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mank1234:
I won't give excuse for the coach but i guess your player, Nwakaeme was deployed in the right position. Don't say the team didn't get the ball to him. The guy is not SE material.

MetalJigsaw:
That CM position with his eye-catching performances is what earned him a place in SE.

mank1234:
If Nwakali doesn't play against Argentina, then I'll join forgiveness and co in suspecting shady deals in call up.

Humility017:
Lol...rohr need go for refresher course...
that nacho play from the flanks was a serious waste..
kayode would have been deployed there and nacho play the CF and iwobi the AM role....

etebo can then play the wings too...or probably Henry.


I never expected this formation from rohr

Mickael2:
so you agree now? Komekn, forgiveness come now lads, we get to rub it in right now

Lucque:
Not this again na boss.... I feel say men no de like nagging women... We dOn gree say na bribe nwakali bribe rohr, amaju, dalung, nFF, ND all of us wen de still de support d decision for here...... Let's just put it to rest.. D mata is really tiring to see ,Abeg guys make Una help me beg forgiveness for forgiveness....

Joebie:
Nigeria Target Dominic Solanke Set To Get Eleventh-Hour Call-Up To England Senior Team
Published: November 10, 2017

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Photo: thefa.com

Nigeria Target Dominic Solanke Set To Get Eleventh-Hour Call-Up To England Senior Team Liverpool striker Dominic Solanke is set to be handed a late call-up to England senior national team ahead of Tuesday night's friendly against Brazil at the National Stadium in London, according to reports.

The Guardian UK, is reporting that Gareth Southgate is set to call up three under-21 forwards for the Brazil friendly, Demarai Gray, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Dominic Solanke to make up the numbers.

England have been hit by injuries ahead of tonight's glamour game against Germany, with Jordan Henderson, Jack Butland, Gary Cahill, Fabian Delph, Harry Winks, Dele Alli and Harry Kane pulling out of the squad.

It is thought Solanke will join up with the Three Lions upon his return to the England, after representing the U21 team in a European U21 Championship qualifier against Ukraine.

The 20-year-old, who is being monitored by the Nigerian Federation with a view to a call-up to the Super Eagles, could made his England debut two years after he first trained with the senior team.

Chelsea loanee Tammy Abraham is also set to play his first international game for England Men's national team within the next four days.

Igho Kingsley

--ANS

Humility017:
unfortunately all the players you just mentioned are English players......
with all the hype sir komekn give them here...and the way he tear down others to promote them...one should expect the English team to be miles ahead of the like of Germany...in world cup tournaments...

later in the evening or better still tomoro...we will both toil this line....

Joebie:
Don't even start that argument. They are all Nigerians.

Humility017:
who is tega onomah please...
please this is super eagles thread and not 3 lions thread...
stop using the English football system as a yardstick to judge our players...
those players you mentioning have every thing working for them...good and organised football system...unlike us here in Nigeria I doubt if tega had gone through what oshimen experienced while growing up....

over hyped English groomed players...if England was that England....they would have been edging Germany all this while om world cup tournaments.....



not everyone will be opportuened to.play in England even at that you should not expect a teenager who just changed an environment, football culture and vibes to get so well and smooth in Europe though some can....but definetely the lad is on a gradual progress....I believe if at 18 he could get few minutes under his belt I believe as time goes by...he will definetely get hours provided he keep working hard..

you're so swift to pull down other players just to promote your English groomed players which I wont want to call average....

only God knows if those guys you're mentioning even have a Nigeria passport

tbaba1234:
According to owngoalnigeria, this is the starting line-up released by Rohr after the last training session:

Line Up.

Ikechukwu Ezenwa

Shehu Abdullahi

Ola Aina

Leon Balogun

William Troost-Ekong

Ogehenekaro Etebo

John Ogu

Wilfred Ndidi

Anthony Nwakaeme

Alex Iwobi

Kelechi Iheanacho

tbaba1234:
Just rewatched the Zambian game. Second half mainly.

The gulf in class between Iwobi and Simon is big. If Iwobi can be more consistent for Nigeria, I don't see Simon benching him. Key word, consistency because Iwobi has had some stinkers for Nigeria.

In the midfield, Mikel played the attacking role, Ndidi played the CM midfield role while Agu/Onazi sat in front of the defence. Earlier in the campaign, Rohr experimented with a double pivot system. (Against Algeria, Etebo and Onazi played in front of the defence.) Rohr appears to be willing to change systems depending on the game, that is a good thing.

Mikel Obi is the Choirmaster, Everything good goes through him. The short passes between Mikel, Moses and Iwobi was beautiful to watch.

Mikel Agu has good positional discipline. He might not have been too impressive so far but he keeps his position well.

Mujtahida:
To show the crassness of the idea that having institionalized modes of engaging these foreign born players cannot in the truest sense affect the development of our league let us take a review of the architecture, the developmental effort and structure that both enterprises would require

Formal engagement of players can require let's say at least two persons in France, England, Germany and Italy (as we are speaking it's possible say somebody fit dey our embassy wey him own na to just sit down, no work per se). Those are the hubs. They must personable, friendly, able to speak the local language need good social media presence, passion and consistency to make their efforts count. Imagine if you identify guys like forgiveness and give them that brief. Omo, let your imagination provide the answer.

