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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 2:39pm On Sep 04, 2018

soetanoreoluwa:
His name is Sulaimon played in U15 future eaglet at the just concluded African game in north Africa.

Yeah thanks.

I hope he makes it to the next eaglets team. Tomorrow dem go say that one too na age cheat. Pessin wey we see when him dey use rope tie nicker dey play ball.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 2:37pm On Sep 04, 2018

Danielnino00:
I was referring to the u-20 Afcon..

I follow updates on Africa football on BBC Africa and supersport Facebook page.. those southern Africans really hate Hayatou. They claim that he was being biased toward them by not awarding them afcon hosting rights...
Leaves me wondering which country apart from south Africa has the capacity to host the afcon...

Ok. AYC Qualifiers.

Yeah Zimbabwe wanted to host one time and they fell short and the AFCON was moved elsewhere same with Zambia.
They now want to use Ahmad Ahmad's tenure to dominate the continent. Meaning they believe they have been marginalized all these while.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 2:11pm On Sep 04, 2018

DrLikita12:
Remo Stars (NNL) player, Sodiq, transfers to Danish side Fremad Amager (first and second pictures). They seem to have a good set up.
Their U17s will be participating in the third division (NLO) and their U15s recently lost a game to Lagos U15s (third and fourth pictures).
. If most teams are able to emulate this and verify the ages of their age grade players it will provide a continuous supply of genuine, quality talent regardless of whether we are able to win age grade competitions or not. At least on the senior level we will see a lot of improvement.
I'm sure a few people can recognize the young man on the far left in the red jersey.

At bolded. A good one, worthy of emulation by other clubs. And the boys really look U17 and U15 respectively.

That guy with captain arm band in the U15 pix is really a promising talent (forgotten his name now). He looks bigger now. cheesy

Modified: The last pix seems like the Lagos state team, with the Lagos state emblem on their chests.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 2:09pm On Sep 04, 2018*

Danielnino00:
This zoning thing was also used for the AWCON and u-20 awcon..
This Ahmad Ahmad wants to try at all cost to get his region more slot in Africa. A region that has always been at the bottom of the chain in Africa football.
I know for sure that he won't try it with the afcon..even with d new 24 team system.. unless he wants caf to lose revenue

It was not used for the U20 Women Qulaifiers because we played Tanzania and Morocco to qualify.
And the U17 girls played Ethiopia and Cameroon.

But if them try am for AFCON or FIFA WC qualifiers then I will personally evoke......... on Ahmad Ahmad

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 1:31pm On Sep 04, 2018*

daveP:
The zoning is going to back fire soon. wonder what those guys wana do at u17. well whatever happens I hope they get brain fast. West Africa combined have 5 u17 world cups. Well if I'm to choose between removing Hayatou and getting this new format, I'll choose removing Hayatou.

Say what?

West Africa has 7! Nigeria 5 and Ghana 2.

West Africa has won the last 7 CAF U17 editions:

Gambia 2005
Nigeria 2007
Gambia 2009
Burkina Faso 2011
CIV 2013
Mali 2015
Mali 2017.

Only South Africa, from outside the WA subregion played as losing finalists.

At the World stage in the last 6 editions:

Nigeria 1st 2007
Nigeria 2nd 2009
Nigeria 1st 2013
Nigeria 1st, Mali 2nd 2015
Mali 4th 2017
Plus other West African teams making Q/Finals on several occasions.

I still do not understand why WAFU accepted this devilish arrangement.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 1:16pm On Sep 04, 2018

gamaliel9:
You have full marks on this..the u21 is a different bowl of eba and egusi soup--thats what i will eat this afternoon by the way....If we ever get this right...the result will be booom...they will move straight to main teams with their age..and start playing immediately...but at u17 hum...they are still seen as academy players...lets hope that our NFF take note of this and act fast. MOST ARGENTINE S MAJOR PLAYERS CAME UP THROUGH U21 NOT U17....Maradona..Batistuta...Messi...etc

I have been preaching this gospel for long. The U20 is the main thing and not U17.

We have achieved what no other country in the world has achieved at U17. 5 Gold, 3 Silver. Nothing even the Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Germany, France of this world has that record.

But what have we achieved at the age grade directly after that? 2 Silver.

There is definitely a disconnect. And if we fail to address it squarely we will continue to fail.

And yes, you are very right at stating that the U20 is the main key to producing players for the national teams.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:36am On Sep 04, 2018*

gamaliel9:
winning the u17 five times has not really brought us glory at senior level....Olympics is an age group competition....most national teams i think have more players who win at u21 than players who win at u17...Argentina is a perfect example of this....even Columbia....i think we should add more vibe to u21 than u17...

Again the transition from u17 to u21 does not really work like that...we always crash when we do it.

Its better we transit from u21 to national team...most players who play in national team were already members of the Olympic team....

We have continued to fail at U20 because we ha continued to under estimate the competition at that level. I don't know if u have joined this thread when I was lamenting the selection process of the U20s.

If we do well at U17 there is always the tendency to promote most of the U17 to U20. I don't have issues if they all merit the promotion but where there are issues is where the coach will chose to remain loyal to his U17 players if he is promoted along with them, there by ignoring other players who were not part of the U17 and have the quality to knock out some of those ex-U17 players.

Why we have continued to perform relatively better at U23 than at U20 is because we have always failed at U20 and so there will not be this cry of promoting all the U20 players to U23. At U23, we go for the best available and we have often seen the results.

Throw the U20 screening open and select our best Available legs within that age you'll see the difference.

Each time we win the U17 , two years later we either crash out at the Group stage of the U20 or at best 2nd round. Our best U20 performances have never come 2 years after winning an U17 WC.

