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GMBOFASIA:
Most of us here are not sentimental aside breaking Yekini record there is nothing spectacular osimehn has done for the team to say even if he is playing for Saudi Arabia he is still the face of our football don’t be sentimental and emotional thanks

Mane playing in Saudi can be regarded as face of Senegalese football leading them to 2 successful afcon not someone who hasn’t achieved anything with the team you are saying even if he is playing at Saudi in his prime still the face of super eagle football lol

So who is the face of the current Super Eagles if not Victor Osimhen? Moses Simon?

semid4lyfe:
South Africa to host the 2026 WAFCON if Morocco withdraws....

Bruh!!!

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Another African Best completed a transfer to Turkey in his prime.. I know my country’s best player 🤭pic.twitter.com/5IwsiRyWEF https://t.co/UecEeJt32y

— Rado 🎈 (@thee_ovie) February 1, 2026

never been a fan of Osimhen's move to Gala but the way some of these guys are framing this discourse after Lookman's move is horrible and just shows you how spiteful and ungrateful Nigerians can be. Nawa.

Omo but forget o, Nigeria really did wonders at this last AFCON. Played against all 4 major North African powerhouses and didn't lose a single game. And it was only Morocco that gave us problem but even they couldn't get anything tangible from us. We bullied the other three.

NFF needs to give Chelle all the help he needs abeg. In 2-3 years, as long as there's no funny business, this Super Eagles team may become too big for Africa.

SymphonyRad:
Tunisia already appointed Sabri Lamouchi since 3 weeks ago, he's on a contract till 2028 with them, his appointment has even been updated on Wikipedia already. Make una dey do basic fact-finding before posting unverified junk journalism here from X of all places.

Na things like this wey make people no too dey respect Pooja when it comes to updates. Imagine him posting this rubbish on his page and giving Nigerians unnecessary heart attack. Abeg I hope it's not true.

These NFF guys no just rate our women football. Incompetent elements.

elyte89:
This must be fake 😃, aw u go sack this kind coach

I don't think it's fake. Even during the tournament, when Morocco were drawing with Mali and struggling to beat Tanzania, I saw many Moroccan comments calling for his head on X.

Odunayaw:
Morocco stepped on the toe of the world oo

https://youtube.com/shorts/1ArMt4Hza8k?si=rVJQmu_jAktjTCYl

Omo I don't think even Nigeria has had it this bad.

But come, why is the Nigeria location in the video looking so advanced and classy. You sure say na the Naija we dey?

SymphonyRad:
Our best formation and starting XI going with Chelle's preferred 4-4-2 diamond

We need at least one perfect substitute for each position in this setup, such that when one player is absent it won't be felt.

chrisooblog:
Garba Lawal, Tijani Babangida?

Oh wow. Thought they were both Hausa. Thanks.

yinkeys:
That age sha
But the guy must be a baller

Yes, it's true. We saw his doings at the last CHAN tournament where we lost to Sudan.

opes:
The late Mark Aku was the sport minister then, Oliseh was very rude to him, when they asked him to apologise for his action, he publicly said the minister was not older than him, he refused. The problem he created in super eagles goalkeeper department affected the team for many years before Nwabali came over.
In the video, he was talking of the dwindling fortune of the team and inability to qualify for AFCON and worldcup. Did he forget he was the coach when the team failed to qualify for 2017 AFCON, before SIasia could turned things around, it was too late. Yes, we lost the playoff to DR congo via a penalties, Oliseh as a coach lost to the same DR Congo.
All what he accused Osimhen of, he did the same, even worst as a player

We lost to Congo, not DR Congo (formerly Zaire). That's even worse because Congo is not as good of a football team as DR Congo (Zaire) when it comes to football pedigree.

ChrisKels:
I wish the part of Nigeria that is of same stock as these Senegalese could be giving us mad talents like these Senegalese sha. 🥴

Hmmm. Have we ever had a decent Fulani football player? I'm not saying this to drag or insult anyone. I'm just genuinely curious.

Spainever:
I started watching AFCON in 1988. Since we defeated them in 1992 and 2000 ,I cannot recalled when Nigeria defeated Senegal senior national team.

2000 AFCON quarter-final. We beat them 2-1.
2006 AFCON group stage. We beat them 2-1
2006 AFCON third place playoff. We beat them 1-0.

That was the last time we beat them. The rest have mostly been draws. They've only beaten us twice since then too: a 2019 friendly and the recent CHAN tournament last year where our local eagles went to baff us spit.

I don't think our main squads have really faced off in a high stakes game since AFCON 2006. Exactly 20 years ago.

Sarsaparilla524:
Carney Chukwuemeka of German Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund is NOW open to the idea of playing for the senior national team of Nigeria. 🇳🇬

AFCON 2025 effects? 🤔

Source?

