVanVeli:


If that's the case why is Salah within touching distance?

Certitude:
They won the Afcon with Emenike topping the goal chart.

forgiveness:


I was not talking about AFCON. I was talking about 2014 World Cup because Ike Uche played in the AFCON too.

He was not even suppose to be in that team based on the selective criteria used these days because he was in the second division of la Liga.

I am talking about when he actually deserved to be on the team when he replicated his form in the 2nd la Liga in the La Liga with 14 goals.

Besides, the main core players that won the Afcon were in the form of their lifes too but the bench was filled with injured and useless players.

We should be thanking our God that Mikel and Onazi were not injured in that competition.

The team picked up as soon as Victor Moses was restored to the first eleven.

Besides, Emenike and Brown Ideye were no efulefu going to the AFCON because they already distinguished themselves in the Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian league before that tournament.

Brown Ideye was the second highest goal scorer in the Ukrainian league prior to the AFCON while Emmanuel Emenike was the 5th highest goal scorer in the Turkish league and 4th highest goal scorer in the Russian league before he went to that AFCON.

Apparently, these players were more consistent than Ike Uche going to the AFCON. EOD.

The two best strikers he left out was Peter Odenwinge and Obafemi Martins but Peter returned for the world cup.

goldfish80:
Interesting graphic illustration on how Croatia pressed and cut off Brazil's passing lanes in their recent friendly, resulting in Brazil playing long ineffective balls up the pitch. If this will be their pressing template against Nigeria then our midfield and defence will struggle to play out of the back and build sustained pressure on the Europeans.
Jon Ogu, Mikel Obi and Alex Iwobi will be key in our team because there are the only natural pin point passers in the team who can use their passing skills to get out of the Croatia press. Also, Victor Moses will be key because in the absence of Simon Moses, he is the only line breaker in the Nigerian team.
I can't wait for June 16th

TheGoodJoe:


As long as Uche refused to play to the instructions of Keshi and his crew, he was not needed in anyway for us.

Gerrit?

TheGoodJoe:


As long as Uche refused to play to the instructions of Keshi and his crew, he was not needed in anyway for us.

Gerrit?

komekn:

My prediction 3-1 to Nigeria.