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jihday:
Rohr submitted 40, the NFF/Eguavoen submitted the final list

He tried but Bassey, Dessers and Ebuehi deserve a look in especially bassey and Dessers

stevemarkdangot:
Just read it online. I've modified the comment. The Slot shouldn't be wasted on Goal keeper.

Exactly they should have invite bassey, Ebuehi and Dessers

This guys deserve call ups ahead of players like nacho, Ighalo and shehu

stevemarkdangot:
23 will be going to the tournament. 5 players will still be dropped.

No player will be dropped
Caf accepted and call for 28 man list because of covid 19

Just in case any test positive

kingphilip:
na still only 4 midfielders we de carry go

Unless we bring Iwobi into the mix to make it 5 out of 28 man list.

Okay o

Sure Iwobi will be drafted to the midfield

The midfield is not looking bad at all .

I am so happy to see Sadiq Umar there not happy to see Ebuehi omission

stevemarkdangot:
I shared this sentiment too. The lack of planning clearly shows Amaju pinick want the tournament to be postponed. Hopefully, they won't put unnecessary pressure on Eguavon if he later lead the team to Afcon.

Should the sport minister interfere now
Peeps here will start blame the FG for interference

Is it not obvious that this nff is selfish and incompetent

Nigerians wll now start drag Sunday Dare to interfere now on social media

TheGoodJoe:
From Solace Chukwu

Pinnick want to sabotage the effort of CAF and the super eagles because of his closeness to infantino...

Fifa want the tournament postponed or cancelled

chrisooblog:
Yeah the Ikom bridge but I'm not sure how good the roads are in Cameroon.

Is that we can't afford plane fees to take this players to Cameroon Or the Peace airline deal is no longer existent I don't understand why risk the lives of the players or make them travel for hours to Cameroon via road ?

I told u the Pinnick apologists cooked up the story to put the Dare led sport ministry in bad light as the reason why the NFF want them in awka Ibom instead of abuja... there is no such plans by the NFF to take them to Cameroon via road

forgiveness:
Pinnick doesn’t know what he is suggesting then.

He should allow the Federal government take care of the bills instead of owning money unnecessarily.

I hope they don’t jeopardize our chances at AFCON this time around with their dirty politics.

I am telling you bro
It is annoying up till now we are hearing of shopping for super eagles coach instead of kick starting afcon preparation with Equeavon and crew

forgiveness:
Few hours drive to Cameroon!?

That road is very terrible. Worse than Aba roads. In fact, you will have to push the Jeep more than the Jeep drive you.

Moreover, it’s very far from Akwa Ibom. Even from Ikom is very far.

Make dem no try endanger those player’s life ooooo.

Nobody is trying to push the super eagles to Cameroon via land shuttle

He is the one that cooked up those words just to rubbish Dare quest to take the super eagles to abuja and support the Pinnick led NFF

The NFF not just this pinnick led NFF right from the time of Galadima are fond of taking matches or the super eagles to states where the governors give largess or ready to offset the team expenses and many time they over do it not minding the poor state of the stadia or facilities all they look after is the money they'll get from the governor that was how the super eagles miss out on 2006 world cup by drawing the match played at Kano stadia....prior that match Yobo and some of the players complained that the weather was too hot and unconducive

do4luv14:
bro's don't waste your breath, he will not hear, it seems as if Pinnick trouble him both in dream and reality

Sometimes u talk so funny

I have asked u here if you're related to Pinnick that you don't mind pick issues or quarrel with someone because they criticize pinnick

Instead of you to correct the fellow who could not comprehend my words....

Comparing Pinnick with Maigari in terms of national team trophies what has his administration won for us

do4luv14:
bro's don't waste your breath, he will not hear, it seems as if Pinnick trouble him both in dream and reality

Sometimes u talk so funny

I have asked u here if you're related to Pinnick that you don't mind pick issues or quarrel with someone because they criticize pinnick

Instead of you to correct the fellow who could not comprehend my words

Comparing Pinnick with Maigari in terms of national team trophies what has his administration won for us

Triniti:
You really need to get a grip of your emotions, you keep making this false assertion in here daily about “southerners being bad managers of football in this country “

It reeks of stupidity for you to keep saying these at all times. The mere fact that Pinnick is not doing things the way you want does not warrant you to keep tagging everyone as never do well.