And on the World level, no country has ever won the U17 and two years later won the U20. Same U17 players loyalty is a major reason.

Sometimes I don't know if those in our NFF technical committees have not taken time to observe these trends.

The last England U20 winning team should be a model we should copy, matured U20 squad, full of experience. Not parading 16, 17 years old academy players as U20 and expecting them to do magic

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:19am On Sep 04, 2018

Joebie:
Those players that failed the MRI should be considered for selection in the Flying Eagles.

One of them (their top striker) has already been invited to join the U20s.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:41am On Sep 04, 2018

mank1234:
Actually 3 slots for WAFU. Unfortunately (the strongest zone), Nig, Gha, BFA, CIV are in in zone B which produces one slot only. WAFU Zone A produces 2 slots and coincidentally that's the weakest WAFU zone.

The justification for such a stupid skewed arrangement is the need to develop smaller countries football.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Africa_U-17_Cup_of_Nations

OK. Noted. But this zoning nonsense should be scrapped!

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:08pm On Sep 03, 2018

Danielnino00:
Are there any replacements lineup up for Ekong,Iwobi and Aina?

I would suggest
Ekong- Seth
Iwobi - Bonaventure/Success
Aina- Muhammed

Sebi there are players on the reserve list. Opportunity for them.

Note that Seth is a RB and so not a direct replacement for Ekong.

for the CB position, with Balogun, Omeruo and Awaziem in the squad we don't have issues.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:01pm On Sep 03, 2018

JoebieII:
Oh really? I thought it was just 1 slot..

Are there two mini qualification tournaments for WAFU?

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:01pm On Sep 03, 2018

JoebieII:
Oh really? I thought it was just 1 slot..

Are there two mini qualification tournaments for WAFU?

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:01pm On Sep 03, 2018

JoebieII:
Oh really? I thought it was just 1 slot..
Are there two mini qualification tournaments for WAFU?

One slot ke? Na die be that o.
There are two zones of qualification for WAFU. So two slots

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:12pm On Sep 03, 2018

JoebieII:
Even Mali no be beans.

Mali, Guinea, Senegal and co will battle for the other WAFU ticket.

This is a tournament that most times all the 4 African tickets are taken by teams from West Africa. Countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, CIV, B.Faso, and Guinea have been known to produce the best teams from Africa at this age level.

Now the useless CAF has limited the number of ticket from WA to African U17 to 2.

This is a big scam and totally unacceptable. They are trying to favor countries for South and East Africa at the detriment of producing quality teams to represent Africa. What a shame.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 7:04pm On Sep 03, 2018

Joebie:
Sincere Seth or Musa Muhammed?

Well, any of those but if no time to name a replacement. Kenneth Omeruo also plays RB. So also does Leon Balogun

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:39pm On Sep 03, 2018

Icon4s:
There are 7 countries in this zone.

Niger, Togo and Ghana make up group A
Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Benin are in Group B. Benin disqualified now.

Two teams will emerge from each group to the semis. We have 2 finalists and ONLY THE WINNER makes it to the African U17 Championship.

If u ask me this qualifying series is tougher than the group stage of the U17 WC.

I don't know how WAFU came to accept this devilish arrangement.

How can Nigeria and Ghana, two World giants at this stage have to now be battling for one spot amongst other descent sides like CIV and Burkina Faso. This is devilish.

So who are those that will play the African qualifiers from other zones? Likes of Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa and the likes? Nonsense!

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:32pm On Sep 03, 2018

soetanoreoluwa:
How many will qualify in our group Now self Benin is out?

There are 7 countries in this zone.

Niger, Togo and Ghana make up group A
Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Benin are in Group B. Benin disqualified now.

Two teams will emerge from each group to the semis. We have 2 finalists and ONLY THE WINNER makes it to the African U17 Championship.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:27pm On Sep 03, 2018

soetanoreoluwa:
How many matches to go for golden eaglet?
I know is going to be very tough for us to qualify.

We play CIV next. Benin has been disqualified.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:26pm On Sep 03, 2018

Nigeria 2-3 Burkina Faso FT.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:23pm On Sep 03, 2018

Injury time now. Still 2-3.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:18pm On Sep 03, 2018

Burkina Faso defending tightly now.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:15pm On Sep 03, 2018

Nig 2-3 B/Fa 84mins.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:08pm On Sep 03, 2018

Goal for Burkina Faso. 2-3 now

Goal keeper blunder!!

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:04pm On Sep 03, 2018

70mins still 2-2.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:03pm On Sep 03, 2018

Olusegun almost made it 3

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 5:56pm On Sep 03, 2018

tbaba1234:
Nigeria camped in the opponents half, still 2:2..

Learnt we are way better.

How did they allow those 2 goals in quick succession sef

We hope to win this.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 5:40pm On Sep 03, 2018

maidaboi:
say what!

We conceded in the 7th and 8th minutes. They had a shaky start. But rose to the occasion. Olusegun pulled one back in the 14th min and leveled up at the stroke of half time.

2nd half is on the way now.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 5:21pm On Sep 03, 2018

solonnachi:
Pls what's the score between Nigeria u17 & Burkina Faso u17?

Nig 2-2 Burkina Faso 45'

Nigeria came from 2-0 dawn to equalise. We just scored the equaliser few moments ago.

Half time now.

Game was postponed to new kicked-off at 4:30 due to heat waves

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 8:09pm On Sep 02, 2018

For those that watched Watford vs Spurs today, please I need a fair assessment of Isaac Success' performance.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 8:07pm On Sep 02, 2018

Seems Kelechi Nwakali has over taken Kelechi Iheanacho here as the most debated player. They even share same first name.

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