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Do you see Senegal Striker? Not our own who cannot even hold the ball in his feet. Oh! I forget, he play in Chinese league. Not surprising.

GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL. UP SENEGAL

Do you see Senegal's players composure, commitment and energy level on the pitch. Nigeria's player big man mentality. Zero commitment and zero energy level. Even the few that shows commitment on the pitch are eventually discouraged by those who do not have any business on that pitch.

For the fact that I am seeing a Senegalese coach making decision, that's enough balls. I surely switching my support to Senegal.

A people with no sense of shame. You broke traffic rules and was lucky enough not to get a ticket and the next thing is you are thanking God for "dealing" with your enemy. Who is your enemy here? You are your own enemy.

Even when Nigerians know they did wrong they still have the audacity to call God name. I once employed a lady who ended up stealing my client and used the resources I provided for her to perform her duties to work toward setting up her own business. When i finally got to know, next thing she was calling God name against me. I mean, she literally "stole" from me.

wildkat:
But I'm still surprised oh. Why can't our yeye model players play like dis other teams? See as ordinary streams dey kpansh big teams. Is dis country cursed or what?

It is just the same Nigerian factor we are talking about. A disease call Nigerianaisis, that infect the mentality of native Nigerian players once they have small change in their pocket. Nigerianaisis does not show itself in poverty stricken local league players but would show up once same player has found a team in Europe. Nigerianaisis tend to show only mildly in foreign-born Nigerian palyers.

Sunnyburn2000:
hmmm
This team had more established players in their prime that the team late keshi took to the world cup Four years ago.

it is all about formation and understanding the type of game that suits us.

like some people observed before the world cup, our best way of playing is being disorganized.

I felt our players were so much under a lot pressure to maintain certain positions yesterday that they were forced to make mistakes that led to two goals, which eventually was main difference

Point of correction. The team Keshi took to the World Cup had sizable number of players that played in top teams. No member of the team was playing in mediocre Chinese league. Even the few ones left from that squad are not sharp anymore. It's even beyond that. It is a problem of lack of commitment and passion for the game, and a coach that was taking chances with a woeful formation.

oshe11:
Still wondering why a Penalty was awarded against Nigeria but None for Brazil @Jesùs

No comparison at all. Watch both scene and tell me which was crudely done and which was more aggressive.

eluquenson:
I see Brazil not going too far, they lack sharp strikers.

They have plenty stars in their midfield.

It is more about the commitment and quality of defenders they played against. If it were the Nigeria, we would have been drubbed 4 - 0. You don't go to the World Cup to show a lack of passion for the game. This is a rare event that happen once in every four years.

ambrosini593:
una see holding n grabbing for penalty box. no penalty.. that useless he goat Brazil ref for don give another penalty if na naija dey play

No comparison. The Nigerian defender held the Croatian attacker from both shoulders down to his chest. That was too obvious. There is a way more experience defender do it without the ref blinking.

kingkakaone:
Brazil have some some players like Super Eagles players o.

Gabriel Jesus is just running anyhow like Ighalo without direction.

Willian behaving like Owobi.

Neymar pulling the Moses legacy.

What are you taking about. Do you know soccer at all.

Its obvious you saw the difference in a disciplined defense/team (Mexico, Iceland) and an indiscipline defense/team (Nigeria). The defense will make the difference when the team midfielders and attackers are not having a good day. And the most of all is the mentality. Nigeria's team lack tactical discipline (as usual) and the mentality of a team with a motive to win a match. Their energy level from kick-off to the end of the match show that. They lost the match even before kickoff.

And look at Germany. See why they call them the "German Machine". You know that until the Ref blow the whistle, they will continue to come at the opponent and you are damn sure a goal is likely. It's not coincidental that the Germans are known for building the most reliable machines. It's a mentality thing. Obviously, Nigerian players lack that as most Nigerians. Commitment. I rather have a committed team with positive energy level and mentality of a winner than have one with none of these attributes.

ElSakina:
We have useless tacticians in the team. I blame the coach in all of these.

