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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 10:23am On Aug 17, 2021

do4luv14:
Looking more than forward to it sir

Let our group be made up of both, and if possible Senegal to complete it

You want Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana and Senegal to be in same group? Not possible bro.
Go look at the pottings and you will understand y. On the average you will have two top teams and two minnows in each group.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:59am On Aug 17, 2021

Alfryd:
AFCON DRAW TODAY

I hope we group against EITHER GHANA or EGYPT

Looking forward to it.

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Investment › Re: Investment Recovery by Icon4s(m): 8:03am On Jul 18, 2021

Any group for Eatrich?

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 3:04am On Jul 06, 2021

Ppogbae:
Is this true or am I reading this incorrectly?

I guess because there are no Youth competitions this year. That means no travel estacodes and other touring allowances they are now trying to organize those international friendlies, so they can benefit from the budget already kept aside for those tournaments that didn't hold. Public service mentality.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 2:58am On Jul 06, 2021

Philosopher1979:
npfl players are too raw to pick up and work on.
Rohr is allready picking and working on raw talent.
Maduka Okoye is an example. He picked him up from division 4 in Germany.
Europe based players are easy to refine because they are allready in a condusive environment.
There are many players based in Europe that Rohr can easily turn to world class and
market them to a top 5 league.
Rohr also did well for Samuel Kalu and made sure he stated in Bordeaux.
Rohr should concentrate on players like kelechi Nwakali, Obinna Nwobodo, Muazum etc
and see how he can make something out of them. There is hope for such players.
Products of our youth teams still have a lot of hope.
Adewole oladoye in particular may be world class very soon as he had a sensational debut for Gent
Abbass idris who just broke into a team in portugal is there e.t.c
Again i repeat, home based players are too raw to refine.
To refine a home based player takes at least 2 years and those obscure leagues
are doing the job for us as they can move on from there to better leagues in Europe.
NPFL PLAYERS ARE SIMPLY NOT READY
THE PROBLEM IS THEY ARE LOST IN THE NOSTALGIA OF THE PAST
Anayo Iwuala is not George Finidi of Segun Odegbami and Sety Mayi is not Austin Okocha
that played for Rangers.

The npfl players of the present just cannot cut it easily.
Stop living in the past. Rather try and improve the league and things will
fall in place.
Stop looking at these players with the eye of the 90's our league has sunk very low.
STOP LIVING IN THE PAST

Very spot on. For me, any player that is above 23/24 that is still in the NPFL is a waste of time. We can only use the talented ones below 23 (real age) for our youth teams. If you have played 5,6, or 7 seasons in the NPFL and you have not done enough to get European suitors, then you are definitely not good enough. I only see the NPFL as being good enough to pick players for our U20 and U23 teams, with the hopes that some of them will perform well and then get Clubs from Europe. That NPFL is total crap, presently. A league that cannot raise clubs that can compete in Africa. Always relying on bullying away teams to get home wins, in the domestic league.

The earlier we stop this Amaju guy and his crew, the better for our football.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 2:43am On Jul 06, 2021

dijon:
Bros, I think something big is about to play out...Amaju is owing the foreign based thousands of dollars in unpaid bonus, owing the technical bench many months of unpaid bonuses and salary...He knows he won't pay the home base players dollars as bonus rather he pays them allowances per match. Amaju and his cohorts cash out big time playing this matches in USA, carpenter home base players are happy about the exposure but Nigeria football image in the global world nosedive to the abyss. I would not exonorate our politician Minister of home base football from all this debacle and shenanigans Amaju is pushing to our face. Amaju hands are tied and they all do not care about football development but only after what they can grab.

I will start by taking this issue up with the Sports writers Association of Nigeria. And then involve other stakeholders. We need to speak up and stop this man before he finally destroys our football. The only thing of pride left in this country!

