₦airaland Forum

lovewins:
She's unlikely to even make roster at all with the USA. I sincerely do not see it happening. As talented as Arike is, she's yet to make a US roster at the guard position which is even a lot more easier in my opinion to make compared to being a post player. I can easily list 10 post players who are ahead of the pecking order over Kiki.

A'ja, Phee, Stewie, Griner, Alyssa, Brink, Reese, Shakira, Bri Jones, Boston. These are just off the top of my head and doesn't include college prospects like Betta who will just the pack soon.

...Exactly, she do just be at training camps at intervals, but never making the final cut....let us wait and see the decision she makes.

lovewins:
Hate to be the bearer of not so good news, but Kiki Iriafen just got named in the team USA basketball camp for December.

Never in my wildest thoughts did I envisage this. On a practical level this still doesn't make sense for her as she's very unlikely to make the team. But that's where we are.

I guess congratulations to her and better luck next time Nigeria.

...U.S.A just making sure potential power houses do not stand...it depends on what Kiki wants to do.....However, i do not trust NBBF for getting in contact with her to not honor the U.S....with Nigeria, she would play every major competition, with the U.S, she probably play just one major tournament, and that is it...time would tell....

lovewins:
It appears there's another friendly today. Don't have the details yet, but it's probably Turkey again.

...na wa.

Redman44:
Let us just hope there is no problem between the regular players and the NBBF over payments of allowances and the cash the FG promised the girls sometimes this year. I hope there is no silent war simmering between the girls and NBBF. We don't want sudden withdrawals and boycott threats over unpaid monies. Cheers.

...Valid point

MSGAMBLE9:
Yet with little to no publicity, this is bad from the federation.... Finding out after the game is done is mindbogglingly coupled with the match itself not been listed on major site ...

...i basically just stumbled on it 5 minutes or there about to the game...

lovewins:
I watched the game so I think I am qualified to comment. First, we had no business having the game that close judging by the roster we went with. Only 3 from our last Afrobasket roster participated and all of them are bench players (Nicole, Ogoke and Pallas). None of the girls who featured are starters for our team, None.

The game was somewhat of a tryout for Coach Rena to access new players and how they fit into her future plans. Despite all this we led for the most part of the game and only lost at the final possession to a Turkish team with players with WNBA experience and some of whom play for the best clubs in turkey. Not a bad outing in my opinion.

....We had no business losing that game....despite the roaster, i will leave it at that...also, they(Turkiye) ranking is 18th for a reason despite they are an European side....If they were an African side, their ranking will be maybe around 30 something....we are 8th in the world, if were were to be an European team, we would probably be around the 5th in the world...As regards Wnba experience, note that, there are also African teams with Wnba experience, i.e Sudan, Mali..etc....they still cant touch us....well, it is a friendly...

PDPGuy:
I read that our traditional starting 5 didn’t feature in the game, hence the loss.
But that raises another issue on its own: must we have ALL our star present before beating even 20-24th ranked teams?

......They do not have to be present, we should have won this particular game to be honest, i will not like to call names because it is a friendly.....If you watched the game you would understand what i mean...Maybe i like winning a little too much, either friendly or FIBA organized game, Win must drop, i am a little competitive...

PDPGuy:
It’s was a narrow 77-76 loss to Turkey

...which should not have happened, we are 8th in the world and they are 16th in the world. Do you understand how difficult it is for an African team to climb that high, I have a lot to say, however, i will hold my peace.. majorly because, it is a friendly....We might go down in ranking a little for this.

Game info...

Seems, Pallas, Nike, Sarah are the faces i know here...not seen most of theses faces before.. Nicole is also there...

Apparently, we have a friendly today(Dtigress)...game starts in 3 minutes...

Tchinaidi:
The rig leaders of this protest that have almost jeopardized our chances of going to the world if not for timely intervention of the Noble NFF must be punished to serve as a deterrent to other players trying to show seeds of discord in the team.Where is the place of Patriotism in this quest to secure the ticket for the world at this particular point in time.They should have not brought it up at all especially given the slippery slope on which we set on our journey to qualify for this prestigious tournament 😠😠😠😠

....You Sir are very biased. Patriotism do not pay bills, there is only so much people can take, how about the NFF do right by God and country and give what belongs to ceaser to ceaser as at when due.....,

lmao....See goal ooo....TILL NEXT TIME,2027 is not far away......what a keeper...

This no 19 is really troubling us...

Osihmen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....Golazo......

GOALAZOOOOOOO!!!!!

No Victor Osihmen slander will be tolerated .....

What is wrong with this coach, why take off Chucks, when Simon has not offered anything...

Goal...

Joezinho:
Dunno about SA but trust me , tomorrow’s naija’s game tomorrow is ending 0-0. Stake all your life savings bro. 😎

...not happening..... ....

elyte89:
This time tommorow

South Africa 🇿🇦 1 Rwanda 🇷🇼 1

Nigeria 🇳🇬 2- Benin 🇧🇯 0

.....Ashe!!!!!!!!

Nwabali don collect bribe niiii

Ekong no fit run again...

why is Lookmon playing like this...

yinkeys:
With which creativity are we gonna get 4
Chelle set the team up in a way that’s difficult to even score 1
He was even employed to help us get the win against South Africa, he didn’t
If West African teams like Mali play SA @ AFCON this year again, I believe all the Tier 1 West African teams will beat them, no bragging
Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Mali
Maybe Nigerias football standard is dropping because of poor management

....we lack creativity for real...i am just having fun with the predictions....i am not doing any calculus o..if they like, they should win, if they like,they should lose...

Nigeria 4: Lesotho 0
S/A 1 : Zim 1
Rwanda 1: Benin 1.

Unlimited22:
That guy suppose be Nigerian Army physical training instructor. He should be nowhere near a football team

..lol..

No tactical input whatsoever from the coach....its well..

This guy again….na wa o….

I want to rant, so please bear with me...the super eagles have not being scoring much lately and people are wondering why, is it not obvious that the reason is that we move the ball too slow, players taking extra touch where they could have just passed the damn ball, the more extra touch a player takes, the more time for the opponent to set up...before you know what is happening, it is 30 mins into the match, the only time you can play that slow is when you have dribblers like Jay Jay,Neymar Jr, who can take on a player and dribble him, another players try to covers, which means he is out of position, leaving spaces in the formation, now the defensive formation is broken down. Do we not have a technical department? It is really simple, Imagine if we move that ball as quick as the South Africans and we move it with purpose, imagine what damage we would do....but....no, players keep dressing the ball, extra touch....and we do not have real dribblers on the team, sad to watch....

I just thought to drop this here..it is well...

So Mali thrashed Senegal...it is well, could it be that dtigers were distracted based on things happening in the background...i do not trust NBBF...