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no need for the aggro we can differ in a calm polite manner. you can see from his quote he didn't insult you guys. you are welcome to contribute here but no insults ok chief? peace

SupremeBeast:
I remember telling you guys to keep Ghana outta your business but it seems you can't do it.

anyways feel free to answer my questions. has Nigeria ever beaten Argentina or England or France at the World Cup stage before?

yes for world cups we have beaten 4 european teams. only south american team we have always faced is argentina. ghana has a good record for the short time they have been to the WC although i think their team that got to the QF in 2010 was abit overrated. i liked their team to 2006 they played some good football. that team definitely deserved to get to quarters

Icon4s:
Please let's be factual when we say things.

The only European teams Ghana has ever beaten are Serbia and Czech Republic. While they have never beaten any South American team.

But as for Nigeria, for Europe we have beaten: Bulgaria 2X, Greece, Spain, Scotland, France, Bosnia and Luxemburg. While for South America we have beaten Argentina 2X.

congrats tbaba1234 may your little bundle of joy grow in good health, joy, success and favour

didn't have time to comment on Yakubu Aiyegbeni yesterday. i wish him many years of good health and happiness. i also congratulate him on an illustrious club and national team career. won't lie not his greatest fan not because of his miss at the 2010 world cup (after all he later scored a penalty in that same match) but wasn't impressed with his overall output for the super eagles. yes he's one of the national team's highest goal scorers but his performances never sent the heart pulsing that said he had a very accomplished career especially in england. 2nd highest african EPL goal scorer behind drogba and great ambassador for nigeria in the premiership. yakubu take a bow

Happy Birthday Goodjoe wish you blessings, success and favour. have a great one today

this is one of the reasons why i want joel obi in the team he is also left footed. at the moment i'm not sure we have any left footed wingers in form.

Mujtahida:
I feel our team is not balanced. We play more to the right than to the left. Fact is we have too many right footed players than left footed players in this team. As a nation we seem to be predominantly right footed hence our difficulties in producing LB and LWF. Since Amunike I'm not sure we've had a natural LWF.
An analysis by Solace Chukwu on medium (@oddsolace you guys can check him out) posits that 8 out of 12 goals scored during the WCQ (he wrote this before our last WCQ against Algeria) came as a result of build up from the right flank, 2 from the middle and two from the left.
This is not too healthy in my estimation. Yes a team should play to its strength but at the same time our strength is too obvious and that can possibly make it easy for tactically astute teams to dismantle us

Please let's analyse this issue
Cc Mickael2, Kog45, MetalJigsaw, elyte89, Icon4s, tbaba1234, Joebie, goodjoe, Taliban, forgiveness, komekn, ChrisKels, Chrismario, kennysville, kingphilip, soetanoreoluwa, safarigirl, Icon79, Napoleon55, realpoacher, jotey, sontoly, Daejoyoung, nelszx, somehow and all on this thread

Taliban:
After reading a lot of pages here and also a long and hard thought. I have come to the conclusion that these players should be the ones to go t the world cup.
Goal Keepers
Vincent Enyeama
Dele Aiyenugba
Dele Alampasu
Defenders
Ola Aina
Seyi Ojo
Dominic Iorfa
Efe Ambrose
Thiago Ilori
Mosis Odubanjo
Midfield
Hope Akpan
Jude Aneke
Raheem Lawal
Abdul Ajagun
Mikel Obi
Joel Obi
Josh Onomah
Ryan Sanusi
Attackers
Obafemi Martins
Ike Uche
Fred Onyedinma
Kayode
Sone Aluko and
Adegbenro


Standby
Ovie Ejaria
Chuba Akpom

If we can present this guys who are the best leagues imagine what we will achieve. There's still time to get them to blend together, right now these are the best we have as we can only take 23 players to the world cup.

The staring eleven should look like this
Enyeama
Ola Aina Thiago Ilori Efe Ambrose Sheyi Ojo
Abdul Ajagun Josh Onomah Raheem Lawal
Kayode Martins Ik Uche

Mikel will be coming in as an impact sub and that would really tilt the games in our favor. Also there is Jude Aneke, Adegbenro and Joel Obi too who can come in from the bench.

