It said the boy cost us the finals in Tanzania when he lost the last penalty...He may be paying for it

Bigflamie:
They should investigate this man's allegation asap. and the culprits must be death with.

Ohh I forgot, this is Nigeria where nothing actually works. A failed state.

Pele, let your brother go and play for Biafra.

BULLIONVAN4:
oga! please read and understand it wont hurt you..lazy yut spotted. i bet you didnt read the whole writeups.

HE READ BUT CAN'T COMPREHEND WHAT HE READ THAT'S ALL

I told some on this platform that this players were selected on IM but he started shouting IPOB despite the fact that I am Yoruba

justiz5:
My child was dropped from U-17 W’Cup for DSS boss’ son –Oduko

England-based football scout, Ese Udoko, in this interview with KELVIN EKERETE alleges that his son, Ogaga, was unjustly dropped from the Golden Eaglets squad at the ongoing Brazil 2019 U-17 World Cup for Abba Abichi, son of the Director-General, Department of State Service, Bichi Magaji, after helping the team qualify for the World Cup.

Is it true that your son Ogaga Oduko was dropped for Abba Bichi, son of the DSS boss, Bichi Magaji?

It is true. My son Ogaga was substituted for Bichi Magaji’s son, Abba Bichi, and there is no other way we can point otherwise. Those coaches are the ones destroying Nigerian football. I believe the officials from the top are corrupt as well. It is affecting Nigerian football. The less-privileged kids cannot genuinely represent their country without having a godfather.


But there is a claim that you are just an agent to Ogaga and not his father…

(Cuts in) Ogaga is my adopted son. He lost both parents at the age of 10. I came to Nigeria to do my scouting programme in 2016 for less-privileged talented kids across four states in Nigeria. The final selection was held in Lagos. He borrowed money to come and there I spotted him. He told me his story and I have been taking care of him in my academy since then, along with his two siblings.

How long was your son in the U-17 camp?

I took him for the U-17 trials and he passed. He has been with the team for a long time. He went with them to Tanzania (U-17 AFCON, qualifiers for the World Cup). He was the one that lost the last penalty in the semi-final 10-9 defeat to Guinea in Tanzania. They refused to feature him in the third-place game because of that and the Eaglets lost the match. He is an attacking midfielder, better than what they have in that midfield, but the coaches told me that they would convert him to left-back, as they don’t have one. And that is the only way he can make the team. I told my son to adapt and because of his talent, he adapted and since then he has been with the U-17.

Do you think he was dropped because he wasn’t good enough?

Not at all. When Ogaga was with the national team, he worked hard and merited it. I was about bringing him to the United Kingdom, but I had not finalised the adoption process then. After the process, I felt that he should take a shot at the national team and that will qualify him to play in England. And also, the other players can see that hard work and dedication with your talent can take you to the top. He has been with the team until they came back from Tanzania. During their two months break. I asked for his passport, so he can apply for UK visa, as Arsenal wanted to see him. I told the coach, but they refused to give me his passport. The excuse was that they don’t want to lose him. They felt that if he joined a club in England, he would not want to come back and play for the national team. The boy was angry but I encouraged him to bear it.

Is there evidence that he was dropped directly for Bichi?


Ogaga

He traveled to Turkey for the tournament before travelling to Brazil with the team, but at the last minute he was dropped and was replaced with a player I now believe is the son of the head of security service in Nigeria because the NFF wanted to avoid corruption charges. So, they have to curry the head of security by bringing his son and other officials’ children and dropping talented players who don’t have any backing. I did not know the politics that was played, because I was not there. I know that boy was nowhere before, and suddenly at the last minute he replaced a regular player.



Some are of the opinion that Ogaga was dropped because he wasn’t a regular in Manu Garba’s squad…

My boy is a regular, the only match he did not play (in Tanzania) they lost. There is no way you can tell me that they have another excuse for dropping a regular player. I chatted with the coaches and their excuse was that it is a group decision. I know other players were dropped as well. I felt for my boy and the others, but I need to point this injustice out. It has been going on in the national team camp for too long. He has been with the team for months. Ogaga was in Tanzania and Turkey. He also made the final list of 25 to Brazil.

