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CapitalCee:
BREAKING NEWS:💥🔥🔥🔥

FIFA has penalised Malaysia with three 3-0 defeats for fielding ineligible players, the country’s football authorities said Wednesday, the latest punishment in a simmering scandal.

Friendly wins over Palestine and Singapore, and a draw against Cape Verde, all at home this year, have been overturned, the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) said.
FIFA has already suspended seven foreign-born national team players over forged documents that claimed they had Malaysian ancestry.
The FAM, previously fined $440,000, has now been hit with a further $12,500 punishment.
A FIFA disciplinary committee meeting on Friday ruled that “Malaysia is declared to have lost 3-0 in all three matches”, the FAM said.
FIFA launched an investigation after receiving a complaint following Malaysia’s 4-0 win against Vietnam in June in an Asian Cup qualifier.

Two of the seven players scored.
Its investigation showed none of Hector Hevel, Jon Irazabal, Gabriel Palmero, Facundo Garces, Rodrigo Holgado, Imanol Machuca, or Joao Brandao Figueiredo had a parent or grandparent born in Malaysia, a requirement for selection to a national team.


https://www.channelstv.com/2025/12/17/fifa-sanctions-malaysia-over-forged-documents-for-foreign-born-players/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOv-T5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEemNqEURblC2vN1dgkPTvKY_TKv_tGXMQUiJOfmLgucr-NkunYQp3G5Ataw6E_aem_jWTK9MoUQ1e3e2yJdaZRDQ

joelsteron:
NFF technical dept is zeo. Chelle and Pep Gardiola need help. Modern teams even hire set-piece coaches. These Super Eagles we saw today can get thrashed by any disciplined minnow in AFCON.

joelsteron:
NFF technical dept is zeo. Chelle and Pep Gardiola need help. Modern teams even hire set-piece coaches. These Super Eagles we saw today can get thrashed by any disciplined minnow in AFCON.

Clint02:
Correct. And I don't think this is Egypt's main team sef(I might be wrong).

JohnBullMySon:
Don’t piss me off. I like super eagles and I’m not being negative. If you don’t like the comment skip and don’t engage it.

ThunderFireAgba:
This Benin boy that wear no2 jersey, his kind of game is something I don't understand at all! at all!!
Let me believe this Coach is saving his best for the last... Like he would have tried that Blackburn Rovers guy at RB.

JohnBullMySon:
When last did we even beat a major CAF team? Like top ten?

victornoah:
Lookman is the ONLY standout player in the White jersey.

Pathetic

Goke7:
See as dem split our defence chai 😂

lbrichman2:
Onuachu needs midfield to perform
This midfield is flat
Only Akinsanmiro is trying to make things happen
Even Onyeka is not himself in this setup

Papi85:
✍️ 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 | Shakhtar Donetsk have signed Prosper Obah (22) from LNZ Cherkasy. ✅

Manager Arda Turan: "I want to emphasise that Obah is very strong technically and also an excellent sprinter. What is particularly important is his ability to defend the ball."

Karlovych:
Perhaps you are the illiterate, my post was very clear.

The Netherlands does not allow dual citizenship yet Troost-Ekong was able to captain and represent the SE 83 times. Perhaps Gabon should equally file a complaint against us

Samueltemi337:
Balikwisha the main player in all of this did not even play against Cameroon

solonnachi:
The intercontinental FIFA play off may be shifted beyond March if the situation warrants a replay of CAF playoff or Nigeria may just represent Africa to avoid unnecessary wahalla.

Nehruvia:
Eric Chelle has to see Nigeria off to the inter-confederation playoffs and possibly the World Cup. He must not go just yet. Of course, that depends on his AFCON performance but I'm sure he'll do well.

Truidstarr:
Bro...please go back and read the thread of the conversation...the monicker based his call for division based on bad news he reads everyday online. It had nothing to do with Usman invitation. Please correct your impression.

Bossoflife25:
Baba leave those guys to their hat.... They are on the list and nothing anyone can do about it.
When Keshi was calling up Agbo, Mba etc no one talked about Federal character then!
When Finidi sabotaged us by calling up Sadiq, Tiamiyu etc nobody remember federal character or what about Amas playing in Ethiopia.
It is only when the name is Musa or Usman dem dey remember federal character. Such dishonest group of humans!

SymphonyRad:
Another long epistle of more gaslighting, I like how you're trying so hard to tilt this whole conversation into another Northern players stigmatization agenda while still overlooking (perhaps intentionally) the MAIN ISSUES being addressed here. You're the one with a wicked agenda but I'll not play ball to your ethnic baiting cause it's just going to be a cul-de-sac of pointless arguments and rhetorics that will be another dead end.

