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Famocious:
Samuel Kalu ruled out from Nigeria vs Brazil friendly due to injury

Source : Oluwasina Okeleji twitter post

komekn:
In otherwords you believe in bigoted discrimination and prejudice.

If you are the future of Nigeria, then the NATION IS DOOMED.

You will enthrone MEDIOCRITY over EXCELLENCE in the basis of were you were born.

Shockingly you might even be educated yet steeped in REGRESSIVE thinking.

Koboko99:
They cannot even beat Togo or Cape Verde and someone wants Rohr to invite an RB from here. Useless league and their akamu players!!!

BascoVanVeli:
Penalty shootout Lazarus misses. NGR 2-3 CPV

BascoVanVeli:
Goal Sikiru Alimi
Nigeria 1-0 Cape Verde

Philosopher1979:
Chukwuka Onuwa is a creative midfielder/playmaker who plays for Enyimba yet our coaches keep on ignoring him. The home based coach (imama) or whatever he is called is simply a dummy and totally incompetent. Onuwa should be given a chance. Perhaps he can solve the problem of lack of attacking midfielders in our national team. As bad as our league is, even the good players there are not invited to our national team.
The players being used for the home based team are NOT THE BEST PLAYERS IN the league.

I don't know what is wrong with our coaches. The young man is the best midfielder in the premier league according to local journalists and he has even received player of the year. Our coaches might have something wrong with their brain. Maybe the young man neeeds to grow abroad before we recognize him.

sheyishemba:
Pele ooo
Mr investor .... Today is october 5, there is still one week for ebuehi to recuperate... And moreover this guy has been playing with U-23 in benefica... I believe if this dude is not 100% percent fit... I can assure you he is 70% fit.... I prefer one legged ebuehi to ya NPFL player and don't forget most of Ebuehi match for Nigeria ��... He was not fully fit... Yet his talent still shown... I prefer Ebuehi to d carpenters, bricklayers in the NPFL

Earthquake1:
Ok it seems you don't know much about football

Earthquake1:
He has not played 90 minutes yet has he?

Earthquake1:
I believe in Nigerian born and bred players

That must be a very hard concept for you

Earthquake1:
Ebuehi is injured, if he's not a psychologist or motivational speaker he is absolutely useless to the team

So you prefer have virtually 22 men than investing in the NPFL?

Earthquake1:
Rohr prides himself on developing young talent and says the NPFL does not good enough talent

Why not try a potential in the NPFL, you have one more fit player, you invested in the NPFL. Win Win

Earthquake1:
Taking an unfit Ebuehi is not only a waste of money, but a waste of OPPORTUNITY

What happened to increasing your pool of RBs with this injury?

tbaba1234:
Lol.. please, the national team is not to help people's careers. It is for the best Nigerian players.

Earthquake1:
There are millions of kids in Nigeria but you are worried about one dude's halfcast kid playing for another country

Is this not mental slavery?

wayodude:
Guys in the end it's a matter of the heart. I am Nigerian and also British. Had I been a player in a position to pick between playing for either country there is no way on earth I will be as happy banging in goals for England as I would doing it for Nigeria. My heroes are Yekini, Finidi, Okocha etc...

Now...my cousins are dual nationals as well and they will rather wait to play for England until they retire then even think of playing for any other country. Their heroes are Lineker, Gascoigne, John Barnes etc. I don't judge them it's just the way it is...

My son is only 6 years old and as much as I try to make him realise we are Naija first and British second he is naturally more aligned with his British side, from his mum, school, neighbors etc if in the future he was a football player I honestly feel he will be happier playing for England. Who knows eh

andrew444:
You are very bias, you didnt mention uzoho abi?

charlesemeka85:
That's the problem folks of your kind have. I have severally posted positive reviews on players from the home front.

I have made positive posts on the performance of players likes Okereke even when he was still in serie B, chukwueze, oshimeh, ndidi, Michael Kingsley, Dennis, kalu, onyekuru just to mention a few and of recent Ejike, Azeez and olayinka.

