Sunnypa11:
Line up

Joebie:
Lol, the MLS has always been solid relatively speaking. Klinsmann went for the best. His best wasn't good enough. They resorted to more home-based players but still failed to qualify. Chasing shadows. Even South Africa with a solid league and dependence on home based players failed to qualify. Either way they could have still failed. Stop blaming "the pursuit".

Modified
So the US stopped developing their own abi? hahahah

Howard critical of Klinsmann's use of foreign born players

Tim Howard says he understands Jurgen Klinsmann’s job was to unearth new talent, but the U.S. Men’s National Team goalkeepeer says the team became too reliant foreign-born players that didn’t bring the passion required to represent the national team.
Speaking to USA Today , Howard was critical of Klinsmann, who was fired in November after losing the first two games of the Hexagonal round. According to Howard, the USMNT lost its identity under Klinsmann, and the goalkeeper believes it will be rediscovered under new boss Bruce Arena.
“Jurgen Klinsmann had a project to unearth talent around the world that had American roots,” Howard said. “But having American roots doesn’t mean you are passionate about playing for that country.
“I know there were players that came in that it didn’t matter as much to,” Howard said. “If you get enough of those players, one or two can get found out, but if you get enough of those players you lose sight of what you are all about. While it was a good idea in theory, it had its flaws. Bruce will 100% get that back.”
Howard went on to state his belief that “80 percent” of the next World Cup roster will come from MLS. The goalkeeper says there has been ” this rhetoric that has been spewed out over the last couple of years” about players heading to Europe, something which he sees changing over the coming years.
The change in attitude is widely expected under Arena, who is almost certainly going to look at MLS harder than Klinsmann. The latter consistently encouraged players to head to Europe in order to test themselves at the highest levels the game had to offer.
Now, following the change, Howard is glad the USMNT has a fresh voice to help guide them through World Cup qualifying and, in hindsight, he believes that voice should have come years ago.

somehow:
Talking about home grown talents, how many of us know that we now have a national youth league for football?

All 20 NPFL clubs have an U15 youth wing.

All the players must still be in primary/secondary school and their primary School report cards are being used to determine their ages.

All are still active in school and the league only occur during the long term break.

Started late last year/early this year and we have experts from LALIGA helping with the management etc.

This to me is one of the best ways to build solid foundation for all our male football teams.

With time , it will shift to the female teams too then to other sports.

Slow start but a good start.

goldfish80:

Isn't it better you kept mute on a topic you obviously know very little about?
Exerpts from Tim Howard ;




Please indulge due diligence if you want to engage me. Dont make the mistake to think I make wild and unverifiable comments just for the sake of arguments.
cc Mujtahida

goldfish80:

Isn't it better you kept mute on a topic you obviously know very little about?
Exerpts from Tim Howard ;




Please indulge due diligence if you want to engage me. Dont make the mistake to think I make wild and unverifiable comments just for the sake of arguments.
cc Mujtahida

goldfish80:
I see alot of comments giving Morocco the thumbs up for qualifying with with the Dutch, Belgian and French D team. Why use Morocco as example?
Why not use Egypt who played up to the AFCON finals and qualified for the World Cup in grand style with a team of home grown players.

Algeria went all foreign and qualified for the World Cup in 2014 and even.made the last 16, what have become of the Algerian team of foreigners 4 years on?
They can't even beat (no disrespect) Zimbabwe, nearly lost 6 world cup qualifying games in a stretch. They will be forced to do what they failed to do 4years ago.
This one don pass replacing coaches at will. They need a full system reset!

Inviting foreign born is not wrong, but basing the foundation of your national team on players like these is all shades of wrong and not a sustainable development in the long run.
If you like argue blindly, but I've made my position so clear on this matter that even a 10year old will understand.

Joebie:
haha.. I had written an article on this, showing I had done this research long before now.. Read what you posted very carefully, maybe you will see how this does not support what you have been saying.

The national team losing it's identity is based on earlier tradition. Secondly, it's got nothing to do with stalling the development of the MLS (that was never implied from this write-up)

gerrit?

forgiveness:

The best should play.

Mickael2:



I am quite sure that Martins and Uche are among our top5 scorers and their scoring ratios are way better than Ighalo's. These are proven guys, say what you want but it won't change the fact that Uche was the highest goalscorer during our qualifying campaign in 2010 neither will it change the fact that Martins is our 3rd highest scorer with a better ratio than Yakubu who is the second I believe.

Joebie:
My formation for 2nd half and subs (of course, depending on match-time happenings)

Mujtahida:

Joebie forgiveness has ended the matter.

Mujtahida:

Is this not what we are saying? So how does having FB in our team affect carrying out measures like this if we are serious and honest. How can such a vast field begging for development be ignored for the national team that plays at most four times in non tournament years and 10 times in tournament years?

forgiveness:


Hahaha! I single handedly spareheaded this campaign some years ago na.

somehow:
Sorry sir, didn't get you..

MetalJigsaw:
hmm I don't think Rohr will drop Musa.

forgiveness:


Interesting. But the question is why must he start Kelechi if he already knows his ability? If Kayode is played for only 20 minutes then I know there's an hidden agenda against him because I do not why he invited him in the first and not play him.

nelszx:
Official line up

3-5-2 something

edi287:
Ebuehi would make a good wing back. I hope Rohr gives him a run out today. Our attacking options look underwhelming tbh. Mikel should've been tried as part of the midfield 2 while someone like Onyekuru takes his place upfront (assuming it's a 3-4-3).

Mujtahida:

My point wasn't directed at you. I used your post to reference our ongoing argument

Joebie:
lol Kayode has to work hard in camp.
And when he gets his chance, even if na cameo, make he seize am. How did u like Onyekuru's game against Algeria?

nelszx:

Someone said NTA will show the match, with KFS (Kwese Free Sports)

nelszx:
Official line up

3-5-2 something

I hope we don't regret using Daniel Akpeyi. Starting Uzoho would have been a better option in my opinion. His performance today would determine his chances.

The Land is Green.

somehow:
Wondering too, in a lone man forward line, I expected someone faster or at least more physical to be mount that position. Anyways it's just a friendly and Rohr might change it to a 2-3 man forward along the line.

Edit:. Seems it's going to be a 2 man forward (iwobi iheanacho)

Icon79:
I think you guys are still misunderstanding what I was trying to say. I was just responding to the claim that we have always started slowly in all our games. That claim is not accurate because we have started very well in certain games even if we didn't score early.

Secondly, you guys are making an assumption that Zambia, Cameroun, and Algeria are not tactically good teams? Are you aware that we're the only team that Zambia lost to in the whole qualifiers? Same with Cameroun! And by the way, this same Cameroun team went to the Confed Cup and they were not disgraced. Please let's not write them off because they lost to us, they are a pretty decent team.

Listen, there are only 3 countries that I am worried about in Russia: Brazil, Germany, and Argentina (if they can get it together). As per France, Belgium, and the other countries .... let them bring it on!



O pari

iamdynamite:
Please guys any link to watch the game live

cc kog45 safarigirl

BeIN Sports HD 5 on Mobdro.

MetalJigsaw:
His time will come soon. He should just be patient.

Joebie:
Don't underestimate teams like Croatia -- very unpredictable