I had to unfortunately drop Onazi, Ndidi and even Victor Mosis, even though they are very good players who the stats for Aneke, Raheem Lawal, Abdul Ajagun and Onoha are extremely difficult to ignore. You need to see how Kayode won the best player in Austria and how great a game Fred Onyedima had against Man City that's why I had to drop Victor Mosis.
Go Nigeria!!!!!!!!!

welcome boss

Kog45:
Thanks for the observation,correction and remembrance.Already edited.

hi little correction we have played a draw with the argies 1995 confederation cup 1995

Kog45:
What is the meaning of first coach to beat Argentina main team.

Let me give you the scorecards between the two countries

We played total of 12 matches Argentina (win) 6 (draw) nil (lose) 2 (Goalfor) 12 (Goalagainst) 12 (point) 12,Nigeria (win) 2 (draw) nil (lose) 4 (Goalfor) 12 (Goalagainst) 12 (point) 6.

There is nothing like team B in international friendly match and nobody is hating Rohr but that's the fact he was not the first Nigeria coach to beat Argentina.Samson yebowei Siasia was the first Nigeria coach to beat Argentina.

Let us always give respect to some of the achievements of our coaches cos some always full of excuses to downgrade their success.Do you want us to say Rohr beat Argentina cos Messi was absent,no is not tenable cos messi is not Argentina but a player playing for Argentina.

Truly the local coaches cannot be compared with foreign ones but they are the real foundation of Nigeria football.I remember the same Siasia won silver at Olympics but was not celebrated like Bonfrere Jo that won Atlanta 96 gold with bunch of Super eagles players.

Stephen Keshi won afcon but a lot believed it was luck winning all his matches from quarter final to final in 90 minutes but celebrate Westerhoff that used 5 years to nurtured a team to win afcon.

Let us just respect their achievement though they have their shortcomings and my advice i noticed some don't want Rohr to be criticised,no is not possible we need to evaluate him critically so that the team can grow.Criticising him is not hatred but for the love of the team.

Rohr has done well so far and kudos to him for yeoman job.

even a half fit joel obi was still better than gabriel rueben, azeez ramon, and michael babatunde combined. Keshi RIP really took some dodgy players sha. i'm just praying for joel to stay fit till then he will definitely go to russia. however that said i don't blame any national team coach who worries about him being fit during a tournament

forgiveness:
Joel Obi just came back from a very long injury when Keshi called him. He was not inform then but now he is in the form of his life. Let us take advantage of that by inviting him into the team.

my World Cup List of Sure Bankers (barring injuries) as of today

GOALKEEPER

1. Francis Uzoho (for now he takes the 3rd rookie spot)

DEFENDERS

2. Leon Balogun
3. Troost Ekong
4. Chidozie Awaziem (rookie spot)
5. Shehu Abdullahi
6. Tyronne Ebuehi (i'm satisfied with what i've seen of him)
7. Ola Aina (he's an upgrade on elderson that i'm sure of might still lose his starting position to brian idowu)

MIDFIELDERS

8. John Obi Mikel
9. Wilfred Ndidi
10. Ogenyi Onazi
11. John Ogu

STRIKERS

12. Victor Moses
13. Alex Iwobi
14. Kelechi Iheanacho
15. Odion Ighalo
16. Simon Moses

with the above mentioned list this leaves 7 positions to be filled. GKs really difficult to say who will take it. enyeama? ajiboye, ezenwa and alampasu to fight for the final 2 spots. DF i would like to go with 8 so two spots are left. brian idowu (want another look at him before i make up my mind), elderson, omeruo, uche agbo, efe ambrose to slog it out for the final 2 places. MID 5 players for me so one more spot left. joel obi, etebo, sone aluko, josh onomah? to battle for the sole spot. STK 7 attackers get my nod so 2 places left. kayode, onyekuru, ahmed musa, dessers, awoniyi? osimhen? bonaventure to slug it out for the final 2 spot

nigeria i think with a favourable draw can do quite well. senegal i think are the most star studded african team but i don't have much faith in their coach to get the best out of them but they are definitely capable. egypt has only salah. tunisians always flatter to deceive do well in qualifiers and collapse like a pack of cards in the main show. morocco? with herve renard they could spring a surprise

MetalJigsaw:
Hello guys.. Which African team do you think can perform most in the World Cup. Realistic predictions please

reasons KC is better than solanke.