I don't just hype players without monitoring them and if you are tagging me bias because I have so many times disagree with those clamouring for the invite of mediocrity such as azubuike, Nwakali and co then I prefer to be biased all my life

Mujtahida:
The truth is that football has changed so much. In the past all you needed was talent. Now football is a science. We are still frozen in the past and beyond the structural and infrastrctural problems bedevilling the local league, is the issue of lack of the touch of the finesse of modern football.

I like the old football of Maradona, Baggio, Gullit, Carlos, Yekini just as some people here like our local players but once the time comes for a certain trend of change to take effect, our personal love or attachment to the old ways don't matter much. At last you either embrace change or like Okonkwo in Things fall Apart, you will be cast aside.

The future of our football is in the hands of the foreign born players of Nigerian descent. They are the ones whose talent will have been honed by the science of modern football and therefore better equipped to carry the burden of representing Nigeria on the global stage. Nigerian born players will simply not be able to cope.

Joebie:
Nigerians in Nigeria are treated as less Nigerians and they think someone else is less Nigerian. What an irony.

charlesemeka85:
I have clamoured for the inclusion of home grown players who are doing well and will add something different to the team severally here so u don't have a point.

All am saying is the mentality of believing that kids born abroad a less Nigerians than those born at home is myopic and if u re among the group that have such mentality I advise u change.

I'm not here to boast but only used myself as reference and if that disturbs you then search for the nearest transformer in your hood to hug cus no be me cause wetin dey do u

tbaba1234:
Your super eagles is made up of foreign born player. Remove all the foreign born and dual citizen players from the Super Eagles, what kind of team would you have now?

No Iwobi, Aina, Ekong, Ebuehi, Semi Ajayi, Balogun.

These players will continue to play an integral part of our future.

charlesemeka85:
Oga no one doubts the fact that Ejuke is good enough for the super eagles. I posted something here few days ago on Rohr's eyes set on Ejuke who have been doing marvelously well in the eirdivisie. You can pour your frustration on Imama who ignored him but invited a 2nd tier player from Austria.

Rohr just replied to a question and didn't say he was gonna invite Saka soon but said it will he a bit difficult since he has official caps for the English youth team.


Also I see no wrong in having Ejuke and Saka in the u23 or current super eagles set up. The aim is having a large pool of young talented players. Stop been emotional rather listen to your head the more.

andrew444:
Agreed

So keshi never knew who was otigba?

To be sincere i was surprised he wasnt called up then thou, but a certain odunlami egwuekwe who was no where near him was taken to the confederation cup

Danielnino00:
Maybe he was good back then.. but obviously not good enough... that's why his career went downhill just like Egwueke and Odunlami...

tbaba1234:
At this point in time, we (Rohr and NFF) are simply not interested in the boy. That is why..

tbaba1234:
Cameroon invited under 23 players for a friendly in this international break.

Look at the list, they invited some of the best under 23, they can muster.

Nigeria could have also engaged our under 23 in this window, The likes of Okereke, Kingsley Michael, Ejuke, Tosin Kehinde, Ofoborh, Dele Bashir etc could have been invited.

SerVik:
Seems Nigerians weren't the only hopeful ones.

OMANBALA1:
Whether he wanted to play for Nigeria or not is not our business because he is at best average...Was he better than Osaze, Utaka or Aiyegbeni ? Answer is NO. English players aren't that good.

tbaba1234:
Olowu from that Arsenal academy has declared for Nigeria. You win some, you lose some.

darkelf:
Baba kog45. Please stop being sentimental.

How can you tag odegbami as the best winger out of Africa. He didn't qualify for the WC neither sis he ever play in Europe. All those names you mentioned were local champions. Local as in only within Nigeria and not even Africa. Let's be honest with ourselves

Lucque:
Bros wat he is saying is dat if u put tammy in the lille team vs a big team like chelsea he wont be able to get dat rating dat osimhen did...and that is d truth, unless u agree dat 1) ur chelsea team is on the same level with lille.. and 2)that tammy played beta tonyt even tho he was surrounded by way more matured and seasoned professionals.