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mostob:
Scaloni did his homework. He is a perfect definition of a tactically astute coach. I was feeling nervous some minutes before the match but after watching the first 10 minutes, I was confident of Argentina's win.

Man U fans no allow us hear word cos of their shortie that was benched

jihday:
just like our players our coaches have zero ambition, nothing stopping a fatai osho or Fidelis from joining a club in Africa to make their cv more beautiful but they’ll rather stay in their comfort zone. Our recently retired players? Those ones are worst, Joseph Yobo was forced to take up a spot in our technical crew he still refused to go for his coaching badges, aside Utaka I don’t know any former player trying to make his name as a coach while other Africans are trying to start a career, Kolo Toure is now Wigan’s coach while his brother Yaya is with Conte at Tottenham , Benny McCarty is Manchester United’s striker coach, Elneny have already started his UEFA coaching course but our players are no where to be found. You see why we’ll either continue to employ 3rd grade foreign coaches or we’ll manage our Amunike like that

They probably are too myopic in thinking.

It is not a must to get that badge and then settle for a Nigerian job. Infact it is sweeter outside. The Late Keshi did it and they ran begging to him. If they are respected for the exploits gotten from coaching outside, nobody back home will write them off. Besides, they can pull a Herve Renard on any highest bidder as they like, all under a decade.



BUT.......

Make Micheal B Jordan just use 500k dollars as investment in a Nigerian club abeg. Plateau United, Sunshine Stars, yunno. Or Even Half in a NWFL team. Omo!!

mostob:
It's a special natural technique. It's in-born.

No o. Someone can train for this now. Well!

Danielnino00:
IMO,the first step to achieve all these is to let all these state government for away with club ownership in Nigeria...Most state government are incompetent when it comes to issues regarding generation and management of revenue..That's why a lot of them have to wait for federal government allocation before they can pay salaries...
Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia remains the only governor with a track record of investing well in a state owned club.That investment yielded results and made Enyimba one of Africa biggest club.. But unfortunately,it wasn't sustained in the long run...

The private sector in Nigeria has proven it's capability as we have seen in the entertainment and tech industries...

OUK really did well. Basically, if we raise the bar to where it's supposed to be,he will be average. But average is the best right now. One would have imagined that setting up the club for private ownership with stakes here and there would be the vision. Unfortunately that didn't really happen. To see the future is an Achilles of our leaders.

The admin will need to do a lot of marketability to link the league back to the NT. For now, it's a big disconnect. I see solid investments from the new generation clubs already, especially in social media and public relations. The old ones may fade off like Stationery store or Julius Berger if they don plan.

Wait, Okocha has a freekick technique o.

Why don't we have someone in the GWG currently using it?

Samueltemi337:
Replace Zambia with Burkina Faso

Team Bance!

One reason i totally detest the homebased talk is that those that have been shouting it since i was in primary school can't even pinpoint one achievement with a stride of consistency and investment in the League that they became something close to an overload of unquestionable talents for even a foreign manager. It's either they are imposed, forced or propaganda with loads of evidence that proves they can't hold their own.


Okay Super Eagles B is there. Pinpoint something that will turn our heads in their display!!!


Even if someone wants to invest half or a quarter of what Morocco are doing to their Sport Sector, we will not see the results. Gym equipments and Tech tools will disappear or be faulty and stolen in no time.


The NPFL needs a 20yr blueprint. One that is devoid of greedy leaders and stupid rules or Power hungry dons like what Kano Pillars were trying to do when relegated.

mostob:
Their mentality was their downfall. They were mentally built for penalty shootout but Argentina had another idea.

like, Argentina were very direct in approach. Nobody told the Croats to decongest middle after 2-0. They still failed in matching intensity. Even the best are victims of their own one way football philosophy.

mostob:
So who will officiate the KO? What if there is a clash of nationality between those who stayed a f the country playing KO

They always find a way.

Mujtahida:
I am here indulging TheGoodJoe in his favorite pastime on a point where even a cursory browsing on the internet throws up recent articles talking about the possibility of Spain overhauling the philosophical basis of its football or injecting more directness into it.

This back and forth is thegoodjoe using me for sport. No more.

Media o. Like something that's in the news since 2020.

Mujtahida:
The logic is this:
Arteta learnt under gaudiola = Arteta plays tiki taka.

If you have a nail, everything na hammer. If you string passes, e don be tiki taka.

I can even refer to a coach in a South American league that just watched wenger ball and is using it currently. He's never met wenger or been at Colney. If Toure is successful tomorrow, they'll probably say na TikiTaka

TheGoodJoe:

For goodness sake, Arteta grew up in Barca academy learning the philosophy.

Watch one of his goal sequences.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6pDItwUVVw

You know you're goofing, you know?


So how about Mourinho?


So who did Wenger now grow up under? This take is getting more ridiculous. We don't need clips to even use to justify this. No matter the beginning of any manager, they'll still decide which style to use, and it doesn't mean they didn't learn it well.


I can count several top managers and where they learnt tactics and most don't even stick to the first one. That will be stale. Very stale and disastrous for their own careers, especially when everyone is not gifted with players like Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi.


Allow this rest pls. Even the media knew he wasn't playing exact philosophy as the Pep he deputized for.

Mujtahida:
Walahi it is becoming ridiculous. Once a team strings one or two passes, that's tiki taka.

Once a person and Arteta are talking, it's tiki taka as if there aren't a thousand and one things in football that Arteta can teach besides tiki taka.

If Arteta own na Tiki Taka, wetin we go kon call Wenger own?

TheGoodJoe:
The coach has his philosophy and got the team playing well. Our failures came from goalkeeping errors.

and the 1st leg? If that is definition of playing well, then I'm shockering.

