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SLIDEwaxie:
e pain am!

Hehehe!

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Icon4s:
Too bad. Hope another European club picks him up as quickly as possible.

Forgiveness na ur boy be this o.

He was doing very well before the r.... Coach came to the club. He will definitely get a club.

Nigerian coaches are are not helping matters because they would not have released him like that if he is in Nigeria National team.

We know he deserves a call up to the National team with his exploit these passed three seasons with Panathinaikos-fc but Nepotism, na my brother etc made the bigot coaches turn around for mediocre players. That's all.

joseph1013:
Let me ask: how does Success qualify to play in England when he does not have the 75% playing time for the National team required in the English Premier League?

cc: tbaba1234, forgiveness, the goodjoe et al

Well, that I don't know but has he been issued visa?

Godwin

Chai!

kentus123:
why not come over and confirm it bro.

Bros, that hotel in the first picture is not in ANAMBRA State, It is in Ibadan. Chai the guy dey yap IB come take IB pictures dey make yanger. Chai!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g317071-d5608280-Reviews-Carlton_Gate_Hotel-Ibadan_Oyo_State.html

iaamxavier:
More from anambra state (light of the nation)

And this one too? Please, tell me there locations?

iaamxavier:
More from anambra state (light of the nation)

Bros, is this building in Anambra?

terzurum5:
Where is Forgiveness? This is another opportunity for you to bash the NFF and TheGoo........................
Remember later they will say somebody doesn't want to play for us. Luckily, this one was smart enough to blow alarm.

Sorry! I am just seeing the quote now.

So, una never see the handwriting on Siasia's kodo head sorry on the wall? Chai!

He has decided to take Sincere Seth, Musa Mohammed and Abdullahi Shehu to the Olympics hence the exclusion of Ekpolo Elohor from the provision list.

I don't blame NFF because they will follow and sponsor the players written on Mr Kodo's forehead.

Na to go dere go pick ball and be used as practice material na em Ekpolo Elohor go go do for camp na.


Me I don commot mind for Olympics tey tey less I develop high blood pressure come die put. Mbanu I refuse to die .

Well, I will still take style style support dem ooo but not at the detriment of my life. Beni!

Alter = Forgery Chai!

Icon4s:
Our grp is what u get when seeding is done according to that so called "Fifa ranking".

What is my take on our grp?

I have been keenly following our WC qualifiers since qualifiers for Italia '90 which commenced late 1988. I will say this is our toughest grouping.

When FIFA revised the seeding criteria and demoted us from pot2 to pot3, i knew any grp dat Nigeria falls in would b d grp of death.

What jst happened is the best teams from each of pots1,2,3&4 have been placed in grp B.

Men, this is a difficult grp in deed. It is even tougher than a typical WC grp. Cameroun, Nigeria and Algeria were at d 2014 WC, with Nigeria and Algeria reaching d second rnd. Zambia are 2012 Afcon winners-a highly gifted and experienced side.

Historically matches involving: Nigeria vs Cameroun, Nigeria vs Algeria and Nigeria vs Zambia have always proven to be explosive.
Who will ever forget the Nigeria vs Algeria clash right from 1980 AFCON to 1982 WC qualifiers double header played in 1981. What abt d Maroc '88 semi final and Algiers '90 opener and final match. We also faced Algeria enroute qualification to 1994 & 2006 WC. I can tell u dat each of those games was massive.

I need nt tell us how massive all d Nigeria vs Cameroun games have been. Right from the 1984 AFCON final, 1988 AFCON final, 1990 WC qualifiers, 1992 AFCON 3rd place match, 2000 AFCON final and 2004 AFCON quarter final.They were all big matches with big results.

Lastly Zambia. Our rivalry with Zambia may nt b as comparable with that of Algeria and Cameroun bt d rivalry is still strong. Right from 1994 AFCON to 2010 AFCON and 2013 AFCON. They have all been very close encounters. I personally see Zambia as d best footballing nation in the South of Africa.

Playing in Algiers, Yaounde and Lusaka can be some of d most dangerous places. It is always a full fledged war.However, thank God we are not going to Abidjan, Accra and Cairo. These 3 grnds to me are d most dangerous to visit.

Enough said.
So what are our chances?

Firstly, i will say I am so excited. I cant wait for the tourney to begin. Yes, bc this is also tougher than a typical AFCON grp. It is like d 2018 WC itself.
Put aside FIFA ranking. We know Nigeria is abt d greatest footballing nation in that grp. I am nt saying that makes us the favorites to go through bt dat makes us d most feared team in that grp.
Yes. Nigeria is d most unpredictable team in dat grp. Nigeria is d only team in dat grp that can raise a team dat can beat Brazil and subsequently find it difficult to beat a team like Tanzania. It simply means we have what it takes to top dat grp and also end at d bottom.

We have d potential and quality of players to do it. The area we always get it wrong is the NFF vs coaches rifts, choice of match venue, choice of players by d coaches and the underrating of d weaker opponents in our grp.

Nigreria can top that grp.

The NFF firstly needs to appoint a coach now. We need to chose a befiting home ground now. No body should pls take us to Kaduna or Kano where d weather would force us to drop some certain players. Abuja or Uyo to me would b appropriate. We have our final 2017 AFCON qualifiers game in September. Let us play dem on our chosen home ground and with d best of our players we hope to use to presecute the WC qualifiers. We can also use dat window to play another African team in a friendly to also prepare for d WC qualifiers.

