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Talking about loaded African teams, Morocco pulls a coup as they add another tank (Oussama Idrissi) into their already dreaded Armoury, as Eredivisie goals wizard, wanted by the two Milan clubs, Juventus and other big European clubs, decides to pitch his tent with the Herve Reinard lead Morocco squad ahead of the Netherlands.

Afcon go sweet oo!!

andrew444:
Bros leave Algeria

They boast of better quality sha but leave those ones jor ,I no 3 believe those ones

Faouzi ghoulam ,mahrez ,bentaleb ,slimani?

Normal level players

Thou ghoulam is African best left back as far as am concerned

Being a first team left back in Napoli no b beans

Mahrez is there sha

Does Nigeria have any CB as good as Aissa Mendi?

I just pray this Doucoure guy would wake up one morning and say he doesn't wanna wait for the French national team no more, instead, he wants to hug his African heritage by pledging to rep the Ivory Coast abi Senegal sef. This boy is class mbok!

Leicester looks lost in this formation. Lol Wilf Andy doesnt even know who to mark

andrew444:
Lol

Ivory Coast get players abeg

Teams wey get players pass for Africa

Ivory Coast
Senegal
Morocco
Nigeria

The rest are just there ,Algeria and Egypt na wash .

Algeria boasts of better quality and experience than Nigeria. Seems uv not been keeping tabs on them.

TheGoodJoe:
He has the work rare but atrocious in finishing. Guess Rodgers sees promise in him.

Barnes is everything buh a goal getter. Boy is a calamity in front of goal. I would rather a showboating Gray was preferred

andrew444:
Agreed

Zaha is a beast,he is already world class

Nicolas Pepe ,omo that boy dey hot ,70 million euros rated ,if he decided to leaves lille he might be African most expensive player ,boy is tearing French league apart ,he might end of as Ligue 1 player of the season .

Pepe is a beast. Imagine these two flanking Connet of Lyon in a 4-3-3 formation, Chai Afcon go sweet oo!!

TheGoodJoe:
Shocking Gray is on the bench. I expected him to start due to his pace and Rodgers offensive strategy. Madison and Barnes get the nod on the flanks.

TheGoodJoe:
Okazaki did not make the bench. That is an interesting twist.

Calm down, it is not yet uhuru. Rogers is only getting a feel of his new team(squad). Pray KC makes good use of this little Faith showed in him by naming him ahead of Okazaki on the bench, otherwise, the purported new twist might get re-twisted soon.

BTW, Leicester already trailing...

I couldn't contain my joy when I saw Kolo Toure in the dugout, as an assistant coach in the Epl, taking down notes. More grace Kolo

Say whatever U want, Wilf Zaha is about the best winger in world football right now, his compatriot, Nick Pepe of Lille is also up there at the top 5.

Icon4s, andrew444 et al

Taliban:
Chriskels, any update about your 'carpentar' apprentice the guy in Portugal, Mikel Agu, haven't heard about him in a while.

Forget those pretenders; from Etebo to Agu to Onazi to Ogu to Agbo

The less said about Simmy Nwankwo, the better

All these na carpenters

Curtisaxel7:
I am not comparing myself to Iheanacho. I am not the one that the NFF spent millions of Nigerian taxpayers' money to train, nuture and sponsor from U-15 level to senior level. I am not the one that the NFF took to FIFA tournaments as an unknown rookie player and gave a platform to showcase his talents to the world. I am not the one that was taken to the largest football showpiece on earth despite my poor showings for my club in order to give me an unmerited chance to salvage my career.

I am not even half as privileged as Iheanacho, nor will I ever be. I have not enjoyed any of the support and sponsorship that the NFF gave to Iheanacho. I have no sponsor but myself, I have had to scrape and hustle to make ends meet and still pursue my academic endeavors just like millions of other Nigerian youths out there. So, there's no comparison between me and Iheanacho. I am not jealous of him, some people are just luckier than the others, but comparing me to him at this stage of my life will be like comparing yourself with Dangote's son. It's simply unfair.

