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We then need home grown world class coaches who have coached in Europe before. Sunday Oliseh is like that and that Nigerian coach that set a record in Europe (Ndubuisi Egbo). They are Africans with knowledge of modern tactics in football.
Africans have talent. The problem is coaching and administration.

So we need a new generation of African coaches who have coached and played in Europe and good administration

komekn:


You have not addressed the question but justify the outcomes.

First or all look at the dominance of Nigeria at U17 level that dominance has been consistent and continous.

However, there is no commensurate return that reflects that high level dominance, when it comes to progression in the senior game in top leagues or teams.

Let's look at Brazil team of 2009 that did not get as far as Nigeria. But look at Neymar, Coutinho, etc World class players to mention a few.

Now compare that to where our players are now.

Then without prejudice you can see there is a problem.

For once, i agree with you Komekn. There is a serious problem our football authorities have to address.
I think some solutions are coming up like the Private Investors league for Privately owned clubs. It will be televised and well run.
It is an alternate league and our young players can develop there before they go to Europe. I believe the coaching and development will be
better in this alternate league.
IT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.
Also, the MRI age cheating machine is making matters better

timay:


Oga , we will still loose them anyways
The reason is that, if NFF is even organised enough to organise U17 camps regularly. What makes you think they will abandon the thousands of talented U17 kids residing here at home and be pursuing some boy in far away France or England or wherever to bring them to camp. So your point no make any difference which ever way.

You have a point. At youth level it will be hard for foreign born players because we really have talented players that do well at that level and so the need for reinforcements is not that strong. The problem is these boys fade away at the senior level and do a Rabiu Ibrahim for us and then the foreign born have a chance. The 2007 u17 was a total waste of talent and next to that is the 2013 u17. Only a few of them (maybe 5) are still relevant.
I wonder why our youth players are not impressive at a senior level. It bothers me a lot

HOW BARCELONA IS CHANGING NIGERIAN FOOTBALL

The barcelona Academy in Lagos, Nigeria will produce world beaters in the next five years.
They are DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT IT.
Here is a 2018 interview with the founder. Some of the kids are allready going for tournaments abroad.

https://punchng.com/barca-has-right-of-first-refusal-over-bescola-players-oghomienor/

Excerpts from the interview

Recently, you took 60 Nigerian kids to Barcelona. What was the reason for the trip?

It’s part of our objectives in SUD Bescola, to develop young children; it’s about our youth development programme and grassroots empowerment. We’ve picked children from different less-privilege areas; we went on a road show and trials to places like Okokomaiko, Ajegunle. We did a selection process and we picked some of these children and we brought them to the school. Part of the development besides them (kids) playing friendly matches and trainings in the school is to attend games abroad so that it can help them develop more as professional footballers in the nearest future


This is what is said about African players in the interview
First of all, our players have something that is unique as Africans. We have the physique, we are athletic. Barcelona’s players are not so athletic. If you look at Sergio Busquets, Lionel Messi and Andre Iniesta, they are not very strong. Barcelona believe that if they combine our athleticism and their style of play, then they are turbo-charged. The reason why they play their style is because most of the children they have from there are not as physically strong, so they adopted a play. It gives them more options when they have African players that can play a different style like the 4-4-2 or a counter attack. Barcelona don’t play counter attack, they still play much of the ball at the back. And if you look at other clubs like Real Madrid, they have stronger players that can run very fast. Barcelona don’t do that.

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TheSuperNerd:
Chris, My good man. Yes.. I recall it vividly. You can even drop it here again. I am seeing something.

K.Nwakali was decent today in his 38mins+ shift. I am happy. I am excited for what this means for our Super Eagles. Our midfield options keep expanding.

Nwakali and Chukwueze on the pitch in part fulfillment of Chukwueze's wish in an interview he granted some time ago. In the near future, they will be sharing the pitch again not as La Liga rivals only but also as teammates.

Nwakali has always been the real deal but the wrong move set him on a path of struggles and delays in blossoming. All he needed was time. And time is being kind to him now. It is not eureka yet... Mind you... But the signs point to exciting times ahead.