Every good thing in this country was laid down by southerners, stop disgracing yourself.

Pls Oga learn to be civil while you quote me

I narrowed my quote to football administration as per se the NFF/NFA as it was formerly called

I expect so much from Pinnick because he is someone i know so much was expecting him to replicate the success attained with delta state sport ministry in NFF

nelszx:
Driving to Cameroon now is an unwise decision as the Ambazonian boys are wrecking havoc in those are. Before what happened to Togo in Angola will happen to the boys.

Maybe camp in Abuja and fly them directly into Cameroon (safety first).

Thanks for your wisdom Bro

I dont see how the sport ministry demands that the eagles camp in Abuja as something that should be withholding the NFF from releasing the afcon list and kick starting preparation for afcon

He is trying to blame the Sport Minister for the NFF incompetence and cluelessnes

do4luv14:
you are the one who needs to heard the bitter truth,

and managing my foot, so all the football clubs down south, are being mis-managed

Oga I dey vex for this your statement , in fact no quote me again on it,

The problem I have with u.... is sentiments

Managing football here I mean the NFF/NFA as it was formerly called

I hate it when we don't talk it the way it is...

You can not compare trophies won in Maigari era and Pinnick time ??

Sorry if quoting u offend u

I was thinking we can engage in civil conversation

do4luv14:
hahahahaha, I laff you for face are you not among those who lead the charge calling for Rohr sack.

OK let me agree with all your wrote up there, but did it ever cross your mind that, Sacking Rohr, might affect our plans and preparation toward Afcon.

the camp, the list, and others had been put in place before his sack, now we are still waiting for the list, instead of going with the wisdom of hosting camp in Akwa Ibom, your saintly minister insist on Abuja,

what's does that told you

Sacking Rohr and replacing him with Austin was okay and accepted after a cursory analysis

So why still junketing round for a foreign coach at this hour?
Why not kick start preparation asap
The coaching crew are ready why not start off

I am so sure if they had start by releasing the list and get to work...Dare won't have find it easy to interfere. Pinnick and NFF is displaying gross incompetence so far with the way they've handling the super eagles

Why don't put the search for a foreign coach on hold and lets work towards this afcon first and afterwards with the Technical crew shop for a foreign coach

I like been truthfully if pinnick was my blood brother will tell him bluntly so far he is not doing well

I hate it when we shy from the truth.... so far the NFF is not helping the super eagles at all. All this move and rumour about appointing a foreign a coach should stop and all efforts should be on preparing the super eagles for afcon .

Meanwhile you can't expect the sport minister not to want the team use the abuja stadia for preparation having been built by Dangote. In fact they ought to organise a friendly there and invite dangote to come watch with his friends otedola etc by so doing they can even raise some cash for the super eagles as they journey to Cameroon...it can be a good strategy

The sport ministry does nothing wrong in wanting them play and camp in abuja moreover the NFF depends on the sport ministry to fund his budget if they believe abuja will be less expensive thats fine..
Moreover both Uyo and Abuja have great facilities in place

do4luv14:
I don't take lightly to that statement of yours, are you saying Southerners are dull and bereaved of ideas.

pls don't ever use We southerners again, and by the way what are you still doing in the South why not relocated permanently to the North

I know you will quote me brother

I just know....

If you read it well...I said in managing foot ball in Nigeria, the Northerners have proved to do better. So you can interpret the way you like or think...the truth is bitter

Famocious:
As seen on Twitter this morning..

Could this be the exact reason why NFF is foot dragging on releasing the so called 30-man Eagles list?

He is now FIFA errand boy and right hand man in Africa. Infantino is very close to him, he even gets to represent him in some occasions...
This may put him in a bad light amongst other africa FAs and CAF. He could be a saboteur being that the western countries want a postponement or cancellation of CAF and him being close to thjs western block can be used to achieve this plans

Pinnick is playing a dangerous politics while using the NFF as the ladder to achieve his personal ambition

do4luv14:
which feet dragging, tell your sport minister to hands off

Even before Rohr was sacked, almost everything had been put in place for them to camp in Akwa Ibom, which was a few hours drive to their games venue in Cameroon,

Only for Sunday to say the camp must hold in Abuja,

Easy for you blame the sport minister with the so many incompetence comiñg from pinnick led management you will never blame him instead you can quote others to absolve him of blame...