TheGoodJoe:

That is why I laugh when people try to mock tiki-taka and the Spanish football philosophers. They are changing the game of football.

Guardiola, Enrique, thanks for this lovely post, now Arteta are spreading their ideas.

They have helped coaches catch up with their tactics and leveled the playing ground a bit.

Guardiola released a full dvd of his coaching methods.

Tomorrow people will start laughing if they lose few games.

Lol

Stop it na. So Arteta style is Tiki Taka now? Inference!!

Okay.

joelsteron:
Local coaches have levels

Me looking so hard for Finidi, Salisu, Olowokere and Whoever is in charge of u20 in this seminar? Oops, African style!!

mostob:
Please house, I need answers to a particular question.

Do referees stay till tournament end or leave for home before the final.

Like, can they just go home after the group stage (for example) or all of them must stay till the final match has been played?

They leave. As matches reduces, there's less need for them to be around again. 24 refs can't be around once KO stages start.

Danielnino00:
The funny thing is that the two games he lost weren't entirely his fault..
Sure,he got some of his tactics and selection wrong..But if Okoye and Uzoho brought their A games on both occasion,we could be talking a different thing...
This world cup has really shown the importance of having a good goalkeeper...
In 2010, Largerback actually tried with the team we had, but Kaita and Yakubu cost us... Enyeama saved us .

That is enough to make All the teams that made quarterfinals in Qatar to be ousted on the grand stage, no matter who sabi or not. Danny, abeg no excuse for him.

elyte89:
Unfortunately for eguavoen ,he lost two most important matches,to forgive him will b very hard base on our impatience record.

Had it been Dey were just friendly games those matches he lost,he would still b d eagles coach


Do u think ppu won’t have come for paisero heads too with d way he’s losing games if Dey were “important” matches

It was an insult to bring a 94 tactics to the fore at such a crucial moment of our football identity, one with bitter archrivals again. Like, who does that? Was he thinking the match was a 6game thing or what? Like caretaker capacity and you dey do like say no be emergency??

mostob:
Dem Luxembourg, Iceland, Ireland fit sneak in too sef.
Funny enough, we might be seeing the like of Zambia and Angola I'm world cup very soon.

Asides the traditional 5
Nigeria
Cameroon
Ghana
Morocco
Senegal

We should see

Egypt
Zambia
South Africa
Tunisia
CIV
Mali
Battling for the other slots.

Kog45:
Oya Oga Dave,name 5 top SE goalies....Haba Peter Rufai glorified Agbim..Rufai only cross was France 98 poor performance and this made me to rate Enyeama more than him.

That wasn't me calling him that. Prior to that discussion, I've never really seen cause to scrutinize him deeply. I did. Not a fan of recency bias either, but hype dey. Real hype.

Person wey tag the wrong Ryan Taylor

That one don go update his bio adding cuppy Fiance shapali

Blueelf:
Unpopular opinion

Peter Rufai is an overrated Legend

I can hardly see the hype he gets as a GK.

I recall an old secondary school mate called him "glorified Agbim" and i watched clips mehn and i was like he no fit make top 5 best SE goalies by his own individual performance then. Some goals were stupidly conceded. He had some good days. But the hype....

mostob:
They should give them o... African needs some teams to statpad against

Awon Wales, Ireland, Poland, Norway,

elyte89:
Proposed New slots according to FIFA,

Asia - 8 countries

Africa - 9 countries

North America- 6 countries

South America - 6 countries

Oceania- 1 Country

Europe - 16 countries

Making it a total of 46 counties.

2 slots remaining

1 for Africa because Morocco have reached the semi-finals.

1 for play-offs.

Therefore ,
Asia 8+Africa( 9+1) + North America 6 + South America 6+ Ocenia 1 + Europe 16+ playoffs 1 will make it 48 countries.



Aw true is dis?

Europe no suppose get 3 extra slots. Mtchew.

Two questions


The R16 team of 2014 under the Late Keshi, if they were the current r16 opponents of Morocco of this 2022, who would come out tops?


If Nigeria's Super Eagles best XI currently were to meet this Walid's team at any point in this Tournament, who would have won?


I want to see something.

TheSuperNerd:
The Class of Hakim Ziyech

How Morocco's former coach, Vahid Halilhodzic had an issue with Ziyech is still beyond me. Look at the passionate fellow some tried to make look like the Villain. Smh.

Morocco played good football under Vahid. They were already on their way to building something special but you see, the team won't be complete without Ziyech. They needed that extra bite, that extra technical quality, they needed to be one... so the Moroccan FA was right to bring Ziyech back and kick out Vahid and appoint Walid to take the team to the heights they are capable of reaching. And look at them now....

#Qatar2022DiariesMD

This buries the narrative that no player is bigger than the team that we oft say. Imagining same in the GWG....

Samueltemi337:
What Griezmann is doing for France is what we thought Ihanaecho would be doing for the super eagles

27assist is truly not much for him, considering where he started from. But....

Morocco has a working system on match bonuses for Ziyech to donate all of his(325k) to poor peeps in the country.


Here, na go, you will receive alert, Don't worry. We have told the honorable minister. How much is it sef? Ya earning well at your club now. Leave this chicken change for us. You should not be fighting over it. Ehen!!

Thank God no be Nigerian Gk be that. See the arrant rubbish Portugal put in goal

Here for don scatter if na Maduka

Well deserved Morocco. Win the World Cup.


Only 3 midfielders are tops in this tournament and Sofyan is one of them.

So sad that Qatar will be remembered for the breakfast lt serve superpowers and superstars. The tears and pain of never seeing the mundial again..... An Era comes to an end.