spanzed:
Does equtorial guniea have a football team

khattab02:
bros, it is no disgrace. You and I know that we are not ready to host. Also, if at the end of the qualifiers we are not good to qualify, I don't see us getting any better when hosting. Let us qualify by qualifiers if we can not by hosting.

ukandi1:


u have sounded well..
More than anything, lets ask ourselves why did morocco refuse d hosting right? It was strictly because of ebola.
Lets not forget how many nigerians died drinking salt water just to stay away from Ebola.
Do u all think we would have been ready to battle any new outbreak of Ebola?
I hope that equatorial guinea understand what they are up against here...
I thank God Nigeria never got to host.
I hope also that we do not qualify for d biennial showpiece as well.. I pray that CAF insistence on not postponding it does not spell doom for Africa..
Lets wish equatorial guinea well in hosting d soccer showpiece...

spanzed:
Does equtorial guniea have a football team

jkendy:
By refusing to host the tournament, Morocco has clearly shown us that North African countries don't belong to Africa. They prefer to be referred to as Middle East...........
So be it. We no want trouble makers in our continent.

halmeyd:

as d host tournament,dey wil surely participate....D extra host slot reserved 4 moroco wil b gven 2 dem!

rickkid:

Let me ask you just one question to expose how little you know about this issue.

Which country has been hosting home games for Guinea, one of the 3 Ebola affected countries in West Africa?

Find out the answer to that question and then keep silent because there are far bigger things going on here than you are capable of understanding.

rickkid:

And when Eq Guinea successfully hosts it with no mishaps (As they will), and then Ghanaians and other Africans congregate here to insult us for being chickens and big for nothing, you'll be the first to complain.
It's not about size.
Giant of Africa is not by mouth alone.

rickkid:
By the end of the tournament in February, Equatorial Guinea will have scored a massive image coup and Nigeria and the other countries who chickened out will be left with egg on their faces. This was a prime opportunity to project Nigeria positively and display a leadership role on the continent. Imagine Nigeria being the country which bailed out the rest of Africa and put on a great show against all outside expectations. Imagine Nigeria successfully defending the AFCON trophy in front of 68,000 Green and White shirts in Abuja. Imagine the rest of Africa and the world looking up at Nigeria as it would have sent the most evocative statement about our confidence in ourselves and our ability to get things done.
Instead, it's a TINY country like Equatorial Guinea which will now bad mouth us afterward saying things like "What Nigeria dared not do, we did excellently."
When all of you will be complaining that other people badmouth Nigerians, you don't see how things like this create these negative pictures of us.
After we've gone around beating our chests about how we are Africa's first ever $500bn economy and the largest economy in Africa, ordinary 4 week, 4 city tournament which we already have the infrastructure to host, we choose to chicken out.
Country of loud mouth, big for nothing, unsubstantiated egos.

enzo01:
Is equitorial guinea not ebola affected country?

olayitoyiwonuola:



So people expect Nigeria to Host AFCON infront of BorkoHaram

rickkid:
By the end of the tournament in February, Equatorial Guinea will have scored a massive image coup and Nigeria and the other countries who chickened out will be left with egg on their faces. This was a prime opportunity to project Nigeria positively and display a leadership role on the continent. Imagine Nigeria being the country which bailed out the rest of Africa and put on a great show against all outside expectations. Imagine Nigeria successfully defending the AFCON trophy in front of 68,000 Green and White shirts in Abuja. Imagine the rest of Africa and the world looking up at Nigeria as it would have sent the most evocative statement about our confidence in ourselves and our ability to get things done.
Instead, it's a TINY country like Equatorial Guinea which will now bad mouth us afterward saying things like "What Nigeria dared not do, we did excellently."
When all of you will be complaining that other people badmouth Nigerians, you don't see how things like this create these negative pictures of us.
After we've gone around beating our chests about how we are Africa's first ever $500bn economy and the largest economy in Africa, ordinary 4 week, 4 city tournament which we already have the infrastructure to host, we choose to chicken out.
Country of loud mouth, big for nothing, unsubstantiated egos.

rickkid:

And when Eq Guinea successfully hosts it with no mishaps (As they will), and then Ghanaians and other Africans congregate here to insult us for being chickens and big for nothing, you'll be the first to complain.
It's not about size.
Giant of Africa is not by mouth alone.

rickkid:
By the end of the tournament in February, Equatorial Guinea will have scored a massive image coup and Nigeria and the other countries who chickened out will be left with egg on their faces. This was a prime opportunity to project Nigeria positively and display a leadership role on the continent. Imagine Nigeria being the country which bailed out the rest of Africa and put on a great show against all outside expectations. Imagine Nigeria successfully defending the AFCON trophy in front of 68,000 Green and White shirts in Abuja. Imagine the rest of Africa and the world looking up at Nigeria as it would have sent the most evocative statement about our confidence in ourselves and our ability to get things done.
Instead, it's a TINY country like Equatorial Guinea which will now bad mouth us afterward saying things like "What Nigeria dared not do, we did excellently."
When all of you will be complaining that other people badmouth Nigerians, you don't see how things like this create these negative pictures of us.
After we've gone around beating our chests about how we are Africa's first ever $500bn economy and the largest economy in Africa, ordinary 4 week, 4 city tournament which we already have the infrastructure to host, we choose to chicken out.
Country of loud mouth, big for nothing, unsubstantiated egos.

