By the way, the level of international footballers in the mid 90s was far higher than today. Those Brazil and Italy teams would wipe the floor with the past 3 teams that won the world cup. The Nigeria, Bulgaria, Romania teams of then would be world champions now.

Check the Brazil team of 94 and compare it with their Copa America winning team now. LOL. Mauro Silva would bodycheck Neymar back to his nursery class.

Lamasta:
Gone are those days when Nigerian team is still a powerhouse in world football we are once 9th in FIFA ranking but today's players are nothing to write home about imagine AKPEYI in Super Eagles first choice very very absurd
Okocha
KANU
Mikel
Amokachi
Siasia
These are our global ambassadors for now, my opinion though

Foreigners are idolising them& singing their praises abroad& our people are kidnapping Siasia's mother

Nigeria football died after this 1994-1998 generations

sayisayi:
By the way, the level of international footballers in the mid 90s was far higher than today. Those Brazil and Italy teams would wipe the floor with the past 3 teams that won the world cup. The Nigeria, Bulgaria, Romania teams of then would be world champions now.

Check the Brazil team of 94 and compare it with their Copa America winning team now. LOL. Mauro Silva would bodycheck Neymar back to his nursery class.

Honestly, with much bigger footballs that were not so aerodynamic as today's smaller and better footballs and boots even

emkz:
Yessoo.

Okocha!

Kanu!

Enyeama!

And the greatest of them all, Baba Yekini! These guys need to be celebrated, for instance Yekini day should be celebrated on his birthday.

When they start telling you all the clubs they played for, you'd be proud of how well these guys represented us. I wish our sports ministry can have a football academy and groom the next generation of footballers. Also, Okocha, Kanu and Chioma Ajunwa need to be drafted into the National Sports Commission as Technical Directors. These talents must not waste.

Please remove Enyeama from the list. He reminds of the mediocre generation. Their keeper then was Peter Rufai who was nomited second best goal keeper in USA 94

Tina26:
you are a big fool. Sell your phone

Big one indeed, .....

mu2sa2:
Rashidi Yekini was particularly a genius. If he was playing in Europe today, he might be nominated for the fifa footballer of the year. Okocha, amokachie, oliseh and the rest - all fantastic players. During their time Nigeria, our dear native land, was a football super power.

No be only FIFA footballer of the year

Jarus:
Footballers, especially 1994-98 set, appear to be Nigeria's biggest ambassadors to the world. Well, maybe apart from 419.

From personal and friends' experience, when you introduce yourself as a Nigerian to most foreigners, the first thing they ask you about are Okocha, Kanu etc.

My Irish-Algerian seat mate couldn't stop talking about Rashidi Yekini and Amokachi on learning I'm a Nigerian, on the 3 hour Istanbul-Madinah flight in 2016.

An Egyptian friend in Saudi Arabia couldn't stop talking about Okocha's football wizardry. I have also met several Egy;tian friends in Dubai and once they know me as a Nigerian, they start asking about Okocha, Rashidi etc, Many other past experiences.

A generation of footballers Nigerian hardly even remember again.

When I posted the above on my Facebook wall, some of my friends shared similar experiences as reproduced below:


















Have you experienced similar thing? Share your experience of foreigners taking highly of Nigerian footballers of 1994-1998 set.

bro you have said it all... I even said same to my bro yesterday... That our current crop of players are basking on the aforementioned dream team glorious days.. In my 15years abroad I have enjoyed being Nigerian when I meet football loving foreigners... Only the none football loving ones sends me back to lagos to warn my brothers for sending them emails some even embarrass me by saying I ain't got a dollar for ur Nigerian ass just incase u intend to ask.. Lol

ahnie:
A prophet z never honoured in his country.....
Glad foreigners acknowledges them for their skills.

I remember players like Pius ikedia,Sunday oliseh,Wilson orumah,Garba lawal, Emmanuel amunike,taribo west,Victor ikpeba,Samson siasia,rashidi yekini.

Meanwhile rashidi yekini died a miserable death with grasses,and rodents having convocation in his grave bed.His aged mother z roaming about with no shelter.

No edifices of our past footballers erected..but once they die..you would see government outdoing themselves to sponsor dia funerals and after then ditched their families.

I hate to say....we not dey ever value wetin we get.

And Siasias mother is presently wallowing in kidnappers den, her second experience at that

sayisayi:
Ok. It is our singular greatest export globally. In Abidjan, was shopping in Adjame market in 2011, they refused to let me leave after buying goods before they went through their favourite ballers....