Yes, we lost the match even before starting looking at the formation and game plan. How in the world can a coach put Mikel, a slow player to .pair Ighalo And why force your most creative player, Iwobi, to the far left rather central midlfield he used to playing. The "Chinese league" pair are not supposed to be on the pitch, except for Mikel's experience. Iheanacho is a better and more creative striker than Ighalo, who was only a one season flash in the pan in the Premiere league. Why did he run to China if he is that good. After the match, I had to go back and watch videos of the 1994 - 98 team. Aside from the two central defenders, none can measure up or be compared to that team. We do not have players. At worst show commitment on the pitch. I mean, look at Iceland. They know they could not match Argentina, skill to skill but they had solid game plan. It was simple, frustrate the enemies. That situation alone put a pressure on Messi to miss that penalty. He just couldn't kick the ball hard.

Reference:
Is she talking about Argentina or parts of Nigeria...abeg we have worse problems here...

It's in Argentina, not Nigeria. Use Google or You tube.

Alejoc:
Pls you guys should just shut up.... You denied our home based players opportunities to sell themselves and make some money and gave us the same kind of APC promise without coming close to deliver

Man, players playing at the World Cup is not about going there with a sole purpose to sell themselves. That is secondary. You go their to represent your country as a member of the team. It's when home based players given such opportunity has such motive that they become selfish on the pitch, which is not good for the team. If you are goid, that's enough to sell you.

boldking:
As I watched the Argentina and Iceland match today and
wondered why there were no black players in the Argentinean
team when other South American teams had black or biracial
players, I remembered a conversation I had last year.
It was while I was on a cruise from Florida to the Grand
Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.
Between an Argentinean doctor and myself, who had walked
up to me during lunch one day and struck up a conversation
with me.
There was no hiding the attraction.
We had bonded much to the chagrin of her three Argentinean
friends.
On the deck of the ship that day, she kept going on about how
she loves black men and looks forward to traveling so she can
meet them.
I asked her.
"Don't you have black people in Argentina?"
She said with a matter of fact candour.
"No. Long time ago, after slavery, we killed them all."
I was taken aback.
She smiled.
And continued.
"Very bad. I am ashamed of my people. It was very systematic
though. Very well thought out. First they forced most of the
men to fight for Argentina against Paraguay. They knowingly
sent them into battles that were poorly planned so that the
Paraguay army will do for them what they couldn't themselves
do. Kill the blacks. Most of them died there. The remaining of
them they forced to live in this province were there was a
plague. A disease that the government refused to curb so that
it can also do for them what they couldn't do. Kill the blacks.
The refused to set up hospitals, clinics, adequate shelter, food
outlets, nothing. They created the best environment for the
disease to thrive. It killed the rest of the men that had
survived the war. The darker you are, the higher the chance
they will send you to that place to live or to the war to die. The
lighter skinned women they forced them to sleep with the
white men, so that their children are biracial, then they forced
the children when they grew older to sleep with white men, so
that the blackness of the skin of the children became whiter
and whiter until there was no longer any visibly black people
seen. It was so bad that blacks fled to Chile, Peru, Bolivia,
Brazil and even Paraquay where they were better treated even
though not as well as they should be treated as human beings
deserving full equality. Atleast those ones did not want to kill
them and accepted to give them protection and a means of
livelihood. As a matter of fact in Chile, there was a city called
Arica where Black people were so accepted and respected
that in the 1700s two black free man, one called Anzuréz were
elected mayors. But the white colonial masters from Spain
came six months later and nullified the elections, they were
afraid of other cities giving black people too many rights. But
the blacks who had found succour did not complain, they sent
word for others to flee Argentina and come join them. Afterall
what was cancelled elections compared to certain death?"
Then she went silent as though trying to replay the magnitude
of the crime in her mind again. Then she said it in a sombre
tone in order to drive it home to me.
"The ones the Argentineans did not kill through war or
disease, and rape and impregnate, fled the country and
ultimately we got rid of the blacks."
I listened in rising sorrow.
She continued academically.
"So although they abolished slavery in 1815 in Argentina, it
continued until 1853, after that the main preoccupation of the
leaders was how to get rid of the black slaves and their
descendants. Our president who ruled us from 1868 to 1874,
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, wrote in his diary in 1848, this
was long before he became president and slavery ended that -
'In the United States… 4 million are black, and within 20 years
will be 8 million…. What is to be done with such blacks, hated
by the white race?' - It shows that he was already thinking of
how to eliminate black people before he became President
and when he became President, he succeeded."
"Didn't the world say anything?"
"No. They ignored it. I am sure most of them wanted to do the
same thing but failed. At that time, they admired them. I
remember when I will go to Brazil as a child, my father's friend
will say in disgust as he looked at the black Brazilians - we
should have had your guts and finished them off. All of them.
Make Brazil white just like Argentina."
"And the Europeans?"
She laughed.
"It is an open secret, just like King Leopold and his genocide
in Congo. No one talks about it, but they know about it.
Atleast the older ones do. The younger ones not so much.
Why do you think all the Nazis ran to Argentina after World
War 2?"
I was silent.
She continued.
"Because it was the perfect place for the most evil racists in
history to live."
Then she looked out to the infinitely blue sea around the ship
and sighed audibly before she continued.
" Sadly, to some extent, it still is welcoming and accomodating
of racial hatred. We took the Tango from the African slaves
and made it our own. In Argentina, not one person will tell you
the true history of that dance. They don't want to associate it
with Africa. In fact if you ask them about black people in
Argentina they will tell you that there has never been black
people in Argentina. They teach them in schools. They rewrite
the history. They make it all white. And as I said it is all
underneath the surface. They never come out and say we hate
black people. Argentina is only for whites or anything like that.
They have just fixed the country to only be for white people."
I looked at her friends, Argentineans like her, who were
lounging on the chairs on the deck, clad in their tiny bikinis,
drinking pina coladas and smiling.
She followed my gaze and then turned to me.
"Don't be fooled by all those smiles, scratch the surface and
you will see that all they want is for you to disappear."
Toronto.

