Buhari should just go..

hw e tek happen

naptu2:
Falcons complained

Bode Oguntuyi mentioned that Oparanozie and Oshoala have been complaining (see screenshot above). Well this (screenshots below) is what he was talking about (I created a thread about this in September 2017).

Since then, the full national team have only played a match against France (in which they lost 8-0) and two qualifying matches against Gambia.

Meanwhile, Ghana and South Africa have been playing against Sweden, France, Kenya, Chile and against each other.

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I still don't understand how a very talented player in Sophia Omidiji didn't make the final team. Any reasonable explanation for this?

I don't know if super falcon are becoming rubbish or African female football is improving cuz I still remember when falcon used to beat this African female football teams 6, 7, 8 9 goals to nothing.

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I still don't understand how a very talented player in Sophia Omidiji didn't make the final team. Any reasonable explanation for this?

In my view, everything boils down to us not playing enough friendlies. Nigeria has a lot of very talented female footballers. That includes both the players that are in Ghana and those that are not in Ghana (Courtney Dike, Ini Umotong, Sophia Omidiji, Folashade Ijamilusi, etc), but you can never say if they can fit into the team properly or if they are in form unless you see them play a grade A match.


South Africa played a lot of friendlies in the last 2 years and they used a lot of players in those games. This includes their established stars and players from their junior teams. This enabled them to pick the best group of players for the tournament.


Our first team did not even play throughout 2017! In my view, we only played 3 top class games in the past 2 years, the friendly against France and the two games against Gambia. How can we succeed with that kind of preparation?

naptu2:


In my view, everything boils down to us not playing enough friendlies. Nigeria has a lot of very talented female footballers. That includes both the players that are in Ghana and those that are not in Ghana (Courtney Dike, Ini Umotong, Sophia Omidiji, Folashade Ijamilusi, etc), but you can never say if they can fit into the team properly or if they are in form unless you see them play a grade A match.


South Africa played a lot of friendlies in the last 2 years and they used a lot of players in those games. This includes their established stars and players from their junior teams. This enabled them to pick the best group of players for the tournament.


Our first team did not even play throughout 2017! In my view, we only played 3 top class games in the past 2 years, the friendly against France and the two games against Gambia. How can we succeed with that kind of preparation?

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True talk.

I'm not giving up hope, because we've been here before.

We had a terrible preparation for the 1990 Nations Cup in Algeria. Back then, there was no FIFA rule that mandated clubs to release their players and so most of our foreign based professionals refused to play at the Nations Cup.

Stephen Keshi was our captain, but he was also a very important player for Anderlecht at the time. He was in a dilemma. He had an idea and he made an offer. He said that he could rent a private jet that would fly him to Algeria for the Eagles' matches and fly him back to Belgium for his club's games. Westerhof obviously rejected the offer, so Keshi was out of the squad.

We took a home based team to the Nations Cup. If I remember correctly, Andrew Uweh and Friday Elaho were the only Europe based players in our squad.

Our first match was against the hosts, Algeria. Algeria’s captain was Rabah Madjer and he was probably the biggest African superstar at that time. The Algerians trashed us 5-1. Rabah Madjer scored 2 of the goals (I still hate him till this day) and Emmanuel Okocha (Jay Jay’s elder brother) scored our only goal.

People criticised the team and Coach Westerhof (who was relatively new at that time). The team picked itself up, talked to themselves, motivated themselves and Yekini became our savour. Yekini was playing for Africa Sports of Ivory Coast at that time, so he could attend the Nations Cup.

Yekini scored the only goal as we defeated Egypt in the second match. He scored the only goal again as we defeated Ivory Coast in our third match and we thus qualified for the semi-final.

Yekini was not done. He scored again in the semi-final and Uche Okechukwu added another goal to help us defeat Zambia 0-2.

We ended up playing Algeria again in the final and we lost 1-0, but Nigerians were satisfied that the Eagles had improved greatly after the humiliation of the first game.

Hopefully, the story will be the same with the Falcons and they will overcome their poor preparation to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup.


Algeria 1990 first match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suU5kUILm8

Algeria 1990 final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJiqZ5RZQZU