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do4luv14:
if my memory serves me well, the cause of his death, was his sight right
cc; icon4s, joebie, chriskel

Bros, you cannot comment here please.

do4luv14:
if my memory serves me well, the cause of his death, was his sight right
cc; icon4s, joebie, chriskel

Bros, you cannot comment here please.

Minjim:
I am saying this because if Zambia beats SA it will come down to goal diff

Thats why will need to keep scoring. SA and Zambia are ahead of us on goals now. Though they are both playing 1-1.

Which goals? Oga goals difference counts ahead of goals.

Before kick off Nigeria was on +3 while Zambia were on +1.

Setting Criteria for players Selection.

We do not have the complete Data base of the statistics of the individual players, so we don't need to make the criteria too scientific. These are going to be simple and justifiable criteria.

I will suggest below:
1. All award categories should be for players who have featured for any of the national teams (IE, Super Eagles, CHAN Eagles, Flying Eagles, Golden Eaglets, Super Falcons, Falconets and Flamingos)
2. Rating of players should be based on national team performances only.
3. Young Player of the Year is strictly for players 21years and below.
4. For The Best Attacker award I suggest points should be generated as thus: Goal-2 points, assist-1 point.
5. Selection of 3 players for the other sections of the team( ie Best Goalkeeper, Best Defender, Best Midfielder) can be subjective but also objective.

We can add more or remove any from the list above

Cc: TheSuperNerd, Joebie, Forgiveness, Komekn, ChrisKels, Tbaba1234.

Icon4s:
Next, the list of award Categories. So as not to prolong matters, I have here a list of categories. Members of committee can also add theirs. But we should try not to make the list too long so as not to make voting difficult or combasome for people. Adjustments can also be made on the list below:

1. Nigerian Player of the Year
2. Nigerian Home based player of the Year
3. Most impactful New Inclusion (2018)
4. Best Goalkeeper (Vincent Enyeama award)
5. Best Defender (Stephen Keshi award)
6. Best Midfielder (Jay-jay Okocha award)
7. Best Attacker (Rashidi Yekini award)
8. Young player of the year (for players 21yrs and less)
9. Super Falcons player of the year
10. Super Eagles Goal of the year.

cc: Tbaba1234, Forgiveness, Komekn, TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels and Joebie

Ok, now we move forward with the list below:
1. Nigerian Player of the Year
2. Nigerian Home based player of the year
3. Most impactful New Inclusion (2018)
4. Best Goalkeeper (Best Ogedengbe Award)
5. Best Defender (Stephen Keshi Award)
6. Best Midfielder (Oliha/Okwaraji Award)
7. Best Attacker (Rashidi Yekini Award)
8. Most improved player (2018)
9. Young Player of the Year
10. Super Falcons player of the year
11. Super Eagles Goal of the Year.

forgiveness:
Can you move the motion to vote?

If we put this to Vote I think thus far u are the only one on the opposing side.

forgiveness:
Is there any need tagging the awards with the names of fallen heroes?

Is it not better to just list the awards without fallen heroes attached?

Well, just a way to immotalize our fallen heroes.

For the Best Midfielder's award we are toren between two Fallen heroes: Samuel Okwaraji and Thompson Oliha.

Tbaba1234, ChrisKels, Joebie, TheSuperNerd, Forgiveness, Komekn, let's chose one.

I go for Samuel Okwaraji especially as he died during service.

ChrisKels:
Yes Ibiam was the first national team goalkeeper buh what were his achievements for the national team? I think Best Ogedengbe who was the first team goalkeeper in the 80s and a member of the all conquering squad that won us our first Afcon, fits the bill better.

My pick is #BestOgedengbe

Correct. 4/7 vying for Best Ogedengbe so "Ogedengbe Best Goalkeeper award" it is. (His first name is even "Best".

tbaba1234:
Best Ogedengbe was Nigeria's keeper at the 1980 Nations cup that we won. He has passed away.

Yeah, he is a more recent Goalkeeper than Sam Ibiam and also more famous.

Eleniyan15:
Now am in love with Rohr cool and calm!! After watching him on NaijaMade Live today on supersport, this man want the best for S.E.

He knows his player's so well,spoke on late substitution,Nacho Matter,Moses,Balogun,iwobi and local player's (Lokosa)

He also talked about our midfield (that the place the man his really having headache)





Argument on nacho issue should just end, it just pointless. we all know nacho has regress no confidence anymore!! We pray Leicester city coach give him game time.


Men on board also mentioning players name rohr should call up, honestly this man knows what his doing base on what I saw today live on S.S!!

Everything na steady steady
The like of Ebere and co will definitely be called up when it time.

Remember everyone can't be Nigerian Player.


No need to rush things


Personally,Rohr get many headache pass us because too many option.
He fell in love with Ajayi,Samuel Kalu

No more war for here, if you can watch the complete episode of today Naijamade.

No more beer parlour rant,lol
Chikena!!!!

#One

I watched it too. Great show today

komekn:
If we are talking historical it should be about influence and excellence as well. Christian Chukwu ( Chairman) or even Henry Nwosu with regards to Midfielder awards.

Joebie is looking at we naming the awards after our late players. And I think I also buy the idea. However, it will be a decision for the entire house.

Meanwhile, Chief Forgiveness, we are still awaiting your response on list of awards.

Tomorrow we roll out the final list of awards and then spell out criteria for selection of nominees.

tbaba1234:
Sheyi will struggle to get into the team right now. The competition on the wings is much. I do not think, he is better than Kalu, Musa, Onyekuru, Simon Moses or even chukwueze at the moment.

The places, we need reinforcement are the midfield and defence.

Exactly

Who there is the Shina Rambo and who there is the Iyabo Ojo.