1) KC has scored many international goals for nigeria while solanke can barely get a full cap let alone scoring.

2) KC has scored goals in the EPL and may likely add to it as for solanke he's not even playing games not to talk of scoring.

3) KC baring injuries is by God's grace going to the world cup. solanke baring injuries is going to be sat on his couch watching england play in russia

i agree that solanke is better in choosing kit colour while KC changed from wearing light blue to a darker shade of blue solanke has impressively changed from wearing a blue jersey on the bench to a red colored jersey on the bench

forgiveness:
Let me borrow una words 4 here. I get am before no be property.

Iheanacho is now a bench warmer in a relegated threatened club. Let us say the thruth.

Which market value Iheanacho wan get pass Tammy and Solanke? Oga, em value son dive nose pata pata.

Statically speak, Tammy is one of the top goal scorers in the EPL while Solanke is still in a better club than Iheanacho.

please don't insult udeze by grouping him with taiye taiwo. the only thing TT had going for him is his thunderous left foot and physicality. as a proper defender he was poor. if i had a dollar for everytime he was caught out of position i would be richer than dangote

Mujtahida:
Babayanro is easily our best LB of the modern era of Nigerian football. It's not even up for debate.
Taiye Taiwo and Udeze should be hugging each other. They are on the same level as far as performance in the Gwg is concerned.

TayserMahiri:
Do you even know 7s is part of Rugby Union? Or you just ranting

just pretend you didn't see me write full rugby union

quality post boss i would also add

NFF and Sports Ministry should as much possible be on the same page. no repeat of the team travelling fiasco that occurred before the rio olympics and cold war during the brazil 2014 World Cup. This is to avoid being a negative influence and undue distraction to the team.

Icon4s:
Further modified:

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NFF AND THE SUPER EAGLES COACHING CREW FROM MEMBERS OF THE NAIRALAND SUPER EAGLES FANS BASE.


We are ardent followers and supporters of the Super Eagles. Most of us may not make the trip to Russia, we cannot be with the coaching crew, we are not part of the NFF, neither can we kick the balls with the players. However, we can only make our little contribution by way of advice to the NFF and the Coaching crew.We believe firmly in the ability of this team to perform creditably well because we have both the footballing and administrative personnel to make it happen.

We are an assembly of fans who have seen the game for several decades and have followed it with burning passion all through the years. We have extensively X-rayed the reasons for the disappointing ends to our past World Cup outings and hence provided some tips for both the NFF and the coaching crew to look critically look into:

1. The need for the NFF to sort out issues of bonuses and players’ welfare on time: We sincerely appreciate the current effort being put in place by the NFF to ensure that bonuses and allowances issues are sorted out ahead of the World Cup. This is a commendable step towards avoiding players boycotting of training session as witnessed in the last World Cup.
2. Majority of the players who qualified the team should be kept. Only players who are better than the current crop should be added. Introducing too many new players had its negative effects in our 2002 and 2014 campaigns. The team should also be a good mix of youth and experience as we hope to achieve a balanced transition in the team even beyond Russia 2018. The best players should be selected devoid of favoritism.
3. Quality pre-World Cup warm up games: We have started with an excellent one with Argentina and should continue in that line. Perhaps a top European and or Asian Opposition would not be bad for us in March, 2018. We also expect high profile friendlies in window leading to the World Cup
4. Instilment of high level of discipline in the team: This is to curb “over-confidence”, lack of team play by some players, segregation in the team and excessive celebrations both on and off the pitch: These kind of attitude had negative effects in our past world cup outings.
5. Updated FIFA rules must be understood by players and coaches to avoid naïve situations. A simple case in time is with our goalie – Daniel Akpeyi in our most recent friendly against Argentina. Also the same Argentina used it against us at the 1994 World Cup. Ie Cladio Caniggia and Diego Maradona. Also players taking off jerseys to display inscriptions should be kicked against.
6. Our players should learn to react to tackles in such a way as to influence the ref’s decisions in our favor. We have been victims of influenced or lack of influenced referee’s decisions in past world cups. Eg Onazi’s tackle against France in 2014 World Cup would have been a Red Card for Matuidi if the Nigerian players close to the action had reacted appropriately. Brahimi would have been sent off if Shehu had gone down after being head butted amongst others.