The Rio Olympics is another opportunity for us to fully assess some of these young lads.

I know we are in a difficult group bt we all have to b optimistic.

By and large, we have seen us miss out at d 2006 WC and 2011, 2015 & 2017 AFCON. We must have developed a thick skin by now.
Anything can happen. We can only hope for d best for the team.

cc: TheGoodJoe, forgiveness, TheSuperNerd, safarigirl, Tbaba1234, terzurum5, Michael2, confun, joseph1033 ................

You have said it all. But I am not really scared of Cameroun because we will always trash them in normal games. You know what I am talking about.

Algeria with all their stars will even ginger our players to bend dem put for one corner because we always perform better when we meet tougher opponents.

Zambia na em I fear pass. They are so so team without big names hence we might make light of them as usual.

comodo:
We all want one player or d other to be in d team. But come to think of it, Ajagun is an AMF but Mikel Agu is a DMF so one cannot sub one for the other. Olaitan didn't do himself a lot of favour. He wasn't consistent in his loan deal both in Holland & Belgium. Besides who will they bench in d attacking third.

Of course I definitely know Mikel Agu is a DMF but my question is how did he manage to make the list when I definitely know the lad only played 2 matches the whole of last season? How come? How come?

To have a closer look at him? No! Because he can't tell me he does not have enough players to cover that wing on his mischievous list. The likes of Mikel Obi, Ndidi and Shehu Abdullahi are already on his list, so how can Siasi drop them for Agu?

Even as at that, Why can't he extend the same to Abdul Ajagun and Olaitan who had a better season than Mikel Agu and some players on that frivolous list. Imagine Saviour Godwin who only played 38 minutes of football last season on the list ahead of Michael Olaitan and Michael Babatunde. Yiack!

So, Siasia can't apply that his mischievous word "to take a closer look at" ko? As he has stylishly used to include those he made us ignorantly believed was not on his list initially but some how "to take a look at" turned the table overnight to suddenly surface on the list.

Apart from Alex Iwobi who else can effectively play as a AMF on that list?

Is Godwin Saviour and Awoniyi better than Michael Olaitan? Apart from Imoh Ezekiel and Simon Moses the I no see any player better than Olaitan.

chrisooblog:
poor success seems siasia has bought himself small sense

https://www.thecable.ng/mikel-ighalo-iheanacho-make-siasias-olympics-list

Mikel Obi, Odion Ighalo, and Alex Iwobi, are in the 35-man Olympics list, which Samson Siasia, head coach of the U-23 team, released on Friday.

The list is expected to be trimmed down to 21 ahead the competition, which kicks off in Rio, Brazil, on August 5.

Some of the young talented players in the list are: Ogenekaro Etebo, Musa Muhammed, Stanley Amuzie, Kingsley Madu, Taiwo Awoniyi.

Nigeria will face Sweden, Colombia and Japan in Group B of the preliminary round of the 2016 Olympics men’s football event.

Expectations are high that the current squad will repeat the feat of the Kanu Nwankwo-led ‘Dream Team’, which won the championship in 1996.

The last time Nigeria got to the final round of the Olympics was at Beijing 2008. The team lost out to the Argentine side inspired by Lionnel Messi in the final.

Interestingly, it was Siasia who led the Nigerian Squad to pick a silver medal at that competition.

Below is the 35-man list:

Daniel Akpeyi (Chippa FC, South Africa)
Yusuf Bala (Kano Pillars)
Emmanuel Daniel (Enugu Rangers)
Taiwo Abdulrahman (Kwara United)
Ndubuisi Agu (FC Porto, Portugal)
Junior Ajayi (CS Sfaxien, Tunisia)
Stanley Amuzie (Olhanense FC, Portugal),
Taiwo Awoniyi (Frankfurt FC, Germany)
Okechukwu Azubuike (Yeni Malatyaspor, Turkey)
Etor Daniel (Enyimba FC)
Augustine Dimgba (Sunshine Stars)
William Ekong (Haugesund FC, Norway)
Saturday Erimuya (Kayseri Erciyespor, Turkey)
Oghenekaro Etebo (CD Feirense FC, Portugal)
Imoh Ezekiel (Anderlecht, Belgium)
Saviour Godwin (Ostende, Belgium)
Odion Ighalo (Watford FC, England)
Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City, England)
Alex Iwobi (Arsenal FC, England)
Emiloju Julius (MFM FC)
Kingsley Madu (AS Trencin, Slovakia)
John Mikel Obi (Chelsea FC, England)
Musa Muhammed (Istanbul Basaksehir, Turkey)
Usman Muhammed (CF Uniao, Portugal)
Wilfred Ndidi (KRC Genk, Belgium)
Erhun Obanor (MFM FC)
Godfrey Oboabona (Caykur Rizespor, Turkey)
Kenneth Omeruo (Chelsea FC, England)
Sodiq Saliu (Seraing FC, Belgium)
Abdullahi Shehu (CF Uniao, Portugal)
Moses Simon (KAA Gent, Belgium)
Seth Sincere (Rhapsody FC)
Ndifreke Udo (Abia Warriors)
Aminu Umar (Osmalispor, Turkey)
Sadiq Umar (AS Roma, Italy)

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