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:29pm On Jul 05, 2021

andrewbaba44:
Which young players chance

He wants to add to his cabinet jare

You obviously didn't get my sarcasm. Go back again, read the post I quoted and read my post again. But this time, calmly. wink

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:28pm On Jul 05, 2021

Oldboss:
The home-based players of the Super Eagles of Nigeria
have another chance to show why they deserve more
opportunities in the senior national team when they play
friendly matches against Canada, Ghana and Cameroon.
The team recently lost 4-0 to Mexico in an international
friendly game played at the Los Angeles Coliseum in
California, United States.
Speaking after the game watched by over 50,000 fans,
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick,
revealed that the federation was on the verge of finalising
arrangements for the friendly games, which would hold
before the 2022 World Cup qualifiers begin later this year.
He added that the matches would hold in the 73,000
capacity M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, United States.
NFF President Amaju Pinnick (centre) with home-based
Super Eagles at training camps
“This is the launchpad we are providing for you to
showcase your talents,” Pinnick said while addressing the
players. “This team is our pride, and we will keep you and
monitor you because you are the next big thing in Nigerian
football.”
“In October, we will be flying the team to Baltimore for
friendly games against Ghana possibly, Cameroun and
Canada, maybe. We will sort that out in the coming
weeks. We will tidy up all the documentation. You will be
playing at the 73,000 capacity M&T Bank Stadium.”
In the game against Mexico, Nigeria presented a team made
up of players from the Nigerian Professional Football League
(NPFL) with Ibrahim Sunusi, who plays for Montreal FC the
only foreign-based star in the squad.
The team’s inexperience showed as they fell to the
Mexicans with goals from Hector Herrera, Rogelio Funes
Mori and Jonathan dos Santos.
Read more: Home-Based Super Eagles Suffer Heavy
Defeat Against Mexico
Speaking on the game, Super Eagles Head Coach, Gernot
Rohr, praised the team for ‘a good outing.’
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr
“These are young players playing in front of over 50,000
fans in a foreign land. It was not easy but they showed they
can play this game,” Rohr said. “We are very happy that
fans are returning to stadiums after a long time playing in
empty stadiums.”
“Mexico is number 11 in the world and our young team
consist of the best players in the professional league at
home. They have learnt a lot from this game. I saw some
interesting players who could be useful in our next World
Cup qualifiers. Some of these players still have to work to
improve physically.”
Rohr explained that the game was part of Nigeria’s
preparations for the World Cup qualifiers, which will start
with a home team against Liberia on September 3.
“A few days later, we hope to play against Cape Verde
before meeting Central African Republics,” Rohr added. ” It
is a long way to the World Cup, but this match has shown
that some of the local players can play in the World Cup
qualifiers.”
“The match was a good lesson for my players because
Mexico are one of the favourites for the Gold Cup.”

Rather than making use of these games to prepare the Super Eagles for the WCQ Amaju is busy organizing International friendlies with the NPFL boys.
What does he want to achieve with these home based players for God's sakes?

This guy needs to be stopped. He obviously doesn't know what he is doing anymore. angry

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:19pm On Jul 05, 2021

12large1:
If he was Nigerian, they would had called for his retirement 5 years ago

"Tired old legs, he should give young, hungry players a chance" undecided

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 11:47pm On Jul 04, 2021

Bascovanveli, as always, continue defending mediocrity. Imagine you talking down the Super Eagles team just because you want to defend those NPFL players.

Nigeria, even though not in the league of top footballing nations, has a brand name to protect. Amaju and crew should better know what they are doing.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 3:51pm On Jul 04, 2021

BascoVanVeli:
The NPFL players didn't select this match na. They didn't tell the NFF to send the main team on holiday.

Issorite. Now they have shown to us what they can do if given the opportunity. Let's still see who will come here and start complaining about not giving home based players the opportunity.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 12:12pm On Jul 04, 2021

realpoacher:
Mr Man you should be ashamed of these your players you always try to shove down our throat every week through this your NPFL highlights

... See as they disgrace you and their whole family for the whole world to see.

Yet you still get mouth to talk

Kudos to Bascovanveli for those video highlights, at least it has gone a long way in projecting the league in good light. At least I watch most of those videos. But the fact remains that the standard of the league remains terribly poor. Watch the enter 90mins of an NPFL game and you will manage to stay awake awake till the 90th minute.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 12:05pm On Jul 04, 2021

BascoVanVeli:
I still want more international matches for the local guys. How can a team participate in 2 different tournaments (CHAN & WAFU) but yet no get togethers or friendly matches. The whole team had 7 caps put together and that should never happen when there is a local team available. U can only get international experience by playing international matches. I believe this was what the sports minister spoke about so I am keeping faith.

