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People will always complain of CAF, FIFA or UEFA awards. It's a rarity an award will be accepted by everyone. The last time Nigeria won the African player of the year award in 2000 by KANU, it was unmerited because Osei Kuffor was one of the best midfielders in the world at the time, winning champions leagues and German titles with Bayern Munich while KANU was a bench warmer at Arsenal.
Yet, Kanu won but I'm sure no Nigerian complained about it. Even when Ikpeba won the award, so many people believed Taribo who came 3rd was more deserving. When these things favour you, celebration is allowed, when it does not simply move on because sometime in the past, it favored you ahead of a more deserving winner.

TheSuperNerd:
Have you been reading backwards?? I have clearly mentioned four times Mikel created a goal. He assisted Emenike's goals three times!!! 3 bloody times!!! 3 of the 4 goals Emenike scored at that AFCON were cooked and served from the Mikel Midfield Kitchen!!! Are you still asking??!!

He also created the goal for Ahmed Musa in the Semi finals.... Damn! You are really ignorant of what happened at afcon 2013. You didn't watch those games... Those games watched you!

This is gross miss representation of facts. Emenike scored 2 free kick goals at the Afcon. One against Ivory coast and the other against Mali in the semi finals. While Ideye assisted his goal against Burkina Faso in the 1-1 first round draw with a sumptuous back heel.

Your phantom theory that Mikel assisted 4 of his 5 goals already looks nonsensical at just a glance. Get your head out of your ass man.

TheSuperNerd:
Nigeria's midfield redundant Are you just hell bent on continuing typing rubbish? Nigeria was struggling in attack. Mikel held things thick in that middle. Against Burkina Faso, Mikel was at the center of everything good and his fine creative long pass into the box to ideye led to that Emenike goal. The defence slept off at the last minute and Burkina Faso got an equaliser. Was that Mikel's fault?? Where was Enyeama and his defence?

Against Zambia... Mikel again stood tall and gave the Zambians a game in midfield with Onazi even playing RB that day. Mikel again found Emenike with a defence splitting pass that Emenike easily tapped in. The midfield doing its job through Mikel again. Redundant you say?? What of all the chances Emenike and Ideye also squandered after fine work by the Mikel led midfield offensive? Redundant indeed... Rubbish!


Against CIV, MBA came in for Nosa Igiebor who clearly wasn't helping Mikel with the creative bird and it even brought out more of the best of Mikel as seen in how he marshalled our plays from the middle that day. He set up the first goal for Emenike that day simply rolling the freekick into Emenike's path to shoot in.

He bossed Yaya Toure and his midfield lieutenants ball for ball, grit for grit, skills for skills... He even contributed Defensively with a last gasp tackle/interception to deny Lacina Traore from tapping in for 2-2.

Mikel was simply unplayable that day.

We won the Afcon down to Mikel's huge influence. No way Nigeria would have conquered Africa without him in the middle. Absolutely no way. So all you say is still rubbish.

Two things in football. Either you're creating a goal or you're stopping a goal. How many goals did Mikel create or score at that particular tournament playing as the attacking midfielder as the most "influential"?
You're yarning okpaks probably thinking football is a popularity contest.

TheSuperNerd:
More influential than Mikel was?? Pleasseeee stop saying Nonsense abeg!

What do you call nonsense? Nigeria's midfield was redundant durring the group stages of the that tournament with Mikel. Everybody wrote the team off until Keshi introduced Mbah against Ivory coast. It wasn't coincidence the teams played their best football of the tournament with Mbah capping a great display with a goal.
Same thing happened until the finals. Mbah brought life into that team with your Mikel.

We won that Afcon inspite of Mikel, not because of Mikel. That trophy landed in Lagos because of Mbah not despite Mbah. You're trying to tell me about influence like Mikel had any goals or assists in the tournament. Mtchew

TheSuperNerd:
This is an absolute assault on the beautiful memory that was Afcon 2013. So Sunday Mbah was better and more influential than Mikel in that tournament?? because of what?? A goal against Burkinafaso and against CIV??

Nothing wey Chukwuma no go see for Alaba international Market... Chaaiiii

Mbah.... Better than Mikel at Afcon 2013?? Sacrilege!

Sunday Mbah's performance and goals proved decisive in the out come of that tournament. If that's not influential enough for you it's ok. There's no compulsion to what you want to believe.

kendrick93:
nah... based on your logic then Mahrez should have won this year....
besides I don't think Mikel was Nigeria's best player at the Afcon 2013.......Moses,Emenike were clearly better at that tournament

Exactly. Even Sunday Mbah

Trump is out to protect himself. He knows the president can't be impeached in the middle of a war.

positivevibez:
His real age is 30 hence his Instagram username is @uzoho30

He opened the Instagram account a few years ago when he was 30. He should be in his mid 30's now.

This is true of GTB atms. I had same experience 2 nights back. Although, this morning I used Polaris Bank atm and the threshold was 15k. This is banking malpractice which should be explained by the top exec at GTB.

Koboko99:
We are no longer in 1994. We've moved on. Senior national teams no longer open the camps for every tom, dick and Harry to come have a tryout. They invite the best players they have in top club sides.

You'll not see what Rohr is doing until a local coach will come in and start inviting players from Malta and Azerbaijan.

The man is going well. The country has some of the finest young talents playing in good clubs in Europe.