Allow me to be the first to officially announce that Kelechi Nwakali, the final piece of the puzzle from that glorious 2015 class IS BACK. More gametime laced with good showings and he will be getting a NT call up soon to make your fantasy lineup come true.

The best thing he did was to end his loan deal with Arsenal and go to a club where he will be permanently signed. He even chose a club that will give him game time. However, from what i saw today, he must try and contribute to attacking play. Defense splitting passes, dribbling runs, etc. Maybe it was because they were playing a better team and they did not have ball possession. But i hope things will improve with time

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MetalJigsaw:
Does anyone agree with this lineup?

This Nigeria Starting 11 Could Be A Force To Reckon
By David Maigari - September 10, 2020

The Super Eagles of Nigeria would return to international duty next week for the first time since the Coronavirus and fans have been anticipating to see the new flock of young talents back on the pitch so they could watch their favorite in the green colors once again.

One of the Super Eagles’ talent in the person of Victor Osihmen became Africa’s most expensive player after an 80 million pounds move (plus add ons) from Lille to SSC Napoli in August after impressing for the French outfit last season before the league was ended due to the Corona Virus. Osihmen is not the only super Eagles star who has made a move in the Super Eagles starting 11 could look with the current crop of players.

Goalkeeper; Francis Uzoho
This is a position where Gernot Rohr is still yet to fix since the departure of veteran super Eagles goalie and former Eagles captain Vincent Enyeama retired from international duty. Carl Ikeme was doing well after Enyeama left but unfortunately, his career came to an end due to health issues and Gernot Rohr has tried so a few names but none of them have completely convinced fans of their abilities to fill in the gloves of Enyeama. However, Francis Uzoho who recently joined APOEL seems to be the coach’s favorite so for now, 21-year-old Uzoho gets the nod.

Defender; Leon Balogun
The veteran center back recently secured a move to the Scottish outfits, Rangers and the 32-year-old seems to be fighting to get back into the starting 11 in the national team. Semi Ajayi is also making a case with the national team with his recent performance for the Super Eagles but the ‘Oyinbo Wall’ will not be cracked that easily.

Defender; Williams Troost-Ekong
The other half of the oyinbo wall, Williams Stroot-Ekong has been a regular for Gernot Rohr’s Eagles and will keep his place in the team. The 27-year-old plays in the Serie A for Udinese and is playing regularly for the club. Ekong also played a huge role in the Super Eagles team in the world cup and AFCON and has been a decent performer.

Left-Back; Ola Aina
The Chelsea academy graduate who is now at Fulham (on loan from Torino) played a crucial role in helping the Super Eagles to a third-place finish in the 2019 AFCON hosted by Egypt and provided two assists in the tournament. The 23-year-old is can also play at right-back but is okay playing from the left as he did in the AFCON. Jamilu Collins would provide competition for the left-back spot but Ola Aina has a better record for the national team.

Right-Back; Chidozie Awaziem
The 23-year-old has been selected for Nigeria in the World cup and the AFCON already and has put in decent showings in the green colors of the Super Eagles. The Super Eagles star is at Portuguese club Boavista on loan from Porto. The defender can also play in the center back position and could be an option if the manager decides to play three at the back.

Defensive midfielder; Wilfred Ndidi
Leicester city’s powerhouse Wilfred Ndidi is no doubt one of the best defensive midfielders in the Premier League and has put in a consistent fine display for both club and country. The 23-year-old midfielder is Gernot Rohr’s favorite player in the engine room and has been a reliable player for the Super Eagles.

Central midfielder; Joe Aribo
The 24-year-old who is another Super Eagles player playing for Scottish outfit, Rangers and has been very impressive for the team. He has also made an excellent start to his international career with the Super Eagles putting out the fine display in friendly games against Brazil and Ukraine. He has also proved his abilities in front of the goal after appearing on the score sheet in those friendlies. So, the national team might not miss Mikel Obi because Joe has shown his abilities to fill in the void.

