Danielnino00:



Exactly what they want to do..

Small time now it will backfire.. West Africa has always been the backbone of Africa football outside the continent..

Icon4s:


I saw where it was said that this U17 Zoning was to give opportunity to young players from East and Southern African sub-region the opportunity to get the necessary exposure.

I will see where this will take them to

Icon4s:


At bolded. A good one, worthy of emulation by other clubs. And the boys really look U17 and U15 respectively.

That guy with captain arm band in the U15 pix is really a promising talent (forgotten his name now). He looks bigger now.

Modified: The last pix seems like the Lagos state team, with the Lagos state emblem on their chests.

DrLikita12:


The last picture is the Lagos U15 team
This is the Remo U17 team (from their twitter handle)

Icon4s:


Hmm... impressive but I would recon that 40-60 percentage of those lads in that pix will easily fail the MRI.
Good step in the right direction all the same.

tbaba1234:

He never played in the league.

DrLikita12:
Remo Stars (NNL) player, Sodiq, transfers to Danish side Fremad Amager (first and second pictures). They seem to have a good set up.
Their U17s will be participating in the third division (NLO) and their U15s recently lost a game to Lagos U15s (third and fourth pictures; U17 team not pictured).
If most teams are able to emulate this and verify the ages of their age grade players it will provide a continuous supply of genuine, quality talent regardless of whether we are able to win age grade competitions or not. At least on the senior level we will see a lot of improvement.
I'm sure a few people can recognize the young man on the far left in the red jersey.
All the pictures are from Remo Stars twitter handle.

isan:
I don't think Ola Aina is injured though Torino have two wingback on injury so they have to do something to keep Aina fresh for next week i doubt ekong injury also seeing the way he walked into udinesse line up

isan:
I don't think Ola Aina is injured though Torino have two wingback on injury so they have to do something to keep Aina fresh for next week i doubt ekong injury also seeing the way he walked into udinesse line up

do4luv14:
How sure are you? Cos that name does ring a litu bell

isan:
I don't think Ola Aina is injured though Torino have two wingback on injury so they have to do something to keep Aina fresh for next week i doubt ekong injury also seeing the way he walked into udinesse line up

do4luv14:
If my memory serves me right the owner of remo stars is KUNLE SONAME. 9jabet supermo. And a club owner in porturga

gamaliel9:


Etebor s former club...i think CD something

Magink:


My thoughts exactly. I don't think Ola Aina is injured, maybe he is still pained about the world cup miss who knows.

I think Troost pulled out because of his family.

DrLikita12:


The last picture is the Lagos U15 team
This is the Remo U17 team (from their twitter handle)

do4luv14:
If my memory serves me right the owner of remo stars is KUNLE SONAME. 9jabet supermo. And a club owner in porturga

tbaba1234:


Good initiative. All league teams should have standard under 15 and under 17 sides.

Some of the boys in this picture do not look the age though.

Joebie:
If that our keeper was really bad, the Bournemouth keeper should be given a chance against CIV. I see no reason why we can’t qualify from this group and become the eventual champs. If we don’t qualify, I would t blame it in the zoning. I will blame it on our failing to screen our players thoroughly. We know our problem. We should take these things seriously

Icon4s:


Say what?

West Africa has 7! Nigeria 5 and Ghana 2.

West Africa has won the last 7 CAF U17 editions:

Gambia 2005
Nigeria 2007
Gambia 2009
Burkina Faso 2011
CIV 2013
Mali 2015
Mali 2017.

Only South Africa, from outside the WA subregion have ever played as losing finalists.

At the World stage in the last 5 editions:

Nigeria 1st 2007
Nigeria 2nd 2009
Nigeria 1st 2013
Nigeria 1st, Mali 2nd 2015
Mali 4th 2017
Plus other West African teams making Q/Finals on several occasions.

I still do not understand why WAFU accepted this devilish arrangement.

Odunayaw:
And Picnic (pun intended) allowed this to happen

Infact!

charlesemeka85:
are you insinuating they faked their injuries?

Icon4s:


I have been preaching this gospel for long. The U20 is the main thing and not U17.

We have achieved what no other country in the world has achieved at U17. 5 Gold, 3 Silver. Nothing even the Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Germany, France of this world has that record.

But what have we achieved at the age grade directly after that? 2 Silver.

There is definitely a disconnect. And if we fail to address it squarely we will continue to fail.

And yes, you are very right at stating that the U20 is the main key to producing players for the national teams.

Earthquake1:
Phillip Billing currently has the second highest tackles in the premier league

charlesemeka85:
nooooo we shouldn't approach him because we have onazi

TheGoodJoe:


The difference between Nigeria and the teams you are mentioning above is that they have well developed structure outside the U17. They have outstanding leagues which adopts and help groom/promote these players.

The U17 is the fairest, balanced system we have to identify and nurture stars. However, developing a host of quality players will take factors like improving our home League, developing academies and encouraging our home League teams to recruit these youngsters. Then we can nurture a top U20 team. Until then, we continue using what we have.

charlesemeka85:
nooooo we shouldn't approach him because we have onazi

isan:
I don't think Ola Aina is injured though Torino have two wingback on injury so they have to do something to keep Aina fresh for next week i doubt ekong injury also seeing the way he walked into udinesse line up