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nice one OP great memories lol i remember this story when growing up. so adenikan turned the tables on them? always thought they beat him agbaya somebories.

always admired such athletes like olapade should have won a gold in the 4x100 relay in the 1997 world championship if not for the great canadian runner donovan bailey who came out of no where to win it for them in the last leg.

really sad at the state of nigerian T&F particularly the 100m. remember how in the 90s both for men and women at least one athlete would surely get to the finals be it olympics or world champs but if we get to semis na miracle.

but why are not tapping from the knowledge of these guys? we have the ezinwa brothers, olapade adenikan, chidi imoh, mary onyali, falilat ogunkoya, etc yet nigerian athletics is now like this? doesn't add up.

naptu2:
[size=14pt]Olapade Adeniken and Dennis Mitchell fight in Zurich hotel[/size]

From the New York Times.



http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/20/sports/20iht-ian_1.html

TRIPOB? *facepalm*

etebo's 2nd goal against japan was assisted by shehu. i think you meant the first goal against japan that sadiq scored. 50% i can't say but if that be the case i can also say sadiq was involved in 60% of our goals.

ezekiel was decent but i'm just questioning the criteria why he can be considered and not sadiq for the national team since their performances were comparatively the same

Icon4s:
In case of Imoh Ezekiel, we all know his primary duty was not the Centre Forward role but you know how offensive he was on the wings. He was involved in nearly 50% of our goals in this tourney. Recall Sadiq's first goal against Japan came off from a rebound from his short. He also made the cross for Etebo's first goal to make it 2-1 against Japan. I would join them in saying Imoh is ripe for the Super Eagles but Sadiq is not.

sir icon4s no doubt sadiq has room for improvement in his game but i'm just surprised at the amount of criticism the boy is getting.

that's why i called it beef. take for example imoh ezekiel didn't score a single goal yet he is fantastic, super eagles quality. sadiq scored 4 times yet he should stay far away from the senior national team 'he scored 4 times so what is he not a professional?'. sadiq was poor against germany 'o he's rubbish the most useless player that ever liveth' imoh ezekiel too didn't do much against the germans o yet deafening silence. against honduras sadiq scored twice 'o he was wasteful why didn't he score more so the game would have been put to bed?' as if he's also the defender that allowed the hondurans to score. imoh ezekiel despite numerous chances against the customer dada ni defence of honduras couldn't score yet he is praised.

different styles or not good players are good players. lewandowski is not as skilful as messi or as fast as ronaldo but the guy na goal king. who style don epp? no be to put goal for net be the main issue?

Icon4s:
My brother it is no beef. The thing is different people like different strikers for different reasons.

Taking our minds back to Rashidi Yekini era. Though he was regarded as the African King of goals, but, there were people who still did not like Yekini's style. They so much for instance commonised his goal against Bulgaria at the 1994 world cup; referring it as a mere tap-in. They hailed Amokachi more who made the assist. Yekini was not much of a skillful and smart movement striker but he sure knew where the back of the net was. May His Soul Rest in Peace.

Sadiq Umar for me did creditably well.
He just needs to work on his foot-work. While Kanu Nwankwo's legs were and advantage to him, Sadiq's long legs are still a disadvantage. He needs to sot-out that problem.

For his age he did well.

men the kind of beef sadiq is getting all this after scoring 4 goals o even though this is his first proper tournament football. someone who aside 2 or 3 seria A matches has been playing youth football. just because he (along with their favourites o) didn't perform magic against the germans. the same germans most of the overhyped brazilians players couldn't score against if not for the magic of neymar.

sadiq is not too far from the super eagles should just keep his head down, work hard and improve his game.

you are being unduly harsh on sadiq. yes the german game wasn't his best but the young man gave his all like goodjoe said he had to do double work pressing while at the same time trying to hold up play. it's not like he had a stinker in his previous games infact so far in this olympic football tournament he has been one of our better performers. cut him some slack he will get better.

Ekong like i said earlier has improved massively will definitely stake a claim for a starting xi shirt in the super eagles.

not yet sure if azubuike has displaced onazi yes he has a better passing range but defence shielding ability needs work.

yes amuzie was poor defensively surprise surprise but his attacking forays were decent excluding the poor german game. i'm really worried about the leftback in the super eagles cos madu if who we all thought was better than amuzie couldn't displace him in the u23s who do we now use? taiwo? not so sure osaniwa maybe.

