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Mujtahida:
No he is not a men he is a many mens

o boy I surrender

Ronaldo is not a man, He is a MEN!

Damn, are you saw what am sawing, the world cup just started, na rehearsal the other teams dey do before now

Big players come to the party when it's necessary, hope mikel and moses are watching

Ronaldo showing it the way it should be

that is how to score at the world cup, pure class

African countries need prayers o, can't be losing your first games. If you can't beat Iran, na Spain you wan beat?

Mujtahida:
relax, i say relax bro. marcus is the seventh son of a seven son . google the seven son theory. lol

omo from believe i don slide enter into fantasy ooo. anything to keep hope alive.

At lest Uruguay win their game today courtesy of Marcus

mumemma:
D psychic pig got it wrong...Dis Uruguian side aint goin nowhere...Poor

Am guess d first teams to leave d group stage naji Psychi Pig pick so

are you sure?

MetalJigsaw:
Moses: Super Eagles Determined To Beat Strong, Talented Croatia
June 14, 2018 10:25 pm

Super Eagles forward Victor Moses has urged his Super Eagles’ teammates to remain focused as they begin their Russia2018 World Cup campaign against Croatia on Saturday.

The Chelsea star apologized to fans for their poor performance in the friendly games but vowed to be in their best form against Croatia.

“We’ve come here a long time here at Esentuki, but I think you can see in the training that we were doing very well. Now there is a match with Croatia, a very strong team, but we are gunning for the win,” he told Croatian outlet sportske.jutarnji.hr.

“This game is very important to us because it is very important to start winning and get a good result. We are optimistic, we want to beat Croatia.

“Yet these were just friendly matches, although we were sorry we lost, especially against England. But we look good at this point; we will be good in opening game against Croatia.

“Croatia is a great team with many top players; they are strong individuals and team. They have a particularly strong midfield and attack, the most important thing for us is to be concentrated, then we can beat Croatia.

“The most important thing is not to lose this first game because they are sometimes the most important. Croatia can beat anyone, but Nigeria can beat Croatia. We’ll have to do it like a team.”

Moses chose no country as his favorite to win the World Cup.

“Everything can happen in our group, all teams can advance,” he added.


https://www.completesportsnigeria.com/moses-super-eagles-determined-to-beat-strong-talented-croatia/

moses apology will make more sense with a sterling performance on saturday

minfelix:
una too dey serious for everything haba! d guy is just joking

the joke has expired, let him bring a new one

eterisan:
Please someone should tell Mikel to focus.

this is a very old pic, let's stop this joke abeg, doesn't make sense anymore

rabzy:
Which kain keeper be this

Akpere keeper

Akpere keeper

PurplePatch:
Ebola scare.

But equatorial guinea hosted the afconn which is closer to dr congo than morroco which is so far way up north. The morrocans got what they bargained for and I hear this is their fifth time of wordl cup bidding. Next time they should take Africa more seriously cos they equally hosted the confed cup around the same time of the Ebola scare

PurplePatch:
Bad BElle nations in Africa cannot even support one of its own. After they will say the continent is backward. Even SA no want rivalry. When will my people learn?
Without any atom of doubt I knew Nigeria were solidly behind Morocco. After Pinnick and their FA joined forces to push out Issa Hayatu and made way for Ahmad Ahmad

But is Cameron on that list If not, what a forgiving nation!


What it's preventing this thread from going to the promised land? If na snake thread now....
Lalasticlala
Mynd44
Dominique.

why did morocco refused to host afcon in 2015?

later they will complain about marginalization and lack of appointments

our SE brothers are becoming more frustrated and they should watch it cos it's not looking too good for them in the scheme of national politics, even a pdp member told me that they are likely to go for a SW candidate as VP for 2019 and I asked what happen to the SE who are major stakeholders in PDP, he told me I should just watch and see, I was shocked. Our SE brothers should focus more on profitable things rather than throwing tantrums here and there but would they ever listen?

ollah2:
You are writing gibberish. Pastors being lily livered dosnt change the fact that he brings up facts and none of these pastors besides Tb Joshua and Daystar has admitted to tithing being frauds.