Brother of a truth, Pinnick is to be blame for the delay so far, if i was the sport minister will get more involve more than what Dare is doing because Pinnick doesn't look like someone who knows what he is important, have priorities or what he is supposed to do at this hour.

If he has show capabilities I am sure no one will love interfere in the team preparation

Few days to a tournament all he is busy with is appointing a fo reign coach for the super eagles when you have Austin a member of the Technical committee who have been there with some coaches managing the team

By now all hands and preparation should be in place for the super eagles to have befitting afcon and not distract the coaching crew and team with news of appointing a foreign coach. Let the coaching crew get to work immediately after the afcon we shift focus to appointing a foreign coach if need be.

nelszx:
Hearing we may be getting a 30 man list. Camp starts 28th and this feet dragging by the NFF is something else.

If Eguavoen isn't going to lead us, name a coach and let him get to work immediately.

Just can't wait for this NFF era just like Buhari government to be over

I was thinking we southerners managing NFF will do things differently but it is obvious the Northerners are smarter and better so far when it comes to football administration in Nigeria

If you criticize the NFF now...just like Buhari foot soldiers, pinnick supporters will come quote u just like Buhari, Pinnick does no wrong.

Incompetence flows in all arms and agencies of the government. Why don't allow Equeavon led this team to afcon what is the obsession with a foreign coach

We need results, if Austin is unable to win the afcon then we can recruit a foreign coach.... at this time shopping for a foreign coach for the super eagles is ill timed and unnecessary....what we need is to put all hands on deck to achieve something from the forthcoming AFCON and afterwards we shift focus to the world cup

Pinnick need to get his priorities right, I believe the NFF is the one delaying the preparation and not the coaching crew

Philosopher1979:
The sports minister should knock some sense into Amaju pinnick.
He should be forced to accept Eguavon as the coach to Afcon or nothing else.
Caf might even sanction us if we dont submit our final 28 man list on time.
Sunday Dare should act fast and stop Amaju pinicks childish, corrupt tantrums

I agree with you brother

The sports minister need to come in at this point

The NFF boss is an embarrassment

Kog45:
Oga humility we need to calm down on Victor fitness and I thought you should know better as a football enthusiastic.

Trust Napoli at your own risk egbon

andrewbaba44:
Napoli should just forget about seria A

If they don’t take care they will also snatch top 4 from them just as last season

They just collected 3 points from AC millan for nothing

They are missing their Victor and koulibally but they are just so annoying

Greed is killing them...they want to keep Victor and Koulably... Victor is fit to play this match or at least get some minutes but they want to delay his introduction with the intention that he will be overlooked by Nigeria FA that he is not fully fit and recover yet for active football when the afcon final list is released.

Very cunning club

Mujtahida:
What you wrote as per the highlighted portions is why I hate modern football. In fact, I spend my leisure time watching YouTube videos of old football matches or footballers of a bye-gone era. Like today, I watched Zidane's clips.

The beautiful game has become machine game - stats, stats and God damn stats. It's painful to watch particularly for some of us who watched football at a time when expressiveness was allowed and fused into the framework of productive outcomes.

Today in the the sick name of END PRODUCT the beauty has been sucked out of football with an uncompromising viciousness that saddens me, the flair swallowed by the aridity of numbers. In the temple of jogo Bonito, an alien god who spits out only stats and money has been erected and is now worshipped by devotees like you. In fact it is like the god of soccer has left the temple for demons of soccer.

As if when football was beautiful, teams did not win.

Zidane was elegant to watch. His haul of laurels tells us that a player can be a sweet, delightful maestro and be highly effective. He won everything of note there is to win in football - league titles, champions league, world cup.


Ronaldinho was a volcanic splurge of beauty and mesmeric speed. He was a winner. He was a unplayable and single handedly decided games.

Denis Bergkamp was a god of the first touch. His goal against Argentina in France 98 as was his goal against Newcastle in the EPL are the works of unrivaled genius. He won many trophies with Arsenal. And so were Maradona, Baggio, Kluivert, Van Basten, Zola and many other great players who played great football and also stood on podiums to receive accolades, recognitions, trophies and titles. They delivered END PRODUCTS and consistently too.

