Icon4s:


Phillip Osondu and Dimeji (Lawal) Mohammed were two extremely gifted players. Osondu fizzled out earlier than Dimeji who eventually got capped at senior level. That was also the era that produced youth players like Victor Ikpeba, Nduka Ugbade, Etim Esin, Jonathan Akpoborie, Chris Ohenhen, Mutiu Adepoju just to mention a few.

Pele went to take a selfie with Dimeji Lawal after the final of the U17 WC in Canada. Those boys were extremely gifted.

CASTAGNE:

hazard is a playmaker,his strength lies in providing assists but he usually comes up with important goals

Subzero047:


What are your reasons?

Omeruo is a better leader but Awaziem is a better defender

Awaziem is better in one on one situations

edi287:

I heard Westerhof invited him but he declined.

safarigirl:
highly unnecessary addition to your write-up.

What is the meaning of mostly Igbos? You could not leave things at Southern folks, without singling an entire ethnic group? Would your post have been any worse if you did not resort to the default Nigerian mode of singling out a group?


See ehn, every ethnic group has stereotypes made of them by others. Let everybody collect their own and do their best to kill off the narrative against them


For now, you cannot expect anyone to take seriously, a group of people, who are only required to score 2 out of 200 to get admission into unity schools. A people with communities that are still celebrating first graduate, first lawyer, first so and so, in 2019. Stereotypes will not change because you want them to, they change because you make efforts to change them.

And we can say all we want, but what is political power for a few, if a majority are impoverished? In the real world, it is capitalists and business owners that control public policy, not politicians. Politicians are lapdogs to the people with money, just because you live in a dysfunctional society, does not mean that because a people have centered themselves on politics (which is the only thing in this trash place that educationally disadvantaged people can really aspire to), they have any actual ambition.

If you think political power is signs of an ambitious person, we might as well call call of the Niger Deltans who focus more on militancy, ambitious.


PS: If you have been to the North, you will not say the East is barely ahead of the North. North just has numbers, but they have a long way to go as regards so many other things. Aside Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, and maybe Sokoto, the rest of the North is only better than Ebonyi in the East. If you know the reverence they have for Igbo people here, you will know there is difference between sleep and death.

andrewbaba44:


Awaziem is not better than omeruo

Period

Kog45:
Oh my God Oladimeji Mohammed Lawal was extremely gifted but guess what "age factor" those guys age cheat no be here o.

Osondu died at 48 should tell us something is amiss.I remembered seeing Osondu,Dimeji Lawal, Victor Igbinova,Peter Ogaba,Bawa Abdullahi, Lucky Agbonavbare,Mutiu Adepoju,Nduja Ugbade,Tijani Babaginda at Kwara 85,during this period these guys are men not boys but really surprised seeing some of them still represent Nigeria till Mauritius 93.

Well RIP Osondu

AIG07:
Another weekend of football actions.

Let the competition for the back role to Osimhen continue!

andrewbaba44:


Awaziem is not better than omeruo

Period

edi287:

Awaziem is better on the ball than Omeruo. You can say Omeruo is the more traditional/old school CB than him.
I'd pick Omeruo over him at the moment Sha.

andrewbaba44:


You are picking the better one already

nairalandankrah:
Osimhen don break my heart today.anyway, I hope Iheanacho consoles me tomorrow

Subzero047:


What are your reasons?

Omeruo is a better leader but Awaziem is a better defender

Awaziem is better in one on one situations

edi287:

It is mostly Igbos that call Yoruba "slaves of Hausa/Fulani" despite being ruled over by the same Hausa/Fulani. How many times do you hear Yoruba folks call us slaves? Go through NL for one and see if what I'm saying is a lie.
Good you mentioned 4 Northern states which are good based on naija standards but if you listen to what some folks say, you'd think the whole North region is thrash despite some folks living in the said area.
At the end of the day - 95 percent of this country is beyond bleeped up...the east is better off than the north but it's still nothing to write home about... There's nothing to brag about not having constant power, good roads, etc. All this tribal wars is juvenile when compared to the bigger picture - our dear country is nothing to write home about.
I'm not saying don't be proud of your tribe(I'll always be proud Igbo man) but let's be more reasonable.
How ever we want to look at it - "illiterate and unambitious North" is ruling this country. What does that say about the rest of us?