We believe so much in this Team. The NFF and the entire coaching crew are doing a Super Job with the Super Eagles. We can only hope for the Super Eagles to Fly above all expectations come Russia 2018.

rugby 7s!? you might as well mention synchronized swimming too as a sport everyone cares about.

just stick to your athletics. you boasting about rugby 7s is if nigerians boasted about scrabble which is even better because we were at least former world champs.

please play the full rugby union if you guys are serious about the sport and not some watered down sissified version you keep trolling this thread with. just to also let you know american football which is a corrupted version of rugby has many nigerian americans who excel in the sport. so if we want to play rugby we will play it but like another poster said we don't care much for it

TayserMahiri:
Phew! Goalpost shifted! We are off to Teniis !! Obi, what is it? Every country in the World gives a shiet about Rugby, except that its not for sissies. Those countries that do well in the sport have REAL MEN. You must be really joking to give SA as an example of a country that excels well in a niche sport. SA is global power in SPORT, not even comparable to you. You should even be ashamed of yourself. Just google NICHE SPORTS and come back here with the answers like a good student tomorrow. You can also google top sports in the world. Thank you

Fantastic result real confidence boosting win. The boys should not get overconfident hard work starts now. So happy that brian tyrone prove their worth good one. Akpeyi Sha he makes ezenwa look like Buffon I really hope this is the last we see of him in the national team. But this our coach is so not tactical beating argentina by only four goals imagine!

hmmm a player who is yet to score and has barely featured for liverpool this season is about to be called up. what has he done to justify his inclusion? this is pure conspiracy infact gareth southgate and the FA have collected egunje! abi forgiveness

Joebie:
Nigeria Target Dominic Solanke Set To Get Eleventh-Hour Call-Up To England Senior Team
Published: November 10, 2017

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/football_pics/30073Solanke1.png
Photo: thefa.com

Nigeria Target Dominic Solanke Set To Get Eleventh-Hour Call-Up To England Senior Team Liverpool striker Dominic Solanke is set to be handed a late call-up to England senior national team ahead of Tuesday night's friendly against Brazil at the National Stadium in London, according to reports.

The Guardian UK, is reporting that Gareth Southgate is set to call up three under-21 forwards for the Brazil friendly, Demarai Gray, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Dominic Solanke to make up the numbers.

England have been hit by injuries ahead of tonight's glamour game against Germany, with Jordan Henderson, Jack Butland, Gary Cahill, Fabian Delph, Harry Winks, Dele Alli and Harry Kane pulling out of the squad.

It is thought Solanke will join up with the Three Lions upon his return to the England, after representing the U21 team in a European U21 Championship qualifier against Ukraine.

The 20-year-old, who is being monitored by the Nigerian Federation with a view to a call-up to the Super Eagles, could made his England debut two years after he first trained with the senior team.

Chelsea loanee Tammy Abraham is also set to play his first international game for England Men's national team within the next four days.

Igho Kingsley

--ANS

yeah saw it on the teams twitter page too

Magink:
Our guys are now in Constantine according to iwobi's snapchat.

yes you are right ''one size fits all'' approach will not serve us well. as you correctly stated marrying our different recruitment systems and fine tuning them is the way to go. my reply to komekn was just in response to his enquiries not saying we should solely rely on the u17 conveyor belt

Joebie:
My question to you is how many of these players have really had successful careers with the SE?
I'm not taking sides here, as I have also asked komekn how many players in diaspora have really come good for us?

