₦airaland Forum

Napoleon55:
NFF is an incompetent body, there is no arguing that.
I can blame NFF for 99% of every other thing else, but you see this matter of foreign born players,especially the trio of Saka,Olise and Eze,these ones believed they were born superstars, so there is nothing you or NFF would have done to force them to play for us.
Nobody need to tell me that Nigeria tried to convince Olise and Eze when they were still in championship to play for us, but Olise prefer to play for France U23 team,while Eze preferred English U21.

How about Adarabioyo's case if you think we stood a chance against Olise or Eze,
what is preventing that one from from playing for us when he is yet to feature for English senior team? Does it mean that nobody in NFF knows about a Nigerian player in Chelsea,or even Nwaneri of Arsenal.

Nobody is trying to hold brief for NFF but it's better to put things in proper perspective before passing judgment.

Which Superstar? Eze that honored invitation to train with us in London?

He waited in vain for a call up to SE then
All we needed to do was to cap tie him.

Saka and Oliseh were nobody as at the time we talked about then here.

NFF no approach them at the appropriate time. Perhaps, they couldn't identify their talent.

lbrichman2:
Chelsea, Sporting and man city are out

In the light of today's results, omo Gala try yesterday o

Which out?

opes:
No news yet on football but in athletics, he has reportedly scouted about 50 athletes from Diaspora and are coming to Nigeria to compete in intermediate games in Lagos very soon.

Oh okay

opes:
Recently, the NSC, led by Shehu Dikko, appointed Tunde Adelakun to scout talents for Nigeria from the diaspora in athletics and other sports.
Tunde Adelakun was the one scouting for Gernot Rohr when he was the coach of Nigeria, even still followed and working with him to get players to represent Benin Republic.
I hope everything works out well with the deal with the NSC.

We never see wetin em do. Abi, you don see?

Predator87:
This is what I've been saying all thru yesterday. These nff guys are not interested in any meaningful football development. They are just there to chop estacode. Other countries are busy recruiting from their diaspora and we are doing mumu. 2030 like play we will miss out too.

Even our women's team is suffering because of them.

Most of them na politician with zero football knowledge. Although some could have done better if given the opportunity. 2030 is not too far but we are yet to scout good foreign born players.

If France follows our mentality to play homegrown of indigenes only, den for no dey anywhere for football but they know better. That is why they recruit any player even from Jupiter.

Karlovich:
They are mostly busy collecting salaries without any actual work being done, not just the SE but across all levels.

Poor scouting of players both at the local scene and at international level.

The thing dey pain me. We should be contending for world cup trophy with players like Oliseh, Eze, Saka etc with monster machine Osimhen. Lookman too dey ooo.

Do they even have scouting department? It seems na traveling alawi dem go dey collect just to better themselves.

FiveFootNinja:
Seems? 🤣🤣

They are 100% NOT interested.

Kkkkkkkkkk.

Karlovich:
This is the brutal truth, the Nigerian FA have been very poor with recruitment of dual nationals especially those that require clearance and administrative procedures. The last ones we got were Lookman and Torunarigha and they both made their debuts for the SE in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

DR Congo we are dragging to court now cleared 5 players within 2 weeks. Since FIFA launched their change of association platform in April 2025, zero eligible players have been cleared by our FA that had previously played for their country of birth at youth level

What are they doing at the helm of affairs of glass house?

Those agbada wearing NFF officials seems not interested in the development of our football.

typicalgamer:
Oliseh was never in our hands unlike eze oliseh had no interest in us

Do you mean even when he played for Reading in Championship? Because that was when we dey make noise here for him to be invited to no avail.

Samueltemi337:
Does Kayode want to play for the super eagles?
I remember Oliseh was invited one time and didn't even show up
Didn't Eze train with the team?
What happened next?

Did the coach approach him?

He was invited when he was with Crystal Palace but I could remembered the clamoring was from when he was with Readings.

After Eze trained with the team. He waited to be called but the National team coach then ignored him until he blow finish.

The truth is, those at the realm of affairs of the football in Nigeria, lacks foresight or ability to identify a potential player.

Rio Chima Ngumoha too dey Liverpool. Though I am yet to see him play but he should be approached.