Now let's look at what it takes in this era to have a decent league: we need good stadiums in all the states of the federation, we need good roads for travelling, we need good academies fairly spread out throughout the country, we need physiotherapy and medical sports facilities throughout the country, we might even need special courts to handle contractual disputes sharply without delays as is the case with regular courts, we need coaches, we need trainers, we need marketing and business executives to handle the business side of things, we need media executives and PR specialists, we need good network of scouts throughout Nigeria and possibly West Africa, we even need Web managers and social media consultants to maintain the social media presence of our local clubs, we need sponsorship deals and investments worth billions of dollars etc. We are looking at a whole industry with need for a large army of personel in specific areas, structures and systems.

So how does the 2% effort (comparatively speaking. Joebie help ooo, I no sabi maths) required to institutionalise our engagement with players of Nigerian descent born abroad affect the 70% effort required to develop our league? Please I want to be convinced how this is possible.

Mickael2:
let me put it this way, you may come for an exam and because you are sick or some other forms of distraction your performance takes a huge dip, the external invigilator then starts screaming that you are a poor student but the teacher who stays with you in class everyday maintains that you are good. Rohr only trains with these guys a couple of weeks at most, no offence to him but he does not know these players better than their club coaches and some of us who may decide to follow a player properly. There are sometimes I just watch a match to monitor a particular player, I have done something like that for Etebo and found out the type of player he is when playing as the AMF, Rohr did not see that and played him a bad system for him, this is not a rundown on Rohr, he has a lot of players to monitor so he'd be occupied. I have done a similar thing for players like Simon(figured out he has only one skill-set, he is not even an average player but well below average), Tammy(and I am like why do we even need this guy? He is not the savior we need which I pointed out since) and Nwakali and Yahaya, YES. During their U17 people were losing their heads over Iheanacho but watch that midfield closely and you'd see that without Yahaya and Nwakali we would not have gotten anywhere, I pointed out to a friend back then that these two boys are better tactically than Iheanacho and I still insist on that and assuming Nwakali gets a chance we will all see that for ourselves as well.

So the point here is simple, some of us have watched some players better than the coach

TheGoodJoe:
We knew them. Opabunmi played U17 with us, Bartholomew Ogbeche had a local cult following, I think from his days at Calabar Rovers.

We did not know nada of Alaba in Austria to hand him a Super Eagles call-up. Even that year, he was still in the junior team of Bayern before he made the climb.

TheGoodJoe:
You can say those criticising Siasia did not know Alaba was not eligible to play for Nigeria. That exonerates Siasia from the criticism. Not saying I should not say what I do not know.

So you can see that the NFF can not be blamed for Alaba not playing for us. Thanks for the contribution and clearing that out.

TheGoodJoe:
That is Van Gaal. He has that rep of giving young players a chance. From Ajax were he had young players to Barcelona. Even at Manchester United, Van Gaal gave young players chance to grow.

Different from the Super Eagles set-up.

TheGoodJoe:
That I do not know. I am telling you what I noticed when people were criticising why Alaba did not play for us. That was 2009/2010. The critiques were not calling for him to have been in the Super Eagles before Austria called him.

TheGoodJoe:
An analyst can write but it will not immediately sway the coach to consider a seventeen years old ready for the Super Eagles.

By the way, Alaba enquired to play for the U17 team which is mostly made of homegrown players. Alaba even hinted about logistics probably a reason.

As I said, we can not be blamed. Austria knew him because he grew up there. Wish him the best.

TheGoodJoe:
2009. The same year he joined Bayern and played for Austria. Siasia coached 2009 U20.

TheGoodJoe:
U20 Qualifiers and preparations start long before the main competition. Okay?

TheGoodJoe:
Back then, the critiques were on Siasia not inviting him earlier for the U20 team. Not Super Eagles.

TheGoodJoe:
What does Mbappe at 18 has to do with this? How many 17 year old have played for Super Eagles in recent years. It is not that easy.

By the way, I am a Van Gaal fan since the days of Finidi George. So you can understand my joy seeing a young Nigerian working with Van Gaal at Bayern.

TheGoodJoe:
Alaba was not known enough to get an invitation. If he was determined to play for us, he would not have waited up to a year to get invited. He had a growing reputation and also wanted to play for Austria. That is why he easily joined them.

He was Seventeen. You can not blame NFF. I wish Alaba the best.

TheGoodJoe:
Alaba holds the record as the youngest player to play for the Austrian National team at 17 years old. There is no way we could have approached him at that time to play for us.

I wish him the best because of his love for Nigeria. Austria knew him, he played in their league for the best club in Austria. Alaba is not one of the members of "I don't feel Nigerian crew." We would never have beaten Austria for him.

Mujtahida:
There was no what? FORMAL approach for me. And this is how we lost this gem. Smh. We are still leaking in the LB because of this loss. And here we have some under the guise of a false sense of pride(which is actually inferiority complex masking as pride) saying we do not need formal engagement and rapprochement with these players.


One strategy is never a good strategy. This is the age of Aquarius- multifaceted approach is the way forward. The Age of pisces is gone, the age of one size fits all is dead and gone.



http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/sports/7508-why-i-dumped-nigeria-david-alaba.html%EF%BB%BF

komekn:
Those are players I mentioned it's not a comprehensive list, there are others like Chuks Aneke, Fred Onyedinma,

It was not necessarily recommendation but comparison and a questioning of a system that by passed these players.

But for the midfield role I would be looking more at Chuks Aneke.