the viper:

pple seem to have forgotten my man SAMSON OZOGULA ZION TRAIN

IT SEEMS YOY HAVE NOT READ MY POST. ANYWAY, I HAD EARLIER MENTIONED ZION TRAIN SAMPSON OZOGULA. HE USE TO SCORE FOR IICC AND I.NATIONALE FROM CORNER KICKS.

Andre Uweh:

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

koolchicco:

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

are you sure your grand-pa will know them?.

tayoccu:

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

No, the one that played for Nigeria is Andrew Uwe while the writer here is Andre UWEH. Anyway, Uwe or Uweh is a common surname in Igboland.

After the disbandment of Leventis United, James Etokebe was bought by Nationale. But he could not dislodge Paul Uzokwe in that NO. 11 position. That marked the beginning of his downfall. Ben Johnson the Ghanian could not also bench Ransome Madu at Nationale.

There was a guy with a Ghanaian sounding name that played for eagles from Leventis United- Leotis Boateng wasnt a bad player.

stanloski:

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.

Leventis achieved that feat in div 3. But when they moved to div 2, they lost to DIC Bees of Kaduna 4:1.
I think there were 5 of them who were suspended. Mostly NNB players e.g Keshi, Eboigbe, Omokaro, Nwosu and Tarilla Okoronwanta from Insurance.

stanloski:

There was a guy with a Ghanaian sounding name that played for eagles from Leventis United- Leotis Boateng wasnt a bad player.

He was actually Ghanian as well as Ben Johnson and Edward Ansah.

I recently ran into Frank Onwuachi, he is now into business, runs a microfinance bank in asaba. He was in one of our worldcup qualifying matches against Tunisia in the 80s

I remember vividly, that Okey Isima's goal against Tunisia in 1985. He just came off the bench and scored. I hope he inspires the Eagles 2morrow.

Are we here to talk about footballers nickname or the old school players

by.dot:

Are we here to talk about footballers nickname or the old school players

BOTH. You can not mention their nicknames without letting younger generation of Nigerian fans know about them properly.

Whatever

Peter crouch------------------------Dogo baza
Anelka --------------------------------Nneka
Adebayor---------------------------Ade mumu
Fabrgas------------------------------Fabrpass
Paul Scholes-------------------------Albino flash
Didier Dorgba----------------------=-Turugba
Essien-----------------------------------katako (wood /3310)
Wayne Roney--------------------------Kolo Mental
C. Ronaldo------------------------------C.boy
Shaun Wright Philiphs-----------------Okada man
Therry henry----------------------------Igwe!
N. Benthner-----------------------------slowpoke
Joe Cole----------------------------------John Okoro
Alumnia----------------------------------Aluminium
Rio Fednand---------------------------Drug man
A. helb-------------------------------bending corner
Theo Walcot-----------------------A. bullet
Makalel------------------------------danfo driver

Hehe,
Cr9 na cwahala o

adebayor-ademumu
ronaldo-ororo
clinchy-kelechi
toure-kolomental

Eto'o--- lion
Iniesta--- baby face