₦airaland Forum

Amedino99:
we got to that final because of jpes tactics. There are several YouTube videos detailing how our tactics helped us reached the final. Especially those Ghanaian stations. Simplifying our run to the final solely on the players determination is pure balderdash and reeks of selective amnesia.

Thank you very much. That's how we Nigerians are when we hate on coaches, the same thing was said of even Keshi and Westerhof that it was the players who were determined to win.

Daninya33:
Ex CAF president, Cameroonian Issa Hayatou is dead.

wow, just after Afcon, may he RIP o

jihday:
Guess it’s bye bye 👋

Not a surprise, win or lose he was bound to go. We await that magical coach we, as a people think, is out there

villagereporter:
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I can bet my life on it dat jpajero will FLOP big time if he goes to Algeria.

One thing many do not realized is dat d players themselves come to the party, to play,perspire and persevere to the end which brought them to the summit of the AFCON.

Infact I appreciate jpajero for d AFCON because I did not give SE any chance of reaching the AFCON summit but his style was so haramic and archaic in nature dat he made the players looked so much unskill and "don't know how to pass"

Algeria most times don’t lack talented players.

Coaches also play a big role in any team getting anywhere. Jpes tactics was due to availability of players we had in Afcon. We are always quick to forget we had an injury crisis just before and even when Afcon started. Barring any kind of football played it took some work to ground out those results by the coach. He should be more appreciated than maligned.

mostob:
'You are just being emotively bias and prejudice. You've been blinded by emotion. That Habeeb kid is a special talent. I remember when I was in Buckingshire with a friend of mine. we went to see a game and Habeeb was dazzling everybody. I spoke to him and encourage him to work harder. But you all prefer Nwakali who is currently earning below urgent 2k in backwater league'

e don do o

mostob:
Comrade, you too Sabi.
'I met Habeeb during one of my scouting trips to Yorkshire. At that time he was still a 10-year old boy. His Dad is from Ibadan. A tall,short, huge, light and dark man who doesn't joke with his kid....bla bla balablu..'

Una don cast that dude finish badt boys 😂

minfelix:
bros we met Sassuolo at afcon too, thats guinea bissau and we saw wat our midfield could offer against them

I don laugh tire

Mujtahida:
This happens many times in life. Bro anybody that has acquired experience in any field of human endeavor will surely acknowledge that truly experience is not just the best teacher, experience is the teacher.

Let me tell you something. That goal Maradona scored against England in Mexico 86. He had done something similar to that before but the keeper saved it at the last minute because he delayed. So against Peter shilton he relied on experience and quickly slotted it in.

Quote of the day, abi the week sef

ChrisKels:
Rigobert Song sacked by Cameroon

phew, na only power over onana e sabi

Mujtahida:
We are magical in our thinking. We always want results without realizing that generally many factors converge to produce results - time, dedication, experience, effort etc.

Many of our commenters sneer at our getting silver this Afcon because according to them we have gotten silver before.

Haaa so France will sneer at the Valiant effort of the French team after being defeated at the WC because they have won the WC twice before?

Every new generation of a nations players must hustle their hustle and we cannot der8de their good effort by merely brushing it off with the better performance of past generation.

The same French, Spanish and German players who won France 98, SA 2010, Brazil 2014 were kicked out first round in 2002, 2014 and 2018.

Whether we have won as champions before will never make me look the efforts this team put in with a small eye. That will be rank ungratefulness unworthy of a true fan. I appreciate them and will keep appreciating their valiant efforts.

Meanwhile jpes has learnt something valuable from this Afcon ooo but we will not benefit from it if he goes away. And another coach will come, try his best, lose, get sacked or leaves the job and the circle continues as we continue to look for a Fae who will win at first try

na wetin dey pain me be this, that his tactics will work with a team that has enough ball-playing players that don't lose possession easily in the midfield. No wonder the North Africans went for him cos it suits their kind of playing pattern.

solonnachi:
Seems Jpes has accepted the Algerian coaching offer. His contract with Nigeria expires tomorrow 29th.

All the best to him, $150,000 per month no be joke, that's what you get for getting to an Afcon final with a team no one gave a chance. I congratulate him and wish him well, in fact, if Algeria plays against any team apart from the Eagles, I will support the Algerian team. That's how well am grateful to Jpes.

