badboym:

Yuri Zhirkov (Chelsea)     Yori Yori

Rotfmao 

Andre Uweh:

Yisa Sofoluwe--Defence minister
Aloy Atuegbu--Blockbuster (rip)
Kelechi Emetole--'Katapila'
Iyke Madukairo (RIP)--Man mountain
Law Ukaegbu--Danjuma (earned the name at Ikenanzizi Sec school).
Sylvester Oparanozie--Alaowere
Emmanuel Isah--Yaro yaro
Emeka Anwana--Nkita ara
Kalu Uche--Senegal
Samson Ozogula-Zion Train
Mobi Oparaku--Mobile Mobi
Phillip Osondu--Zanza
Solomon Okoronkwo-Shell
Nick Ukadike--Thunder
Benjy Nzeakor--Touchline wizard
Felix Owolabi--Owoblow
kingsley Onye--Mature
Ben Ugwu--Surugede
Kingsley Obiekwu-Shagari
Uwakwe Eke--Aba brought up
Nkem Onyekwere--Jango

Na now the thread start!
Collins Ebitimi        Barbwire
Osaro Obobaifo     Unnecessary Shots
Abbas Jimoh          Ghost Dribbler
Teslim Balogun      Thunder
Paul Hamilton        Wonder Boy
Friday Ekpo            Zico
Thompson Oliha     Driver
Bawa Abdullahi      Bouncing
Etim Esin                Black Maradona
Sebastian Brodericks Sabara

Ojokojo Torounarigha (hope i spelt that right) The Doctor
Mohammed Camara Titi
James Debbah Salinsa
Kenneth Malitoli Bubble
Theophilus Khumalo Doctor
George Weah Mr. George
Ole Gunnar Solskjear Baby Faced Assassin
Stuart Pearce Psycho
Gerd Muller Der Bomber
Franz Beckenbauer Der Kaiser
Leonidas Da Silva The Black Diamond
Pele The Black Pearl (nickname get nickname, really great)
Garrincha The Little Bird
Eusebio The black panther
Ariel Ortega El Burrito (the little donkey)

stanloski
Well done my brother.

Thanks my brother!
I was shocked the other day when two guys i was conversing with did not know who Etim Esin was!They only know him as a tv pundit! Then there is no way they will know Peter Niketien, John Okon, Monday Odiaka, Bunmi Adigun, Uwem Ekarika, Raymond King, Sam Pam Junior, Humphrey Edobor, Muda Lawal, Thompson Usiyen, Clement Temile, Okey Isima etc. We have lost our history, both in sports and other areas of national life, thats why our people only live for the present! We dont remember our heroes!

Sorry for digressing jare.

Collins Ebitimi - Barbwire , I recall now.

James Eneagwuna --68

Austin Eguavoen--Cerezo
Yakubu Aigbeni--yak
Ben Nwosu--Zico (former spartan)
John moshoe--shoes (South african)
Isaac Semitodje--Ekwe-ekwe
Taofiq Malik--atta (3sc)

Yes Stanloski, thanks for reminding me of Raymond King. His real name was actually Ramoni Oba.
Do you still remember Chibuzo Ehilegbu, Paul Okuku, Chris Ogbodudu, Chris Anigala, David Ngodigha, Etta Egbe, Ikechukwu Ofoje, Jude Agada, Wahab Haruna and Mojeed Aziz?. Thanks.

stanloski:

Thanks my brother!
I was shocked the other day when two guys i was conversing with did not know who Etim Esin was!They only know him as a tv pundit! Then there is no way they will know Peter Niketien, John Okon, Monday Odiaka, Bunmi Adigun, Uwem Ekarika, Raymond King, Sam Pam Junior, Humphrey Edobor, Muda Lawal, Thompson Usiyen, Clement Temile, Okey Isima etc. We have lost our history, both in sports and other areas of national life, thats why our people only live for the present! We dont remember our heroes!

Sorry for digressing jare.

Etim Esin-Flash flamingoes and I. Nationale; Peter Niketien-J.berger and Nationale (flying eagles 87), John Okon Calabar Rovers; Monday Odiaka-ACB; Bunmi Adigun-Leventis United; Uwem Ekarika-Leventis United, Sam Pam -Leventis, Clement Temile-Insurance; Okey Isima-Rangers; h. Edobor-NNB,Muda Lawal-IICC, and Abiola babes.