Though the bulk of your commentt is not directly related to the title of the original post, I will have to say what indicated is valid. Some videos are available in You Tube about. What they did is called "Whitewas". The black man is under serous threat even in his own land.

fratermathy:
We really did, forgetting that Croatia is ranked 20th in the FIFA ranking and Nigeria is like 44th.

It mean you guys do not know soccer. Anyone who underate Croatia against Nigeria need some lesson in soccer.

fykes:
We need mikels composure on d ball in d midfield and etebos speed and guile upfront

Mikel is being played as an attacker rather than a midfielder, so he is like a fish out of water. He is pairing the main striker. How is that possible for someone who is not fast on the ball. Even Nwobi is far out to the left side. The coach has got it all wrong.

millomaniac:
He should not take chances and also do a DNA on his first son.

You don't need to have an albino in your lineage to have an albino child. The gene or simply DNA for albinism is a recessive gene (i.e. not expressed) and many people may have it without knowing until one has such child. In this case, he and his wife or his wife and the father of the child have the recessive albino gene.

Tunagee:
My problem with Nigeria is that we are not united; ethnic, religious,tribal sentiments and killings up and down; but when football reach now, all of us go dey form 'one'. We can't be pretending to be one when our national football team is playing in an international tournament, and then keep killing ourselves due to differences in religion, tribe, ethnicity etc. Nonsense!!! A large number of people have been killed and are still being killed everyday in Nigeria due to differences in religion, political views, culture, and tribe. I pray Croatia defeats our silly wicked ass![b][/b]

You posted exactly the same comment in the soccer section. What does this have to do with what is being discussed here.

Throwback:
Even Atiku seems to have recently slowed down on his presidential ambitions. Maybe the feedback from the street is not so encouraging to the old order of politicians.

It is either Buhari wins because there is really no solid opposition among the old order as it is truly the case, or Nigerians overcome their inhibitions and self hate for what is good for them, by embracing only the new ideas and candidates that cannot be said to have played a part in our government inspired failure as a country.

If we were serious at all, we should only be discussing candidates like Moghalu, Durotoye and Sowore.

But it seems even the followership are yet to realise their own power.

Well said. Main reason I am rooting for Sowore. But the populace seem to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. They are deeply in love with their tormentors and "killers" of their destinies.

Hopefully they will learn some game discipline, commitment, and organisation ability from Iceland. That's what an average Nigerian player lack.

plaetton:
B.S
Immigration is different from police.