Attacking midfielder; Alex Iwobi
The Everton man is has played a huge part in Gernot Rohr’s team since he made his debut and the 24-year-old is set to be among the current flock of talent that the manager is developing in the National team. He is also one of few young players in the team who has been called to the Super Eagles team for the previous two tournaments.

Left-winger; Ahmed Musa
The 27-year-old who plays in the Saudi Arabian league for Al-Nassr is Super Eagles most experienced forward in the team and provides the balance between youthfulness and experience in the attack. The super eagle’s star has a record four goals in the World Cup and is a useful asset to the team with his leadership on and off the pitch.

Center forward; Victor Osihmen
The 21-year-old SSC Napoli star who is Africa’s most expensive player is one of Super Eagles’finest talent at the moment. Victor Osihmen struggled to hit the ground running in his professional career after series of setbacks with transfers and health problems with malaria but after his move to Lille in the summer of 2019 followed by an impressive season that earned him a move to Napoli, his story changed. He has grown to become one of the best young talents in Europe.

Right-winger; Samuel Chukwueze
The 21-year-old Villareal star has fought his way into the Nigerian national team starting 11 and has impressed the fans with his performance for both Club and country. Chukwueze has been linked with a move to the Premier League as a result of his fine display for Villareal. However, he still has a lot of work to do with his finishing but he is still young and got time on his side.

I prefer Samuel Kalu or Chidera Ejuke as a left winger instead of Ahmed Musa. The two of them are more skillful and creative.

MUSA YAHAYA LEAVES FC PORTO AT LAST!!!

According to owngoalnigeria.com, Musa Yahaya is leaving Fc porto at last.
He wants to go to Turkey or Belgium.
Gory be to God in the highest. He has escaped the slavery of fc porto and their wickedness.

This is the link below

https://www.owngoalnigeria.com/2020/09/11/ex-nigeria-u17-star-musa-yahaya-leaves-fc-porto-after-four-years/

Why are they not playing Akinkunmi Amoo in Hamarby despite all the promises they made to him.
This is sheer wickedness.
Europe doesnt allways help our players but we have not choice.
They are supposed to develop him to be like messi (a false 9) or is it that they don't care about one poor boy from Africa
The players ahead of him are not better than him. I see it as discrimination.
What exactly is it? The young man should ask for a loan if they dont play him by January.
We cant develop him here anyway because of the poor state of our league

forgiveness:



Where football start?

Men Football started in England BUT IT WAS NOT PERFECTED IN ENGLAND.
Going down history, Other countries have perfected the beautiful game.
The Brazil world cup team of 1970 is one of the greatest international teams ever.
ALL THE INNOVATIONS OF FOOTBALL ARE NOT FROM ENGLAND.
Read football history and you will know. Italy taught the world how to defend.
Brazil taught the world how to attack. Holland came with total football. Spain tiki-taka. Germany with their German Machine.
England is good but other countries have developed football systems they are now copying.
I have said this before

Peter Olawale (little Ronaldo) one of our u-17 2019 set has been featured on goal.com's next gen.
That is something serious as a lot of well-rated players like Salzburg's Karim Adeyemi have been featured in it.
Is this boy that good? Is he Nigeria's version of Ronaldo or he is just another Chrisantus Macaulay (wasted talent)
only time will tell

charlesemeka85:


Well well

Yes now. The Nigerian league at least product decent players. Alhassan Muazum Ibrahim is in cd nacional a product of the Nigerian league and even Ighalo who used to play for Julius Berger. I mean India does not know much about football. Cricket is their main forte.
The Nigerian league is better than some nonsense league some of our boys run to.
Its just that the quality has reduced but at least there are some good players there.
I will take a player from the Nigerian league before some obscure leagues like India or Pakistani league. Maybe there may be more money there but mean it is wack

einsteine:


Why not start such a reality show and you will learn the cold, hard lesson of capitalism: simply put, nobody wants to watch such shows. Even in the US, Big Brother, Survivor all do better than business reality TV.

On Siasia, people can choose who they want to give money to. It's their choice. People need to stop being emotional. One could argue that even Siasia should not get a cent of donations as there are starving children in Okokomaiko more deserving of charity.

