The super eagles is to play Madagascar on the 5th of September 2010.

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Eagles game moved from Abuja

Posted: 2010-08-31 11:37

Nigeria's 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier against Madagascar has been moved away from Abuja.

NFF Media Officer Robinson Okosun explained that the National Stadium Abuja is hosting a youth Games, and the Glass House is now talking with the governments of Cross River and Kaduna States.

Pending the conclusion of those discussions, the game will take place at either the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar, or the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna.

“The U.J. Esuene Stadium for now looks favourite for the match because the Cross Rivers State Government has welcomed the NFF decision,” he said. “One thing is very certain here and that is the Super Eagles versus Madagascar match will not be played in Abuja.

“The federation has engaged in discussions with the governments of Cross River and Kaduna for a possible takeover of the match and one of the two states will definitely play host to the game on Saturday.”

Meanwhile, only 12 members of the Super Eagles commenced training yesterday in Abuja in preparation for the match. The NFF has given all the invited players today as dateline to report to camp for the match or risk being replaced 

http://www.kickoff.com/news/17505/super-eagles-game-moved-from-abuja.php

Fengor Ogude out of Super Eagles camp
Ogude out of Eagles camp

Posted: 2010-08-31 09:12

Warri Wolves forward Fengor Ogude is the only domestic player left to report at the Super Eagles camp ahead of this weekend's 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier.

Ogude, who scored 9 goals of Wolves last season, is in Norway negotiating a contract with Molde FK and is expected to join them before the close of the transfer window later on Tuesday.

His domestic league mates have all already arrived camp, led by goalkeeper Bassey Akpan.

The others are Moses Bunde, Valentine Nwabili, Terna Suswan, Eneji Otekpa, Emmanuel Anyanwu, Ahmed Musa, Ayo Saka, Ugwu Uwadiegwu and Promise Onu.

Of the foreign contingent, only Danny Shittu had joined early arrivals Obafemi Martins, Femi Ajilore and Solomon Okoronkwo by Monday evening.

The others have been given a deadline of Tuesday evening to report.

The Full squad:

Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Hapoel Tel Aviv/ISR), Dele Aiyenugba (Bnei-Yehuda/ISR), Bassey Akpan (Bayelsa United)

Defenders: Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow/RUS), Sam Sodje (clubless), Terna Suswan (Lobi Stars), Danny Shittu (Bolton Wanderers/ENG), Emmanuel Anyanwu, Valentine Nwabili (Enyimba), Joseph Yobo (Everton/ENG), Promise Onu (Niger Tornadoes), Ugwu Uwadiegwu (Enugu Rangers)


Midfielders: John Mikel Obi (Chelsea/ENG), Kalu Uche (Almeria/SPA), Otekpa Eneji (Enyimba), Dickson Etuhu (Fulham/ENG), Oluwafemi Ajilore (Groningen/NED), Fengor Ogude (Warri Wolves)

Strikers: Ahmed Musa (Kano Pillars), Obafemi Martins (Rubin Kazan/RUS), Osaze Odemwingie (West Brom/ENG), Michael Eneramo (Esperance/TUN), Moses Bunde (Lobi Stars), Joseph Akpala (Club Brugge/BEL), Solomon Okoronkwo (FC Saturn/RUS), Ayo Saka (Heartland)

http://www.kickoff.com/news/17503/fengor-ogude-out-of-super-eagles-camp.php

The UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar has been confirmed as the venue.

nigeria is doomed. a step forward 50 backward. who is taking the super eagles to this competition on sunday? answer is eguavon. why?
we uniannimously agreed to send this ame eguavon packing bcs he was incapacitated. was that a step forward? then came amodu whose outing we did not consider worthy hence larger and back to eguavon with siasia on the wait.
within a very few months, we have hired and fired four different coaches.
from the look of things, we are heading to a triangular coaching system that will be rotating btw siasia - amodu -eguavon.
it is obvious the nigerian coaches are trained mostly for nigerian jobs.

Why is IK Uche not on the list? Is he injured? He is the best Nigerian striker since Shegzy.

Are you kiddin, that Island from the animated movie !!! hurray! I get to see Yakubu dribble past zebras and lion, how cool

VPersie:

Why is IK Uche not on the list? Is he injured? He is the best Nigerian striker since Shegzy.

He is injured.

Eguavoen lashes media over Eagles neglect

Posted: 2010-09-01 08:09

Super Eagles stand-in coach Austin Eguavoen on Tuesday pointed to media neglect as one reason for the 'low performance' of players from the domestic league.