Now let's marry our systems and you will see the wonderful thing we will keep assembling.
If we can get 5 players from our under-aged system, that will have long careers with SE eventually.
And we can find 5 outstanding players from the many in diaspora because of our thorough database and relationship building approach.
And also, we get 30 players from a solid domestic football structure. What we have here is the best from all fronts, continuously churning out talents after talents. Why abandon any of this system? The next Messi could have sprang from any of the 3 systems above. When you want excellence you go for the best wherever you can find them without sentiments. That's the right attitude to success. Find workable systems in all fronts and you will see how many talents will abound.

yes you are right you are only as good as your last game that said what you did in the past should also count for something

speaking specifically about Omeruo if he peaked at u17 level which was 2009 how come he bust into the scene in 2013? yes he hasn't progressed as well as expected of him but for the national team he was/is been quite good especially the period between 13/14. yes his club form wasn't great during that 14/15 timeline but you can't solely judge him on his club performance alone he was still doing well for nigeria before his terrible game for us against SA in uyo. since his decline in output for the super eagles he has been rightly left out. he was even placed on standby this time. if not for injuries he wouldn't have gotten recalled he also knows this is his last chance saloon

since 14/15 has dominic iorfa been outstanding? if he's consistently been good since then it would be madness to ignore him but he hasn't posted those kind of MOTM to my knowledge.

historically u17 has always been a good breeding ground for the super eagles hence the tendency to give them a chance to show case themselves. from ugbade to akpoborie to kanu to oruma to babayaro to opabunmi to rabiu ibrahim to iheanacho to alampasu and now osimhen cadet players have always been considered. if they are good enough they stay if not they are dropped and we move on

one more thing i'm not disputing that the NFF can do better in it's recruit of exceptional foreign born nigerian origin players but let's give them some slack they have done well in some regard. vicmo, ikeme, iwobi, ola aina, leon balogun, ekong just a few that were brought into the fold that have achieved great things for us

komekn:
Football is not about sentimental loyalty or emotive preference. That essentially enthrones mediocrity.

Let's be true, Omeruo is player that seems to have peaked at U17 level. Promised much bet delivered very little. He is a Chelsea player in name not in practice and will never smell the Chelsea team. Hence the indignity of having to train with the Chelsea U18 team.

Is he really the best we have When Dominic Iorfa was winning MOTM awards and best young player in the league in 2014 /15 Omeruo was playing for Middlesbrough. He didn't have an outstanding season. If we are to compare the two of them who would you rather have. If sentimental loyalty is removed and objective measurement used there is no competition.

So why is Omeruo there, can we assume that your relationship with the NFF powers that be, maybe paramount in maintaining your position. I wonder

There is a trend that's becoming irrefutable. That is that golden Eagles youth players have first option and consideration to the SE. It's not based on present continous consistent performances or improvement but past youth football glories.

That trend was seen with Osimhen, Nwakali, Succes, Agu, Awazeim, and others waiting in the wings.

The Golden standard is that transgresses all national football associations is that your club performance is the basis for selection with very few exceptions. That's not the standard we use.

agu and ogu play different positions so it would be erroneous to compare the two. that said this is another chance for mikel agu to prove his doubters wrong of which i'm one of them. if he flubs his chance we simply move on

MetalJigsaw:
How many more" fair chance does he need to prove himself after all his poor displays whenever he comes in for Mikel Obi in about three occasions. I see no single ability that guy posesses and yet he plays while a while John Ogu is on the bench.

Do you really think he's better than Ogu?