I don't know why Kayode of Brentford hasn't been invited to the National Team. He is just 21 years and we can see he is got the potential to be a World Class player.

Osula is young too. He should be invited.

That was how we ignored Eze and Oliseh till dem blow finish.

Ebukacute:
Wait for one mumu nkitaofia to come and tell you that he saw improvement on the team today.
Mumu coach started Gusto as left back and he never made any impact all through the game. Must you play someone out of his position? Relax, na morning be this ,e no go tey all of una go see wetin we see wey make us talk say no be maresca be our problem.

Do you mean Gusto didn't make any impact in today's game? You watch match?

chuks404:
nah , his hold up play today was not that good. A lot of times they collected the ball from him. Besides if you watched the game well, when they are defending , he doesn't go wide to cover for the left back. And even Diego simeone had to call his attention to that in the first half . Let's end this talk. I just said what I observed. It will be good if he works on that defensive alertness. It will help him and the national team.

There is no need wasting my time. Obviously, you watched a different match.

Onyedika should be awarded Man of the match.

chuks404:
you are not watching the game
The guy is so poor in this game. I said MAY. I am not comparing but if you watch osihmen , you will find him had to remove him because of how he works for the team. Today lookman wasn't it. Forget the goal

What did Athletico do when he was removed?

You only focused on one part leaving his holdup play, passes and goal.

The Club Bruges were dominant against this Athletico. What do you expect? Magic!!

They pressed from start to finish forcing Athletico to commit errors. Despite that Lookman hardly lost the ball.

Another thing is, Lookman was not tasked to press.

He was behind the front layer of the 2 attacker on the left flank.

anonimi:
Should you be forgiven for failing to understand what absolute means? Or should you be forgiven for falling to understand what nothing means

Maybe you need forgiveness for failing to understand what both words mean and using them nevertheless?

Absolutely!!!

ruggedtimi:
I recently discovered that the Goodluck Jonathan administration first introduced the idea of the Coastal Road project, even carried a survey at the time

But did absolutely nothing to achieve it.

TheSuperNerd:
People have a right to question and frown at his callup because he has not delivered for the Super Eagles in the same manner Osimhen has.
Peter Ijeh used to score loads of goals back in the days for his scandinavian clubside but he just was not Super Eagles material.

When Rashidi Yekini reigned in the Super Eagles especially between 1991 and 1994, there was a hot Richard Owubokiri. Ask Kog45, Icon4s and the other elders how Yekini kept edging him out even though Yekini was in the 2nd tier of portugal in 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons scoring while Richard was top scorer of the topflight with 30goals in 1991/92 and 2nd with 14goals in 92/93. It was in 93/94, Yekini became top scorer of the portuguese topflight with 21goals after helping his side gain promotion in 92/93.


Onuachu was Ighalo's backup at Afcon 2019 and got more minutes than a younger Osimhen at same tournament. Rohr started him in our 1st game at that Afcon vs Burundi. He did not impress.
Who naturally took over the main #9 role after Ighalo left and made it his own by completely obliterating the competition? It was Osimhen.

So yes, Onuachu is outscoring now but we know who delivers in the GWG when push comes to shove. The difference is clear as day and night. Afterall, Simy also outscored Osimhen in a season in Italy.

Yekini didn't become top scorer of a league for the first time in Portugal. He was already a proven player far ahead of Ricky before he joined the Portuguese liga and proved he was no fluke with 13 goals in his first season in Europe.

It is just like Osimhen playing in the farmers league now together with Onuachu but doesn't mean Onuachu was hotter than Osimhen.

I repeat. Yekini was consistent from 80s to 94.

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TheSuperNerd:
Well, same way Osimhen is also an established Super Eagles Striker.

The Yekini/Ricky analogy had a point. Ricky was hotter in 1991/92 and 1992/93 when Yekini was in the 2nd tier yet no one disrespected the King, Yeking.
Even the table you drop showed Ricky "outscoring" Yeking yet we both know who was Super Eagles' #1 in attack back then.

I expect same to be accorded Osimhen. That is the point you missed. Finito.

You are still wrong. Yekini played in the finals of CAF biggest continental tournaments prior to joining a club in Portugal. He was already a bigger star than Ricky. No comparison.