Mickael2:
I agree with everything else you said except these.
Sadiq Umar did not start well and did not end well. we were just lucky that our AMF covered him then, when Mikel who is.not a goalscorer moved into that AMF position we saw just how good he was. AS Roma is not known for developing strikers either, they play more with wingers and tall strikers for crosses alone but the issue is that this slow guy can't even nod the ball. he missed a clear header too. I am not even looking in his direction at all.

No, he won't give Onazi a run for his money, he.has already displaced Onazi. he is vying for the spot with Ndidi right now, Onazi should just is more like a squad player now.

Did we watch the same Stanley Amuzie? the guy is not better than Madu and Taiwo is currently the top scorer for his club in Finland so he should get another run in.

We have Odubajo who is.by far the best option we have there. Sheri was not comfortable in attack at all. He was defensively solid but modern football requires attacking fullback.

Troost Ekong should not be a replacement for either, he is better than both of them. with Awaziem coming up too we might just have some decent defenders for the first time in a long while.

Recheck, after he came on, we didn't even cross the centre circle again. he brought zero creativity to the game just that the fans liked his stature and probably confused him for Ezekiel.

Sincere was absolutely brilliant considering his lack of experience. he is very very fast and calm. he can dribble out of defence, he is just like Pique without the errors. He is a modern day ball playing CB and if he moves to a good club, expect something big from him.

cantona that failed to qualify france for usa94? sorry his opinion doesn't hold water for me. a 'talentless water carrier'' would never have played for top clubs like marseille or juventus or lasted so long in a very talented french team that had players like patrick veira, emmanuel petit.

roy keane just a thug? i doubt you watched him play in his prime

goldfish80:
Let's not go into individual assessment. Forget about what the teams they played in won.

Cantona once described Deschamps as a rather talentless "water carrier" whose job was just to win the ball back and pass to better players.

Roy Keane was just a thug. Sorry

bros abeg don't insult deschamps and roy keane those two gentlemen were ballers and not brainless meatheads you are making them out to be. without roy keane man united may never have won the treble plus deschamps was an integral part of the dominant french team of the late 90s and 2000s

goldfish80:
It appears you love the stereotype type old school DFM with little or no footballing brains, whose stuck in trade is to kick lumps out of the opposite players because they want to shield their defence.
Players like Didier Deschamps, Roy Keane, Conte, Eric Ejiofor, Azubuike Olishe etc...

DFM these days are judged by interception and their passing stats. And Xhaka owned both Pogba and Cabaye when they faced off at the Euros. Pogba had to tear his shirt at a point.
Am not sure Dortmond can afford him at £34m. He will certainly get games at Bayern since Xabi is on the wane and Pep already converted Martinez to a defender.

96 atlanta olympics

amunike was playing in sporting lisbon top portugese club

kanu was in ajax dutch league champions

victor ikpeba was in monaco top ligue 1 team

babayaro was in top belgian club anderlect when belgian league was still top class

taribo west played for auxerre in france

sunday oliseh koln in germany

amokachi everton, okocha frankfurt, tijani babanginda roda jc just to mention a few

so it's not too suprising we were able to match the brazilians and argentines

goldfish80:
It's not a new thing. Our players have always played in European backwater leagues.
Even our celebrated 94 squad. Almost all of them bar 3-4 played in what you can consider a top European team. Yet they competed at the level they did against the Italians, Bulgarians and Argentina.
Someone like Eguavoen was even clubless at that time.

Amunike was playing in Zamalek.

Okechukwu was playing in Turkey.

Yekini at Asec. Even Victoria Setubal he later transferred to was a yo-yo team in Portugal.

Peter Rufai was not even the first choice at Go ahead eagles.

Thomson oliha was at Africa sports in Ivory coast

Emeka Ezeugo was playing somewhere in Eastern Europe.

These guys competed and made us proud against world class opposition.
Personally, there is no way we can explain away the shambolic performance we put up that night. There's simply no excuse.

chai really had hopes for odun

but patriotism aside if our athletes had mistakenly won many medals (think the football team will win bronze) we would be passing a message to our youth that unseriousness and incompetence trumps hardwork and planning

olapluto:
It looks like Nigeria will not win any medals at this Olympics confirmed. Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong even before they left Nigeria.
Football team will complete the heartbreak on Saturday. If the trend is anything to go by, then dream team will lose to Honduras.

and i'm also saying that our players are poor in comparison to these germans you mentioned