Yes, more international matches for them but with fellow WAFU and CHAN Teams and not by wasting tax payers' money in taking them to the US to play Mexico. If it is all about increasing their number of caps why not organize a 4-nations tourney with our WAFU neighbours. At least that would have been a better CHAN/WAFU preparation for them, than going to embarrass Nigeria against Mexico.

To say the fact, I would have been surprised if that team had lost by 1 or 2 goals margin. A league that cannot produce clubs that can compete in Africa, what do you expect of players assembled such a league? Look at even how they played. Generally poor football awareness. You will even ask where are the quality coaches to drill these guys. A general lack of quality coaches.

That friendly opportunity was a total waste. If we didn't want to play with our Main Super Eagles, at least, It could have been an opportunity to play so many Europe based young players, especially those that would have played in the Olympics if we had qualified. Even if we had lost 4-0 with such a team we still could taken some positives in assessing the level of preparedness of some of the players for the Senior national Team.

I had never been in support of executing that Mexico friendly with 100% based team, What a wasted opportunity.

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Literature › Re: Peace keeping by Icon4s(m): 7:13am On Jun 19, 2021

begoniaa:
[color=dodgerblue]Una go cut me for 1,500 parts be that. Because I'm perfect for a lot of people. If Brother Beloved can manage 1/1499th of me, why not? [/color]

Eh, no problems at least that chance better than zero. From that Position, beloved3 can start gaining promotion until he makes top 4 and qualify to play in the Champions league. grin

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Literature › Re: Peace keeping by Icon4s(m): 10:58pm On Jun 18, 2021

Beloved3:
Hi Mag,

Thanks for reaching out. Yea I was serious with my apologies. I had gone too far in trolling you. I do realize I was wrong on digging out personal stuff. That's lessons learnt for me.

To be honest, I had nothing against you. Like I said earlier I was an old member, deactivated but recently came back and I found some of your posts in support of feminism.

I was just trying to tease and banter with you. I do that with my feminist friends because I have opposing views. Well, I know I somehow got stuck with teasing you on your age range and tribe instead. My sincere apologies on that. It just happened. (BTW, I am Yoruba myself. I was just being mischievous)

Again, It would appear I read regular updates on your diary because I actually ended up following just yourself, a few others and the sports thread each time I log on.

Yes I confess I was quite curious about you anyways (that's why I dug into your posts). Nothing serious really, more like wanting to know more about the author of a book. Well, those questions I dropped, I really wasn't expecting answers from you. I just dropped them to troll.

Well in summary, I identified you as a feminist (or one in the making), I decided to troll/make friendly banters (they came off really wrong), I read your stories and picture diaries and knew there was a lot more (intellectually) to the 'lad' behind the screen, got curious but still trolled.

So I don't know if I have really answered your query. Please feel free to ask if you if you have any you aren't satisfied about.

A lot of intentions get lost in transit on the internet because gestures are not conveyed. I really didn't pick the signs that you were very uncool with the digging and stuff. I would have stopped.

So thanks again Mag, don't bother about the peodo name calling. It's nothing.

Cheers.

Begoniaa aka Mag and beloved3, oya you too should just move to the next level. You too are a perfect match grin

Sure you know what I mean wink

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:55am On Jun 18, 2021

TheSuperNerd:
Lol... No man, you're not alone. The resemblance have been spotted for a long while now. Since around 2013 or so when Ake was still in the Chelsea youth set-up (Academy).

Ake is indeed a younger doppelganger of Gullit.

You know I have always shared this thought too.

The resemblance is so striking.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:52am On Jun 18, 2021

TheSuperNerd:
Kelechi Nwakali was nominated for Spanish media site, Fondo Segunda's Revelation of La Liga Smartbank 20/21.

Getting more attention from good sections of the Spanish media. Testament to how well he really fared for Alcorcón this past season.

https://twitter.com/FondoSegunda/status/1405582365783638022?s=19[/quote]Good for him

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 10:04pm On Jun 17, 2021*

codemaniacs:
IDENNAA is right... it was used by "returnee slaves" who the bri:tish wanted to use to replace indi:genes in Lagos..

it is "pidgin English" not "pidgin Portuguese".. the Portuguese aspect is as a result of the "returnee slaves" been from Brazil..

europeans never ever traded with Africans especially West Africans...