Did anyone at any point request for money from you to include Ogaga in the Eaglets’ U-17 World Cup squad?


They requested for money before they went to Tanzania. I refused to give anything. I told them, ‘let his talent make way for him.’ After using the boy to qualify, they dropped him without thinking. I know this situation might make my relationship with some Nigeria Football Federation members dented. I have set up a youth league currently running in Nigeria in four states.

Having gone through this experience, would you still allow Ogaga play for Nigeria in the future?

This is what I’m fighting for. I want a situation where talented players in Nigeria can represent their country on merit. I have a mission to raise players with their right ages for the national team to win the 2020 World Cup. This is a big challenge for me moving forward with the mandate. I will still allow him play for Nigeria. These people will not be there forever.

What does the future hold for Ogaga now?

He will be coming for trials with a Premier League club I don’t want to reveal now. Arsenal will still have their eyes on him. They were actually coming to watch him in BraziL. He would have been drafted straight away into their U-19 squad if he had played at the world Cup. A Premier League club is waiting for Ogagga already, but they want me to bring him to the UK first.

How can this issue of dropping better qualified players for more influential players be addressed?

The youth football structure needs to be well organised. The country should be able to watch young players from the age of 15. This is why I am running a youth league in Nigeria. Once coaches make their 25-man list, the regular players selected initially should not be dropped; rather the coaches should adjust a player who is not performing well to the bench. A regular player can only be dropped if they commit a serious offence. When a regular player is omitted from the team rather than dropping them to the bench, it should be questioned and looked into by independent professionals, rather than the officials.

https://punchng.com/my-child-was-dropped-from-u-17-wcup-for-dss-boss-son-oduko/

By that logic, Barcelona should drop Messi whenever he misses a penalty...

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Rednaxelot:
Your “son” is really good!

Out of ten football players that took the penalty kicks, only your “son” lost his kick.

So the coach should select him for the World Cup for him to affect the team with his misfortune again abi?

There are serious lobbying and bribery for selection into the teams representing us, but this man’s case is another case of substituting misfortune for money.

and after some oloriburuku nigerians will start shouting and wishing the boy bad when he chooses to play for england tomorrow just because their doomed country called nigeria didnt give him a chance....they will start mentioning how gabriel agbonlaghor and the likes didnt succeed, how tammy abraham just played for 3 minutes only......stewpid foolish nigerians that deserved to be wiped out of the surface of the earth.....

cenaman:
Because that's their DNA "Bribery & and Corruption"

Sophisticated morons and clannishness.
Tufiakwa.
What a yaribanza comment.

GODMALE:
Bichi son on instagram

See the boy leg like lokoja road

why bothered after the world cup you wouldn't hear from these players again no club in Europe will hire them
by the way that is what is happening in Nigeria
you don't get anything by merit even common o level, Bsc, political offices and even some our past footballers
Thank GOD for the new coach of supper eagles that he is not a nigerian those players playing for us today would have been replaceed by some farmers.

“He traveled to Turkey for the tournament before travelling to Brazil with the team, but at the last minute he was dropped and was replaced with a player I now believe is the son of the head of security service in Nigeria because the NFF wanted to avoid corruption charges. So, they have to curry the head of security by bringing his son and other officials’ children and dropping talented players who don’t have any backing. I did not know the politics that was played, because I was not there. I know that boy was nowhere before, and suddenly at the last minute he replaced a regular player.“

Huge concern.

TheExecutioner:
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manu garba , Daniel amokachi , and siasia are the most corrupt coaches. Godwin uwa is the best coach Nigeria have.

Virtually all sectors needs clean up

Rednaxelot:
Your “son” is really good!

Out of ten football players that took the penalty kicks, only your “son” lost his kick.

So the coach should select him for the World Cup for him to affect the team with his misfortune again abi?

There are serious lobbying and bribery for selection into the teams representing us, but this man’s case is another case of substituting misfortune for money.