This is very short termist. What happens to the production line after those your finest young talents in Europe get to the twilight of their careers which is bound to happen within the next 5yrs?

She is supposed to be 14yrs old in this picture? Rank amateur lier she is.

andrewbaba44:
I read am but I no believe

Who dash herta Berlin 45 million ?

Even if dem get am dem go use am buy 5 players and not xhaka

And you believed Arsenal will hand Leicester City $45M plus Xhaka for Ndidi?

Fabricated bullshit. How can the residence of a major general be unguarded by armed personnel?

I think it's time football grew a pair and stood behind Ozil. The treatment of the Uighur moslems at the hands of the suppressive Chinese regime is inhuman. These guys are put in detaintion camps and brain washed by the regime while the whole world folds it's arm and pretend like nothing is happening.
Football should play it's role as global citizens and speak out against issues like this as it is doing with racism.

The bullets gave her a black eye? She looks like someone who was beaten up. What do I even know

Why seal the establishment? Why not set up a caretaker committee to head those institution pending their sale ala Etisalat/ 9 mobile?
What's wrong with black people?

I have asking myself about Pastor Awuzie's whereabouts. He started a viral pentecostal movement across Nigeria. The blessing of white handkerchief, he pioneered and so many other practices.
Ozugbo Ozugbo power like he called himself. P

I remember this case. It was reported a few months ago. The man may not be a real medical doctor but I was made to understand he actually performed over 350 surgeries and had about 15 non survivors.
This is a miscarriage of justice. He should have been sentenced to community service for 2yrs where he will also enroll into a med school. Most of our legit doctors cannot boast of his success rate.

Everybody is now in denial after United States's strong warning.

Lovely topic. My advice will be to spend an extra N500 and check the phone out with those laptop guys usually hanging around phone retail store.
From experience, the real name of a knock off device is usually revealed when plugged in on a computer. For instance, HTC one m8 will be written as HTC m8. Furthermore, those guys usually have a diagnostic software which reveals all the exact system components of a phone. Check if the processor model is accurate as what is on GSM arena.( fakes usually come with mediatek processor)
Infact, phone retailers will ask to change your device when you ask to be checked out on a computer. They immediately know this one sabi something.

COMMENTSFIGHTER:
Fela surppasses lucky Dune, Seal another Nigerian also outshined Lucky Dube.

Why are you people saying this? Fela's music was local. He sang about the Nigeria justice system, insulting Obasanjo, Yaradua and Co. While Lucky Dube's music talked about world problems like unity, racism, injustice of the Apartheid regime. The man commanded a global audience. You can compare Fela with Brenda fashi not Dube.

safarigirl:
Lucky Dube is not Bob Marley, Lucky Dube is not the king of reggae music. Lucky Dube did not own it, he was influenced, same way Wizkid and Burna have been influenced by Fela.

Many Raggea purists won't agree with you about Bob Marley being the king of Raggea though.
The crux of the matter is that afro music is at the backend of global music, which is just gaining traction recently of which can't be compared to raggea. Lucky Dube being one of the all time greatest in that genre will always tower above any contemporary afro beat musician. That's the hard truth.

safarigirl:
is Fela a joke to you? A whole king of a genre

Afro music genre is on the road to gaining worldwide recognition. It hasn't gotten nowhere to level of raggea music (its not going to get there in 50yrs) where Lucky Dube owned it. Lucky Dube will edge Fela out in any debate on a worldwide platform.

Can any Nigerian musician measure up to Lucky Dube?

TheGoodJoe:
Very nice point.

That is why I have called for our Zone to zone screening process to take place in a more comprehensive manner with the screening time longer than it used to.

This will give the coaches more time to screen and also a chance to see more players. Making the final selections top knotch.

Also, there needs to be a solution to cut out contacts from Agents.

We do this while we work on coming up with a proper youth development system like having a proper inter local government league which will culminate in a National Youth Champions League.

There is a lot to do. Like Academies having their leagues with different levels.

Unfortunately, Pinnick is more interested in globe trotting than carrying out development work in the local scene.

All the stated opinion are not new. We actually have an amateur league, which more or less is a small league where teams and what some of you call academies in a particular region play against each other.
How much attention the NFF has paid to this league is what I can't say but truth remains that the amateur league is the bedrock of our football, being that it is the breeding ground for officials, coaches and players. Coaches doing their certification courses start off from there, so also referees and players.

The woman is a feminist. Feminists don't make good wives. I fear for this guy

solmusdesigns:
she would take needed drugs and clean up before and after each session with the evil billionaire, if it means going there with 1000 tablets of antiretoviral drugs or other preventive drugs

Atleast if a lady gets raped by an hiv carrier if she quickly present her self to the doctors she would be cleaned and giving drugs

You maybe correct. There have been instances where hiv positive patient births a hiv negative child while the spouse remained negative.

tbaba1234:
During the Keshi, Siasia and Oliseh eras, we struggled to beat minnows away. Rohr has made qualification easy.

Like loosing to Madagascar 2:0? Please give it a rest. Keshi's team qualified for the world cup as African champions and made the second round. An achievement Rohr haven't been able to match.
Respect to whom it's due.

I find this funny. More funyy that Timaya's I can't kill myself was playing on my head phone while I opened the thread.
Perfect coincidence