Toylove:
Hat trick osimhen
Haters gon hate …
They say na small team e dey score against 😂😂
He go kill una with goals

no he needs to continue to score till age 70 o

PDPGuy:
You know how our people dey do. They didn’t want to pass up on the opportunity to take pictures with Messi 🤣🤣

shebi you be pdp guy, na una way na

Princezibk:
Pls stop being this way 🙏

It’s really disgusting 🤮
Probably you’re that way real life , dmso you can’t be straightened anymore…

you wan straighten am before? it's a lost case bro

opes:
Yes, 10 goals, 2 assist in 15 league appearances..

and to think that injury had slowed him earlier this season and his troubles off the pitch too

lbrichman2:
Monster Machine!!

I no just know why I dey laugh

MallamSpicey:
I stand corrected that we didn't play boring football under Keshi, maybe the football statisticians who have all the records of games played under Keshi can back me up on this.

don't try to rewrite history to suit your narrative, the games we played in the first round of AFCON 2013 were boring to the extent we all lost hope before the quarter-final match against CIV reports had it that the NFF had reserved air tickets for the entire team back to Nigeria before the match against CIV, that's how poor we were then.

MallamSpicey:
Never compare Keshi with those other 2 frauds, Keshi was never a football coward, you could fault him for several things in the later years of his coaching stint but never was there a time under Keshi when we played lethargic and boring one-route football. Rohr and Peseiro really took the bar really low, unfortunately Nigerian fans have been used to rubbish football for so long and accepted rubbish like a Stockholm syndrome.

this is not true, we played many boring games under keshi, in fact we all wanted a foreign coach back then

MallamSpicey:
I'm hearing JPesiro has declined on extending a contract offer and has quit as coach.

Good news for me, argue as you wish but the man rode his luck on pure cowardice football and on the back of sheer patriotism from the boys than any managerial "genius" on his part, his decision to not only play unfit players, but also play the most cowardly display of football ever managed by a Nigerian team in an AFCON FINAL affirmed my reasons why this guy just had to go.

Enough of these foreign journeymen coaches, if we can't get a decent enough foreign coach, then let Amunike (who looks to be the likely candidate to take over the team) step up with Finidi ASAP.

The same thing we all said about Stephen Keshi, no surprises. Even Gerhet Rohr started looking like a good coach when he left us, kotinu

elyte89:
Bro from recent interviews with Jp,he seems not to fancy extending his contract as he is looking at oda options…abeg make una use una link convince jp o…he must coach us in d next tournament 2025

The coach may go finally, any serious federation would have extended his contract by now. Am not surprised, anybody who knows our antecedent wouldn't either. I will be more surprised if the nff keeps Jpes, that will be a departure from the norm.

Marjoribanks:
Oga Kog! lol! I am shocked that you believe this POAK suing NFF nonsense.
I am also surprised that in trying to make home your point you are being economical with the truth.

1) The same Paserio released Sadiq and Boniface cos of injuries.
2) The same Paserio decided to change is formation rather than play Alhassan through injuries.
3) The same Paserio rested the same Ekong and Sanusi in matches they were declared unfit to play-- Guinea Bissau and South Africa respectively. Against Cameroon and the final, Sanusi did not play the full 90 minutes.
Finally, at football level there have been numerous examples of clubs/NT playing players through injuries. Many!

However, Nigeria is one of the countries that tried as much as possible to maintain communication with our players clubs to create a thriving environment for them at their various clubs.

The Algerians insisted on having Bennacer though not fully fit and played him! The Senegalese same with Sarr!

I have been trying to avoid this conversation but I think it's time we just ignore all these European clubs and their complaints about injuries, It's natural for them to voice out their frustrations, but that's their business and not ours. Our major concern is that our players will be back from injury in time to continue their national duties just like they do for their clubs, it's all about interests here and we shouldn't allow these European clubs to allow us to turn on our National team coaches and start lambasting them. Jpes got us to the finals, we have already blamed him enough for not winning Afcon now we want to start bashing him again for injuries, what kind of people are we sef, I even see someone suggesting they deduct from Jpes salary for injury costs, is that how low we are as a people?

Which coach in his right senses will drop influential players like Aina and Ekong in any game if they are fit enough to play, is it not justified that they made Afcon 11? Like you said earlier Boniface and even Awoniyi were excluded completely from Afcon due to injuries, why are we not blaming the clubs for their injury and demanding costs too or don't we think we missed those guys in Afcon, abeg let's stop all these blame games. The boys will be back, they just got injured like they also do when playing for their clubs, all this sensationalism is not worth it.