Do you even make any sense at all? Because the last time I checked Messi and Ronaldo do not have 100% penalty records and they never drop them because of that instead of you to go against corruption and impunity you're here supporting it

President Buhari need to send boys and work on you

This Ogaga or whatever he's called speaks like a man on vendetta. I'm not suggesting there are no corrupt practices in the NFF but if you have to come out to make a big accusation as this, at least, it is expected you have one proof or evidence to bring forward. I'm not used to taking peoples words for things like this...never!

BULLIONVAN4:


oga! please read and understand it wont hurt you..lazy yut spotted. i bet you didnt read the whole writeups.

I bet he didn't read the whole headline.

Rednaxelot:
Your “son” is really good!

Out of ten football players that took the penalty kicks, only your “son” lost his kick.

So the coach should select him for the World Cup for him to affect the team with his misfortune again abi?

There are serious lobbying and bribery for selection into the teams representing us, but this man’s case is another case of substituting misfortune for money.

Ronaldo, Messi, Eto, Beckham had all lost penalty kick before. not just missing but when it matters most.

Bigflamie:
They should investigate this man's allegation asap. and the culprits must be death with.

Ohh I forgot, this is Nigeria where nothing actually works. A failed state.

Hope you will have the guts to come back here and swallow your words when eventually the allegations are investigated and the culprits dealt with.
Things are changing for the better, only take some time but eventually we are getting there, unlike the retrogression of the past

Useless people

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Did you watch the match, there is nothing convincing about that win. Except for 3 players, Tijani, Olusegun and Amoo the remaining are not up to the standard of our normal U 17 team.
Also it is Hungary we play ó, not a footballing nation like Brazil.

If he is qualified he shouldn’t be

Rednaxelot:
Your “son” is really good!

Out of ten football players that took the penalty kicks, only your “son” lost his kick.

So the coach should select him for the World Cup for him to affect the team with his misfortune again abi?

There are serious lobbying and bribery for selection into the teams representing us, but this man’s case is another case of substituting misfortune for money.

Oga just shut up, anyone can miss a penalty. How will you judge a good player by penalty taking

I know of a player that missed a penalty kick against Ivory Coast, and Manu Garba still went ahead to field him in another tournament.
Using that, I'm confused here.

If u still believe in this uselessly useless country u are a big Fool

seankafor:
Na normal thing all over the world.

Ask harry Redknapp when he was England boss.

Wenger wanted to turn a whole arsenal team to French team at a time in arsenal.

Corruption is everywhere, na how we package ourselves in the midst of corruption..everything na packaging

No brother you are wrong
That of arsenal Wenger was not corruption its called napistism, its in everybody.
That's of Redknapp is also not corruption, it's called been unjust okay?
But this particular one is day light corruption, the boy was with the team in hard times, why can't he enjoy is labor, unless the DSS boss son is better than the kid

inside life oga tell ur son to move on

tiwiex:


I have always wondered why we have very few northerners in the football teams. Why is that? Is there some kind of southern bias and control?

quiet sports is talents not quota systems... besides what's ur definition of north... kogi is North..

Boo hoo

Harry Rerknapp never managed the Englush national team.Na normal thing all over the world.

Ask harry Redknapp when he was England boss.

Wenger wanted to turn a whole arsenal team to French team at a time in arsenal.

Corruption is everywhere, na how we package ourselves in the midst of corruption..everything na packaging [/quote]

Bigflamie:
They should investigate this man's allegation asap. and the culprits must be death with.

Ohh I forgot, this is Nigeria where nothing actually works. A failed state.

I was going to ask you the country you're referring to until I saw the bolded.

HacheNoire:
Normal trend

No news!


Cos if we remove man-know-man and go strictly by competence, form and professionalism, 80% of our players wont make that team


Even the sport minister, NFA Chairman and coach wont make it

The list is actually endless, governors, senator, president, etc.

9jaBloke:

You love Chase?

Bros I love Chase die na my favorite for book oh