Erica and other porn stars will now be a role model for youths. They have done nothing but engage in sex. It is pure ridiculous. They are not encouraging any positive value whatsoever.
the moral fabric of our society is falling apart and we need something that will repair it. At least promote something sensible
There is a way that a reality show for inventors can be interesting. It can show their lifestyle, behavour etc and even their struggles and dramatize it.
If it works people will give money to someone who has invented something that can solve the problem of electricity and then, Government will be forced to pay attention to technology.
Entertainment should be a tool of positive social change.
They are rewarding pure idiocy.
With this show, prostitutes will not be ashamed of their actions. After all, there is a show that glorifies it. It is pure madness.

JidennaJason:
Within 24hrs "Some" moronic citizens lead by one Ehizode Irefool raised a staggering sum of $15,000 for the On-Air porn star while Samson Siasia is still struggling with his own fund raising since January..... Isn't it ridiculous?


Now before you jump to my mention and say whatever bullshit you feel like saying to me, ask yourself this questions;


-Of what importance or relevance is the Big Brother Show to the common man?

-Why raising a hefty and mouthwatering funds for the wayward character exhibited by the morally bankrupt Erica in the Big Brother's house?

-Why do we keep encouraging immoralities and raising funds for porn stars?

A lot of young people will see this and will want to go into immorality and pornography.
They are rewarding irresponsible behavior.
How about a reality show for Inventors. There are many inventors in Nigeria and Nigeria needs to develop
in Science and Technology. Why not reward people for inventing things

[quote author=MetalJigsaw post=93655280]Scotland that would struggle against average African teams[/quote

You are right. Scotland cannot defeat Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal or the tactical North Africans. In fact, Mali will cause them problems.
Ok name one scottish player better than Victor Osimhen or even Henry Onyekuru not to talk of Sadio Mane or some local African player who is simply not exposed.
Scotland is a very average team

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barackodam:


I don't think that's enough excuse.

Europe was the most hit by COVID.

Cases in Spain + Italy was much more than the whole of Africa.

Yet, it's Europe who are allowed to play. The rest confederations have to sit at home and watch Europe play football.

So not fair!

Africa does not have the facilities for testing and other things. It my happen if the matches are played in Europe with foreign based African players only thats all.

What is the latest on Lukman Zakari. I heard Real Betis is no longer signing him. I wonder where he will go next.
At least he cannot go back to Latvia as he has risen above that league

Edopesin:
Aug 31 2020




The 21 years old was satisfied with the opportunity to represent a club the size of Marítimo, assuming the desire to help the club achieve its goals.

I am happy and grateful to have signed for Marítimo. It is a dream come true. I hope to help the club achieve its goals, said Stanley Kanu, speaking to Marítimo

@csmaritimomadeira

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Diamond Academy Club Statement

We are happy to announce that our player Stanley Guzorochi Kanu @stanleykanu14 have joined CS Maritimo @csmaritimomadeira in the Portuguese top division on a five year deal.
We congratulate him and also believe he will be a good ambassador.

Another academy boy loading. Hope he makes it. Football academies are the future of Nigerian football.

GoddyOra:
All these arguments here about nigerian youngsters being age cheats is inconsequential IMO. A 25yrs old claiming 16yrs to gain entry into our U-17 team no concern me as long as he delivers the expected results. At the end when his mates (football age) are still balling at 30yrs+, baba would be almost 40 and worn out, a reason why we hardly see Nigerian born players at 35yrs in top level football.

However make we no dey try defend an age cheat like uzoho when it is very obvious he isn't whatever age he claims. A 16yrs old Nigerian player in our U-17 team would be 175cm tall, in the next 5-8 years same player is still 175cm.
For me height/growth is the major determinate for an age cheat because scientifically a normal male should encounter at least one growth phase between 16-20 before growth ceases, whereas almost all our U-17s claiming 16/17 no dey gree tall pass their height indicating they weren't anywhere close to the claimed age.

Make we dey talk truth, every OAU student know a certain part 4 student (star player aka aguero) that was selected as a midfielder in our recent U-17 team (2019) and baba passed MRI?. How is it possible that a 16 yo is through with 400L before being called up to the team?. Last last 95% of every player na age cheat even osimhen self, but I no fit judge them because na the best and only way to enter europe for them (young age).

