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khiaa:
Trump had the nerve to call for the death of those children two weeks after they were arrested, before they even had a chance to go to trial. He put out an 85,000 dollar page ad in the N.Y.Tmes and many other publications to bring back the death penalty just to have these children murdered.

What happened to these young children by the system and the way white America responded to it is not an anomaly for black and brown people.

The truth is "This is America" this is the way she has always been. This case is what is meant by "Black Lives Matters" but to be honest under the racist system of America it really doesn't.

Some people like to say that the justice system is flawed but it's not, the system is operating exactly how it was designed to work.

Many people don't realize that under the U.S Constitution slavery wasn't truly abolished. There are loopholes in it that condones slavery, that is why there are so many black men who are incarcerated, it's by design, it's a business.

The way we cope with the heat is air-conditioning, the beaches and swimming pools. You will find a way to cool down.

I'll just try to stay indoors as much as possible.

Funny thing is when you try to point this out to certain "compassionate" white folks - they get defensive and scream "white genocide" "attack against the white male" "victimhood mentality" bla bla bla.
Some of them make it feel like black people "enjoy being victims".

khiaa:
LMAO You got me. Trump is an idiot. Speaking of that idiot, have you watched the Netflix movie "When they see us" if not, you have to watch it. It is heartbreaking, it will make you cry, and angry, to see what the system did to those innocent children.
I'm doing well. A couple of days this week was miserable with heat and to think this is only the beginning of summer, it will get even hotter. Welcome to California.

The Central Park 5 case is the number one reason why I don't like the guy. His indifference towards the whole thing after they were found innocent was disgusting. What makes it even more disgraceful is when black folks like Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum agree with him and are trying to push some stupid conspiracy theory about the whole thing!! I've never liked calling black conservatives "coons" - but those clowns are full blown coons.

I'm so dreading the next few months. I don't think I can take the heat anymore!! I don't know how you guys cope with it.

khiaa:
What do you mean unfair? That dizzy chick brought my name into this thread, she is the one who is desperate for my attention so I will feed her all the negativity she deserves.
By the way, how are you?

The "not fair" part was just me pretending to be Trump when he cries about the fake news being mean to him
I'm fine thanks. And you? How's the summer treating you so far?

Damn wasn't that big money back then??

khiaa:
In America women aren't desperate for marriage because we don't need a man to provide for our existence like you Nigerian leeches do. We can take care of ourselves so when we marry we marry out of love, and that's something you liabilities will never understand.

Khia biko take it easy on we Nigerians.. not fair!!

Ikouwem Utin nominated for the Golden Boy 2019 award.

sjsjwiiww:
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Phishing bastard....

BascoVanVeli:
He is not on Samu's level.

Foden is better than Samu.

andrew444:
Osimhen dropped or nacho ? You mean osimhen was supposed to be stopped ,please explain to me bro

If ighalo is not fit osimhen should start at afcon please

Not necessarily for Nacho - it could be Semi. That's what I heard...

andrew444:
Who told you ighalo is injured? if so are you really sure about this and what your source?

You think I was joking when I said Osimhen wasn't dropped because of uncertainty over Ighalo's fitness??
Do you really think it made any sense or whatsoever to take BOTH Osimhen and Onachu if Ighalo was 100 percent(note this has nothing to do with Nacho before certain mad man jump on my throat).

andrew444:
Hudson odoi ahead of chukwueze just because he is english?

NONSENSE

Big club syndrome

Samu makes L'Equipe's Top 50 players under the age of 20.

Danielnino00:
Has Ighalo not fully recovered from the injury he sustained in China ??

Apparently he hasn't.

olu98:
lol. nice joke.
I also heard Mikel obi and wilf ndidi were meant to be dropped and only made the squad because we dont have enough midfielders.

I don't remember saying it was a joke.

Are you implying Osimhen is as important as Mikel and Ndidi? Now THAT would be a great joke.

I heard Osimhen was meant to be dropped and only made the squad because of Ighalo's injury concerns.

andrew444:
But he won the world cup sha

Its time for deschamps to drop giroud, at least giroud has won the world cup, what has lacazette done to deserve such treatment?

If umtiti doesnt start for barca next season, Lenglet should collect his national team starting shirt also

Rafael varane days seems numbered in madrid defence, but let me observe sha.

With current form Aymeric Laporte and Lenglet should be starters

I tire for that guy. You can't have the talent France have and still play with a target man. Giroud and Matuidi should not be starting.
Imagine Ndombele not making their starting 11.

andrew444:
How many people dem go come carry go tournament ?

Digne started against turkey

Farland mendy who is now a Madrid player started against Andorra

Then 2 World Cup winners Benjamin mendy and Lucas Hernandez was not in squad because of injury

Squad depth bro. Great headache to have as a coach.