jihday:
Klopp gave him his chance but he didn't grab it and they let him go for good money. No time for mediocre players

edi287:

Think Awaziem has more upside tbh

Kog45:
I don't even see Omeruo as a leader and i don't see Awaziem as a better defender than Omeruo in all ramifications.

Omeruo is one of the most criticize eagles defender based on some mistakes but when it comes to real show i mean tournament Omeruo always fit the bill.

As I said Awaziem has a lot going for him,very versatile but remember Omeruo also started as RB,Yobo lost of form paved way for Omeruo.

I don't see Awaziem slug it out with Omeruo,Ekong,Ajayi and Balogun if he sort his club situation out in Centre Back position.

Kog45:
If we want to talk about that then Ekong would always be on the bench.

Subzero047:


Omeruo is now a leader, very matured but his deficiencies are still with him

He is a rash tackler and jittery in defence but Leganes system of 5-4-1 does not expose him much

Awaziem is more [b]technical, composed, better aerialy [/b]and on one on one situations

safarigirl:
people have given up on the country. That is what it says; it is a failed state and the intellectuals have chosen to abandon ship.

You can only fight for something you believe in and Nigerians outside the North, do not believe in Nigeria. It is something that arises from having strange bedfellows.

edi287:

It is mostly Igbos that call Yoruba "slaves of Hausa/Fulani" despite being ruled over by the same Hausa/Fulani. How many times do you hear Yoruba folks call us slaves? Go through NL for one and see if what I'm saying is a lie.
Good you mentioned 4 Northern states which are good based on naija standards but if you listen to what some folks say, you'd think the whole North region is thrash despite some folks living in the said area.
At the end of the day - 95 percent of this country is beyond bleeped up...the east is better off than the north but it's still nothing to write home about... There's nothing to brag about not having constant power, good roads, etc. All this tribal wars is juvenile when compared to the bigger picture - our dear country is nothing to write home about.
I'm not saying don't be proud of your tribe(I'll always be proud Igbo man) but let's be more reasonable.

How ever we want to look at it - "illiterate and unambitious North" is ruling this country. What does that say about the rest of us?

Humility017:


the problem with your write ups is your linear approach of thinking....

I said it earlier the quest for political power is not always or cannot always be equalled to been ambitious.

take political power away from them...you'll see they have lost all relevance...

the fight for political power is accentuated by greed and the fear of other ethnic domination by the northern elites....not necessary driven by the quest to develop their people.....

the leaders are not ambitious for their people and the people are not ambitious for themselves..


example of leaders that have showed ambitious for their people...Is late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and even GEJ tried build amajiri schools for them and then what becomes of it as at today

the leaders encourage them to birth children in large numbers all because for the numerical advantage it serves them during elections...and they can't even feed them or cloth them.....
do you know recently Rev. Kukah aimed to feed and take up the responsibility of over 10m amajiri kids but the northern elites strongly resisted it...

does that show being ambitious for your people

to be honest....if Buhari was a southerner I can stick my nose to the ground...he would have had at least an MSc by now...
with the opportunity he had and ever since he left power in 1985...any ambitious person would have see reason to develop himself......

please know that the quest for political power does not invariable means you're being ambitious.... it is what you do with the attained power that shows how ambitious are you......

