₦airaland Forum

Remember the "jogo bonito" commercials sponsorships that hyped brazil as the champions before the world cup and how NIKE promoted their brand through the team. NIKE paid the Brazillian FA a ton of money for that. In fact there was a bidding war with adidas and reebok over who would buy the rights to the team. That right there is called good marketing. The essence of advertising is selling something or creating a demand for something. Fans want to see entertaining "sexy" football and not the "gra gra" football of nowadays. They are reminiscent of the old school brazillians and want to see that therefore you sell it to them. Why do you think there was a huge anticipation for Brazil at the world cup even before they played there very first match, and when they played there were huge ratings, millions of folks round the world turned to see them.

In response to medeura, in the U17's its easy to win championships because at that stage its all about talent. But as you get to older stages like the seniors its 50-50, in fact 40-60, soccer talent and football administration go hand in hand, that's why Nigeria would never win the senior world cup or have a winning streak in the juniors (it took us over 18 years to win another world cup when the talent is abundant). There is just too much that admins have to be able to handle. Look at even USA of all people were soccer is not even among the top 5 popular sport in the country. There good administration is the reason they even got to the quarterfinals in '02 (even though they flopped in '06), plus there league is even getting better, and naija that has players heads and shoulders above them keeps getting a whooping in the hand of the scandanavians of all people.

If Nigeria had decent football administration as far as i am concerned we should win the U17's and U20's every time or at least get to the finals.
P.S John Fashanu please save naija football and run for NFA president again.

American football superstar and one the greatest athletes in the world, Michael Vick has been sentenced to 23 months in a federal pernitentiary for dog fighting charges.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3148549

I am sure they only got him because he was white. Why didn't they go after guys who were unemployed and affordable like Ruud Gullit or even someone with a Latin flavor which resembles our style of play like Jose Pekerman, Hector Raul Cuper, Javier Aguirre.

There were even other Europeans who could do a much better job like Louis van Gaal (AZ Alkmaar), Pasquale Marino (Udinese), Ronald Koeman (Valencia), Jose Antonio Camacho, Javier Irueta, heck even Juande Ramos and Bernd Schuster before they both got expensive, or the great Vincente del Bosque (formerly with Real Madrid).

But as you know it, incompetence begat incompetence, we went and got an old school German coach whose jam body style of soccer doesn't fit us at all (that was the sound of our last chance at gaining Nike sponsorship flying out the window). Nike has been promoting the beautiful game for a while because everybody plays negative soccer nowadays, instead of us standing out like Argentina, to be the most attractive team to watch, we decided to be brainless. See how we just lost a good shot at a viable sponsorship deal. Hey but look on the bright side; its not the end of the world ha ha ha.

I don't know how far we are going to go, but for sure we are not winning the competition. Did anybody research this guys resume? Did anybody know that this guy was a big time flop for scotland? Anyway this is what you get when you put a Mallam who knows more about cattle rearing than football in charge of the NFA. This is just a microcosm of what goes on not only in the country but in the continent. Ciao.

By the way what's the meaning of "we Africans" remember Africa is not one place or one people, its thousands of places and thousands of ethnic groups, so please stop your generalizations, and stop being like this westerners.

This religion is a satanic religion, let's just put it as simple as that. For those who have read about the Quran, it is littered with "killing the infidels", even you muslims know this. I know some of you would try to say that people have done bad things in the name of christianity, but if you read the bible, it rejects their act. Where else in the Quran can you find the words "love your neighbor as yourself" or "forgive your neighbor"? Nada, instead it says you should bath in the blood of the infidels.

Also, Its amazing how extremely black this supporter of APC are, yet they are still calling themselves Arab. Arab ko, Australian ni.

This is just a sham ministry i don't know why this ministry exists, they should just scrap this ministry and use there yearly budget allocation on free education.

Can you believe this? The police killed 7,198 nigerians in five years.