Sportilitica:
They lost to Turkey sadly

Yeah and deservedly so. Deschamps is just wasting their golden generation by sticking to his favorites.

andrew444:
Wait o ,how many left back does the French national team have ?

Lucas digne ?
Lucas Hernandez ?
Benjamin Mendy ?
Farland Mendy

We would die to have one of those guys. The French team is stacked!!

Humility017:
who else can come in for Iwobi when he gets tired....
etebo/ogu can always come in for mikel and ndidi but for iwobi who else can?

Our creativity will mainly come from the wings. Samu, Kalu, Onyekuru, Simon, etc.
Samu can also play as a CAM. This is what everyone has been begging Rohr to scout for but nooo...he keeps packing CM/DM and thinks it's ok because Mikel dey.

TheGoodJoe:
If there is an advice I will give Iheanacho, it is that he should focus on his club career and forget the Super Eagles for now. Take a break off the team.

I am noticing something dark and sinister going on in the team, NFF and media that do not look okay to me.

Shocking but forgiveness might be right after all.

Things like what?

Mickael2:
Bro, the talk here tire me oh. Like seriously, weeks to Afcon and with the coach confirming that we will be playing a 3-5-2 formation all them still dey talk here na Senegal get better players pass Ivory Coast, are you for real?

By now we should be deep into analysis, playing a 3-5-2 formation does it not automatically mean that Samu will sit on the bench through the tournament? Because I don't see where he fits. Playing a 3-5-2 also means either Ighalo or Oshimen will start and not both, Rohr will favour Ighalo, does that leave Oshimen on the bench? Should Iwobi start in our midfield since we have seen that a 3-5-2 needs plenty of runners, ball carriers/shuttlers and energy in the middle and Mikel will not bring any, do we play Iwobi too who is also not an engine room nor a ball carrier? If it will be a 3-5-2 what exactly is Shehu doing in the Afcon? There are only 4 CBs in the team and the formation requires 3 CBs at a time, given Leon's injury record was it wise dropping Ajayi for Shehu? Who will play in the hole right behind the striker? Apart from Musa, who else can comfortably play there? These are some of the tactical discussions we used to have back then, now it is just rape talk and which team has the better players as if that will help us win any trophy or improve our chances.


Anyways Bro, I dey just dey wait for Afcon proper and Copa America

Rohr said he'll be playing 3-5-2??

Well if that is true, then Samu and Aina will most likely be on the bench.
I see him playing Kalu as RWB and Musa - Ighalo as our front two.

globemoney:
And do you know their are many rich people in the US who avoid taxes, flaunt rich lifestyle and still go scott free? Why isn't IRS going after them including donald trump? In other countries people mind their business, they only report you when you constitute nuisance and a security threat to them, It's only in Nigeria that when ever someone makes money every one starts asking what they did to make money as if they are entitled to know.
It seems you dont also realize some people like to keep their business secret to avoid competition. Learn to mind your business! Thats it. No one owes you an explanation of their source of wealth, if they are involved in fraud then allow the law to catch up with them simple.

Many of them exploit loopholes so as to not pay that much tax(I believe it's called Tax Avoidance).
At least we all know the source of Trump and his likes wealth.

If this is true - well done Buhari. This is something that should've been done since.

Olulong:
Ivory Coast full squad :
Goalkeepers : Sylvain Gbohouo (TP Mazembe), Ali Badra (Free State Stars), Tape Ira (FC San Pedro)

Defenders: Serge Aurier (Tottenham), Wilfried Kanon (ADO The Hague), Wonlo Coulibaly (ASEC Mimosas), Ismaël Traoré (Angers), Mamadou Bagayoko (Red Star), Cheikh Comara (Wydad Casablanca), Souleyman Bamba (Rennes)

Midfielders : Jean-Philippe Gbamin (Mainz), Geoffrey Serey Dié (Neuchâtel Xamax), Jean-Michaël Seri (Fulham), Victorian Angban (Metz), Franck Kessié (Milan) , Ibrahim Sangaré (Toulouse)

Strikers: Max-Alain Gradel (Toulouse), Nicolas Pépé (Lille), Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace), Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa), Roger Assalé (Young Boys Bern), Maxwel Cornet (Lyon), Wilfried Bony (Without a club).


How is dis team better than Senegal's own.
I don't even think it's better than Nigeria's own sef

They have a better midfield and attack than both Senegal and Nigeria.

MANU GARBA: IHEANACHO DOESN’T EVEN CALL TO SAY HI

2 Comments / COLUMN, INTERVIEWS / By Solace Chukwu / June 10, 2019 / Africa Cup of Nations, Kelechi Iheanacho, Manu Garba, nigeria

There is a good argument to be made that, over the last decade, there is no more influential Nigerian coach than Manu Garba.

