₦airaland Forum

TheSuperNerd:
@bolded and the rest... You have stated in a nutshell a Mentality I forged when I began my football followership journey years ago as a little boy.

It's not hard really to be a Naija football fan. This was always the way and still the best way. Reason why keeping up with our players is always a thing of Joy for me.

Some or several are still just realising this.

Kudos.

It was easier for me because I grew up watching and hearing more about Okocha and Kanu in the early 2000s as a kid. No one had time for club football since we could hardly see one. When I was a kid, I could go on a hunger strike just because the Super Eagles lost a match. Our loss in the shootout against Tunisia in 2004 was one of such.

charlesemeka85:
barca fan?😳

Yea bro. You heard/read right.

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Thanks man

yinkeys:
But Bassey should return to left back
He struggled at Ajax
He’d keep getting exposed at Fulham
Hopefully the guy doesn’t get exposed at AFCON because fans will come for his asss

Na you expose am?

BankyGee:
It's the "our match" for me 😆

Shey na Peseiro dey coach Leverkusen? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I don't really fancy all these European club fanaticisms, so I just root for any team that has a Nigerian player. That said, I'm a Barca fan but funny enough, I would support Madrid to defeat Barca in a final, if Madrid fielded a super Eagle.


In a situation where the two teams have Nigerians, I just wish the players have good games while the best team wins.

forgiveness:
Was the award opened to non European as at the time he scored those goals?

Was he still playing top flight football as at 33 years old? Zurich is top league in your eyes?

Somebody that was playing retirement football after 1994 world cup.

Lol okay

forgiveness:
1995, Yekini, prime in Switzerland league at 33 years old? Okay. I understand.

You are looking for the easy way out, hence resorted to distorting fact deliberately. Yekini's best was in Setubal where he scored 91 goals in 114games from 90-94, then in 95, Weah got crowned for his cumulative effort between 94 and 95. If Yekini was good enough, he would have at least gotten a nomination. He went to Zurich in 97 where he scored 14 in 28 matches.

forgiveness:
Meaning as top goalscorer player in top 5 league in Europe will not be nominated, right?

Oga Yekini had the best season of his career in Europe within the period George Weah won the Balon D'or so that excuse is dead on arrival.

forgiveness:
In this era, Europe. Before this era, it wasn't.

Where was he when George Weah won it in 1995? He was in his prime then, and couldn't even smell a nomination.

forgiveness:
Ballon'dOr was an individual award given to the best players in Europe not the world. It nolonger FIFA Ballon'dOr.

Where do the best players ply their trade?

forgiveness:
Well, in the 80s, African football was very competitive because majority of their stars played in Africa then.

That was when the Nigerian professional football league was very interesting. Even CAF champions league.

Rashidi was part of the team that was defeated in 1984 Champions league finals in Lagos after winning the league in 1983 and scored 45 goals in 53 matches for 3sc.

He was just 20 years old then.

Osimhen has also done well and has achieved in Europe.

Those years African football was far from being competitive. It was filled up by too many minnows

charlesemeka85:
shatap 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Amuneke wey no see up to 30 matches play for barca in the space of 3 seasons 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Aswear I bu nwa mkpi 😡😡

charlesemeka85:
him think say em easy for a player out from Africa not up to a year ago to be highly thought of at a big club like Inter

Even made the bench couple of times towards the end of the season

Does he even know what it means for someone to be banished? Ask him why he used such word of that innocent boy, and watch him run from pillar to post.

elyte89:
Charles emeka and majoribanks ,most especially charlesemeka have always downplayed our old players effort and success,given diff scenarios to back his claims but d fact still remains dt Dey re most successful set uptil now 😎

When it comes to talking about the older generation and to an extent the recent/present ones, CharlesEmeka is as empty as the skull of Sheyishemba. Na to just dey make noise from one angle to another. Imagine small pikin like him dey talk down on the achievements of Amunike because of his Barca misadventure.

AndSunGorilla:
Why did.Inter then banish him.back to the U19s no be regression be that? Or does Inter who pay his wages think he's not ready yet?

Una go just dey throw words carelessly. How does "banish" come into this discussion? And when in devil's name did you ever read that he got banished to the youth team?

elyte89:
Sincerely dts what I don’t get…if player never play for elite league or reach old age..e never ripe b dt,when In actual sense ,he can be better Dan what we av at d moment…I don’t c any reason y Dt guy can’t be invited,most especially Nnamdi dt u-20 guy

Nnadi and Nnamdi mean different things oo bro.

About your points, they aren't out of line.

Before 2026WC, we will have an improved midfied and defense. The defense is already taking shape.

Between 2024 and 2025 Eletu, Daka, Akin and others will have been blooded in.

Nigeriagood:
ah solanke is quality o

What makes him quality?

charlesemeka85:
if osimhen happen to be flanked by prime finidi and amuneke as well as always played through by mercurial jay jay from the middle by now em for don hit 30 goals

Remember that was an era when finidi was rated as the best number 7/RW in the world

You are right.

Icon4s:
That is the point bro
Take away goals Osimhen scored against Sao Tome and what will be left?

Yekini never played against such opponents or even worse while repping Nigeria? How many did he score against them even with our heavily lubricated midfied and wings spoon-feeding him, unlike what Osimhen has in the midfield and wings now? Hey and that was even when football rules were not as strict as they are today.

Kog45:
Ndidi handed it after got substituted. Osimehn was the most senior on the field at that moment.

Oh alright

komekn:
Thank you

I remember Yekini had this thunderbolt of a shot, he could shoot with extreme power and accuracy.

I also remember you said Solanke will never think of playing for Nigeria because he has no connection with Nigeria. What do you have to say about the news of him now begging for attention from Nigeria?

Kog45:
Skippo

How did Osimhen get the Captain armband? I don't think he is ripe for it.

lovewins:
How exactly do you describe "too religious"? And how does his "religiousity" hurt anybody? How his he any different from many other players who express their faith in the game?

For some players, Muslims especially, they without fail bow their head in worship when they score a goal. The best player in the world at some point Kaka was known to flash "thank you Jesus" whenever he scores a goal and he was expressive and unapologetic about being evangelical. Arguably one of the best sprint athlete in the world today Sydney Mclaughlin is 10x more expressive about her faith l. It's easily one of the first things you'll notice about her when you check her out and she does it in a more liberal society like the US.

Taiwo has only flashed once if I remember correctly, yesterday was celebrating with his corss ingrained shin guard which again isn't unusual. Much of the expression of his faith has been on his social media, which any disinterested person is free to unfollow.

I hope you wouldn't be mad if he was flashing a symbol of Calabash filled with some materials?

Taiwo Awoniyi is becoming too religious in the game for my liking. You lot should learn to keep your religions away from the game.

Skillful Boniface!!!

forgiveness:
Can't remember for now.

The mad combo of Iheanacho and Awoniyi? You've forgotten so soon?😯

forgiveness:
Classical goal.

That goal screamed U17 WC 2013

Onyeka has cleared that his dirty hairstyle. Dude is now looking so handsome and trimmed.

I'm loving Bassey though these Sao Tome players are plumbers.

Dey no wan drop line up?