Eguavoen accused the media of failing to report on the activities of players from the domestic league, even when they are in the national camp.

"You people are the ones contributing to the low performance of our home based players while in the national camp," the former international said in a rare fit of pique.

"All through the period we were camped here in preparation for our trip to Korea, no single journalist visited us.

"Now that the foreign based players are around, the camp has become a beehive of activities."

Former coach Shuaibu Amodu had pointed out during his time that local players lacked confidence, and Eguavoen admitted that more media coverage would build the players' self esteem.

"If we want the home based players to do well, we should encourage them. They also need to read about themselves in the media, this will encourage them to aspire to do more for themselves and the country," he said.

All the invited domestic league players are in camp, except for Warri Wolves forward Fengor Ogude, who has just signed for Norwegian club Valerenga.

Of the foreign contingent, Obafemi Martins, Oluwafemi Ajilore, Chidi Odiah, Dele Aiyenugba, Vincent Enyeama, Michael Eneramo, Dickson Etuhu and Kalu Uche all trained along with the local players led by goalkeeper Bassey Akpan.

Joseph Yobo is expected in midweek on completion of his loan move from Everton to Fenerbahce.

http://www.kickoff.com/news/17533/austin-eguavoen-lashes-media-over-local-eagles-neglect.php

Etuhu out, Mikel in

Posted: 2010-09-02 07:03

Dickson Etuhu has pulled out of Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Madagascar on Sunday with an ankle injury.

But the Nigeria squad was boosted with the arrival of Chelsea star John Mikel Obi, who trained with the rest of the team.

NFF Acting Chief Media Officer Robinson Okosun explained that Etuhu picked up the injury in Fulham's last Premier League match.

“Etuhu informed us about the injury, but we asked him to report here so our doctors could ascertain the severity of the injury.

"They confirmed the situation, but he will remain to support his team mates on Sunday.”

With Mikel's arrival, captain Joseph Yobo is the only player still being expected in camp.

The defender was given permission to finalise his move to Turkish giants Fenerbahce.


Yobo will join the team on Thursday morning.

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We do not need these lazy foreign players to beat Madagascar

All Nigerians old cargo always join giants-whether in Turkey or in Chickens.

Soon, Aiyegbeni will join Sudan Giant.

Everyone has his time. But for these cargoes, they should be looking for another business.

if the altitude of the player is still the same then, i give up on them

Nigeria will underrate Madagascar at their own peril


Nigeria’s Super Eagles will be odds-on favourites to beat Madagascar in the southern coastal city of Calabar on Sunday, but other teams have discovered to their own peril when they took the Indian Ocean islanders lightly.

It is a match-up between a team of Europe-based pros against part-timers, but Madagascar cannot be discounted easily particularly after they posted some decent results in the previous qualifying campaign.

They beat Botswana 1-0 and held both mighty Ivory Coast and Mozambique to 1-1 draws at home in the qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup.

Two 3-0 defeats away to Ivory Coast and Mozambique meant they finished on six points from as many matches, behind group winners Ivory Coast and Mozambique.

They will be led to Nigeria by Frenchman Jean-Paul Rabier, who got off to a winning start when the team pipped Comoros Islands 1-0 recently.

Nigeria, on the other hand, are trying to pick up the pieces after a disastrous World Cup in South Africa, where they failed to win a match and finished bottom of their first round group.

Former Sweden coach, Lars Lagerback, has taken up a job at the FA of his home country after his short-term contract ran out in July.

Austin Eguavoen, who led the Super Eagles to third place at the 2006 Nations Cup in Egypt, has been in temporary charge of the team. He called the shots when Nigeria lost 2-1 to South Korea in a friendly last month and he will also be in charge for the Madagascar match.

It is widely believed that the popular Samson Siasia, who led the country to the final of the football event of the 2008 Olympics, will finally be given the top coaching job on a permanent basis in time for the decisive Nations Cup qualifier away in Guinea in October.

“We will focus on this game and win it and after that Samson could come and continue from where I will leave the team,” said Eguavoen.

More than half the 23-man squad to the World Cup have been overlooked for this game, while there has been a deliberate attempt to give players in the domestic league a chance to stake a claim at full international level.

Nigeria Premier League top scorer Ahmed Musa, Bayelsa United goalkeeper Bassey Akpan as well as Enyimba defenders Emmanuel Anyanwu and Valentine Nwabili are part of the squad.

Fulham midfielder Dickson Etuhu and Joseph Akpala of Club Brugge have been ruled out as a result of injury, while Esperance striker Michael Eneramo and Oluwafemi Ajilore have been recalled after they were axed for both the 2010 Nations Cup and the World Cup.