His name entered the mainstream consciousness in 2013 when he led the national under-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, to victory at the Under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Before that, he was a part of the coaching crew for the previous success at that level, as an assistant to the late Yemi Tella back in 2007.

That is not, however, an achievement that is particularly unique. Nigeria is historically the most successful country in the world at that age group, and the likes of Fanny Amun and the late Paul Hamilton have also led sides with considerable talent but questionable eligibility to success.

What sets Garba apart, besides recency bias, is the style with which his side beguiled the world, and the sheer output of his group of youngsters. A free-scoring, counter-attacking style saw the team plunder 3.25 goals per game over the course of the competition, a staggering number considering football’s fundamentally low-scoring nature.

Understandably, Garba evinces a great degree of pride at having defied one of football’s fundamental truisms, and in his discussion he gravitates time and again to that 2013 side. So what made them so special, so cohesive, so irresistible as an attacking force?

“That team had an abundance of talent, but not only was the squad talented, we had ample time to stay with the players,” he says.

“Honestly, we had the opportunity to teach them all that you need to teach a player in terms of playing and performing at the highest level. To be fit technically, tactically, physically, psychologically and mentally.

“So we knew what every player could do at any moment. In fact, even in that team, you could close your eyes, pick a starting 11, and everybody would function very well, because there was a synergy. They were used to each other. The team was just like a family.”

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“…just like a family.”

The base though, the platform on which it was all built, was talent. The ubiquity of natural footballing ability in Nigeria is now almost anecdotal, but it is easy enough to understand when one considers the mostly unrivalled popularity that the sport enjoys in a country of over 100 million people.

That fact has not always translated perfectly though, as the recent outing of the national under-20 team at the World Cup in Poland attests. However, in terms of identifying and harnessing the talent pool, Garba stands out: both in terms of quality and quantity.

This eye for talent in its primal state, along with his emphasis on creating the right mental and physical environment for his players – for instance, he talks up the underrated benefit of a proper night’s rest both as a key part of player performance and as an excuse to restrict the use of mobile devices – is what has defined a successful coaching career to date.

A midfielder in his playing days, he captained El Kanemi Football Club for over half a decade, winning back-to-back FA Cup (then known as the Challenge Cup) titles in 1991 and 1992, and losing out to Egyptian giants Al Ahly in the semi-final of the old CAF Cup Winners Cup with the Maiduguri side. He describes himself as having been “naturally gifted with an abundance of technique”, and while it is not beyond the realm of possibility that this assessment is slightly massaged, it has certainly informed his preference when it comes to talent identification.

“What I look for in a player is technical ability: if the player is able to control the ball very well, can pass very well. Technique for me is paramount.

“After technique, a little bit of awareness of what to do in particular situations. That too is very important, because they say a good player is oriented all over, including his movement with or without the ball. Even at such young ages, I try to find such players.”

It is that technical excellence, as well as lucidity in decision-making, that so defined his 2013 team, and made them lethal on the break. Set up in a 4-3-3 shape, and with Garba encouraging expressionism and near-total positional freedom, that Nigeria side tore through opponents, scoring 15 goals over four matches against Mexico and Sweden, the competition’s next best teams.

The front three comprised, first, Isaac Success and then Liverpool loanee Taiwo Awoniyi, lightning-quick forward Musa Yahaya – Garba insists he was the best player in that entire tournament, and is “surprised” at the lack of progression of a player with potential to be “one of the best players all over the world” – and a certain Kelechi Iheanacho, whose exclusion from Nigeria’s final squad to this month’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has cause a stir.

The Leicester City forward has struggled to find his feet in the Premier League after an initial promising start at Manchester City. In the season just concluded, Iheanacho played barely over a thousand minutes in all competitions for the Foxes, scoring twice; in March, he was dropped from the national team after coach Gernot Rohr expressed concern over his focus and mentality. His inclusion in the provisional AFCON squad was widely considered a last chance to win back his place in the team.

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Iheanacho has struggled to find his feet at Leicester

It is a long way to fall for a player who won the Golden Ball in 2013, and on whom the hopes of a nation had come to rest. It also means that, of the players who passed through Garba’s hands, only Wilfred Ndidi, Francis Uzoho and Moses Simon will be in Egypt.

While the 53-year-old admits it is his “personal joy” to see those players in the final squad, he is rueful about Iheanacho’s promise, which now appears to be ebbing away: he has been “watching from a distance” and directs some of the blame toward the player’s handlers.

“I don’t know whether it has to do with personal problems, psychological problems, or lack of adaptation with the players he plays with.

“We expect their managers to be monitoring their performances and their way of life too, which is very paramount. Even when they’re not at their clubs, even on holidays, they are supposed to be monitoring what their players are doing. But unfortunately most of such managers are just after the money.”