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1605

I know this people were PROBABLY (keyword being probably) criminals, but we have a judicial system people and no human deserves to just die like that. What if you had a cousin or brother who was just indiscriminately detained (kidnapped is the right word) simply because he was in the vicinity of the crime and they didn't have an attorney assigned to him. Where is the district attorney or whatever they call them in naija. This is gross miscarriage of justice. In the mordern world, one is innocent UNTIL PROVEN BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT.
I recently read an article in the BBC not long ago about around 750 suspects (SUSPECTS) being killed since the beginning of the year alone.
This guys were not even convicted yet. What a shame. The funny thing is that if the govts could provide this guys with jobs they wouldn't be doing this but this is another topic for another day.

By the way, all the girls who play hard to get or are being snobbish and want there future husbands to have money, remember that John Legend song "remember when i used to love u". If you want to be soooooo picky, you guys better look beautiful, as in a perfect 10 (or dimpiece like we like to call them), worst case scenario, an agbani darego look alike. Shawty better have everything and not over cosmeticised artificial beauty. There are several "cute-gories" and you can't be less than a 7 on that scale. Its amazing how many average looking or downright unattractive ladies tend to be so choosy and picky as if they are Marilyn Monroe or something. You better "know thyself" before you let "true love pass you by" like boyz2men said.

To all the ladies, if a guy gets sex from you, he is now thinking why should i be yoked with this girl, when i get sex from her whenever i feel like.

Hey y'all marriage is very sacred and special and worth waiting for. Its just like your christmas present, waiting till dec. 25th to open it. If you open it and start using it in November it loses its meaning. That's the whole point about marriage, waiting and hoping. Then on that night, you can tell your lover how you've kept yourself for them untarnished and with no extra baggage. For those who don't know, the first person you have sex with, you have a spiritual bond with them, even after you've been married for a good minute, you still can't forget them and you've made a convenant with them in the flesh, now imagine bringing all this unnecessary bagage into your holy union.

This is where a lot of guys differ. Growing up in naija i wanted wifey to be a medical doctor, but right now i no send. If the girl poor like church mouse or pauper, if she looks like Jessica Alba or Esther Baxter, i am going after her immediately.

Yes. In the Niger Delta so that those boys would stop there nonsense.
Also, a US presence there would put pressure on those governors to fix there state just like Botswana.

I think Shaq is definitely the most dominant centre of all time, with no disrespect to Bill Russell, Wilt chamberlain and Kareem Abdul Jabbar who played in different eras. The dream too is also one of the all time great centres. He is by far the most athletic centre ever. He was like a guard trapped in a centre's body. The guy could what all these guys couldn't (did you ever see this guy running the floor on a fastbreak). Plus, the guy schooled Shaq when he came into the league, and he ate David Robinson for dinner in the western conference finals. Also, who can forget that gloriously unstoppable "dream shake"?, till today, nobody can stop that move ha ha. If Clyde "the glide" Drexler had stayed with the dream instead of going to portland, who knows how many more championships they would have won.

@gabriel
I was just trying to say that the France has more big time young players coming through the ranks than the italians do. They have more flexibility now that they have to accomodate Zidane. They can now play the 4-4-2. The Italians don't have any new young gunners or should i say, they have no one like Nasri or Benzema, Gourcuff or Evra, infact go check them out on Youtube if you like.

@tosin whatever is your name
and you wonder why our country is so pathetic. Someone died, instead of feeling sympathy, you are so extremely hard hearted; "Bad things happen to people all the time" as if he is just another animal who just got killed. I barely even know the guy but my heart grieves for his family (his 18 month old daughter who would never know her father). That's why our useless joke of a country will remain that way for a looooooong time. Everybody over there is just so insensitive and hard hearted that's why you have politicians or rich folks in covoys of hummers and jaguars driving past people leaving in refuse or squalors lie Mushin or Oshodi and not feel anything at all talk less of a heart break, most oyinbos would see this and have an epiphany, some would weep uncontrollably, some would even go as far as committing suicide. On the other hand, the average Nigerian like you don't even feel anything towards your people, because you all dead emotionally. Some of you even smile or yell at people who beg them or people of lower class (eg gateman, mechanic). Don't worry ehn, keep up the good work, your country is sitting on a tinderbox which will soon explode and you refugee behinds would start begging USA for asylum.I don't even know how some of you even have the nerve to go to church. Y'all better ask God to break your hearts of stone so that you can have compassion for people like Jesus did.