Joseph Yobo was the last arrival as he had to sort out his loan move to Fenerbache of Turkey, while the Eagles most dependable defender Danny Shittu will have to put behind him the cancellation of his contract by Bolton Wanderers.

The 29-year-old Shittu managed just 12 games for Bolton since his arrival at the Reebok Stadium from Watford in August 2008.

Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi has joined up with the Eagles to douse speculations regarding his availability. Mikel was dropped from the World Cup squad on account of a knee injury.

“It’s a home game and we have to play well before the fans. We hope to win but we cannot afford to underrate the other team,” warned Osaze Odemwingie.

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Do we have to call up all of our foreign based players to execute a qualifier. Its matches like this that we are supposed to try out the home based players and new players generally. We can use the team that won us the WAFU Cup instead of calling up the same players every time. England, France, Italy are re-building after the fall out of the world cup, cant we borrow a leaf

Well, i heard that the signing of a new coach has been postponed to October by the new board, so Siasia continue with Heartland, please make sure you win the last 2 matches oo

Power outage interrupts Eagles training

Posted: 2010-09-03 06:40

Power outage at the UJ Esuene Stadium forced the cancellation of the Super Eagles first training session in Calabar on Thursday.

The squad, complete with new arrival Joseph Yobo, were forced to abandon the session within half an hour following a generator malfunction.

Efforts to fix the problem ended with no success and the players were quickly ushered back into their team bus and ferried away.


Stadium officials declined comment on the exact nature of the problem with the generator, but promised that it would be fixed before the next training session.


http://www.kickoff.com/news/17565/power-outage-interrupts-nigeria-training.php

Subdued Eagles aim for victory

Posted: 2010-09-03 07:45

Nigeria are aiming for victory against Madagascar in Sunday's 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier, but are doing so with lowered expectations.

In the past, players were known to predict huge score lines against little-known opponents, but consistent scrapping against such opponents appears to have dampened such overly confident fighting talk.

Forward Osaze Odemwingie set the tone, saying the players had resolved at a meeting to approach every game with the right attitude.

"We will approach the match against Madagascar with all the seriousness it deserves.

"We don’t intend to underrate them or any other team in the group whatsoever.

"We agreed at a team meeting that every game will be approached with the right attitude, and that this match will not be an exemption."

Midfielder John Mikel Obi was equally subdued, as he appealed for a bit of Divine assistance.

"I wouldn't say we are going to white wash them, but we are going to win.


"There are no longer minnows in football, so we are going into the game to put in our best, and hope with the support of all Nigerians and God on our side, we would come out victorious," said the Chelsea star.

Bros how come nigeria never organise press conference before matches, they just show them warming up, no interviews nothing just the NFf topshot are seen with their big bellies grinning like ashawo

Why are the local players ignored during training the media keep shouting we need more local players but when they get to camp the first person they want to interview is mikel, yobo etc etc Is it that the local players are not trained on how to handle the media?

i pray that Nigeria will win, best wishes.


THAT'S A WORD 4ROM CENABOY

Dis Guy:

Bros how come nigeria never organise press conference before matches, they just show them warming up, no interviews nothing just the NFf topshot are seen with their big bellies grinning like ashawo

Why are the local players ignored during training the media keep shouting we need more local players but when they get to camp the first person they want to interview is mikel, yobo etc etc Is it that the local players are not trained on how to handle the media?

Brila FM wanted to interview the Mada's coach/players, but they wouldn't speak because the coach does not want any of his players to talk nor is he talking himself.

Egueavoen has been talking and has been granting interviews and press conferences for a while now.

Still watched one on Thursday.

that's not a press conference, i mean a proper sitting arrangement with a proper table and sitting area with 2-3 players answering questions from the press not
paddy paddy arrangement of talking to one reporter asking how are you doing

Dis Guy:

that's not a press conference, i mean a proper sitting arrangement with a proper table and sitting area with 2-3 players answering questions from the press not
paddy paddy arrangement of talking to one reporter asking how are you doing

Hehehehe , Champions league and EPL don enter your head hehehe , how many African countries do you see doing that on every match day they are to play?

Even in Europe, apart from the big guns, how many other countries do that?

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me i wonder sef

Osaze remains d only serious player in naija squad as at present, , who can beat dat?

Mikel obi wud b d magic,

I hope they will nt disappoint us like they usually do.

So 4 persons actually believe Nigeria is going to lose to Madagascar?