rickkid:

Ebola is a red herring in this context. The same Morocco which refused to host AFCON accepted hosting the Club World cup next month, a competition with teams which also have fans from Ebola-affected countries who might travel to Morocco. In fact Spain currently has at least 3 Ebola cases and Real Madrid CF will be bringing a large contingent of Spanish fans to Morocco next month and the Moroccan authorities have no problem with it.
The simple fact is that Morocco is broke! They are merely using this Ebola thing as a smokescreen. Afterall Guinea which is heavily affected by Ebola has been playing its home qualifiers where? Morocco! Ebola is not the issue at all, you should have realised this by now.
Hosting the Club World Cup will bring in more money for them than the AFCON and they are also afraid of the effect of the Ebola stigma on future tourism revenues, not actual Ebola which even in West Africa is already disappearing. You are allowing these craft Arabs to pull the wool over your eyes.

Marcelinho:






I site u bro that absolutely right!

MadCow1:


What's this one talking...

And then Nigeria wins the bid to host the tournament.. Boko Haram then strikes at a game with international journalists and TV crews watching..

Na wah for some of una o..

femi4:
Guinea is heavily doped with Ebola. The host Country is Equitorial Guinea

14:
The same Equatorial Guinea that was ban by CAF to participate in Qualifier for Morocco 2015, because they fielded an eligible player. So Equatorial Guinea bought themselves to CAF 2015, wow. Money talks

rickkid:

I appreciate your level headed response and I concede that all is not well in Nigeria per se. However, to put it frankly, he who watches the weather will never sow seed. With the exception of maybe Germany in 2006, every single senior FIFA or CAF tournament since 2000 has been hosted by countries which have been heavily criticised for not being "ready" to host. Mali in AFCON 2002, Tunisia in AFCON 2004, Egypt in AFCON 2006, Ghana in AFCON 2008, Angola in AFCON 2010, South Africa in WC 2010, Eq Guinea/Gabon in AFCON 2012, Brazil in WC 2014.
Projecting the image of your country is not only for when your country is already set up and running, in fact it's even more important when your country is facing challenges. People criticised South Africa for spending billions on the World Cup when large parts of the country don't have access to simple sanitary and electricity facilities. People criticised Brazil for the same reason. People criticised Angola in 2010 for that and for hosting AFCON while a civil war raged on in the north of that country in Cabinda. But whether anyone likes it or not now, those countries all successfully hosted and the sky did not fall down. The heavily-criticised South Africa and Angola were in fact considered to host this AFCON before Nigeria. It is forever down on their record as an achievement. Eq Guinea co-hosted successfully in 2012, now in 2015 they will host individually. Nigeria co-hosted with Ghana in 2000 and till now is yet to host again. What story does that tell? That Nigeria had a head start on Eq Guinea and they have now caught up and overtaken us? Is it that Eq Guinea is in any way a better country than Nigeria? Is it that Eq Guinea has no problem with insecurity? Or is it that they have better developed infrastructure than Nigeria? Or better finances than Nigeria? What exactly is the rational reason why in a straight shootout between a giant like Nigeria and a tiny country like Eq Guinea, the outcome will be a victory for Eq Guinea?
No matter how you might want to rationalise this, the fact is that once it became public knowledge that it was a straight choice between Nigeria and Eq Guinea, there is no way Nigeria should have permitted itself to lose face by backing down. In fact it would have been better for Nigeria to rule itself out very early on like South Africa did. Not that we allowed the whole world to see it as Nigeria v Eq Guinea only for Eq Guinea to win. That is rubbish! The sort of naive, short sighted, foolish international relations Nigeria is renowned for.

rickkid:
By the end of the tournament in February, Equatorial Guinea will have scored a massive image coup and Nigeria and the other countries who chickened out will be left with egg on their faces. This was a prime opportunity to project Nigeria positively and display a leadership role on the continent. Imagine Nigeria being the country which bailed out the rest of Africa and put on a great show against all outside expectations. Imagine Nigeria successfully defending the AFCON trophy in front of 68,000 Green and White shirts in Abuja. Imagine the rest of Africa and the world looking up at Nigeria as it would have sent the most evocative statement about our confidence in ourselves and our ability to get things done.
Instead, it's a TINY country like Equatorial Guinea which will now bad mouth us afterward saying things like "What Nigeria dared not do, we did excellently."
When all of you will be complaining that other people badmouth Nigerians, you don't see how things like this create these negative pictures of us.
After we've gone around beating our chests about how we are Africa's first ever $500bn economy and the largest economy in Africa, ordinary 4 week, 4 city tournament which we already have the infrastructure to host, we choose to chicken out.
Country of loud mouth, big for nothing, unsubstantiated egos.