Unlimited22:
https://x.com/i/status/2013498557840404732


This is insane.

Morocco must be not be allowed to host the 2030 World Cup. Haba!

Is it too late to file a petition? All the FAs in Africa need to come together and address this.

Sarsaparilla524:
Latest FIFA Ranking

Ghana and South Africa in the doldrums as usual.

Thank God there is no more CHAN to tank our ratings. We should only go higher from here.

Sarsaparilla524:
OFFICIAL: The Super Eagles climb 12 places to 26th position in the latest FIFA Men's World Ranking.

Now ranked 3rd in Africa.

Realistically, we've always been top 3 skill and talent wise for the past 5-6 years. Even this AFCON, we were looking like the best team hands down at certain moments of the tournament with only Senegal looking as good. CHAN and the poor World Cup qualifiers did us dirty at the FIFA rankings. Thank God they've scrapped that useless CHAN, make we know wetin we dey talk.

AndSunGorilla:
He should be, FIFA too should suspend Senegal from the WC and let the 3rd placed team at the AFCON take their place. This isn't the first time for Senegal, they did something similar some years back playing against CIV in a WCQ at home, the players and fans disrupted the game and it had to be abandoned. A strong message must be sent to serve as a deterrent.

Na so.

BankyGee:
Cheating may endure for a night but Senegal comes in the morning...

- AFCON Chapter 20 vs 25 😆😂🤣

Abeg keep the memes coming make I laugh Morocco again this morning.

Dannyxy:
then don’t owe them, pay them.

All this talk of bleed this that, no one will bleed for you if you can’t do the basic.


Pay your players, play your coaches stop eating their money . Stop excusing corruption stop excusing mediocrity on the blackmail of fake patriotism, show patriotism by actually taking care of those who bleed for you, smaller countries are not even this embarrassing.

Set up structures, build stadiums, get infrastructure, not hoping on the players so it every time on their, come to camp with their own money, stay on low budget hotels.

It's unfortunate how we've been singing this song for decades and nothing has changed.

The Nigerian culture is a culture of wilful self-sabotage.

darkelf:
My brother, we can only hope

But I've lost faith in fairness on football

If Congo cheated, it shouldn't have taken FOFA this long to announce it
.as I said, we can only hope

How long did it take to land the hammer on Guinea Equatorial cos of Emilio Nsue?

Whatever the case, I'm not expecting a 100% positive result. But the facts available are convincing enough that the case could go either way to me. If it doesn't go our way, then no issue.

BascoVanVeli:
It was a victory for justice and fairness.

I mean... okay?

I thought Morocco loss would make me happy, but if anything it has made me more depressed. I can never feel comfortable celebrating another country's victory. It should have been us in the final. Congrats to Senegal all the same. We now look forward to the WAFCON, and hopefully the World Cup if the case goes through.

Moniter0:
how many times have those "grit for grit" and "man for man duel" helped them against European sides? Everything no be gra gra.

I tire. We keep saying African football is too tasking yen yen yen. Na these same physical African teams go reach World Cup now, teams like Norway and Spain go use them turn semo.

E be like Morocco go wait 50 more years

CapitalCee:
Senegal should walk off the whole of Africa will support them

From your mouth to God's ears.

Senegal run am for us abeg. Do it for Africa.

I would never bet against Senegal. Those boys know how to get the results by any means necessary. These guys came from behind to knack DR Congo 3-2 in their own backyard. The same physical, hyper aggressive, coconut head DR Congo that fried us in the WC playoffs. They don't feel pressure. They just play their game and their football speaks for itself.

But then again, if the referee of the game is half as shamelessly corrupt as Daniel Laryea, it could be a long night for them. I could be wrong saying this, but in my observation of Senegal, their defense can get shaky at times and can concede when you least expect. They've never really faced any team willing to punish their defense in this AFCON. Only one I can think of is DR Congo. Egypt shamelessly played them haramball in the semis.

BankyGee:
Work rate 💯😁

https://x.com/i/status/2012921118227583145

I'm not religious but I pray the universe shines on Eric Chelle and shows him favour and grace. For his sake, I pray the DR Congo case goes through successfully. Making it to the World Cup would be the biggest middle finger to those ungrateful Malian journalists.

"There are no minnows in African football"

Eric Sekou Chelle:

Blueelf:
Loll, "because we expected him to win"

Pray tell, how many shots did we have. How many on target?

These are indices we can't ignore

Leave sentiments and say the truth

Who were our best players that day - our acts and our GK. This should be a big pointer

It's hard to make attacking runs and give shots when the referee keeps blowing his whistle whenever you win the ball in a duel and try to push forward.