₦airaland Forum

elampiro: Where are all the critics? Where are Nigerians calling Eagles chickens? Where are the people who called for Keshi's sack. Where are the impatient Nigerians and doubting Thomases? Where are those who said Dike, Osazee, Kalu and Martins should have done better? Keshi go ahead and rebuild a new powerful Super Eagles.

Where is Ebuoe, the Ivory Coast defender who said they will roast Eagles like chickens? He must be crying now.

Richvkunt: De Gea is young and still learning,I am sure he will continue to improve. I still insist that over two legs with away goals counting double United will see the backs of this Madrid team. Very confidently looking forward to that game.

Rooneyboy: did u forget to take ur medication today ?

Or did u watch the match without ur glasses on,

Or u simply forgot ur brain somewhere else when watching the match ?
which one of them is actually ur problem.

Richvkunt: Over two legs Manchester United will knock Real Madrid out of the champions League.
Sir Alex sets up hisd team in a different formation in Europe,where the aim is to sneak the away goal and attempt to keep a clean sheet.

Julieccentric: Your use of English needs to be corrected too Mr Teacher.

does it make sense?

Jonwesley: Why did you say ghastly accident, when no death occurred in the accident. Go and study ur English well jor, or u did not write GCE yet?

Sormeh:
Cant stop laughing ... a serious mathiefmatics class indeed. See student's face

BlueMurder: Again, we have to start asking ourselves some fundamental questions. What has happened to our supply lines? Our age-grade teams are supposed to serve as feeders to our senior national team, but how many players from our U-17, U-21 and U-23 teams have gone on to play consistently for the SE in the past decade? Our disgraceful penchant for age-cheating at those levels, fueled by our win-at-all-cost mentality, is a key reason we have been struggling with average players. Have we learnt any lessons? How many members of the current younger teams will go on to play for the SE next year or in a couple of years? Unless we are willing to tackle these problems head-on, we will continue to grovel in the dark.

StarBoard: People giving excuses about inexperience of this side should remember the 1990 side.
Inexperience is no excuse.
The present lot are simply not good enough, and the cluelessness of the coach is simply embarrassing.

StarBoard: The emboldened shows you are just a football newbie.
Rooney didn't go to the World Cup in 2002.
Besides Argentina outplayed us and we were the ones lucky to get beaten by only a single goal.

seunlayi: 2002 squad to me was one of our best, new players that latter matured and are still relevant till today were produced, Nigeria was not disgrace in any of the matches, Argentine Coach confessed that their 1:0 defeat of Nigeria led to their early exist in the Q-final. Sweden exscaped with 2:1 victory and they drew with England with their best squad then (Beckham, Rooney, etc.).

Tony Spike: I disagree with you...that team came third at the 2002 AFCON Finals and managed to rub shoulders with the English team at 2002 World Cup...

Jarus: I was about saying here was a team with 17 out of the 23 players never featuring in AFCON before. But then I remember Ghana came to ANC 2010 with their under-20 boys and stipped reached final, pipping Nigeria along the way.

My own belief is that Nigeria doesn't have quality talents again. Just a bunch of average players we hype.
Adding insult to their injury, other African countries are improving.

Now, is it the worst? Comparatively, it is. But I don't think they are irredeemably bad. They have the potential. I still don't rule them off yet.

I can't bank on them, but when I remember what these guys are capable of doing, I get some relief:

Mikel has played and made impact at the highest level: UCL final
Moses dazzles in EPL, arguably the best league
Musa dazzles in Russia, scoring up to 10 goals already this season
Uche the typical La Liga player - skilful
Ambrose may not be in the league of the Kolo Toures but is gradually coming up and did well in UCL, against - wait for it - Messi's Barca
Enyeama has stopped even Messi in the past
Ideye proved himself in Fench ligue 1, scoring up to 15 league goals, doing same in Ukraine
We also all know what Emenike can do


When I look at all these, it becomes difficult for me to write off these boys

Austyn316: This Super Eagles team is one that has no passion. At least now, Nigerians understand what Osaze was talking about when he said that leadership was lacking in the team. Yesterday, on Super Sports Oliseh made veiled reference to this fact when he talked about the abundance of leadership qualities amongst the players during his era in the Eagles. There was Keshi, Amokachi, Oliseh, Okechukwu, Rufai and Okocha men with leadership prowess.

I recall with nostalgia how Oliseh braved the odds in 2000 when Nigeria was playing against Senegal in the Afcon quarter finals. Oliseh was down with malaria and was not supposed to play the match but he spoke to Bonfrere Jo to let him join the fray. When Captain Oliseh entered the pitch the game changed. He organized the team well and sent a trade mark pass to Julius Aghaowa and that was how we got the equaliser and then went on to defeat a Senagalese team with the likes of Diouf, Henry and Papa. There is presently no visible leader in the team.

Echiejile is not Iroha. He plays with only one foot and gets confused whenever the ball gets to his right foot. He can't cross the ball when he goes forward and lacks confidence. Taiye Taiwo is still playing good football, we need him back.

Whatever took Ike Uche to Division 2 football should have made Keshi to know that IK Uche is no longer the player we used to know. He is slow and presently totally bereft of ideas when he has the ball in Afcon 2013. Keshi must recall Martins for the world cup qualifier.


Ahmed Musa has given us a below average performance in Afcon 2013. I can't remember any descent cross or pull out from the wings from Musa in the three matches played so far in the tournament. He is just all pace and not effective.

Mikel Obi is just too slow and wouldn't pass on the ball at the right time. He slowed down all our counter attacks. He is presently the only Super Eagles player that passes the ball accurately from long range.

Geewan: That is not true. You need to watch Nigeria's matches against Sweden and England again. This is the worst Nigerian team I've seen in a tournament. I can come up with a team of players that were not included that will beat this team silly. Talk about Anichebe, Joel Obi, Akpala, Onuoha, Martins, Osaze, Taye taiwo, etc. The coach too is not helping things.