Lastly, those pastors are not better equipped than freeze Bible to bible. He has and doing his part by using his strength to attack fraudulent pastors. Someone else to take the political part maybe then Nigerians will begin to be brave again like the previous generation.

This generation is the worst

Pastors will continue to get rich for as long they keep solving problems for humanity, you think folks will just dump money on pastors if they weren't adding value, you and freeze will soon get tired cos pastors will continue to be rich, go and face your thieving politicians cos pastors aren't Nigeria's problems as you folks erroneously think

goldfish80:
To become successful, we basically have to go back to the basis and fix our league from Amateur to the premier league. It might sound cliché but that's the only way possible to raise good players who can cause major upset in world cups with our style.

South Africa toyed with the idea of having their national team play in the Psl a season prior to the 2010 world cup,it might sound unattainable, but such radical ideas might actually work.
As Africans, we must be brave and push out our boats. This is one of the reasons I like the idea behind Chan.

I love your use of the word brave! That was the hallmark of the Cameron team in Italia 90, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010. They were very brave sides and you see no sense of being jittery when they played in the world cup but for lack of very good experience those teams would have gotten to the final

Mujtahida:
Well, it has to be a comprehensive approach. Only physicality will not do it. It's too limited to outwit Europeans.
Why has cameroun who are typically jambody been beaten since 1990 ? We didn't play jambody in 1994. We played highly technical skillful football. Nigeria began to make her impact on World football when she shifted from the physicality that defined much of our game in the 80's to skills and finesse in the 90's.

Amokachi had power but he was very skillful.

Exactly, power and skill is what we need, our present team has skills but limited power. The moment players like amokachi, amuneke, ikpeba, siasia, taribo, oliseh,mutiu left our national team, we have found it difficult to find players with both power and skill. The remnants left then were folks like Taiwo, osaze, even martins with all his power and skills couldn't do enough.

chrisooblog:
true one must always gauge your actions because good or bad there are consequences to every action. that snub of afcon 2015 has come to bite them on the butt. not still sure they would have won with full african vote but knowing you have a bloc vote to call on would have been a good bargaining chip.

a pity heard our own daniel amokachi was picked to pitch for them at the FIFA congress

You see them, why dem no call salah to pitch for them? Don't give a damn about their hosting right, glad they were dumped and hope amaokachi collected his full payment. useless people, no wonder they rejoined the African union after may years of pulling out earlier and to think they were begging to become a member of ECOWAS make me vex the more.

Mujtahida:
It's not all about physicality. Physicality would even be counter-productive because football is becoming a - no-touch game. Refs will penalise us. Unless perhaps by physicality you mean athleticism. Cos if na physicality according to gri gri, bulldoze your-way kind of football I doubt if we would succeed.

What I'm looking at is techniques and we sure can succeed in that regard by laying emphasis on what suits our style coupled with effectiveness as chrisooblog has suggested.

All na grammar, what do you think made Chelsea to become an elite club in the EPL after so many years in the woods, whether its physicality or athleticism you call it, you have to come with your own style to overcome the present masters of the game, even the Europeans had to come out with a system to counter the samba style of the Brazilians when they were becoming too difficult to beat

Mujtahida:
MY THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF THE WC
since 2002 no country apart from european countries has won the WC(and more european countries have won the WC than any other country from other continents since the inception of the FIFA WC in 1930. while it can be argued that this is because europeans have proportionately more teams than other continents -could there be other causes?) could this be as a result of the fact that global football is tailored to suit the style, the nature and character of Europeans?
take this issue of pressing that has almost become the alfa tactics employed by most teams for example. it is about choking and pressuring the opposition when they(the opposition) have the ball. now i think this is what happened: europeans eliminated the dribble(yes dribbling is almost dead) because i do not see how pressing can be effective when you have a team of good ball dribblers. can you press maradona, or okocha or any team with a good number of dribblers like Brazil 82 team? they will just dribble themselves out of the choke and pass the ball to a team mate who is free from the press. just a moment of sheer individual brilliance, a sweet turn, a flick and dance with the ball and the whole press will collapse.but you see what europeans have done: they eliminated the dribble, clamped down on individual displays and erected a temple to the god of passing, passing, passing and laid more emphasis on team game.
europeans thrive on organization and efficiency: they hate anything disorganized which is how they regard anything free flowing(meanwhile africans want expressiveness and flair). check out classical european music, opera and the ballet dance. everything is timed and organized. the world of music was cold until africans and south americans(and it was still africans if you know your history)with the their toms toms, sense of natural rhythm and free flowing dance brought in the blues, jazz and pop culture was born. for the life of me i have tried to enjoy mozart, bach, handel and others but omo i still prefer the sound of the gong, ekwe, beaded gourd and talking drum. to the european ear african music is disorganized but as africans we know theres a method to that seeming "disorganization". our music is all about rhythm and improvisation.