Do you know there are some Portuguese words in the Pidgin English? What do you think is the Origin of a word like "Palava"?

Early European Traders' interaction with locals along the coast of West Africa brought about the interractions in Pidgin English.

Modified: Google is your friend. And when did the returnee slaves arrive the West Coast of Africa? Late 18th to Early 19th century. So before the returnee slaves arrived, the Pidgin English was already being spoken in West Africa, since the 17th Century.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:49am On Jun 17, 2021

IDENNAA:
Introduced by returnee slaves not Portuguese.

No. It was used as an early trade language between the locals and Europeans : Mostly English and Portuguese. It is a mixture of English, local dialects and some little Portuguese.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:52pm On Jun 16, 2021

Beloved3:
Those guys speak our pidgin English. Amazing stuff.

Pidgin English was introduced to the West Coast of Africa by the Portuguese. It is widely spoken amongst the English speaking west African countries.

The Liberian Pidgin is even closer to the type of Pidgin spoken in Lagos grin

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:43pm On Jun 16, 2021

TheSuperNerd:
Benin losing to us at home really came around to bite them hard. Ehyeeaa...

Honestly, na Onuachu cos am o grin

But I am really happy for Sierra Leone.
They were really fired up for the game. 24hrs before the game, I saw an interview with Anthonia Rudiger of Chelsea whose second country of origin is Sierra Leone. He was really up beat about Sierra Leone making the AFCON.

Nigeria actually gave Sierra Leone the life line and the "we can do it" attitude with that 4:4 draw in Benin-City.

Other notable 'surprise qualifiers' are Comoros and Gambia.

Also, for the first time all the three Guineas would be playing in the AFCON:
Guinea - Conakry (the popular Guinea)
Equatorial Guinea
Guinea - Bissau

Something tells me sub-Saharan African teams will dominate this AFCON.

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 10:33am On Jun 16, 2021

Wild Celebrations Rock the streets of Sierra Leone as they booked the final AFCON ticket after beating Benin 1:0 yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmvdM3vjVvo

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Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:30am On Jun 09, 2021

Danielnino00:
Funny how Osimhen has now become our main man..
The same Osimhen Rohr was scared of giving a chance just a few years back...

"A few years back" you said.....

Players mature with age.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 6:28am On Jun 09, 2021

JohnBullMySon:
About seven regular team players were absent. No coach in this world will comfortably win a game with 7 of his first team missing. That's why I don't blame Rohr. Coaching no be magic.

Ekong, Ebuehi, Sanusi, Leon, Aribo, Osimhen, Chukwueze. All no dey.

All those players you mentioned had capable replacements, with the exception of Osimhen and Chukwueze.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 8:32pm On Jun 08, 2021

Damioduso1:
I also hear that also . Finally FIFA cleared the nff is also working on Michael Olise switch to Nigeria

All these Foreign borns switching to Nigeria, well it is good we have a larger pool. But, we at this point, really need to evaluate their impacts in the national team. Cos the way it is now , the top players in that team are Nigerian grown: Osimhen, Ndidi and Chukwueze.

See that Moffi guy now today, after all hype about him.

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 8:14pm On Jun 08, 2021

Subzero047:
You know why

Why, please?

Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 8:13pm On Jun 08, 2021

JohnBullMySon:
No single creativity. Marcus has good ball handling and confidence, but was also slow and predictable.

The only reason why I'm not blaming Rohr is that I expected the result. You can't perform magic when your entire backline is missing, your top strikers and creative winger and midfielders are injured. And we did not play a weak opposition.

I expected a better game from today's match. This is not an issue of the back line. The back line we had over both games were mostly players who are not new to the team.

The only two Key players missing were Osimhen and Chukwueze.

Besides, also Cameroon paraded a poor team over both legs.

We are Nigeria, we know how we play the game. What we saw especially today was a far cry from what we have been known for. The team does not even have players with the leadership instinct who can raise his game and carry the other players along.

Rohr really needs to raise the tempo of this team before the WCQ starts.

Over all, it is a disappointing performance over both legs.

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