As much as i don't want to agree with chidi, he has a point, the only bad thing about this is that this thing can spin out of hand like Colombia. Remember when the FBI, DEA (who knows, probably the CIA was involved) and the entire country of colombia were trying to kill Pablo Escobar and destroy his Medellin drug cartel. As a result of this, you had vigilante groups kidnapping and target Escobar's family. What happened after Escobar was killed is that this paramillitary groups (a faction of the army) and this vigilante groups now took over and run the drug business now (see FARC).
What i am trying to say about this kidnappings is that, it might not be you now but in the future, this area boys would decide to quit yahoo which is a high risk low guarantee reward and start kidnapping people. Then Nigeria becomes South America where 1 person is kidnapped every 5 minutes (i think). In colombia in 2002, 8 people a day were kidnapped.

JESUS
Even in the bible he says "he who love his life more than me is not worthy of me" if christ could die for me; a condemned sinner, then i would most definitely die for him.

sorry busta, but i just can't stop staring at the picture my my my. Goodness me. Ok now i am going to try my best to control myself and behave but all i wanna say is woah.

Maaaaaaaaan, busta you sooooooooo fiiiiiiiiiine, plus you thick, how come i don't see fine naija girls like you over here, call me so we can get married.

This guys should feed themselves, don't they get paid huge salaries? can't they just make sandwiches and take to work.

hitman.

yo chris, as much as i hate to say it, i truly agree with you.

chi gurl you sound like a girl who has been a bridesmaid several times but can't find a date. Ouch. I don't want to speak for other guys but human beings are human beings period. Oyinbo's, akatas, kokoyes and chinkos are humans beings also and not different species.
The truth of the matter is that most of the naija girls i've seen here in yanki are either downright ugly or average looking, they don't look like the beautiful ones in the UNILAG, IMSU, or UNIPORT campuses (and even those ones have bad attitudes). So i definitely, am not going to stoop low to marry someone i am not attracted to simply because they are naija. I believe that several other naija guys agree with me, can i get a witness.

is that Akan of access high school.

The decline of the Edo kingdom began when the british besieged and destroyed it sometime in the 1800's, i think in the 1860's to be precise.

NOSA, are you an aggie i went to A&M for a while also before i transfered.

EKITI STATE IN DA HOUSE.
MY FELLOW SCHOLARS OF THE RENAISSANCE STATE STAND UP, WE IN THE BUILDING.

That's it, i am not raising my kids in naija.

aaaaaaaaaah  nawa o. crush ko, fanta ni. This one don pass "kissing cousins".
This is called INCEST 101, the bible (the old testament) even says its punishable by death. Abeg "flee youthful lusts".
Your cousin must be desperate, are there not many other good looking brothas over there? Please tell her that your cousin is out of the question before they would start having babies with fins       The bible says "as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is" tell her that she better go to church and ask for forgiveness because this is absolutely unnatural.

But guys, let's be honest here, everybody must have heard of something like this when there were in boarding school about that "love that dare not speak its name" I think this is a common practice in Naija, when i was in school i know of a roommate who slept with his cousin, i even heard of several other stories like that in school of different people, even here in yanki a friend also told me of a guy who impregnated his cousin back in naija(what a loser).

Omotola is fat. i saw in a movie yesterday and her lips are too big. She is not even curvy and shapely at all. Geneieve looks like your typical naija girl; stuck up and snobbish. If we were probably the only two people left in the world after some huge catastrophe (like the movie "I am Legend" and the future of mankind relied on us procreating, i still might (keyword being MIGHT) not want to have anything to do with her.

By the way, i wouldn't give up Jessica Alba for any of this girls ha ha ha.

Yeah, i noticed that. What a shame.

oma se o.