A lost penalty in the 26th minute of the first half was the highpoint of Nigeria’s dismal run in the African Nations Championship qualifier against Niger Republic, as the home-based Eagles went crashing out of the competition with a goalless draw in Kano.

Beijing 2008 Olympics silver medalist, Chibuzor Okonkwo was the culprit on the penalty, but Kano-based sports journalist, Mike Obuh said in an interview with brilafm.net that the Nigerian players gave their very best, but poor tactical display and faulty substitutions let them down.

A substitute appearance by another promising star, John Owoeri, who was part of the Holland 2005 World Youth Championship silver-winning team, and hastily drafted Nigerian Premier League current top scorer, Ahmed Musa could not save the day for Coach Daniel Amokachi’s side.

Nigeria are regarded as one of the powerhouses of African football but are yet to feature in the CHAN, a biennial tournament for players from the domestic leagues of their countries and which kicked off in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, last year.

Perennial rivals Ghana stopped Nigeria in the qualifiers for the inaugural championship and went on to reach the grand finale where they lost to DR Congo.

The summary of Sunday's match at Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano was simply that, for the second edition runing, Nigeria's local players had failed to qualify for the novel championship set aside by CAF for players plying their trade in the domestic leagues of their respective countries.

Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:08 Written by BrilaFM

And someone will come and tell me we should do away with our European legion and use home-based in tournaments.

Second consecutive time, they dont qualify for CHAN.

Shioorrrrr

I tire oo, football no be gra gra again ooo, Na experience matter now

I must be living in Mars. I didnt even know such a tournament existed.

i woner what's wrong in nigeria football system

mystikal:

I must be living in Mars. I didnt even know such a tournament existed.

Yes, you are really living in Mars or even Jupiter

I was sure that the super chickens Amodu and Amokachi coached to Nations cup semi final played what they know. There was no tactital effort by the coach to improve the game. They have once again showed us that they have nothing upstairs. Rubbish Amodu

So call Amodu was right about home base players all along. They are nothing but useless. If they can cannot beat their own neighbor (home base players to home base players), how are they going play experience team at the WC. I hope the new coach watched the match and exclude home base from the world cup team. They have no business going to world cup.


This also show that Nigeria league is far far below Niger League.

does Niger republic even have a league?. I will like to know some notable clubsides from Niger. For all i care nigeria has just be beating by a "non-league" country. In a normal country you will see resignations from their FA officials but in nigeria its business as usual. shame

does anyone

know what lineup Nigeria used

This has just EXPOSED the level of Nigeria League to The World. People just take office at NFF Our football is not developing at all. Leaders here dont TASK themselves They only make NOISE and MONEY that is all with NO result to show

Yes, NFF are to blame but we can all contribute by supporting our local NPL teams, the stadia are empty, leave the beer parlours and support local football.

This is what you get when Nigerians abandon Insurance, Enyimba, Warri Wolves for Arsenal, Barca, Chelsea and Man U.

You can't reap where you have not sown.

I tire for them oo

This is what you get when you make a TV football analyst your national team coach. Serves us right.

These people(NFF) will someday tell us what Siasia's sins are.

OvieE:

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This also show that Nigeria league is far far below Niger League.

This doesn't in any way show anything of our league. Nigeria has the best league in Africa (or second, depending on which report you're reading). This wasn't a league club. This were players selected from different leagues and badly managed.

SapeleGuy:

Yes, NFF are to blame but we can all contribute by supporting our local NPL teams, the stadia are empty, leave the beer parlours and support local football.

This is what you get when Nigerians abandon Insurance, Enyimba, Warri Wolves for Arsenal, Barca, Chelsea and Man U.

You can't reap where you have not sown.

Do u need my address so that you can come down and burn down my cable to stop me from supporting Arsenal or Barca.

as long as our leadas ar kurupt d nff ar also kurupt meanin dat nig. futbal cn neva mov foward.

as long as our leadas ar kurupt d nff ar also kurupt meanin dat nig. futbal cn neva mov foward.

is it not the same guys who said they would spell the name of their opponents with goals?

All the trash talking before a WWF match is all we do in football. until we start taking care of business (Age, Fitness, Technical/Coaching Knowledge and Skills) we will always have fine boys with rough-curls and fancy accents who will continue to lose.

It's a pointer to our disgrace in south Africa. When it happens every Nigerian should take heart.

This is another trouble for the Ragle I can now see home base Eagle wont help in issue like South Africa World Cup I think the new coach can see it well now and make the right decision orelse it will be worse than this at the world stage.

Are we supposed to be suprised about this? They are simply acting true to type.


Home based players can be as good as those in foreign leagues (as already proved by coaches like westerhof) but I find it hard to believe that the team that went to that championship was selected on merit. Most likely, they were selected on the basis of connections and bribes. and are definitely overage (older than they claim).

That is the exact problem we are facing.

no blame dem just dey pray for nigeria always

toluxa1:

This doesn't in any way show anything of our league. Nigeria has the best league in Africa (or second, depending on which report you're reading). This wasn't a league club. This were players selected from different leagues and badly managed.

toluxa1, i hope you are not under the influence of something. Nigeria has the best league in africa!. what planet are you from. So are saying that nigeria league is better that of South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Morroco or even Sudan. Common now!. Lets post something serious here

SapeleGuy:

Yes, NFF are to blame but we can all contribute by supporting our local NPL teams, the stadia are empty, leave the beer parlours and support local football.

This is what you get when Nigerians abandon Insurance, Enyimba, Warri Wolves for Arsenal, Barca, Chelsea and Man U.

You can't reap where you have not sown.

So what? You expect me to go sit in a stadium and get bathed with urine in 'pure water sachets'. Or get morged like it happened in Aba last year during the Eyimba fans wahala? Lailai, I will rather stay at home and watch my Barca playing. If the Nigerian league can be televisied, why not? I will gladly follow it. But get urine all over my body all in the name of football. No, can't do

We couldn't even score one goal in 180minutes against Niger.
Sad

mystikal:

I must be living in Mars. I didnt even know such a tournament existed.

Guy, no be only you o. Which one be CHAN again?
Infact, I think I am in Pluto.

we should be thanking God we didnt go with them to da last african cup of nations held in Angola earlier dis year.if we did we wldnt hav stayed till we were beaten by Ghana, maybe, Egypt wld av given us 8-0 n benin maybe 3-0 finally, 5-0 from mozambique, hahaha, in a country where coruption seems to be d only course of study, these are what you expect.Who even told you pipl that the selection was actually based on merit
AMOKACHI doesnt hav good luck as a coach PERIOD

A country riddled with corruption to do well in a fair tournament?
joke section pls!!

To play you have to bribe one way or the other.
If you give 100k you go play tire.

they should bring in a white man that wants to see a good team.
period.

d last minutes change of venue to kano was the 1st signal.
when can we learn from xperiencee. Time will tell

rrrubish!! typical nigerian reasoning when it comes to soccer. apportioning blames. people just think wining is just about fielding what you call best of players and having a coach who you feel knows it all. football is not mathematics. nigeria have gotten it wrong somewhere. they shouldn't shy away from it. else, it would be difficult for nigeria to qualify for any tournament. be it world cup or ANC. even if we import Brazilian national team and morinoh as a coach.

i wont say much on this. until after the world cup in south africa. coz then it would make more sense.