AIG07:
He looks more like a footballer now than he appeared with some security men couple of months back.

edi287:

Fact of the matter remains with all the education southerners have - we are still bullied by those guys.
What is the point of all that education and ambition if we'll be controlled by the so called non ambitious north?
They wanted power and successfully managed to sideline we Igbos after the war...how can that not be viewed as "ambition"? Because they're not have that much of an interest in education like southerners? Well they have an interest in power and are on top of the damn food chain.
We "educated" southerners have been played like a banjo and pitied against each other by the northern elite... However you put it, that is unacceptable... Until our so called education and ambition shows REAL progress in our region - I don't buy all this talk.

edi287:

Well the fact that as un ambitious as they are, they've been able to keep power for this long and play SW, SE and SS against each other says something.
I think most of the time there's a twinge of arrogance involved when Southern folks(mostly Igbos) make statements like that.
Our so called ambition is not visible in the east... Infact we're barely ahead of the north if truth is to be told. We have the same problems(poverty, lack of constant power supply, etc) albeit in a slightly lower scale...its not like the east is Singapore in the middle of a desert or something.
Might seem like I'm going off point but I just don't like these foolish tribal squabbles brings with statements like that when the country as a whole is a hell hole and our leaders are playing us against each other.
This "North is crap and holding us back" talk is the reason we in the east barely hold our governors and lc chairmen accountable. If we Igbos are "republican/egalitarian by nature" like we claim - our states and the region as a whole should be much much better and show the rest of the country how things should be but it's not...instead all we're doing is being unnecessarily arrogant and beating our chest with barely nothing to show for it.

TheSuperNerd:
On Ndidi's/Nacho's Leicester....

Saturday Throwback....


Once upon a time in the 2012/2013 season... Leicester had these two "current world class players" on the bench.



Nigel Person's Leicester that is....

Kane was around 19/20 at the time.

Vardy was like 25/26.

tikristinimi21:



I really appreciate the part where you talked about ambition showing REAL progress. Truth is that even the southern folks are merely brandishing useless paper (certificates) as education. If our education cannot help develop us in our own region,what magic will it do even when we have the power. If the Igbos can be united about having a developed society and forget about this their Biafra nonsense, if they can demand for good leadership and make their leaders accountable, if they can make a Dubai from the meagre resources available to them even the northerners will have no choice than to beg the Igbo's and say come help salvage us.

P.S: I am not supporting anybody's view biko.Just airing my opinion. Thank you.

Mujtahida:

I'd say this and drop the point so I don't derail the thread (my mind has been preoccupied in recent times by our national failures)

For me the reasons why they've held on to power for so long are history and sense of unity. Unity is so powerful a principle that when 5 fools unite, they'd defeat 10 divided wise men.

Our national failures is truly national - no part of the country is spared. I was in Lagos for the last NBA conference and I was truly embarrassed at the chaos and filth I saw. Lack of power, poor health care, bad roads, lack of social, poverty and infrastructural facilities are problems confronting us all as a people.

My issue however is with the ATTITUDE. I admit I might be wrong but I'd say that even though the south suffers poverty and its correlatives, it is not a condition that has been accepted. The people want more, they desire more and given a chance they'd push their governments in the direction of a better life. But in the North they seem quite at home with poverty. Like someone said they are contented. I have mulled over the reason why this is so but I cannot place my hands on it. Some say it's the prevalence of Islam. I do not agree. Almost all the Muslim dominated countries are prosperous nations. This thread will not allow me to talk about the great intellectual contributions of the Arab and Muslim world to world development. So I do not believe it is religion.

Our suffering is all man made. I see the suffering coming from a false structure. How can the States develop when key elements that drive development are in the exclusive legislative list?

https://www.nairaland.com/3945831/68-exclusive-list-items-made.

Let the country be restructured along the lines of the old regional models with modifications in tune with present day realities-- a weak center, no central military bodies, and police especially. So that the effects of bad or good governance can be localized. Not this present dysfunctional arrangement where in the name of One Nigeria we have all become almajiri

TheSuperNerd:
On Ndidi's/Nacho's Leicester....

Saturday Throwback....


Once upon a time in the 2012/2013 season... Leicester had these two "current world class players" on the bench.



Nigel Person's Leicester that is....

Kane was around 19/20 at the time.

Vardy was like 25/26.