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Yes imma say it.
It's a GOOD day at the office.

nateevs:
Alex is E-On's MOTM. . . Just 2 weeks after I slagged him off. . .
I wonder why FBS never liked Ivanovic. . .  

hehehe. . . 
I like him when he plays well and Yes he was pure GOLD today. I will always say it like it is.
but he was rubbish in some 4-5 matches.

Alex deserves an extension to his contract (10 yrs    ) for his output today. Simply OUTSTANDING!!!

You Are The Most High God.

Ivanovic finally back to his senses. Brilliant.
Alex was superb today.

A solid win.

You are The Greatest!
I love You Lord.

How market?

It could have been 7- 2 to Real Madrid today. Hugain wasted loads of chances.

But a well deserved win. Brilliant second half display.

tubabie:
My fav Chav dude
Wow I love dancehall too, mo ti miss awon addictive mixtapes, oya jo funmi now?

hehehe. . .this mixtape o hot bi fire!!!. . .45 blazing hot tracks!
Oops! o da bi wipe subscription e ti expire . Se o ready lati renew e?

ichommy:
What if Nigeria is number 1

Same. I will gladly exchange that for the World Cup itself.
If Nigeria wins , every other thing will follow.

Does anyone know when the offside rule was introduced?
Was football not played before then?

This thread is a duplicate. 

Original here. . . Created several days ago . . .

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-405967.0.html

ogazi007:
@fbs, you are funny.lmao

hehehe. . .just keeping it lively.

I care not. FIFA ranking system is a JOKE!

^^^ LOL! Honeric01, you bad oo!

Anyways, you guys are just seeing and attesting to what I said before. FIFA ranking system is a JOKE!

Lagerback: Semis realistic target

Nigeria’s new Technical Adviser, Lars Lagerback said in Abuja on Thursday that a place in the Fifa World Cup semi-final is a realistic target for the Super Eagles.

“I wonder why people are pessimistic when they hear talk of semi final target. Every country that goes to a major championship wants to do well, and I believe Nigeria has the players to do well at this World Cup.

“Several people have asked me whether a semi-final place is not a dream, but I tell them that we can achieve it if we all work together – the players, the coaches, the administrators and the fans.”

Lagerback, the 61–year old Swede unveiled on Wednesday in Abuja as Nigeria’s new Technical Adviser, is scheduled to depart for Stockholm on Thursday and return to Nigeria in a couple of weeks to start the big job of taking the Super Eagles to its fourth World Cup finals appearance.

Lagerback was also formally introduced to Members of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation at a simple ceremony at Glass House in Abuja on Thursday morning.

Nigeria, in her debut in 1994, reached the World Cup Round of 16 and were two minutes away from a famous defeat of eventual finalists Italy in the United States of America.

Four years later, the Super Eagles also reached the Round of 16, losing 1-4 to Denmark. But the team crashed out at the group stage in Korea/Japan in 2002 and did not even qualify for the finals in Germany four years ago.

http://www.kickoff.com/2010/news/14213/lars-lagerback-semis-realistic-target.php
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Does anyone know why the NFF is so obsessed with semis?

LAGERBACK TO TRAIN NIGERIA COACHES

Super Eagles Technical Adviser Lars Lagerback left Abuja on Thursday to return to Sweden, but is expected to return before March 10 when he will tutor Nigerian coaches at a seminar organised by the Nigeria Football Federation in Abuja.

The seminar is expected to run between 10 and 12 March, and the new Eagles boss will be on hand to deliver lectures on tactics and other technical matters to the local coaches.

It will be one of Lagerback's first official functions as soon as he returns to start work as national coach.

After the seminar, the Swede will head off to Durban, South Africa to inspect Nigeria's World Cup training camp before returning to cast his eye over the local talent playing in the Nigeria Premier League.

He will then follow that up with trips to various clubs in Europe to look at Nigerian players.

http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=14212

^^^ That will be very hard. Have you tried youtube?

AMODU TAKES COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
Redeployed Nigeria coach Shuaibu Amodu missed Wednesday's 5-2 friendly win over Democratic Republic of Congo because he applied for, and was granted compassionate leave by the NFF.

NFF Executive Committee member Taiwo Ogunjobi told KickoffNigeria.com that Amodu asked for time to take care of 'family matters'.

"We met some days ago with him when he returned from South Africa, and he asked to be granted leave to attend to his family.

"His request was considered and granted, and so he is away with the knowledge and permission of the federation," Ogunjobi said.

In his absence, Daniel Amokachi took charge of the team and masterminded a comfortable win over the Congolese in front of new Technical Adviser Lars Lagerback.

http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=14204

Laportee dey fear! The mutalabs are coming.

The president of FC Barcelona has contacted an Israeli security firm to protect the club's office, the Madrid-based sports daily Marca reported yesterday. The club president, Joan Laporta, fears an attack on the offices by "an Arab group," the paper said. Laporta first made contact with the company last summer while visiting Israel for the wedding of Pini Zahavi, an Israeli agent involved in some of the biggest European player transfers of the last decade. The unnamed company, which would operate in Spain from its European base in Switzerland, charges 35,000 euros a month for its services, or 420,000 euros a year.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1154344.html

^^^and the other half 9ja? waaaazaaaaaa! lol

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tubabie:
Ko si much o from what I can see 
Eyin peeps ekaaro o

@tubabie, my fav manure  .
Mo ni some dancehall mixtapes! o sa mo! dancing abaraje omoge shake your. . .
Ain't you missing your daily dose?

You Are The Most High God.