All these people na footballers,abi una dey add boxers and wrestlers?

koolchicco:

All these people na footballers,abi una dey add boxers and wrestlers?

As you can see, their clubs then are listed in the posts.

Andre Uweh:

As you can see, their clubs then are listed in the posts.

Yea right!Some of them are quite old tho,maybe i'd enquire from my Grand-Pa.

They are stars of the 80's and 90's. Were you not born by then?.

Andre Uweh:

Yes Stanloski, thanks for reminding me of Raymond King. His real name was actually Ramoni Oba.
Do you still remember Chibuzo Ehilegbu, Paul Okuku, Chris Ogbodudu, Chris Anigala, David Ngodigha, Etta Egbe, Ikechukwu Ofoje, Jude Agada, Wahab Haruna and Mojeed Aziz?. Thanks.

Rangers of late 80s.

Paul Uzokwe-Power house.

Andre Uweh:

They are stars of the 80's and 90's. Were you not born by then?.

 

^ Asha80
You must be about 40years old. . . .

Paul Uzokwe. Hails from Oguta, Imo state. Played for sharks of Port Harcourt but was bought by Willy BAZUAYE, the Iwuanyanwu coach in 1986. What a great left winger he was. He was a member of the eagles team that lost to Ivory Coast in 1987 All African games qualifier.
Thans Asha 80 for reminding us of tis great Oguta boy.

MrCrackles:

^ Asha80
You must be about 40years old. . . .

He does not need to be 40 to know about stars of yesteryears.

@andrew uweh
r u the same andrew that player 4 nigeria?

tayoccu:

@andrew uweh
r u the same andrew that player 4 nigeria?

Nah. Him just sabi ball too much.

What of James Etokebe, wasiu ipaye (later played for shell fc of Gabon) In fact it was the infamous ban on stephen keshi henry nwosu and two others for reporting late to camp that kicked off the mass exodus of players abroad.

They were banned for 1 year by Idiagbon regime and keshi moved to Cote D Ivoire to play for Stella FC before joining Lokeren in belgium then moved to Anderlecht for a princely sum of $400,000 (about 2million naira in those days) Boys went ballistic and all man faced europe. Henry Nwosu moved to Cameroon. Then we only invite like 2 to 3 pros for matches. PPle like John Chidozie, Richard Owobukiri (goal machine) they were called "prefessionals" then. Leventis also had Edward Ansah fantastic goalie. Leventis was the 1st club to go an entire season unbeaten with John mastoruodes as the club head. Good old days.

aah I also remember John Benson, Moses and Terfa Kpakor, John Zaki, Alli Jeje, Baba Otu Mohammed and Sam Garba Okoye. Sanni Adamu, Fatai Atere, Victor Igbinoba, Gideon Imagbudu and "useless" Olumide Harris the one season wonder.Speaking of nine day wonders, what of Kenneth Zeigbo? does anybody remember him? Andrew Uwe do you remember the guy? came into Eagles made some waves and promptly vanished. We call pple like that potential potential. There is also Precious Monye, Chris Ohenhen, Ladi Babalola, Adeolu Adekola, Gabriel Okolosi, Chukwu Ndukwe, Augustine Igbinabaro (remember the comeback against cameroun during u20 qualifiers from 3-0 loss f eagles won 5-1 in the return leg)

Big flops- Aondofa Akosu (scotland 89) Jide Oguntuase(same) Femi Opabunmi, Gbenga Okunnowo (actually played for barcelona) Ugo Enyinaya, Tony Emedofu, Sam Elijah (miracle of damman) Peter Ogaba, Dimeji Lawal (papa), Duke Udi, Lucky Agbonsebave, Lemmy Isah. Sylvester Okosun, Ishiaku Isa, James Obiora, Bathlomew Ogbeche (one bicycle kick), Furo Iyenemi (Methuselah)

Trouble Makers- Tarila Okorowanta, Etim Esin, Ndubuisi Okosieme, Duke Udi, Chidi Nwanu,

Andre Uweh:

Yes Stanloski, thanks for reminding me of Raymond King. His real name was actually Ramoni Oba.
Do you still remember Chibuzo Ehilegbu, Paul Okuku, Chris Ogbodudu, Chris Anigala, David Ngodigha, Etta Egbe, Ikechukwu Ofoje, Jude Agada, Wahab Haruna and Mojeed Aziz?. Thanks.

