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Omg when I hear the news of osimehn signing for a big club, it just make me reminiscence 2008 here on nairaland when we used to debate by insulting each other and I'm talking about semid4lyfe, Honeric etc hope those guys are still here. Next on the line is ndidi and chukwueze

People keep mistaken being more naturally gifted vs having a better career. Overall, Ronaldo was more talented than Cristiano but career wise, Cristiano is better. Ronaldo couldn't even win 1 single champions league despite how many years in Europe that one is inexcusable.

I can post many Black NFL/NBA players that look older than their age even though they're truly young

Enough is Enough! First of all, we must realize that Nairaland is a huge platform that people all around the globe view this website in respect to Nigeria. Anyways, Today topic is Regarding SE players. I have noticed that when a player is celebrated on this site, the first thing
people are Questioning is His "age" and slandering that individual calling him an "Age cheat" without any evidence except of "facial looks". Enough is enough, we have to stop slandering past, present and future SE players without Evidence and this accusations can have a serious impact on their career even if its true or untrue. do you noticed that in the 1990's SE produced 5 Apoy footballers until year 2000. After 2000, agents, clubsides got tired of Nigerian players due to "age accusations" which affected them potentially signing at Big clubs. The only fortunate one was "mikel obi" and it was probably due to his WYC2005 performance. The reason why I'm complaining is because we must understand that Facial looks isn't enough evidence to claim one falsified his age not recognizing hard life, sun damage, poverty stricken etc that many nigerian players endured in the past prior to becoming a professional footballer. Lastly, If you do not have Any verifiable evidence that a player Falsified his age, Please do not make bold assertions that SE player is Overage just because he wasn't consistent because even some EU, SA, and Asian players weren't consistently at the top. Please, this is an emergency and I am saying this because False slandering can negatively impact Past, present and Future SE players. you might think it wouldn't affect you but imagine your son trying to play football professionally in 15 years and people are falsely calling him an "age cheat"?. If you have an evidence that a player is genuinely Overage, you can say so but calling players Overage in this popular environment without any verifiable evidence is Unacceptable. Thank you all and I hope this makes the Front page. In all that we do, wisdom must be applied

what about dreams of dogs chasing you until you say "Blood of jesus" then it disappears. Is it dog phobia or spiritual? 1 thing that always confuse me is that Any time that I mention "Blood of Jesus" in my dream the bad dream always disappears instantly what does that means? even when someone wanna shoot me in the dream, a mention of "Blood of Jesus" and the bullet wouldn't touch me. I am confused sef. sometimes, some of these Shoes, clothes, food, or even sexual immorality that we do can attract the wrong crowd

you cannot just negate what messi has achieved in the last 12 years because he dosen't have a world cup. world cup or not, Messi has totally surpassed Maradona in terms of goals scored, assists, Awards, freekicks scored, dribbles, shooting etc by people logic, the likes of grosso, zambrotta was better than maldini

The more I hear the likes of Oliseh complain about NFF, the more it makes me feel gernot rohr has done a commendable Job. First of all, what makes Oliseh think Nff isn't owing Rohr salaries in arrears? because rohr isn't publicly complaining dosen't mean that his salary is paid on time. from what I heard, Rohr is still owed salaries from last year. Anyway, Oliseh is saying the right thing and unfortunately no one cares about anything except Results

even the likes of yakubu can be said to had made more individual impact at small clubs than mikel did at Chelsea. Btw, I'm actually a mikel fan and also respect/admire his behavior as a proffesional. but, I do not think chelsea saw the best of mikel obi despite all those accolades

I keep seeing all these invalid statements from ex Super eagles players like "mikel is the best Nigeria of all time" and most of those statements stems from his "Collective awards" at Chelsea. Yes, Collective trophies are extremely important in judging a GOAT but you cannot just use that principles to call one a GOAT. Mikel won at chelsea collectively but individually what did he achieve? how many games did he made a statement at club? How many world class individual season did he had? the likes of Kanu was inconsistent but on his day, he was worldclass and he made numerous statements performance wise i.e vs Chelsea, deportivo, Tottenham, etc even okocha was particularly responsible for Bolton staying up and he gave us numerous world class performances. individually, kanu won APOY (twice).
Anyway, we cannot just judge a player based on "collective achievement" if not, the likes of grosso will be a bigger legend than Maldini afterall, maldini didnt win a world cup

how's that possible? even his best statistical season was 47 goals ronaldo has done that more than twice

What about the time you attacked Mikel Obi for no reason in 2012 on Twitter?? Mikel is still playing and you’re retired

How can someone watch what Messi has done in football for the past 15 years and say pele, Maradona, Ronaldo, are better just because he didn’t win a World Cup?? Did you analyze the entire situation? How many chances did pipita miss at WC or SA finals? Do you think Maradona would had won a Wc in 1986 without kempes?

