₦airaland Forum

ChrisKels:
So it wasn't Okocha's influence that brought iwobi to the Eagles even as an Academy player, any more? Lol u are funny

Martz101:
i[b]wobi didnt merit getting a nigeria cap[/b] and through nepotism okocha brought him on

Martz101:
i saw it, you said it.

andrew444:
Fake scout always looking to give wrong information,where are his Nigerian people?

Go sleep If you no get anything to say,BLOCKED HEAD

charlesemeka85:
no mind them. na pple wey no get foresight

ChrisKels:
Sorry bro but u talk like u mentally deranged sometimes. You and Southgate were the ones bashing and trolling here that Iwobi came into the team without a single first team football for Arsenal, and that it was the influence of Okocha that caused that not that he merited it. But today you want us to ply that same route we used to get iwobi (getting them before they blossom)?

andrew444:
Mbappé was born in Paris. His father Wilfried hails from Cameroon and, as well as being his agent, is a football coach, while his Algerian mother Fayza is a former handball player. His adoptive brother Jirès Kembo Ekoko is also a professional football player. He also has a younger brother named Adeyemi Mbappé.

Even if yoruba is there,i am still looking for the yoruba roots,and mind you some tribes in cameroun bear nigerian native names? Mostly the calabars,even many people in benin republic bear yoruba names and also some togolese.

Nigerians are quick to claim any player,cameroun should be the people claiming mbappe and not you,as far as me andrew and the world is concerned Mbappe is not nigerian,but maybe in your eyes and some nairaland analyst he is a nigerian,keep on looking for abroad born players.

FAKE SCOUT

andrew444:
For una village mbappe na nigerian abi? continue with the mumu rumor,Mbappe is from cameroun and i am yet to even see them talk anything but you don dey talk.....Mtscheew

TheGoodJoe:
Story. Destroyed what?

We won the AFCON, Qualified for the World Cup, Reached the knockout phase of the World Cup and the French had to cheat to win us. Keshi did us proud, rebuilt the National team and deserves...

Some accolades.

Kog45:
Oga whether dem good or not make we dey cap dem go instead of 5 years old Kwara Polytechnic graduates playing for U 21.

TheGoodJoe:
Stop being funny. Alaba was capped at 17. How the heck could we beat that?

charlesemeka85:
have seen lukas nmecha, his younger brother and bashiru play for man city's youth team and i must say that they are super talents we can not miss without giving it a try. the older nmecha has all the qualities to metamorphose into a monstrous striker in the future, the younger nmecha whom i love his style of player is a lovely central/box to box midfield with bags of tricks and good passing abilities while bashiru is an aggressive defensive/central midfielder who reminds me alot of a young eddy onazi. another one the nff should approach ASAP is arsenal's xavier amaechi, the kid is a super talent with a deadly left foot

TheGoodJoe:
We can not get all. We can only do the best we can. We also have lots of quality talents we miss out due to mismanaging our own talents. The Austrians knew him, he played in their best club and capped him very early. Not our fault. Wish him the best.

Finito.

TheGoodJoe:
Keshi liked Uche Ike, invited him repeatedly, even carried him to the AFCON but the young man was not disciplined or ready to mend fences to move the Super Eagles forward. Keshi was no respecter of names but discipline and loyalty. He had the ability to take a Kid like Omeruo and make him one of the best African defenders at the AFCON. He could take an unknown entity like Oboabona and had him defending like a mountain. Keshi had the master plan to make Mikel Obi rise from the ashes to become the supernova of African football. Had Nigerians singing born on Sunday, scored on Sunday for an Mba who was invisible before the AFCON. Keshi had hundreds of Nigerians chanting Ameobi's name in the stadium while he pulled a man of the match performance against Italy. Something that made Pardew say Ameobi can become the King of Nigeria.

Keshi was that good to stoop low to eating the indiscipline and insolence of Ike Uche.

Finito.

charlesemeka85:
do mbappe have links with nigeria?