What abilities does that Mike Agu have mire than Ogu that perhaps I haven't noticed yet despite the fact that I've watched him play on three occasions for the SE? enlighten me pls.

he deserves a fair chance if he's not quality we move on

MetalJigsaw:
please remove that Mike Agu from your list. That guy is a -1

my line up for game against algeria

1. Akpeyi
2. Ebuehi
3. Ekong
4. Balogun
5. Aina
6. Mikel Agu
7. Etebo
8. Mikel Obi
9. Onyekuru
10. Iwobi
11. Iheanacho

subs: Ogu for mikel obi so iwobi will move into the AM position and etebo moves to the LW position. later musa for onyekuru. then final sub kayode for iwobi so kc will play behind the main striker.

reasons for my starting XI

1. Akpeyi gets the nod so we can get another look at him to see if he has improved plus ezenwa hasn't been playing due to the end of the NPFL league so he might be match rusty
2. i want to see how good a DM agu is the algerians will surely test him besides ndidi deserves some rest
3. KC needs game and confidence so he gets the top 9 nod for me

my thoughts on how the algeria game will likely pan out

1. i expect the algerians to seriously test our young fullbacks. will be interesting to see how disciplined and flexible they can be to cope with pressure. also like to see how much of a defensive shift iwobi and especially onyekuru put in.

2. raber madjer is an algerian and african football legend but i don't know much about his coaching ability plus its been a while he has coached at top level. i don't expect much tactically from him will probably just set his players up in the formation they are most comfortable with( which necessarily doesn't mean the best for them) and give them the ol' blood and guts inspirational speech.

3. as per the result mickeal2 said nigeria would probably lose. true it could happen but i doubt it because for the algerians to win it presupposes that they will shut out our attack. their defence is the worst in our group they have conceded an average of 2 goals per game. no amount of patriotic zeal or fervour will transform a fundamentally weak defence overnight. i see the game ending in a 1-1 or 2-2 draw

forgiveness stop lying gbenga okunowo was invited during his time at barca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Okunowo

i know you will try to worm your way out by saying he was with benfica but the fact of the matter is that he was on their books whether he was sent on loan or not. i have highlighted what you wrote. gbenga had 8 caps for nigeria he played twice in 1997 and once in 1998 which falls under his time at barcelona
https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/14509/Samuel_Okunowo.html

forgiveness:
From what I deduced from this is that few individuals have personal interest in the super eagles and at the same time there is personal vendetta against some set of players by these few individuals which as result, is at the detriment of National interest.

Can you please explain what played out against these set of players that didn't get invitation to the national team as at that moments they played for bigger clubs or in a better league?

Why was Gbenga Okunowo never invited to the national team during his time at Barcelona despite been part of the team that won the league that year?

Why was Lukeman Haruna ignored for two sessons during his time at Monaco? We know he was called for a friendly which he only played for 12 minutes. The world cup he went to was due to the injury mikel substained else he for no smell am(arrange thing). Why was he still ignored after the world cup despite helping Monaco to get to the final of Coupe de france? Why was he ignored despite playing regular with a top club like Dynamo Kyve that was regular in champions league and Europa league for 3 good seasons?


Why was Some aluko never invited when he was obviously the best player for Rangers in the Scottish League? With all his exploit he has not been capped for more than 5 times.


Time will not permit me to to mention all the players they allowed to fizzle out for players like Chidiebere Nwakali.

Please kindly explain. Thanks

bless you brother for this post. you completely read my mind. richard owubokiri was even playing in a more prestigious club (boavista) than yekini but was ignored. ike uche best nigerian striker in europe before the last world cup in brazil but was ignored

Kog45:
If i can understand you very well you believe one section in this country were being treated unjustly when it comes to invitation to the national team.I just guess,so am not tagging you a tribal guy because you are expressing your view.

I don't think there is anything like that and if you want to look it at critically,truly invitations to national team should be based on merits but sometimes we see a player in the team that warrant question,my man it happens and only coach can explain.

Good you mentioned Gbenga Okunowo case when he was doing well at Barcelona meaning you want us to go to memory lane to discuss this issue.I can tell you a lot of players that find themselves in such situations in national team, some find their way forcefully some couldn't get invitations.

1.I believe you remember Richard Owubokiri, this was a player that paint Europe with goals,highest goalscorer in the whole in the whole Europe but find it difficult to get invitation. He was forced on Westerhoff against South Africa and in that match he had a goal.This great player was substituted and never get a call up again.