Canadian immigration can detain anyone indefinitely for as long as it is necessary to complete an investigation or to determine course of action.
In some cases, the detenees ask them to deport them instead of indefinite detention. I have witnessed it many many times.

My point is it is illegal for immigration to detain a citizen.

plaetton:
The reason is quite simple. First, he wasn't charged or was on trial for a crime in a court of law. Therefore, the law enforcement agents have no obligations to share evidence with him until he is formally charged.
Secondly, they had to hold him indefinitely for 2 good reasons. First, they could not afford to release him into Canada because he was suspected criminal and deportee. No amount of surety or personal guarantee would be acceptable. Secondly, they could also not afford to deport him until they give him the benefit of doubts pending the completion of their investigations. Thirdly, because of legal challenges presumably from the suspect's lawyer, the immigration authorities were most likely constrained in taking any particular course of action.

Which law are you basing your argument on? You think this is Nigeria. People cannot be detained beyond a specific period only if they are thought to be of serious threat to the community, and only a judge can authorize that. A police officer can come up with his/her own law.

The guy don hammer. He is definitely going to get paid big time. Especially because it's Canada.

rozayx5:
Abiolas family have handled this issue very poorly


Cheap people allowing their Late fathers dead body to be used for campaign


Nonsense

It's always better to ask if you do not understand an issue. I believe many of you here were probably not born when the incidents that necessitated the apology happened. MKO Abiola was the one that financed the coup that overthrew Buhari. Abiola was a longtime friend of Babangida, and a stalwart of NPN, the ruling party when Buhari's coup happened in late 1983. Abiola was schemed out by northern element from being the party flagbearer for the 1983 presidential election.

Even though we all agreed that Abiola was cheated of his presidency, deep in the hearts of many, it was karma at work. Abiola was also among those who frustrated the aspiration of Obafemi Awolowo to become president. But nonetheless, Abiola was loved because of his philanthropy. Even Dangote has not matched him with all his dollar denominated billions. That's why he was able to get votes across Nigeria. In fact, his philanthropy had no boundaries. It was all over Africa and outside. Story is that if you are lucky to have a personal encounter with Abiola, you are made.

emeijeh:
Nothing annoys me more than Victor Moses' fake British accent.


Nonsense.

Modified**
To you all quoting me, I owe no one an apology.... His accent his fake! Mikel's is even worst

What's this one talking about. Someone who has been in UK since he was young. If it's a player who got transferred at a slightly young adult age we will know its fake. If someone speak effortlessly, it will be apparent.

In some countries, by law, you are entitled to 10% if you returned lost and found money. We need such regulation here to avoid this kind of confusion. But the guy that returned the money know that the fund is not his. Then, why brood over it.

NwaEzefuNaMba:
sir, in honesty I love you and your ambition.
but truth be told, you can't lead Nigeria! it takes more than being humble anis I d making eloquent speeches to lead a country as huge and complex like ours.
I personally appreciate your courage to take such bold step; but you doesn't have what it takes to lead world most populous Black nation.

One of the many lies they have sold to us is that Nigeria is complex. What is complex in having good road, stable power, good schools, 3-square meals, and secure living. If anyone think that's complex, then you don't deserve to breath; because that's truly complex but you are doing it effortlessly.

hucienda:
This is to prevent any future Jonathan from stumbling into power without the blessing of power blocs in the country. They are threatened from such reoccurring in future, where one who will not be beholden to them controls political power, and thus is free to do as s/he wills.

Thus, the import of this is no more 'short cut' to president or governor after one successful attempt.

Funny enough, na diz kain bills wey no go affect d common man na im naija no dey waste time sign.

Sentiments can't make you comprehend the story. This does not stop the VPs from contesting election for a single term. Not more than that. Technically, the term of a president and his vice is same. A VP cannot discount the term he serves as VP. Makes sense.

FSBoperator:
You are a fool

An empty noise making Afonja barrel


This is how you claimed GEJ was training snipers to assassinate the opposition and that you topped the list.

This is the end of your mediocre career which had 3rd forces giving you a helping hand.

Go and die already.

You were part of the agents of this failed govt


Bastard baboon.

How I wish Abacha had executed you

Good talk. Too many noise maker in Nija.