my point is we must break away from this european model of playing football: we cannot beat them when it comes to an organized approached to football. no wonder xavi said that they understand football as a space-time concept. this is nothing but the scientific european mind speaking. the black man has no such concept. (thats why he cannot operate by the 24 hour clock). africans understand football as a dance, as rhythm, as beat, as robustness and vigour.
this is how we must play our football. we must play football according to our soul. we are africans and its not a matter of race- its a matter of an outlook on life which we can perfect and use to define our game.

my brothers i would appreciate your thoughts on this issue
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and every other esteemed poster on this great thread

Great post, this has always been my view. You can't beat the European teams especially the top teams using their own tactics, we have to bring in our africanness to bully our way through. Check our past victories over European teams at the world cups we have played. This has been the case and who has noticed that the European teams with players of African origin are beginning to bring in lots of this phyiscallity and flair into their game e.g. england, France, Belgium and the likes.

Icon4s:
The Maroc 2026 Bid was not successful . Too bad but they can repackage for 2030.

Good for them after refusing to host the afcon in 2015 due to Ebola which was not a serious threat to their country. I even heard 10 african countries refuse to vote morroco despite caf president instructions. Me am happy they were not given hosting right. They only claim african for their selfish ambitions but they will deny being African when it matters most. Nonsense

The fear of FBI investigation is the beginning of wisdom to allow US host the world cup, lesson well learnt by infantion from blatter's mess.

Am also very happy that morocco did not win after messing up caf by not hosting the 2017 nations cup due to Ebola outbreak that was in no way a threat to any north African country, may be that's why 10 African countries didn't vote for Morocco despite caf president instructions. Serves Morocco right

ollah2:
If someone else can have the balls to attack the politicians perhaps Nigeria would become better. You could take that up since it's your strength. Daddy freeze as said it times without number, he is focusing on his strengths. He is able to face whatever question about Christianity but not so about politics.

Capish !

daddy freeze is just a coward because he knows pastors can't hit back because of their kind of calling, he is Lilly-levered cos he feels pastors are softer targets than politicians.

charliejose:
my own problem is where are they going to work after graduation?

self employment nah

See a president that never was speaking so eloquently and intelligently, not the politicians we have today that speak without their brains, chai who did this to us. Even the likes of dino we hail as eloquent need to hear mko speak and borrow some sense on how to talk

John Ogu needs to grow up abeg, you are already at the world cup so what's your business now with those who never wish you were there in the first place. You think we will listen to your dumb excuse if you play badly!

[quote author= post=68384123]They should not distract this guy from the world cup please.
And the gaffer should make sure he seized the phone he is using to reply till after the competition.
This is not the time for this distractions.
They should save their family wahalas till after the competition.
We need TOTAL CONCENTRATION at the moment.
[/quote]our players are already distracted, the average Nigerian is too emotional to concentrate and focus on his job, reason we turn out mediocres where others from other climes excel

edi287:
Etebo signs for Stoke. Poor move imo. Should've waited till after the World Cup

That's risky o to wait after world cup, good move for etebo.

Beremx:
you deserve a kiss. What's the difference between what you wrote and what i wrote? Thanks for elaborating the whole story

Ogonimilitant over to you!

Hope your accusers will be brave enough to eat their silly words!