While he is wary of making any definitive judgements on a player who he admits “doesn’t even call to say hi” – the revelation, while devoid of rancour, is tinged with disappointment – he makes some pointed observations about African players in general, and why they fail to fulfil their potential.

“One of the greatest problems is that most African players don’t know how to manage success. The moment a poor boy from a poor family background begins to earn big money, some of them forget the career entirely that brought them into such fame. They lose focus and begin to buy expensive cars, and living expensively instead of concentrating on the game.”

This inability to manage success, in his mind, is down to a deficit in education.

Nigeria has a literacy level under 60 percent, and a lot of its most talented footballers through the years have sprouted in underprivileged areas and the inner cities. With footballers earning increasingly mouth-watering pay packages, that image of success sees a lot of them opt out of school in favour of pursuing a full-time career in football.

Garba, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri who paid his way through school by playing in and earning prize money from sub-regional football tournaments, is acutely aware of his responsibility to steer his young players toward education.

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“Education is a great bane to African players, because most of them lack the educational background to take care of themselves personally. So, (a combination of) education, getting huge money suddenly and then failing to manage that success are some of the causes of why African players cannot make it great.

“I tell some of my players that, for us, even when we were playing, we didn’t leave school.

“Life after football is very important. Even apart from regular school, there are some of these schools that they can employ teachers to come and teach them (privately), or part-time. Earn a certificate somewhere. At least they will be able to communicate very well, to know they dos and don’ts wherever they go. This will help to enhance their life after football.”

His passion in this direction is clear, especially when he speaks of his children’s academic achievements, eyes agleam, and he remains an avid learner himself. He holds a CAF A Licence, and admits he has picked up “one or two things in brainstorming sessions with colleagues”, as well as by using coaching resources available on the internet.

While he acknowledges that talent identification is not an exact science – “Players come in different generations,” he says – his desire to find and groom the best continues to burn brightly, even as he prepares another crop for the 2019 Under-17 World Cup in Brazil.


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mostob:
sorry to disgress....
I think women should be blamed for about 80% of rape cases...
come on, u wore tight mini skirt and start working seductively shaking ur bumbum.what was ur intention if not to get noticed? Me wey dey look u,my body no be fire wood. Food wey person no go eat, person no go smell am...as u don forcefully put the food inside my nose,u think I will not want to see how it taste even if it require force? If women can start dressing responsibly, rape go reduce. .
o pari!

Disgusting logic. If a woman doesn't give you permission to have sex with her - don't do it.
If she's too "seductive" - leave and save yourself the trouble.

TheGoodJoe:
I did not know about that. When that post came earlier, what went through my mind that there was only one possible replacement for Suarez and that was Alexis Sanchez. Shocking that it was Brendan Rodgers choice and the board did not let him have his way.

Nice post.

Apparently Alexis chose Arsenal because his wife preferred to live in London.
That was Rodgers prime target.

alekside:
Rodgers this! Rodgers that! like he is one tactical genius.

Is it not the same Rodgers that messed up in his last season with Liverpool. A manager who thought players like Balotelli, Borini and Benteke were the perfect replacement for Luis Suarez.

Make we hear word abeg

He didn't want to sign Balotelli and Benteke.

forgiveness:
Rohr is very loyal to players he likes. The reason he kept his faith with Iheanacho, Musa etcetera but unfortunately it didn't help Iheanacho.

Iheanacho ought to have been dropped long before now to inspire him to work harder but blind love just wouldn't allow Rohr drop him.

Anyway, it's good for him though in the depth of my heart I really wanted him to go to Egypt because I haven't seen enough of Onuachu.

Same here. But it looks like Nacho didn't give him a choice.

kellycute:
ashamed of myself for what?. Let me exposed myself in peace. Are u the one to tell me how to vent? enjoy your red bororo coach and his high blood pressure tactic. Averaaaaaaageeeeeeee bunch of carpenters y'all parade as footballer.

Nothing wrong with having this opinion. However, if it's as a result of Nacho getting dropped then this is beyond pitiful of you.
This isn't 2015. Nacho has been poor for 2 years now. Stop acting like he's Mbappe.

chucs:
A good list from Rohr but I believe Balogun was chosen based on experience and Iheanacho deserved to be dropped.

Again, let me continue to make a case for Maduka Okoye and Sebastian Osigwe to be invited and tried for the goalkeeping position. I mean, they cant be worse than the 3 we parade at every turnie.

Also Rohr should be flexible when it comes to team selection and his substitutions should be timely and tactical. I cant be happy for the inclusion of some young and exciting talents like Chukwueze and Osimehen and they wont feature at all in the competition.

Best of luck guys!

Maduka Okoye is injured. He would've been on standby if he was fit.