2.Mike Obiku was a very good player doing it well with Feyenord in dutch league scoring goals but couldn't make it to the national team,his exploit in dutch league can only be rival by Finidi George but this guy was not given chance,may be few caps.

3.Chris Ohenhen was one of the greatest Nigeria striker in LA liga history scoring goals for compostella every season but find it difficult to get invitation made just few appearances for Eagles, the rest is history.

4.Godwin Opara was a very good CB playing in French league for Strasbourg later PSG but did you know Godwin forced his way into the team prior to France 98 after being denied the opportunity for so long with Nigeria preferred using average CB like Uche Okafor,Isaac Semitoje.

5.Karibe Ojigwe was a perfect DM/CM having a good time then with Karlsruhe later Bayern Leverkusen but did you know what,this guy was denied invitation despite doing well but a very average player like Garba Lawal was getting invitation with coaches telling us he was playing to instructions.

6.James Obiorah was a mercurial player,marvellous to watch,very skillful and highly rated youngster who was denied invitation when it matter most.This guy saved Nigeria qualifications to Atlanta 96 with stunning free kick just two minutes to the end of that particular match i can't really recollect the match.

Did you know Obiorah was forced to be invited for that match but after the match no invitation again until a Jamaica match prior to France 98,he put on a superlative performance but was dropped. It was this frustration that forced him to make a confession prior to 2002 W/C that national team coaches are collecting bribes, he came into the team and displaced Wilson Oruma.

7.Benjamin Nzeakor a very good winger in his days but couldn't get the call when necessary one of the very few Nigerians to play in Brazilian league.

8.Uwem Ekarika good winger in his days but couldn't smell national team like others who are not better than him,very few caps.

9.James Etokebe a good winger who was doing well but not giving much chance in eagles to impress.

10.Kalu Uche the senior bro of Ike Uche find it so hard to break into Eagles,though he later did but that was at the later end of his career.A lot don't know that Kalu was the best player at COJA but was denied invitation despite doing well every season in Europe until he find his way and appeared at 2010W/C scoring two goals.

11.Ajibade Babalade had a great appearance at Senegal 92 paring Keshi at the CB better than Uche Okafor but after Afcon he find it difficult to get into the team .

12.Chidi Nwanu was doing well in Europe and was the best Nigeria CB playing for Anderlecht but Westerhoff denied him invitation preferring even player like Isaac Semitoje,he gatecrashed into US 94 when it was obvious that his presence was needed in the team.

Honestly we have a lot of them and is not based on where you come from,it happens and only coach can gives reasons because sometimes is a puzzle for fans seeing certain player doing well and not getting invitation.

forgiveness:
After the save he could not stand up as quickly as possibly because em bi like the truck we nak put for floor.

Ezenwa na bad market. I will rather have Uzoho at post because he will give rest of mind.

please let someone knee you in the chest then let us know if you will be able to move normally for one week

tglobal:
Chrisooblog,

The criteria is one or the other. If you don't meet the first criterion you must meet the other

go and read his original post he said two things are involved meaning both points are interlocked if he had mentioned only point 1 then given a caveat for example if you don't meet the criteria for point number one then ppoint number 2 will come into play. Don't mind forgiveness he knows he can't answer the question because if he does he will be exposed are speaking from both sides of his mouth

you didn't see the ball that he saved on the goal line when the cameroonian striker almost killed him or all those shots he saved from distance against cameroon and zambia? ok o

isan:
He was tested against cameroon away he failed woefully and cost us 2 precious point

answer your question and stop dodging

forgiveness:
Answer question and stop the obvious pranks.

if point 1 is the only criteria that mattered you would have put a caveat but you didn't you don use your own padlock trap yourself for the benefit of people so they won't forget what you said

1. playing in the top 10 best leagues in the world
[b]2. playing for the best clubs either in the top 10 or outside

so based on the bolded does ajagun play for the best club in belgium? simple yes or no

forgiveness:
If Belgium is in the top ten best leagues in the world, don't you think he falls into the first category?

Two thinks are involved not one and there is no third option.