Let the Nigerian government give me the same support it gave to Iheanacho, then we can compare achievements.




PS:
I am a bona fide Enite. I've been living here for three years now.

Oh ur anger is a that Nigeria invested in Iheanacho and he hasn't done enough to pay back? Plz is he the only person Nigeria has ever invested in abi na him be the only youth team player ever produced by Nigeria? By the way, how handsome are u that u come here everyday telling us how ugly Kelechi looks? Can u be bold enough to share ur pics?

I guessed right, u are an Enit though most times u sound like someone from HT. That said, I know many Enits who showed potentials (what great lions are renowned for), in their different fields of endeavours/studies, and got invested in by the Nigerian govt, just as they did Kelechi. How come u haven't shown any potential that would attract the government to also invest that same tax payers money in u abi na Iheanacho dey hold u back from showing ur own potentials? Kelechi gave them a reason to invest in him, why not also give the country a reason to invest in u, instead of bitching about all over nairaland as though Kelechi stole ur destiny?

Taliban:
The days of perpetua nkwocha, mercy akhide, patience dede etc. At some time we were on the verge of making it to the semi finals of the WC. Back then I remembered we had some firebrand women admins, people like Bola jegede and aisha falode etc. Perhaps a lack of investment and most likely no plan or vision has caused the regression.

Precious Dede wasn't really that good.

Time is ticking, and Solanke hasn't done nothing yet since joining lowly Bournemouth from giant Liverpool


Liverpool echo labels Awoniyi Liverpool's best, of all the players loaned/sold out for this 2019 season. I no hear Solanke the goals wizard

Danielnino00:
the same source told you that Ini Umotong has been shut out of the super falcons abi

Savagery

Curtisaxel7:
I don't know why we are getting sentimental because it's Iheanacho. If I were criticizing Morata or Lukaku or even Ighalo, majority of people here would have no issues with it. Can't we be unbiased for once?.

Anyways, mark my words, and bookmark this post, Iheanacho will be in China very soon. You know this, I know this, so let's stop pretending. It's no use sugarcoating he truth. Let's just pray to the God of soccer to provide us with new striking options (preferably FB's playing under thier real ages), but as for Iheanacho, I'm afraid there's no hope.

No vex, Whats ur discipline and Whats ur current GP like? Shebi u dey Eni Njoku abi u follow for dem Hill Top waga-Gees abi na Zik via Maracana? Are u the best in ur class and amongst ur peers? I just say make I ask oo?

Icon4s:
It is comment like this that often stir up bad blood on this thread.

Please let's be factual and do our analysis without ethnic sentiments.

I don't care about where the bulk of the players are from cos that is not important. Now talking about their ages, the team is a mixture of youth and experience. In women's Football players get better with age. A large percentage of those players are products of our U20 teams from 2011 to 2017. That means they are mostly in their 20s.

And to ur last sentence, nothing like seggregation. The coach chooses who we wants to include in his team. Thank God the coach is a Swede and not a Nigerian.

U get time to quote such a stupid post. If e too pain him, make him sue the coaches. Ask the guy to name one single young Nigerian female player knocking at the Falcons' door, him no fit. Him think say na to dey open mouth like hungry karuwa dey open leg for brothel dey talk rubbish? Shebi him say Ini Umotong was short out? Too many misguided fellows dun dey infest this thread.

Against Polokwane City in the PSL, at the weekend, Akpeyi doing his usual thing, much to a fan's chagrin. Chai how did we get here? Cant believe this is a Nigerian National teamer.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbsNbkCpS4U

zuchyblink:
Childish assumptions here and there

Seriously this thread is rapidly getting filled with some witless kids, so insensitive that they cant tell their left from their right. SMH

Here is the Egypt squad we are bound to host. Expect Rohr to call up our regulars, instead of giving opportunities to our fringe/uncapped stars doing well all over Europe.