Is like people are Mad or they cannot read. The moment the company he alleged defrauded involved FBI, was the moment he became an easy target because when the FBI comes for you, it dosen't matter if you use VPN, Nnpc, ubl, they will Find you. Only GOD can save you and why should GOD save you?? It might take long, but they will still find you. These Americans found Osama, Saddam, bengazi guy etc and na small boy they cant find. The next step is for him to find great lawyers and get a plea deal that involves SNITCHING or just face the Music. VPN kor ybnl ni. Una no no FBI

Hazard more valuable than lampard or Drogba? I’m sure you’re not a football fan

1994 this 1994 that abeg shut up. At the end of the day, history will remember them for winning a nations cup and “round of 16” at World Cup. Keshi 2013 team has already equaled that achievement and no one is salivating over them

Now I see why the western world are really harsh on minorities regarding this baby mama/child support issues. Imagine what people are saying here “she deserves it” “she was an olosho” smh I just want to imagine how many dead beat dad in Nigeria enjoy their money without training their child. The simple fact is that wizkid impregnated her and she conceived a child for wizkid. Therefore, he is entitled to take care of his child irrrespective of her previous ways or even body count. Wizkid is very lucky that the USA based on hasn’t taken him to court or dosent have powerful lawyers because if she did, you will know that 13,000 in 2 years has the possibilities of being 13,000 in a month. Please, don’t argue with me, this is Yankee

You guys don’t no nothing about soccer. Iheanacho move to city was a great career move for him. Why? He gained fame, personal success and money. Do you remember that iheanacho was the highest minutes per game striker under pellegrini?? Well, if you don’t know now you know. I believe that his performance regressed under guardiola and afterwards things hasn’t been the bet for him at club sides. However, we should always remember that iheanacho performance for super eagles has been consistent and for that reason he will still gets called up. I see that the boy is now a good freekick take a trait learned at club. Also, natcho needs to add other aspects to his game and he should be fine

So what makes you think that diseases like lupus, kidney illness, autoimmune diseases wouldn’t make you fall sick as work progress?? I think it’s ignorance bro

Wow, is this true? If it’s true, then all I can say is that Nigeria companies are ignorant. Those 2 diseases aren’t the most expensive diseases to treat so I don’t know why those companies are not offering them jobs based on those 2 illness. What about heart disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and other Auto immune diseases?? Do you know that these are illnesses that causes medication for a long time? The only reason a company should discontinue a job offer based on illness it’s if job has pathway to blood born injuries or communicable diseases. I.e medical field, Emt, nurses

What’s that goat that’s saying eboue alleged extramarital affairs are enough reasons to discard him of his money? Absolute nonsense! First of all, there’s no reason to speculate that eboue was a cheater or philanderer. Even the “alleged diagnosed” wasn’t even officially confirmed as the disease. The report stated that there were “unusual blood work” during eboue test nothing was confirmed. The simple fact is that if what eboue said about the law forcibly taking all his money upon divorce is true then Fvck that Law. This is one aspects I would never accept of Western culture. No matter what eboue did it’s still not going to negate the fact that he worked hard for all those money, he labored, and toiled for his hard earned Money. Like I said, there’s nothing that he could had possibly done to strip him of all his wealth and become totally destitute to his wife. It’s either
1, Eboue is not telling us the real story
2, Eboue must be a little bit slow

Wow onuachu seems really good with his head he looks like he would offer something different. However, I’m very skeptical about unknown players because I remember how they deceived the late keshi in 2014. The likes of uchebo, azeez, Reuben, nwafor had no place in that team based on merits

Bdot akpoguma has low/slim chances of making the German team in the future as for 2018 World Cup he has no chance at all. The guy has been asking to represent Nigeria in the last few years