Joebie:
Sam Ibiam, first Nigerian National team GK

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/first-nigerian-goalkeeper-sam-ibiam-dies-at-90/amp/

If I had my way I would recognize all those forgotten first heroes.

ok that's true. Sam Ibiam is late now.

Ok, we can go with Sam Ibiam if other Committee members approve of it.

For Midfield we also have Thompson Oliha asides Samuel Okwaraji

jihday:
I'm sure Rohr knows 70% of his troop already

90% if you ask me.

Danielnino00:
Icon4s There's something I'm not clear on regarding the award oo.. is it only the committee members that will b responsible for nominating players for each category and deciding on the winners or will members of this thread also have a say?

The committee nominates 3 players for each category and the entire house votes their best choice for each category. So the entire house have the final say.

Joebie:
In fact any late goalkeeper will do. It’s just to honor those we have lost.

Can you think of any great Goalkeeper that is late?

ChrisKels:
Agbonivbare's reputation as an Eagle that brought him the name Agbonivbasket, makes that idea dead on arrival

I would rather give it to Peter Rufai

ChrisKels and Forgiveness, we await your contributions on the list of awards. Thanks.

tbaba1234:
I think, this is a decent list.
Maybe a most improved player category.

Noted

Joebie:
Nigeria will beat EQG. I hope we get all the goals possible. SA, Zambia game will be tricky.

SA favorites to beat Zambia

2018 AWC permutations.

No country is through to the semi finals and no country has crashed out yet. Meaning any of the 8 teams can crash out and any of the 8 teams can qualify. How?

Group A
Cameroon 6 +4
Mali 3 +0
Ghana 3 +0
Algeria 0 -4

Final group fixtures:
Cameroon vs Ghana, Algeria vs Mali.

Cameroon can only crash out if Ghana beats Cameroon by 3 goals marigin and Mali wins Algeria by same score line.

Algeria can qualify if Algeria beat Mali by 3 goal margin and Cameroon beats Ghana by any Margin.

Mali will qualify if they draw or beat Algeria by any Margin and Cameroon beats Ghana by any margin

Ghana can qualify if they beat Cameroon by any margin and Algeria and Mali play a draw or Algeria wins. Meaning if Ghana beats Cameroon 1 goal margin and Mali beats Algeria, Ghana will still crash out.

Pretty open but favorites to qualify are Cameroon and Mali.

Group B
South Africa 6 +7
Nigeria 3 +3
Zambia 3 +1
E/ Guinea 0 -11

Final fixtures:
South Africa vs Zambia
Nigeria vs E/ Guinea

South Africa can crash out if they lose to Zambia by 4-0 and Nigeria win E/ Guinea by any margin.

E/ Guinea will qualify if they beat Nigeria by 8-0 and South Africa beats Zambia by any margin.

Nigeria will qualify if Nigeria beats E/Guinea by any Margin and Zambia beats SA by 3 or less goals or South Africa beats Zambia by any Margin or they play a draw.

Zambia will qualify if they beat SA by 4 or more goals and Nigeria beats E/ Guinea or E/ Guinea beats Nigeria by any Margin.

Seems a mountain so high for E/Guinea and Zambia.
SA and Nigeria favorite to qualify as first and Second respectively.

Joebie:
Yes the reason for the rebuilding. SA, Ghana and even Cameroon SEEMED to have quite a number of young players though.

At least we also have Rashidat Ajibade and Anam Imoh.

Joebie:
Many of the teams in AWCON seem to be rebuilding with young players. You can easily mistake the competition for an age-grade affair.

They are those teams that do not have pedigree at the female Level.

Look at teams with pedigree: Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, SA and E/ Guinea. They presented matured squads. Mali, Zambia and Algeria have presented young teams cos their previous players have never performed.

Chukwuemeka007:
Sir, there's a little error in the first line of this thread. "foollers" in lieu "footballers".

Thanks for the observation Sir. Corrected

For those who would be interested in following the Players awards nominations process:
https://www.nairaland.com/4860876/nnfa-2018-committee#73211301

Joebie:
Sir Icon4s have u posted the link to this thread on our mother thread, for transparency sake?

Ok, will do that right away.

Joebie:
You already clearified that. You should have just ignored this post.

Ok, sorry about that

Joebie:
So I guess no Super Falcons category then? Out thread is devoted to SE actually.

No, there is an award for Super Falcons player of the year. But not necessary we have Super Falcons goal of the year.

Joebie:
Best Foreign Player of Nigerian descent (Reuben Agboola Award)
This category should be restricted to those whose international careers are still not sealed.

Modified
Also, Top Mention for SE Call-up Award
Restricted to Nigerian players that do not require an application for change of allegiance.

Also Best Player in the Lower Divisions. Only open to uncapped players.

These are just suggestions. Maybe we can limit the number of categories to 15 or so.

These Awards should be restricted to Nigerians who have doned the Green White Green. Being Foreign born or Nigerian born should not be an issue here. We cannot be giving Awards to players who have not declared for Nigeria or whose nationality switch has not been concluded.

We only have a separate award for the Best Home Based Super Eagles players because they have their separate team which is the CHAN team and also a separate competition and as said earlier it for players who have worn the GWG and they have done so.

Joebie:
I think in best attacker the number of goals will also be factored in. Are we not looking at their performances for both club and country? I think if we create seperate awards like you are suggesting there will be a danger of duplication like you implied indirectly.

I support the idea of a separate category for Assist King.

I want to understand something here. are these awards meant for only Super Eagles and Super Falcons players?

Emm... introducing club performances will only introduce controversies. We are giving awards for performances in the GWG. It makes it easier for the committee to come up with nominees and also makes it less ambiguous for house members to vote.

On your last paragraph . This is the Nigerian Footballers Awards. Award for performance in the GWG.