Goalkeepers: Mahmoud Gennesh (Zamalek), Mahmoud Abou-Gabal (Smouha), Ahmed El-Shennawy (Pyramids), Amer Amer (Entag El-Harby)

Defenders: Omar Gaber (Pyramids), Mohamed Hany (Al Ahly), Ali Gabr (Pyramids), Mahmoud Alaa (Zamalek), Baher El-Mohamady (Ismaily), Ahmed Ayman Mansour (Pyramids), Karim Hafez (Kasimpasa), Ahmed Aboul-Fotouh (Smouha)

Midfielders: Amr El-Sulaya (Al Ahly), Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal), Tarek Hamed (Zamalek), Ali Ghazal (CD Feirense), Mohamed Nabil ‘Dunga’ (Pyramids)

Strikers: Ahmed Hassan Kouka (Olympiacos), Salah Mohsen (Al Ahly), Mostafa Mohamed (Tala’a El-Gaish)

komekn:
EVIDENCE to support your proposition.

What you are suggesting comical.

Which coach favours average players please. wherever they are from ❓

@ the bolded, agreed! No wonder u no longer disturb us with these names Josh Onomah, seyi Ojo, Dom Solanke etc. These three have proven to be below average since the bar was raised a little higher. The worst has been ur precious Onomah who has been a bench warmer for lowly Wednesday in the championship. Ojo doesnt even make Reims match day squad no more. About Solanke, ur xcuses before were bench warmers like Origi and Sturridge, buh now in Bournemouth, what have u to say?

daveP:
Yeah Columbia and Poland. The host aint shitty.

Lol u funny

daveP:
Easy to me, considering the upgrading of the team soon. Sorry to SA amd Senegal. Mali can pull a shocker.

Senegal will easily top that group. Who wan stop them, Columbia abi Poland?

What happened to the almighty Seyi Ojo? Doesn't even make Reims' match day squad no more, after some disappointing performances.

Chima Okoroji started and played for 86minutes as his club hammered Augsburg 5-1 in the German Bundesliga.

Icon4s:
Are Samuel Kalu, Osimhen, Awoniyi and Bonaventure teenagers? They probably meant young or U21 players.

U sef no know say this na post from the archives?

mostob:
I didn't composes it. I find it surprising that is why I shared it here.

Bros that was an outdated list compiled about three years ago. Check where u got it, u will see the date and time it was written. U definitely got that from the archives

A post that has Kalu as a Gent player is what u hurriedly posted here? Some of u guys here sha smh

fabyom:
Don't mind that Imoh of a guy. I do believe he has learnt his lessons. The only way for him now is UP!

Forget about imoh, he promises nothing no more bkus Dude has permanently lost his way. No more revival, na pension sure pass now. One cant eat his cake and av it

Danielnino00:
Let's see.. Cameroon is both anglophone and francophone so I won't count them here..

World cup: Senegal and "our brothers' have made it to the quarter final.. Nigeria has made it to the knockout stage thrice...so Anglophone wins here..


AFCON-
(excluding Cameroon again)
Franco- 5(CIV and Congo and DR Congo)

Anglo- 9(" our brothers, Nigeria, South Africa ad Zambia)

As for your last question,that's debatable.. But the following anglophone players can make the list of Africa best 20 ever

1) Kanu

2) Okocha

3) Yekini

5) Abedi Ayew

6) Kalusa Bwyala (can't remember the spelling)

Bros Cameroun has 10 regions, 8 out of the ten regions speak French while only a paltry 2 speak English, hence the Francos have it. That said, what are the lingua francas of sudan, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia?

Danielnino00:
I pity that guy trying to market the Senegalese here
They will still disappoint at the AFCON.. no be today dem dy produce good players..

francophone countries in general always produce good players than most African countries... but to achieve something with them is an issue

Calm down Danny. Choose ur words carefully. Has any Anglophone country done better than the Francos at the World stage? Has the Anglo as a unit, won more Afcons than the Franco? Who are Africa's top 20 players ever? How many are from the Anglo?