Ekong our best defender plays in norway. only this season has his defensive game improved

amuzie plays for one division two portugese club like that

sincere seth national league player not even NPFL

shehu aminu plays in turkey and is not a natural rightback

usman mohammed recent NPFL player who just moved to rosenborg in norway

azubuike plays for a division two club in turkey

aminu umar plays for a mid-table club in turkey

imoh ezekiel played on loan for a club in belgium signed to a qatari club

sadiq umar who did his best leading the line AS roma youth team player. played a handful of seria a games last season has only just been called up to the first team proper for upcoming campaign for roma

even mikel that is our talisman is not assured of a first team place in chelsea

so my brother khaki no be leather as much the players we faced are not the elite of german football most of the ones we paraded are still far from their level. you can not compare competition in the bundesliga to ones in turkey, norway NPFL etc

goldfish80:
We make out this German team we played like they are juggernauts which they are not atleast individually.

Serge Gnabry : This boy has played little or no football over the last 2 seasons,due to injury. Last season, his cumulative minutes while on loan at West Bromwich Albion was 90 minutes.
He was grossly over weight and Tony Pulis binned him. Upon his recall by arsenal in January, he made no appearances for Arsenal.

I have talked about the Bender twins previously.

Their captain Max mayer didn't exactly rip the bundesliga up last season. He was expected to step up for Schalke when they sold Julian Draxler to wolvesburg but he didn't really do that. It was rather the rookie Leroy Sane who came into the team from their academy and made a huge impact,earning him a call up to the Euros and a big money move to Manchester City.
Make no mistake, Max mayer is a top prospect but that's just were it is at the moment.

Mathias Ginter, another prospect. At freiburg he was highly rated but since his move to Dortmond, he has been inconsistent. Papadopulous and Hummels are the choice paring for Tuchel. They have already bought Matt Bartra from Barcelona so he would not be getting much playing time this season either.

One of their scorers on the night Pedersen is a one sharp striker. I rate him highly, I. Can't believe he is still at Freiburg, although he is yet to be capped by the national team at 27yrs.
This is a German team that has a semi retired Podolski and Mario Gomez,a retired Klose. Yet he is yet to get a look in, that should tell you they Germans don't rate him as much as I do.

To be quite honest, I have not watched Julian Brandt closely to make a judgement.

The rest of the boys we played are youth team players and liga 2 players.

My point is that we did not really face really world class players if you thoroughly analysie the Germans player for player.
Let's stop making it out like we faced some juggernauts who Wed should not even stand a chance against.

bro i understand your frustration with the teams performance but let's be fair patriotism aside did we really expect to beat the germans? man for man most of their players are better than ours and like goodjoe said the strategy the germans employed completely nullified our threat. even if we had a plan B we don't have the players available to have executed such a plan. truth be told considering how jumbled our preparations were with siasia's head scratching player selections plus NFF/dalung show of shame it's even a mini miracle that we are in a position to play for a bronze. let's just continue to support the boys to win the bronze because sadly the way things are going in rio that may be the only medal nigeria brings back.

bros you are too harsh on sadiq yes he had a poor game yesterday but how much supply did he get yesterday? plus he has been running himself ragged leading the line. not to forget in the absence of etebo the high line pressing responsibilities that have fallen on his young shoulders. also note that he doesn't have many years of professional football under his belt so he can still improve. at least he even made an effort what about the walking statue impersonator ajayi? honestly we would have been better off going to the amazon forest to cut down a tree and station it upfront atleast the branches on the tree would make some movement.

your opinion on the rest of the guys you mentioned is spot on.

will give my final verdict on the team after the olympics ends.

goldfish80:
Please let's leave out sentiments and scrutinize what we saw before our very own eyes.
I understand your sympathy with the team because of the problems they faced enroute to Brazil but we are way Pass that now because we have played 4 solid games since.

First of all, I think the team missed Etebor and Azubuike. Especially Azubuike. Siasia's refusal to make substitutions when the game against Denmark already wrapped up bite him at the end.
A clear parallel line could be drawn relatively to Azubuike getting booked and missing his game to the catastrophic performance we dished out today.

You can see the German coach making substitutions early to save his better players when the game was won.

Ndifreke Udoh was a total disaster today. He couldn't string simple passes to save his life.

Usman Mohammed, the less said about him the better. He was a passenger all through the game. Couldn't make any angle whatsoever to receive the ball and link the midfield to the attack.

Sadiq Umar in my opinion, is in the wrong sport. I feel he will do better as a basketball player. It was funny watching him atimes. He has the footwork of a giraffe, whoever compared him to Kanu must be insane.

Amuzie was just horrible. His has the technic of a 4yr old. His clownish free kick attempt was pure comedy gold.