I remember Chibuzor very well, he scored one of the goals when we defeated Ghana 2-1 in 1984 Nations Cup. Was a big victory then cos Ghana were the defending Champs and Nigeria had a relatively inexperienced team with Onigbinde as coach. We were beaten 3-1 in the by a vastly experienced Cameroun with worldcup veterans like Roger Milla, Eugene Ekeke, Theophil 'Arantes' Abega, Thomas Nkono, Emmanuel Kunde among others. we score first by the way i think it was Muda Lawal that scored.

MrCrackles:

^ Asha80
You must be about 40years old. . . .

No bros .I started following football when i was 7 years old.You know most latter day football fanatics in nigeria especially guys in their late 20s and early 30s which is my age range started having interest in football from USA 94.

stanloski:

aah I also remember John Benson, Moses and Terfa Kpakor, John Zaki, Alli Jeje, Baba Otu Mohammed and Sam Garba Okoye. Sanni Adamu, Fatai Atere, Victor Igbinoba, Gideon Imagbudu and "useless" Olumide Harris the one season wonder.Speaking of nine day wonders, what of Kenneth Zeigbo? does anybody remember him? Andrew Uwe do you remember the guy? came into Eagles made some waves and promptly vanished. We call pple like that potential potential. There is also Precious Monye, Chris Ohenhen, Ladi Babalola, Adeolu Adekola, Gabriel Okolosi, Chukwu Ndukwe, Augustine Igbinabaro (remember the comeback against cameroun during u20 qualifiers from 3-0 loss f eagles won 5-1 in the return leg)

Big flops- Aondofa Akosu (scotland 89) Jide Oguntuase(same) Femi Opabunmi, Gbenga Okunnowo (actually played for barcelona) Ugo Enyinaya, Tony Emedofu, Sam Elijah (miracle of damman) Peter Ogaba, Dimeji Lawal (papa), Duke Udi, Lucky Agbonsebave, Lemmy Isah. Sylvester Okosun, Ishiaku Isa, James Obiora, Bathlomew Ogbeche (one bicycle kick), Furo Iyenemi (Methuselah)

Trouble Makers- Tarila Okorowanta, Etim Esin, Ndubuisi Okosieme, Duke Udi, Chidi Nwanu,

Big flop-Emmanual Ebiede,Gabriel Okolosi

Trouble makers-Ekenna nnado(was probably more skillful than kanu)

Lampard - Lampido ( as in torpedo)
Adebayor - Ade Bendel
Anelka - Nneka or Agboho Chelsea
Arjen Robben - Glass man (always injury prone)
C Ronaldo - C wahala
Berbatov - Baby Nwayo
joe cole - skillful joe
Evra - Evra bus-stop
Rooney - da burly bully
Wenger - Professor
Mourinho - za spezial one
Gattuso - Batista, power horse, red bull
Gerrad - steven G
Didier Drogba - Dee dee Drogba
Essien - Ese nwa Benin
Obafemi Martins - Oba goal
John Terry - Minister of defence, Stamford bridge
Torres - El Nino
J.J Okocha - Pa J
Cech - Chewa ha obi
Bosingwa - Portuges Bus-stop

Vidic-- IJAYA
Berbatov-- Babatope
Anelka-- Alhaji
Gerrard-- Captain general
Giggs-- orugbo odo
Reina-- Apari odo
Zlatan-- ibrahim

Funny thread.

by.dot:

Vidic-- IJAYA
Berbatov-- Babatope
Anelka-- Alhaji
Gerrard-- Captain general
Giggs-- orugbo odo
Reina-- Apari odo
Zlatan-- ibrahim

asha 80:

No bros .I started following football when i was 7 years old.You know most latter day football fanatics in nigeria especially guys in their late 20s and early 30s which is my age range started having interest in football from USA 94.


Big flop-Emmanual Ebiede,Gabriel Okolosi

Trouble makers-Ekenna nnado(was probably more skillful than kanu)

AAh thanks for reminding me of emmanuel ebiede I tried recalling his name but failed. Used to be called platini i belgium then before he started a career in "rapery" I started following football quite early also, about 8 used to watch bundesliga and big league soccer.

pple seem to have forgotten my man SAMSON OZOGULA ZION TRAIN

rooney ---- BULL DOG

JS PArk --- JACKIE SHAN

van der saar ---- LONG MAN

arsene wenger --- BABA IJEBU

gallAs --- GRANDPA

peter czech --- ALAKOTO (helmet man)

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