Bannedlargedx2:
That’s not true. World class strikers are capable of creating and scoring their own chances. If you think I’m lying go and watch fenomeno, Henry, cristiano even drogba will shoot from 40 yards

In addition they are also capable of playing as a striker, midfielder, defender and makes saves as a keeper all at the same time 😜

Amedino99:
he can never become world class if he continues like this. He is supposed to score the goals by sheer hard work and without support from anybody.

see confusion 😂

charlesemeka85:
❤️🔥

Really?

lovewins:
Nigeria Vs Argentina Friendly off for the Second time. Costa Rica to replace Nigeria as promoter finding it difficult to get visas for the Nigerian delegation.

Better, perhaps even the gods are tired and bored with Argentina's friendlies, phew

Danielnino00:
"Football is a marathon not a sprint". Ironically, this same guy is fond of using the phrase "football is a short term career".
He isn't just confused... he must be doing weed, cus it doesn't make sense for a grown up adult with such exposure as his to use different metrics, criteria, theory and condition on different players just because he prefers the English born players...

Dude just keeps expending his energy to downplay a player even foreign media adjudge as one of the best strikers in the world. Sometimes even when you have a dissenting opinion it's best to keep quiet and let posterity prove whether you're right or wrong but No he wants to form alpha and omega as someone who knows yesterday, today, and tomorrow, real nonsense.

komekn:
You are being too fanatical and loosing all sense of rationality in an emotive roller 🎢 coaster.

When I call Mbappe world class it's because he has been top of the scoring charts in the French league for the past 5 years plus that's astounding consistency in addition he does it for France in every competition.

Essentially VO has had one break out season where he got the golden boot, absolutely fabulous. Does it make him world 🌎 class to me No, but Yes on the journey to getting being world class.

He had two good seasons at Seria A not exceptional, he had another good season in French league and a good one in Belgium league.

You said so quickly it's taken him , I would not say that. In my view it's taken him almost 7 years to get to this level, throughout sheer hard work relentless determination and through injury as well. That level being highest goal scorer in Seria A last season.

Football ⚽ is a marathon not just a sprint. Remaining at the top is even harder than getting there.

and 7 years to you is still a sprint? what a contradiction! At this point, it's obvious to everyone that you're confused. The more you talk about this player the more you're confirming his exceptionalism. English is just your problem. You're expecting him to be Methuselah before he can convince you he's world-class. Kotinu

Odunayaw:
Next qualifiers is June. He'd be back by then

Amen o

charlesemeka85:
🇳🇬 Nigeria captain William Troost-Ekong, in Finland for minor surgery.

The injury occurred during the 2nd group stage game vs Ivory Coast.

Despite the injury, William became Player of the Tournament… and he’s expected to return to play for PAOK towards the end of the season.



That’s my warrior #KINGKONG

This year Afcon was just too hard mhen especially for teams who went far. So sad for Ekong, hope our World Cup dream never get k leg so

Philosopher1979:
First nigerian african player of the year since 1999.
Scored more goals than samuel eto and George weah in seria a.
First african highest goal scorer in Italy. Haha he is approaching legend. Let's be factual

Osi came at a time most have given up we will ever have a Nigerian player up there again. it looks too unbelievable to many that such a player could rise to the ranks so quickly. I mean it was looking as if No Nigerian could never win APOTY again, that's how we have fallen so badly even within Africa, even at Lille, the guy was delivering and he continued in Italy, which European league will he not excel in, and yet someone thinks he's not world-class. Some people have problem o, they say seeing is believing but in Osi matter, the player may need to die and resurrect before they can believe.

MetalJigsaw:
Don't mind the bitter hater. This is only Osimhen's first stage as our point man and look what he's achieved.

Ighalo at 25 (no disrespect) was nowhere near what Osimhen has achieved for both club and country.

Osimhen is already 80% legend at 25.

aaaah, no let the 100m pound gang come for you o I no dey there o

Princezibk:
That man undid himself at the finals ,,, Darn ! Introduce new freshmen and see the wonders and if it backfires, we’ll accept our fate …

I really pray we get Folorunsho and also fortify our midfield too … Then the rest lies with the tactician to make us of this enormous talents at his disposal 🦅🦅

we would have all abused the coach, make we no lie. A lot of folks insisted he should start chukwueze and he did, only for the boy to fall hand we all blame him again for not starting Simon, this coaching no easy o