In the end, the team played like they were a bunch of strangers who just met at the car park and decided to walk into the pitch and play.
There's no positive whatsoever I can cull from this performance. Rant over, Sorry.

just seeing this now i'm an arsenal fan but this sh-- is hilarious

raumdeuter:
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oga goodjoe abeg free forgiveness if not this argument will continue till millennia.

forgiveness we agree na u dey siasia back 100% infact you don pack voltron in front of him house

to the colombia game i was mainly looking out for the performances of our replacements in the starting xi. sadly they didn't perform up to scratch ugo was poor defensively and didn't offer anything going forward. aminu umar with due respect to his career why does he keep getting invited to national team camps? i mean seriously akpeyi tried but his tendency to rush out indiscriminately and poor long ball distribution put us sometimes on the back foot. madu was surprisingly for me out of sorts however i trust his qualities to come good. popoola for me was the biggest disappointment despite all the hype surrounding his performance against brazil in that friendly. he looks another rabiu ibrahim clone to me. all flash no substance pray i'm wrong.

oh ok still proud of her achievement

olapluto:
Ukogu is in classification. Nigerian sports journalists are lazy bones. smh. She lost her Quarter final and no way she could have made the semi finals A or B.

super proud of chierika ukogu, aruna quadri and d'tiger really did us proud

does anyone have definitive info on ukogu? cos i'm hearing conflicting stories that she's not in the semis but will race instead in a classification round.

quadri was just awesome beating two higher ranked players in a row no be beans. no shame in losing to the world number #1. might have gotten a medal if the draws were favourable.

d'tigers were great last night despite the loss. watched the game live. we really matched the lithuanians even outscored them in 3 of the 4 quarters. unfortunately the blow out in the 3rd quarter was too much for the d'tigers to make up in the 4th. still worried about their chances of making it out of the group but supporting them nonetheless.

hi great people been a while i posted here first of big kudos to all the posters keeping this thread lively. really glad the dream team is doing so well after their shaky preparations and stranded in atlanta brouhaha. for our last match siasia might be in the dilemma if he should field the same starting xi to maintain momentum which is important in a tournament football competition like this but i would rather he rest our more important players like sadiq umar, etebo and mikel. the defence line can be left alone to continue to gel. would like to see popoola, ajayi, aminu umar and kingsley madu start in the colombia match so we can see what they have to offer.

lets all (players, coaches and fans alike) stay positive and humble. take each game as it comes.

side note but meeeennnnn! sadiq and etebo be ballers o! and to think this team is missing the likes of iwobi, iheanacho, success, ndidi etc yet can still produce shows how bright the future is for the super eagles

Team Nigeria news our sole Representative In the women's rowing Event this afternoon posted an impressive performance to finish 3rd and qualify for the quarterfinals

spot on rating. only adjustment i would have made is to give the lowest rated player a 5 considering the circumstances the players went through they are all heroes.

joseph1013:
[b][size=14pt]Player Ratings.. Nigeria 5-4 Japan: Sadiq Umar Dazzles, Four Goals Man Etebo Man Of The Match[/size]

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The Nigeria U-23s started their campaign at the Rio 2016 Olympics by edging a 9 goal thriller 5-4, to move to the top of their group despite arriving Rio, few minutes to the game.

Owngoalnigeria.com, brings to you ratings based on how the players fared, done by our expert in match analysis.

Emmanuel Daniel: Made some decent saves but conceded four times, although can be excused for at least two of the goals including the penalty, Still not a good thing for a goalkepper to pick the ball out of his net four times….5/10

Seth Muenfuh: A full back playing as a central defender and as expected looked lost in the role, came up strong in the second half but still lacked the discipline of a centre back….5.5/10

Shehu Abdullahi: Won more tackles than any defender in green for Nigeria but still wasn’t adventurous enough, was also caught out of position couple of times in the game with one of such occasion leading to a goal for the Japanese….5/10

Stanley Amuzie: Struggled to cope with the pace of the Japanese on the right, gave away the penalty from which Japan leveled scores to 1-1, a very poor showing from the highly rated left back….4/10

William Troost Ekong: Failed to control the backline despite been the only central defender in the defender, twice lost his man which lead to goals for the Japanese, shoulld have done better….5/10

John Obi Mikel: Captain of the team, came close to scoring with a left foot effort, kept it simple with neat touches, tired out before the end of the game, obviously struggled from jet lag, no thanks to their late arrival….5.5/10