So this artless, cold, soulless football we play today, all in the name of winning is a travesty of the beautiful game. Football is meant to entertain - flicks, spins, roulette, silky moves, mazy runs, golazos, leg overs all go into the mix of winning or END PRODUCT as you tastelessly put it. One should not be sacrificed for the other.

I detest modern football with a passion. For me just as Socrates of Brazil said beauty comes first- victory is secondary. And yes, victory and beauty can be coupled together.

The truth is that it is because we do not have high thinkers that is why football has become so drab. All art is about the triumph of that which is beautiful. And football is an art. Europeans have turned it into a debilitating scientific exercise. I sometimes wish Europe was not the dominating center of world football. Even the Brazilians have been sucked into this vortex of wack football. Thank God for YouTube. I use it to remind myself of an era that is gone. Perhaps one day a generation of coaches will arise who will say no to machine football. But I doubt it.

You're a dexterous writer sha

charlesemeka85:
not know for now but we got nothing to lose if we contact him

Hv followed his game of late and the guy is good and highly rated in italy

If we don't approach him we won't know if he truly wants us

Let' the NFF make a move and lets see if he is ready for us

andrewbaba44:
You cannot avoid situations like this Baba ,this is football ,a fighting striker and a fighting defender

Na only tapin merchants no Dey get this kind issues

You've started again
CR7 deserve some respect from you

andrewbaba44:
So it’s only Ebuehi that can stop salah ?

I don’t even understand where this stopping salah is comming from ,did anyone even talk of stopping Messi at the last World Cup ?

Instead of you guys to be praying for a good tactics from the coach you are think of who will stop salah

That dude will make a terrible coach
Soon he will start shout for recall of emenike and mikel thinking it is by fielding oldies in the team that will guarantee him victory

Shukusheka:
If we play 4-4-2, teams like South Africa or those North African teams will play basic triangles around our players until we chop goals like sardine. If we had like a talent like Scholes or Gerrard who can pass and dictate the game on their own, I won't be too worried.

Equeavon teams always concede but tend to score alot of goals
Later in 2006 afcon be worked on this and conceded just 2 goals in the whole AFCON and qualified with whopping 9 points from a group that has Ghana and Zimbabwe

elyte89:
With his emphasis on physicality d likes of amoo even to some extent simon, won't really have a chance..d saving Grace for d likes of chidera,chuks, and maybe amoo is DT dey av d technique (football brain to cover up 4 dier small size)

Meanwhile he addressed d area when he said if d oppt thwart his wing play plans..dey go direct by attacking as a unit and defending as unit using d Bulgaria match as an example.
But I think he believes with dis set of players we shld be able to use d indirect method (dictate and dominate the games thru d wings and attack each spaces created by d opponent)
Although all those ones b English.. Let c is team play first

I doubt if Rohr has this knowledge of the super eagles like Austin

Rohr was just something else

do4luv14:
Ah know say if na baba Rohr talk that one now,
una go wan chop amvraw

Rohr na case
Coach Austin show some optimism like someone who knows what he is doing but that statement nor follow at all.... because Napoli FC is playing and handling this matter in a very cunning way. They dont want to release Oshimen for afcon. The NFF and Nigeria coach havs to talk tough and breath fire

daveP:
More or less the Liverpool style. We'd need a Henderson and Fabinho for that. I think we got such mould to make this work, don't you think? Well, lets see how 3games goes with this experiment.

Yeah 3 games will reveal much about his playing style but i am not too happy that he is stuck on the 4 4 2 formation.... which he has an alternative like 4 5 1 formation to make for counter and thick the midfield when playing against attacking minded teams like Senegal/Algeria

Damioduso1:
With the availability of Victor Osmihen in the afcon squad . The super eagles Frontline should be scary with Victor Osmihen, Emmuanuel Dennis on the left and Samuel Chukwueze on the right. Am just scared of our defense right now I don't see Troost Ekong holding Salah with is speed on that day

EKONG should be replaced with bassey or akpoguma/Awaziem. I trust Coach Austin having been ex defender he knows better how to stabilise that defense

See the patriotism from this Lad and Equeavon was saying him featuring at afcon depends on napoli decision....