Perhaps, Simmy performance can be likened to that of Ricky during Osimhen's era. No doubt about it but the picture you painted was one Ricky bigger than Yekini in that era. Far far from it.

Now, you get the point.

TheSuperNerd:
People have a right to question and frown at his callup because he has not delivered for the Super Eagles in the same manner Osimhen has.
Peter Ijeh used to score loads of goals back in the days for his scandinavian clubside but he just was not Super Eagles material.

When Rashidi Yekini reigned in the Super Eagles especially between 1991 and 1994, there was a hot Richard Owubokiri. Ask Kog45, Icon4s and the other elders how Yekini kept edging him out even though Yekini was in the 2nd tier of portugal in 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons scoring while Richard was top scorer of the topflight with 30goals in 1991/92 and 2nd with 14goals in 92/93. It was in 93/94, Yekini became top scorer of the portuguese topflight with 21goals after helping his side gain promotion in 92/93.


Onuachu was Ighalo's backup at Afcon 2019 and got more minutes than a younger Osimhen at same tournament. Rohr started him in our 1st game at that Afcon vs Burundi. He did not impress.
Who naturally took over the main #9 role after Ighalo left and made it his own by completely obliterating the competition? It was Osimhen.

So yes, Onuachu is outscoring now but we know who delivers in the GWG when push comes to shove. The difference is clear as day and night. Afterall, Simy also outscored Osimhen in a season in Italy.

Rashidi Yekini was already an established player with the SE in the 80s before he moved to Portugal. Besides, the Nigerian league and African leagues were developed in the 80s compared to what we have today.

He played in the best leagues in Africa before he went to Europe in 1990. Despite that he shined immediately scoring 13 goals in his first season in Portugal.

His case pale in comparison with what you are saying.

See below his first season before his team was relegated.

Nomyth:
Na u discover this one.

For the records.

Kkk. William Osula, Ugo Raghouber-Levante (no sure he is Nigerian), Kareem Tunde Ruiz Levante etc still dey.

There is one Nigerian playing Elche. His name is John Nwankwo Donald Okeh. He is currently playing now.

The Gateway Cargo International Airport is located in Iperu not Ilisan.

nairalanda1:
And they were all fighting each other and enslaving each other and creating severe crisis, before the british conquest.

Plus, division won't work now. Not when all of you from the North to the South want oil. If y'all were interested in using the resources to develop exportable goods right from 1960, by now division would have been very easy. But today? It would provoke a serious battle...and a state of mass anarchy.

Even in Europe and Asia. There were several wars.

LibertyRep:
If we go by this, we may end up having more than 20 nations from the carcass of Nigeria.

Yes. we should try regional governments again.

There were over 100 nations before British conquest that almagamated all into one.

Slippy:
a NEW NIGERIA is possible

I can tell for fact the whole of Ondo and Ekiti are predominantly Christians. Even 80% of Ogun state are Christians. Lagos is 50-50. Osun 60:40. Oyo 50:50.

This map is fake.

LibertyRep:
Hmmm.
But wait if Nigeria divides, what becomes of the Christian minorities in the NE and NW?

Is Sudan any better now?

There were many Nations in the North before British defeated them and almagamated them into one Nigeria.

Kanuri
Jukun
Tiv
Birom
Nupe
Hansa
Fulani
Igala
Idoma
Etc will definitely form their own country

But wait oo!!! This is no longer becoming a rumor.

Is this actually true Trump is advice to divide Nigeria? Why?

I think what we need to do quickly is to revert to regional system of government to discourage anyone suggesting division.

PDPdestroyer:
Some people go see Bonga South-West and assume the project is sited in SW Nigeria, then start crying marginalization

It is actually in Ondo State.

OriOko88:
Depending on which angle you're watching it. Russia didn't win it. US atomic bomb won the war. There was still war going on in Japan and Italy after the capture of Hitler,until US bomb shut them all up

Which bomb? Without Russia, Germans would had colonized Europe. They already destroyed UK and some other countries in Europe. Russia was the saving grace, I am not denying the fact US contributed to the victory though.

Russia actually won world War 2.

NasirIbnLaAhad:
And so therefore early scouting and integration can go to blazes? What was the point of your post again?

They should have been approached earlier instead of allowing them to blow. That was the point.