Azubuike Okechukwu: Full of Energy and quick to turn defence into attack, put in a tireless shift all night long, unlucky not to be on the score sheet….6.5/10

Usman Mohammed: By his standard had an average showing, the former FC Taraba man didn’t do enough defensive job and was guilty of venturing far into the opponent box, which gave Japan enough space to exploit….5.5/10

Imoh Ezekiel: What a performance, strong, good on the ball and can also hit it very well when presented with a chance, his spilled effort was tapped in by Sadiq Umar for Nigeria’s first…..6.5/10

Ogenekaro Etebo: Four goals, which include a penalty says it all, truly a delight on the night, by far the best player on the pitch for both sides,should get a 10/10 but for greed sake, we keeping one for ourselves….9/10

Sadiq Umar: “New Kanu” , although he loves it when he is called “Jololo” , scored and created two goals, hold up play about the best Nigeria has seen in a player in a while, the AS Roma start is surely a star in the making….8/10

Substitutes:

Kingsley Madu: First substitute introduced for Usman Mohammed to help shore up the Nigeria backline with scores at 5-3, but was no where close when Japan got their fourth goal of the game….4/10

Ndifreke Udoh: Replaced Ezekiel but didn’t do enough to justify his inclusion, although he did some defending for the team….4/10

Sadiq Popoola: Came in for Mikel Obi and the petit midfielder who provokes comparism with French midfielder Mathieu Valuebuena, helped in keeping possession for Nigeria with some neat and deft touches….5/10

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man is beyond shameless it's just my church mind restraining me from hurling abuses at the man-o-war wanabee

safarigirl:
I hope i'm not the only one who woke up to this shamelessness this morning

The nerve of that man! Releasing an idiotic speech about being proud of a team you washed your hands off of more or less. These are the kind of people Sango and Amadioha are supposed to be striking even in their graves!


The shamelessness of this release is a slap on the face of every right thinking Nigerian. The only people that should be celebrating the U23 are DELTA Airlines and the USA, in fact, we shpuld even link up the Nigerian U23 to the US Olympic Team and if they win a medal, it should be listed under Team USA's medals.

Both Dalung and the daft monkey that gave him the position of Sports Minister should go and die

hi house proud Gunners fan don't comment on this thread but i do drop in to read various comments from time to time. big ups to everyone fans and foes alike for keeping this place lively.

been tough following the Arsenal especially these past 10-12 years hopefully our luck will turn soon.

lol you still remember. for all it's worth kanu is a top bloke best belated birthday wishes to him

Okocha is still boss sha

raumdeuter:
I remember someone was once arguing Kanu vs Okocha with me

On this Papilo's 40th birthday enjoy this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LUjMNbV4M

bruv i also enjoy abit of wwe wrestling now and then but i know its scripted kinda like watching an exciting action film. you know it's make believe but you enjoy it all the same. that said wrestlers put their bodies through rough punishment. most of the moves are real and can legit injure or even kill if executed wrongly

Kenekene1:
Why are u guys just trying soo.. hard to prove it's all acting

Just like in other sports, you need training. WWE wrestlers undergo training too. There are rules guiding each sport, same too with WWE.


So, please stopping trying so hard to disprove this sport.

And for d Olympics, amatuer wrestling is what is allowed plus I can bet you that the WWE company makes so much money that they don't need to participate in the Olympics.

You could have asked why F1 racing, golf, kick boxing etc aren't been allowed in the Olympics

Maybe u will say dey are acting too.

complain complain complain moan moan moan yet nigerians like you who did not contribute one kobo to these athletes want them to perform magic. mikel is useless yet you quickly forgot he was part of our AFCON 2013 team that won the trophy. if you must criticize atleast have the decency to encourage our athletes who are working under difficult conditions

livinbygrace:
Nothing good can come out from the useless team Nigeria...Since dat boy call Mikel join Super Eagle,Nigerian performance has been reduced to nothing or zero...I miss the days of Okocha,Yekini,Amokachi,Amunike..Not this over hyped player.

bros NFF are many things but i seriously doubt they will force coaches to field certain players. was it NFF that said he should not start iheanacho, iwobi or onazi? siasia is too involved in marketing some of his players so his objectivity in selecting our best legs is suspect

Mickael2:
he didn't really botch the match. I understand that his selections were funny but he was not under any contract, and we all know what the NFF is all about, they may have hand-picked them for him and since he does not have a contract,he does not have a say. This is simple. Until he messes up at the Olympics proper, I will still believe he is good, he did win the U23 with local lads from academies not even NPFL teams