To be honest echjile plays like someone in his 40’s his extremely stiff, slow, cannot cross the ball i doubt Echjile would had scored that goal that Brian Idowu scored against Argentina. As for Paul onuachu, while his very tall the boy hasn’t proven to be a good header of the ball and we have the likes of iheanacho, ighalo as that top 9. Obafemi Martins is still balling in China I watch his YouTube highlights and the boy still has it. Anyway, I respect your opinion sha that’s what this forum is for agree or disagree but be respectful

He plays for Hoffenheim. I have been following him for the past few years when he said that his interested in playing for Nigeria

Andrew444 I have watched akpoguma since he was 19. The guy has pace, positioning, aerial ability etc and his also good on the ball. He reminds me of Jerome boateng

Why do you say ezenwa is a clown? I think his just a funny character but calling him a clown is going too far. Also, your choice of omitting Brian Idowu and Obafemi Martins for older Echiéjilé and Paul is interesting.

I swear Nigerians act like they don’t comprehend written English. I already told y’all that my list and I’m asking for your own list instead you’re telling me to remove enyeama.has enyeama directly told you to exempt him from World Cup?? Enyeama has returned to his original club nice and is just getting back from injury

Gboasaa I’m not removing enyeama from my list. This is my list and I have defended mine let’s see yours

Now, I want everyone to list their 23 and starting 11. Also, defend your list without prejudice or insults. Feel free to agree or disagree without any malice

The World Cup is fast approaching in 6 months also this would be super eagles 6th World Cup appearance. Now, we’re aiming to progress beyond round of 16. I personally believe that when super eagles are at form with the right talent, organization, hard work we’re amongst the top 10 teams in the world. Now, my question to you guys is if the World Cup was to begin today who would make your 23 and also list your starting 11. My 23 and starting 11 today are as follows

Goalkeepers
1, Vincent enyeama
2, Francis uzoho
3, Maduka okoye

Defenders
Leon Balogun
Troost-Ekong
Kevin Akpoguma
Shehu Abdullahi
Brian Idowu
Ola aina
Tyrone ebuehi

Midfielders
Mikel Obi
Wilfred Ndidi
Ogenyi Onazi
Etebo ogenekaro
John Ogu
Joel Obi

Forwards
Victor Moses
Kelechi Iheanacho
Alex Iwobi
Ahmed Musa
Odion Ighalo
Henry Onyekuru
Obafemi Martins

I believe that my 23 consists of experience, youth, and familiarity. Most of this players were part of our Wcq. Additionally, I added a few exceptional players that has proven themselves at their club sides. I believe that this 23 is good enough to create a team to aspire past the group stage and correctly achieve something meaningful contingent on hardwork. The surprising names on my list includes
1, Maduka okoye
2, Kevin Akpoguma
3, Joel Obi
4, Obafemi Martins
I believe all 4 are better than their opponents presently at the super eagles. My starting 11 presently would be

4231 against decent teams on our level like Croatia etc
451 against exceptional teams like Argentina Brazil etc

Enyeama

Shehu. Ekong. Akpoguma.... Idowu


Ndidi. Onazi....

Mikel

Iwobi. Iheanacho. Victor Moses

Iheanacho starts above ighalo and Martins Sokol because of his finishing and set piece abilities. Sometimes, great set piece abilities has the chance to change a course of a game


541 anti-football against Argentina Brazil etc

Ebuehi. Ekong. Akpoguma. Balogun.. idowu

Ndidi. Onazi... Mikel... Moses...

Iheanacho

We have to frustrate those word class teams by “parking the bus then hoping to score at counter-attack.

Notable omission from my 23 are
1, Elderson - Idowu and Aina are better and younger
2, chidozie Awaziem - akpoguma is better for me
3, Mikel agu - Joel and ogu are better
4, Simon Moses - Henry Onyekuru is better for me.

Btw, enyeama should still be the starting goalie while those 2 young goalies 6.5 and 6.6 are the future of eagles

I thought the book of Matthew 7, 1:5 says that we shouldn’t judge others if we don’t want to be judged and same way we measure others will be used to measure us. God is supposed to be the one to judge and not humans. After all,Who would had thought that a murderer like Saul would become an apostle? Cjristians are supposed to Correct people and not condemn. Btw, I’m not in support of any Car theft or armed robber