mikeansy:

1-8-1 formation?

While that works in age grade football it just won't work at senior level because the last 1 player will keep opposing attackers on side and your defence will be found out!

I watched the under 17 team and could not work out the formation. They play like a basket ball team. You can't get away with things like that at senior level. You need to control games at the senior level

bin gbagbo: Team Taribo west

phreakabit: Qualification?

ERCROSS: how i wish keshi didnt resign...
d super eagles would v gotten a bright future..
but with keshi gone...
S.E is back to square one...

tonytony208: Mr analyst, which of the replacements you mentioned measures up to keshi in experience? Do you realize keshi had coached 3! african countries and have achieved enviable results with the 3? Where did you even put ur brain while doing this pullhimdown analysis?

re@lchange:
at least most of us can agree that it is time for keshi to go.

his success so far has been due to the long list of talented players available to any nigerian coach
even some dumb and daft coach could have used the same team to get to q/finals in this world cup

bin gbagbo:

UEFA LICENCE A

CAF LICENCE A

IJEBU LICENCE T

DRIVING LICENCE

TV LICENCE

BOKO HARAM ATTACHMENT LICENCE

If licence makes a good coach, sunday oliseh should be coaching chelsea now

bumdish: [size=16pt]You spoilt your analysis by discrediting Keshi, a man that has achieved what no Nigerian and indeed no African, dead or alive has ever achieved. [/size]

1. Won the African cup as a player and as a coach
2. Been to the world cup as a player and as a coach
3. Won the 2013 African Nations cup
with a team that didn't even qualify for the 2012 edition and he won the cup
4. Has coached 3 African teams and qualified 2 to the world cup (Togo, Nigeria)
5. Firm believer in Nigeria premier league (Took a whooping 6 home based players to the 2013 Nations cup and 4 of them moved to Europe immediately after)
6. Firm believer in Nigeria premier league (Took 3 home based players to the 2014 World cup)

You had better wipe your distasteful comments about Keshi immediately. If a white man achieved a fraction of what he did, you people will praise him to high heavens but we will always revile our own. If Clement Westerhof is a good man, Keshi is not a great man, he is a HERO.

tbaba1234: 1. Won the nations cup after 19 years.

2. Qualified for the second round after 16 years.

3. Qualified for CHAN for the first time after previous failures.

4. First African coach to take a team to the second round.

5.Qualified Togo of all countries to the worldcup.

YET, he can not get the respect he deserves from his compatriots.

The man is a legend in African Football.

The op's bashing is disgraceful. People are measured by their achievements.

None of your candidates can tie the lace of Keshi's shoe because they have achieved nothing yet.

tbaba1234: 1. Won the nations cup after 19 years.

2. Qualified for the second round after 16 years.

3. Qualified for CHAN for the first time after previous failures.

4. First African coach to take a team to the second round.

5.Qualified Togo of all countries to the worldcup.

YET, he can not get the respect he deserves from his compatriots.

The man is a legend in African Football.

The op's bashing is disgraceful. People are measured by their achievements.

None of your candidates can tie the lace of Keshi's shoe because they have achieved nothing yet.

bboiabb: If NFF don't annoyingly interrupt, i think Manu Garba should be given a shot.

we NEED TO bring in guys from our youth Nigerian squads and not pick our players based on popularity *cough* MIKEL *cough* .

phreakabit:

6, Built a formidable side that played at the ACN and CONFED tournaments

7, Dropped some key players from the formidable team and went to the world cup with a circus.

yuzjet: Haters will always hate while Winners will always win. Keshi all the way. If u like @OP, bring anybody from Jupiter that he's better Dan Keshi. I think it's his nick that made u hate him THE BIG BOSS. Like this if u think OP isn't objective enough.

tbaba1234: Turned off by the Keshi Bashing.

Omeruo, Onazi, Oboabana all became key players under keshi and can serve Nigeria for another 10 years.

Keshi has fast-tracked their careers.

Oshaniwa and Babatunde can still do a decent Job for Nigeria.

When was the last time Nigeria was proud of its national team before Keshi.

Nihilist: Keshi for me is too tactically naive, and his naïveté was woefully exposed at the WC this summer.

All the talk of being African champions amounts to nothing, as the tactical intelligence across the continent is shockingly bad, hence the African Champions were undressed by Spain with alacrity at the confederations cup, and stumbled into the round of 16 this World Cup, winning only 1 of the 4 games we played.

I slightly disagree with the idea that a lack of playing personnel might have been partially to blame for this mess...man to man, [size=20pt]Nigeria had a better squad than Costa Rica for example, but the difference tactical approach is as clear as daylight.[/size]

Emenike's reluctance to hold up the play and limited aerial ability made him a liability up front, while his pace,power and penchant to run with the ball are attributes better suited to a winger, and it's pretty obvious that Emenike was at his most effective when he drifted to the right wing. Yet Keshi continued to field him as the No 9 and Osaze on the Flank

Similarly, against France Keshi effectively fielded a 442 with Moses occasionally dropping back to help his midfield. As soon as Onazi got taken out, the utter stewpidity of that approach was exposed when Keshi failed to stabilise the midfield with an extra midfielder.


These little things show that Keshi doesn't have what it takes to compete at global level.

Winning CAN is nothing to boast about really - only 2 African teams made it to the round of 16 and none to the quarters, and the lack of tactical intelligence across Africa makes the task relatively easy with half decent players.

Everything else OP said is spot on.

Keshi is very very very very useless though.