Generally, Africans find it difficult to plan for the future. We do not have a 10 year plan to develop anything (be it education, sports, economy etc). We Nigerians/Africans are living by our instinct. I think the vision of a black man does not go beyond 6 months. Anything a black man does does not stand the test of time.
This is why we think age cheating can solve our problems but it is only shallow. Black people can be very shallow minded.
Fifa had to invent a machine for us to stop age cheating. We don't have a sense of purpose. Most of these Western nations can just decide that there football will improve in 20 years and they will start working towards it systematically.
England has been working on making their players more technical for 15 years and they now have phil foden, Jadon Sancho etc.
This instantaneous attitude is the black man's undoing. The Western countries know where they will be 10 years from now.
Also, a black man's capacity to conceive greatness is limited. Right now, a lot of people find it difficult to beleive we can win the world cup because we are son satisfied with averagenes.
We have started changing though

Olakunle Olusegun (u-17 2019 set) just scored three goals for fremad (his new club) today.
The boy is on fire.
I think this new set of u-17 boys will be the most successful at a senior level. I believe the days where players from our youth
teams don't succeed in Europe are gone. They are now learning how to navigate the waters of European football

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komekn:


Latvia league is a very poor standard league to use as a launch pad to EXPLODE as you put it.

Any player looking to move will have to be outstanding in the league and the very best in that league to get a move to top 6 league.

Football academies in Nigeria are just as bad as the agents they even practice TPI. And once you are signed to them you literally signed away your life they own you.

You are not exactly right. The GBS academy in Jos has produced Samuel Kalu, Moses Simon, Hillary Gong, Ahmed Musa and some other decent players.
Akinkunmi amoo is also from a football academy. In fact, a lot of our decent players are from Football academies and so you cannot claim they are horrible as they are producing good players

Secondly, Terem Mofi and Blessing Eleke moved from obscure leagues to Belgium and so starting in a low league at a young age is good. Lukman Zakari moved from Latvia to Spain.
You are an extremist young man. If you look at things properly, grassroots football is really growing in Nigeria.
I rest my case

Neobulletzz:

Lol I don’t know why you people are saying we should put goals aside but I have heard, no wahala and I said you people should tell me other things aside goals that make Iniesta better, you can’t tell me

Lampard had more assists than the iniesta
Was the second best player in the world behind Ronaldinho
I am still asking for what make iniesta better, please answer, because he played for Barca

He could control the midfield better. Lampard cannot control the midfield like iniesta. Iniesta was a conductor and when he was in midfield, the leg of the opposing team CANNOT touch the ball. It happened whenever Barcelona faced Chelsea. Lampard will be lost and iniesta together with xavi will simply control the midfield. this is a very important aspect of central midfield play.
Besides, he was more skilful. Lampard we all know is NOT too skillful

LATEST ON AKINKUNMI AMOO

Akinkunmi Amoo is already in sweden as we all know.
Moreover he is in the match day squad for tommorows match against IFK Norkoping and so he will either be on the bench or he will play.

Here is the link

https://www.hammarbyfotboll.se/aktuellt/nyheter/truppen-mot-ifk-norrkoping-5/

Arabiandude:

He is currently doing well for Slovak champions, slovan Bratislava, he even had an assist today, continued from his fine form for the team last season.

Nor be all youth players they end up well.

Guess you know Diego Capel, what about Fran Merida and even this Swiss guy that won 2009 fifa U17 world cup most valuable player, same set with Omerua, where are they today?

The issue with Rabiu Ibrahim is that he never really settled down in a club until he was 26 or 27 and when he did it was in an obscure league like Slovakia. I mean he only settled down 3 years ago. I dont know why clubs kept rejecting him when he was young. I am not too sure he can move to a better league now that he is performing well as age is not on his side.
In my opinion he can still be useful in the national team as we still need his play making skills but i know a lot of people here wont agree with me. He needs a better league but he is around 30 and that will affect his marketibility to clubs