4 months ago i would have agreed with you but the way he botched the egypt match especially the away one plus his current mis-handling of the olympic team has seriously eroded my faith and trust in him

Mickael2:
If you ask me,then Siasia has done nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing, he has just been a victim of bad circumstances. The first time, our qualification had already been messed up, he came and if not for some school boy errors and misses we would have qualified(you really need to watch that Guinea game again). Under Siasia we outplayed our opponents hands down, we beat Argentina, and even when they got their starts together, it was a howler by Mikel that and Aiyenugba that cost us the game. For me right now, Siasia is the best local coach we have, maybe soon Amunike will join, but we saw what happened to Manu, so I maintain that Siasia will be the best local coach on a long term plan.

honestly i'm in a quandary as to this annoying super eagles coach issue. in an ideal situation i would prefer a young ambitious foreign coach in the mold of bruno metsu, rene hevard, etc but unfortunately we are far from an ideal situation so local coach it is. but can we entrust salisu with such a sensitive assignment? hmm i no know ooo when we went for keshi and amodu of blessed memory atleast they had experience but salisu just has assistant to his belt. maybe like someone suggested we should go for one serbian they have thick skin (to put up with the nff and their bs) and they are quite tactical

http://www.cracked.com/article_20139_6-bizarre-factors-that-predict-every-presidential-election_p6.html

And on a light hearted note

tough group can only see the d'tigers realistically standing a chance against croatia and lithuania. group A would have been so ideal china serbia australia venezuela? we could easily have copped two wins from this lot but no use crying over spilt milk #Letsgodtigers

isaiah9:
The full groups

yes we have some exciting prospects in the women athletes but they only look good enough to make their respective finals without getting a medal. although ese brume could spring a surprise she had greatly improved. blessing if she can wisely choose which event she would most likely do well in she should conserve her energies for such an event cus doing 4 events no be beans

for the men i'm so sad at the lack of top quality athletes. ogunlewe looks promising though as well as antwon hicks hopefully they can make the final of their respective events

olapluto:
Athletics prospects:
Men
1. Divine Oduduru making semi final will be a great acheivement in the 200m. He seems to step up on the big stage.
2. The two triple jumpers are good. I think Tosin will make finals. Olu may push for final too. Two Nigerian in the final is the best we can hope for.
Verdict: NO MEDAL for Nigerian Male athletes in RIO.

Women:
ALL our women will be exciting to watch. The weakest may be the 400m hurdles, but seriously the remaining are all exciting.
Relays.. we may make final of the 4 x 100m relay, while we are one of the top 5 in the 4x400m.

forgiveness like you am a fan of awoniyi and believe he will eventually turn out to be a very good striker but let's call a spade a spade and not just a farm implement. awoniyi lately in comparison to his peers like isaac success, iheanacho, osimhen ect has been poor. his goal conversion rate in constrast to how many goal scoring opportunities he has is not good i must confess. football is a results based business so we cannot continue to wait on one guy hoping he will come good after numerous chances given to him. i think awoniyi needs to be dropped from the olympic team so he can go improve his game.

forgiveness:
Do you know that in the same U15, Taiwo Awoniyi was once voted the Most Valuable Player at a Coca-Cola football competition in London 2010 ahead of Kelechi Iheanacho and Chidera Ezeh?

Kelechi Iheanacho was benched by Ibrahim Alhassan during the qualifiers that led to the CAF U17 2013. Even, after Ibrahim Alhassan was lost his place in the team due to MRI Bernard Bulbwa still benched Kelechi Iheanacho.

It was until tafter they left Kelechi Iheanacho then took his chances. Such is life.


Is link up play is bad but he assisted 5 times during the U17 FIFA World Cup. Kontinue.

yes enyeama's return would be great but that will still not solve our leaky defence. as world class as peter cech is he couldn't perform miracles with the poor czech defence at the euros. so if our defenders don't improve seriously drafting vincent won't solve the situation.

yes kayode deserves a look in hopefully the nff will use the dead rubber tie against tanzania to call him and other hopefuls

Mickael2:
God will continue to bless you. A good defence without a good goalkeeper is dead! A good goalkeeper is not just about saves, it is about being able to coordinate your defence. Right now we do not have a good defence leader, a strong guy who will spank you if you make a mistake and always keep you on your toes, hence we need Enyeama right now. Omeruo seems like he will develop into such a player but he is not yet there, so bring back Enyeama.

And no be today I start that Kayode talk