Ok lets even agree for the sake of conceding to your stats that Usman Mohammed plays regular minutes at his club, what exactly are his best qualities? I'll assume you know this particular player so well to vouch for him, what are the key attributes and qualities of Usman Mohammed in his club in recent years that makes his call up justified? please tell us a notable growth index per his player development trajectory since his U23 Olympics stint? or are you still mesmerized by his solo goal against Atlético de Madrid years ago in that friendly? Pls tell us one good reason (devoid of your ethnic gaslighting and angling) why Usman deserved to be selected ahead of a Sani Suleiman who is younger, more exciting and has a far promising trajectory? I don't want to mention the baffling selection conundrum of a 31 year old player at the tail-end of his career who is stuck in the lower rungs of Isreal over younger prospects who should be displacing the older players?

The Tochukwu Nnadi you keep bringing up isn't my favorite player and I doubt anybody would have cared or noticed much if he was dropped or not, but at least he's very young - still 22 and playing at a far better league with more learning curves for growth as a player, so your comparison is rather baseless even if it was for ethnic ramblings.

Bros, you can choose to live in whatever bubble you create for yourself, but the indelible and incontrovertible truth will always be said. There's no gainsaying in calling out the obvious footprints of NFF corruption, and that has continued to destroy the fabric of our football...Chelle from reliable evidence didn't pick most of the players in that list and that's a very dangerous precedence- when a coach can't pick his own team because some higher-ups have to call the shot for reasons best known to them.

I wish all and sundry the best, hope Usman proves me wrong and serves me humble pies.

SymphonyRad:
You just wrote a litany of rubbish laced with lots of gaslighting. Nobody is pitching on Usman Muhammed cause he's a Northerner, we are only asking and demanding as sane minded fans the baffling criteria through which he was selected into the final squad. The team he currently plays for in the Israeli league is even at the cusp of battling relegation, and the said player hardly plays! Secondly aren't there Northerners in better form who should have at least been selected? Sani Suleiman for example is doing well and is tipped to be one for the future, he's a Northerner and I can bet there's no Nigerian that will raise a brow or lose sleep if he were selected. Zaidu is a Northerner and he will likely always get a popularity vote of confidence over Bruno Onyemaechi to start all our games, because he's more reliable and sturdy.

Lastly I don't think any player has received more backlash and insults recently from Nigerian fans than Alex Iwobi, even Ndidi sef dey collect, last time I checked all these guys are Igbos. Tolu Arokodare that has been receiving it hot is Yoruba etc...all we want is a merit-based standard of doing things untainted by corruption and shadiness, that's why nothing works in Nigeria in almost all sectors.

Stop the gaslighting bro, our football has been riddled with so much decay lately that every move from the NFF must call for thorough scrutiny, it's obvious certain players were picked by the NFF and not by Chelle, and yes the reasons for those bizarre selections are due to Federal character and not plain merit.

Bossoflife25:
Rafiu is a pure number 9 while Fago can play across the forward line. Fago has been playing on the left yet has 5 goals in 6 games! No one is better than the other but Fago holds the advantage cos he can play across the frontline. Ikebpa was our star going to AFCON 2000, Ike Uche in 2013 but it was Aghawonder and Ideyye respectively from no where that stole the show.

Amedino99:
you are the first person to allude to their northern status btw. Im sure people were only complaining because they are northerners and not because salim plays for a little known club out of croatia and usman muhammed plays in second tier isreal. Definitely because of tribalism.

Sadiqali24:
There are about 6 to 7 midfielders but na Muhammad Usman that wouldn't make us win .
There are about 6 attackers but na fago wouldn't make us score..
Hmmm

semid4lyfe:
Happy Paul Onuachu is in the squad. He deserves to be rewarded for his form.

Have mixed feelings about Dessers . I dont think he's cut for the physicality of african football. Would have preferred a Rafiu Durosinmi.

Chrisantus should have made the list based on his Getafe reputation and performances over Salim Fargo due to his versatility and ability to play as a CDM. CAM and SS. Eff Crystal Palace. There's no way Chrisantus wouldn't have made the list were he still in Getafe and playing regularly.

31 years old Mohammed Usman? No words.

123jamessmith:
He belike say Felix agu make the final list for Afcon. I just saw a video where Victor borniface was wishing him a good turnament

do4luv14:
From these list my 3goalkeepers are Stanley, Okoye and Hercout





We need young keepers to understudyi both Okoye and Stanley