Eastbay:
I agree that there are poor nations involved with footie,particularly in Africa. In fact I think I remember seeing the cardboard being used in Africa and remembered wondering if I actually was believing my eyes at the time.
But truth be told,FIFA has more than enough dough to make any plan work anywhere in the world.
Sepp Blatter is basically sitting on pots of gold as FIFA president.I'm so sure FIFA will make a tonne of cash in SA in June,because corporate organizations are lining up themselves to make themselves sponsors of the World Cup.
I still think FIFA isn't doing enough to:
a: make 3rd World/African FAs financially independent from government.
b:encourage real football development in countries in these areas.
These points I raised are long-standing issues that Sepp Blatter used as his election campaign in 1998,and that was why African votes were largely in his favour during the elction against Hayatou.So far,it has come to naught.The scandal that erupted before the 2002 world cup where Blatter was implicated only served to tell us that there is lots of cash with FIFA and they do not know how to use it.
How does this tally with the title of this thread?Still boils down to FIFA avoiding the real,practical issues on ground for a quik fix all to make the game "attractive ".Hockey and football are two separate sports,hockey has a smaller pitch and their offside rule is so complicated,they actually could do without it.Right nowI don't think ther are too many complexities about the present offside rules as it stands today.Infact,the rule has been watered down to neutralise the defensive nature of some sides who bank on frustrating tactics like setting offside traps to focus on giving the advantage to the attacking player,though the kind of refs we have these days have suceeded in confusing us all the more.If FIFA was sincere,taking a few seconds off the clock to check video replays to get the right calls,as is done in tennis,cricket,rugby without taking away any of the excitement in any of those sports amongst others,will make the game more attractive to viewers who by and large want to see a game fairly decided.
My thoughts though:hope I make some sense

@Eastbay,
a) I'm not exactly sure this will work. How will they enforce that the money is spent properly. Too much money will make them sports administrators go mad.
b) Encouraging real footie development in Africa means big time competition for Europeans, etc. If our local leagues become strong and players are well paid, who will bother to travel out? Very few and that means, agents, some european clubs go hear am. You get my drift?
c) Refs like Overbo should be stripped unclothed in public and given 100 strokes of bulala. He is a total disgrace to footie. We have seen credible goals ruled out for offside and sadly though, we see this in every competition and UEFA/FIFACAF will eventually lose credibility.
Personally, I see both positives and negatives if they scrap the rule.

Lastbourne:
Do we have offside when playing" monkey post" ?, Ans is No, Therefore abolishing the offside rule is a very smart move that would allow a free (, ier) flow of soccer

Kai I enjoyed/enjoy "monkey post footie". Fast, furious and precise. The best if you ask me.

Well, maybe the youngies can step in!

Tips on SA. . . Anyone?

Obinoscopy:
If you like defend yourself for making such arguments (which are baseless), the fact remains that our match against Congo was not the right match 4 us. The baseline of the guy's (galatico) argument was that NFF were wrong in fixing a match with Congo "instead of testing our strenght against European and Asian Countries . Pathetic!!!". And if you ask me it is really pathetic.

What you just did was to look 4 the semantic loopholes in his argument instead of considering his arguments holistically

Easy. . .take a deep breath! relax!
I am not defending anything. FACT is there is NOTHING to defend.
What you have clearly missed was that the two matches that could have made "sense" for The SE did not go through and NFF gave the reasons. . . and so I asked you, what were they supposed to do?
It's a pity you missed the point in my post which was to tell the guy that a certain football.co.uk is not the HQ for footie results.
I also made him realise that we are not the only country who played non-world cup bound countries. These 2 points you cannot even contest them. I was right.
Now if you say was it the right match for us? It's a different talk all together. Geddit?

^^^ I've told you that FIFA ranking system is nothing but empty air.
Really, I don't take them serious.

Obinoscopy:
soccernet.com is not an official site for FIFA. Go and check fifa.com and tell me if u saw the result of the Nigeria vs Congo fixture

I don't know why people just like to jump into arguments blindly?
Is football.co.uk the official site for FIFA?   

Obinoscopy:
Brazil is in the same group with Portugal thus they decided to play Ireland since Ireland is an European country just like Portugal. Also Portugal played China becos they will meet Korea in the world Cup. Korea and China are both Asian teams. But we played Congo. . . I still don't understand the benefit of that match in this oncoming world cup. I thought we were initially fixed to play Paraguay. . . It shows the ineffectiveness of NFF. And as a consequence of playing a low team like Congo, we have gone down the ranking from 15 to 21!

Again you jumped the gun.I replied specifically to his post (which, if you can read well was highlighted by moi). He said our mates were playing (note) WORLD CUP BOUND countries and I pointed to him he was WRONG on that. China is not world cup bound, neither is Ireland.
We were meant to play Portugal but it did not work out.
Against Paraguay. . .NFF said the contract did not favor them.
What were they supposed to do? Yeah, your guess is as good as mine.
It is on record that we played Congo on March 03 2010 and beat them 5-2 on home soil. Yes?

Obinoscopy:
If his response is nice then what do have to say about mine. I think his response is wrong!

Your response is OFF the mark. I think you should read well before posting.

Johnnny:
Guys, can you believe this,

I was at football.co.uk to check on the results of all yesterday's matches only to find the Nigeria/Congo matche update missing from the results

Na wa o, Nigeria no even command any respect from anybody anymore.  Its a shame o

Did you check soccernet.com? The results are there. Just because it is missing from one football.co.uk means nothing.

galatico:
Our mates where playing against world cup bound sides, we where busy playing against Congo DR, Cameroon played against Italy, so did Egypy play against England, Ivory Coast played against South Korea, cuz they are familair opponents they'll face at the world cup, we choose to play against a side they didn't qualify for the world cup instead of testing our strenght against European and Asian Countries . Pathetic!!!

Brazil also played Ireland. . .they (Ireland) aint going to the WC.
Portugal played China. .

ait!

^^^ Is you Jamaican?