2006 in Salvador, Brasil for carnival, at one olodum jam, one guy held my shoulder and almost cried while relating our 90's Olympic win.

Wait, once upriver in Gambia, I was buying fish, these diligent, young girls were hammering mandinka well, well before one shouted... Chineke. I asked her how she knew that word...she said nollywood..

Entertainment rules!

didint understand shhit

alfredilly:
Please remove Enyeama from the list. He reminds of the mediocre generation. There keeper then was Peter Rufai who was nomited second best goal keeper in USA 94

Enyeama was a great goalkeeper by every standard

lexy2014:


Enyeama was a great goalkeeper by every standard

He wasn't part of the generation highlighted here so don't bring him in.

http://yougetmouth.com/super-eagles-reach-afcon-bus-stop-lose-to-algeria-21/ IT WAS A PAINFUL EXIT I WONT LIE AND THE MINUTE THEY BEAT US..I KNEW THE CUP WAS THEIRS

A neighbour of mine was caught in Saudi Arabia by the immigration in a car wash without a valid paper while preparing to send him to deportation camp a young prince from the Royal family saw him and asked him "friend where are from " he replied Nigeria he asked "do you know amokachi"? He said yes and that's how the boy order the immigration to allow him to go and he ran without looking back.

TheBeat:
Okocha Kanu Rashidi Rufai Amokachi Ikpeba Oliseh West Finidi Amunike Uche Okechukwu

Oliha not okocha

Tamasaba:
Thing is our current Eagles are not at their best. How could those who aren't relevantin major European leagues and therefore ply their trades in china be making our dear national team? Only those doing awesomely well should make d team. Mikel, ighalo shouldn't have made d team. Any player that leaves Europe for China isn't fit for our national team.

Is your national team better than Brazil or Belgium who took Chinese based player to the World Cup ?

Carrasco ,Paulinho ,renato augusto ?

Oga you don't have anything to say abeg

Funny post.
Yekini cannot be a better brand than Taribo West that was a very strong man in Milan defence, Ikpeba the Prince of Monaco. Kanu Nwankwo is an Arsenal Legend, won champions league with Ajax and also played for Inter.

Amuneke is much better player than Amokachi but he was plagued with injury.

Indomie generations will not know them

lexy2014:


Foreigners are idolising them& singing their praises abroad& our people are kidnapping Siasia's mother

That is the failure of our government to provide security for lives and property

jcmaiah:

5th. After US 94 we were fifth in world ranking. I can't forget our first match with Bulgaria. We trash them 3-0. The reached the semi final while we left at Knock out stage. That's to tell you the quality of players we had. Our match with Italy could have gone to anybody, save for that penalty given to Italy we may have beaten them in that match.

Yeah bro that's true you are spot on

Best set till date. KANU, JJ Okocha, Dodo Mayana, "The Bull" Amokachi etc.

alfredilly:
Please remove Enyeama from the list. He reminds of the mediocre generation. Their keeper then was Peter Rufai who was nomited second best goal keeper in USA 94

Enyeama was a great goalkeeper, one of our very bests.

U are right ,those guys re write Nigeria history on world stage. I will tell U this, I worked as a mental health Nurse at a mental health hospital in South Africa. I was the only Nigeria in the whole of the hospital in the 90s. They called me all sort of names like Yekinni, Finidi , Okocha, Amunike, Amokachi. Because of that anytime we were having football game together , they expect me to be like Okocha or Finidi. Those guys had laid records that would be difficult to erase in the world. Kudos to them.

Tina26:
you are a big fool. Sell your phone

Those words were too harsh. He may have good intention. It is not all of them that are scammers. He is only begging .

TheBeat:
Okocha
Kanu
Rashidi
Rufai
Amokachi
Ikpeba
Oliseh
West
Finidi
Amunike
Uche Okechukwu

siasia, Iroha, Keshi, Uche Okafor, Eguavon

The reason ppl fail in life is coz they mistake a hobby for a career and an exercise for the later

arantess:

He tried oo, am not saying he didn't, but yekini was banging 13 goals in cup of nation's with fewer teams played(he was in Vitoria setubal at the time, a higher profile team than any chinese club)

Yekini never banged in 13 goals in any cup of nations. his record was 5 goals, which Ighalo just equaled. If you don't know, ask.

And are you aware of what is happening in the Chinese league? What is the basis of your rating of the Chinese league?