TheGoodJoe:

Alaba made it clear that it was due to Logistics reasons that was why he could not be part of the Tella U17 team. Handling the in and out travels of the foreigners would be too costly for the Limited U17 budget. That was why the focus is on home based players. Not that he was snubbed.

Kog45:
I thought he didn't contact NFF directly but a third party who told him pointblank that U 17 is for homegrown.

TheGoodJoe:
Stop switching topics of debate. I pointed out Ike Uche and your writing a host of players.

TheGoodJoe:
Ike Uche, I gathered, was always advocating the adoption of the tactics of his club and would easily make remarks about “how things are done in my club and how they should be done here.”

Sylvanus Okpala, then with the Eagles, reportedly once asked Uche that if all players in a national team insist on adopting their club tactics what will the confusion be like? Okpala advised him to stick to the game plans of the team and that he needed to respect the national team too.

I also gathered that Ike always did things his own way. But there were times his goals covered up tremendously for his tactical indiscipline or idiosyncrasies as the case may be. At the last Nations Cup in South Africa, Ike Uche didn’t have a good tournament.

His matter, I gathered, was compounded by the fact that he bluntly refused to obey instructions especially the one that had to do with marking. As a second striker, Uche was always asked to fall deep to mark. But he was always failing to do so after repeated warnings and opponents were exploiting the space he was creating by his action. It was so bad that even his fellow players complained, I gathered.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/understanding-keshi-ike-uche-osaze/


An interesting read and might open your eyes to some of the negativity you have thrown at Keshi and his crew.

TheGoodJoe:
As long as Uche refused to play to the instructions of Keshi and his crew, he was not needed in anyway for us.

Gerrit?

TheGoodJoe:
As long as Uche refused to play to the instructions of Keshi and his crew, he was not needed in anyway for us.

Gerrit?

goldfish80:
Interesting graphic illustration on how Croatia pressed and cut off Brazil's passing lanes in their recent friendly, resulting in Brazil playing long ineffective balls up the pitch. If this will be their pressing template against Nigeria then our midfield and defence will struggle to play out of the back and build sustained pressure on the Europeans.
Jon Ogu, Mikel Obi and Alex Iwobi will be key in our team because there are the only natural pin point passers in the team who can use their passing skills to get out of the Croatia press. Also, Victor Moses will be key because in the absence of Simon Moses, he is the only line breaker in the Nigerian team.
I can't wait for June 16th

Certitude:
They won the Afcon with Emenike topping the goal chart.

edi287:
This guy should've just signed for Newcastle.

Oh well...at least he gets to play in the ucl.

TheGoodJoe:
Ike Uche clearly did not want to play to instructions and was not ready to pay attention to the coaching crew. Dropping him was the right choice.

charlesemeka85:
it was just faith and grace that took the team to the 2nd round. the decisive match against bosnia was won because the match officials goofed by disallowing dzeko's legitimate goal of which if it was counted the rest would have been history. coming to the issue of 23 dead woods ,who was the man that vetoed them good enough for the tournament? i can remember a player like imoh ezekiel was firing at all cylinders in the belgian league in the colors of standard liege but keshi deemed him not good enough, taiye taiwo was still very active then playing on loan at Ukrainian giants dynamo kiev but he was ignored instead oshaniwa made the team, a young kenny otigba was a revelation in the dutch league with heereveen but he wasnt given a chance, sone aluko was tormenting defenders and scoring with ease in the championship for hull city but he wasnt good enough by keshi's standard, haruna lukman was a regular figure in the midfield of dynamo kiev prior to the world cup and performed decently both in the domestic and the europa league but keshi never gave him a look in instead the likes of odunlami,oshaniwa,uzoenyi,gabriel reuben, egwuekwe,ameobi,nwofor,uchebo and babatunde made the team at the expense of more deserving players who performed better that season. after we crashed out of the world cup what next happened? we missed two back to back afcons, not only that suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of congo,sudan,namibia etc. abeg make una no dey allow sentiment cloud una sense of judgement