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oloriooko:
What happened to Imoh Ezekiel the dude is finished so soon

Just like many other ex-youth internationals.

Martz101:
Prior to that time, Joel is not our starter, use a competitive match for example. Nigeria vs cameroon

Nigeria Vs Cameroon, Onazi was the box to box midfielder while Ndidi was the DM.

Martz101:
we play with 2 DM, we will play 2 DM against Iceland

Don't get confused.
What we play is a DM and a Box to box midfielder (CM).
Ndidi played the box to box role in the Serbia game. While Joel Obi played that role against Poland.

Mujtahida:
From long ago Joebie and I have hammered on this point that Iwobi can play the Mikel role but many countered us. I think - if I am not mistaken - that it is only recently that you are looking at Iwobi to fill that gap.

Playing him from the wings whether for club or country is a waste.

Haha recently?

I don't think you had joined this thread when TheGoodJoe and I argued about who was a better number 10 between Iwobi and Aluko.

Martz101:
Some situation may warrant us taking one of the DM off maybe Onazi and play Ndidi, Mikel and iwobi. imagine 70min Nigeria 0 -1 Iceland Nigeria 1-0 Iceland. Fixed!

That was a nightmarish score-line you posted there .

From your statement it seems as if you started off with two DMs, which I would not recommend against a team like Iceland (no disrespect meant).
Mikel, Onazi, Ndidi and Iwobi are potential starters. It depends also on your set up. Are you currently on 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-5-1, 3-5-2 etc. If a team is chasing a game, depending also on the balance of play, the best bet is to pull out a DM and bring in a striker or Supporting striker/Wing forward.

Joebie:
Nigeria rise 5 places to 47th in the latest FIFA rankings
6th in Africa

What you get when you play against teams ranked ahead of you. That win against Poland was enough to move us not withstanding the lose to Serbia.

Martz101:
So tell me why we keep on looking for new players that could disrupts this group of players

Typical for Nigerian fans.

Martz101:
we keep on looking for Aluko and co when we have a gem, if this dude can be trusted by Wenger why can't Rohr do same.

To me the only time Iwobi should play from the wings is when Mikel is in the game.

tbaba1234:
Iwobi highlights vs Southampton

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

He likes getting involved in plays.
If this boy can keep his head down he has the potential to be great.

Martz101:
Bros I agree with what you said but not the Kalu statement, in as much as I dont believe he will make the worldcup team because of his position is all taken but his a very good player and soon will get his chance

I understand your view but some are already making it seem as if Samuel Kalu is currently the best winger we have.

No doubt he will get his time maybe even before or after the World Cup but having so much expectations on a player who is yet to be capped at the national team level is a no-no for me. I thought some of us ought to have learnt by now.

goldfish80:
Omeruo was the best rated of all the 5 Nigerians on the pitch in the Buraspor Vs Kasimpassa game last night.
The Ekong/ Awaziem forced partnership must stop if Rohr knows what he's doing.

Awaziem is Over-rated in my opinion.

This was a player that was once tagged our best CB on this thread. That was even before he got invited.
Na so we no hear word about Mikel Agu here. Las-las we have seen what he can offer.

Hyping of players on this thread is too much abeg.

They have started hyping Samuel Kalu now. We dey watch.

TheGoodJoe:
The team B is not the CHAN Super Eagles but a group of players who are close to be part of the main Super Eagles. Also those dropped who could have made the team. Also most likely those who have a big shot of making the next Olympics team.

SUPER EAGLES B/OLYMPIC MEN TEAMSalisu Yusuf (Head Coach); Imama Amapakabo; Kennedy Boboye; Fidelis Ilechukwu; Alloy Agu (Goalkeepers’ Trainer)

The NFF listed the above as the coaches for the team B although I still have some disagreement with the arrangement.

However, the team should promote competition for the current squad, a room to test likely candidates for the Super Eagles with less risk and also integrating potentials who are distant to the culture of the team.

The Nations Cup qualifiers starts after the World Cup. This should be a chance to prepare those who would challenge for places now.

Players like Alampasu could have been tested during this break.

On another read of your comment. The Team "B" being referred to here is the Home Based Eagles Team. Salisu doubles as the coach of the home based Eagles and Olympics Team.

Mujtahida:
Playing Iwobi from the wings is just wasting his talents.

Iwobi in the absence of Mikel is our best Central Attacking Midfield option.

He is heir apparent to Mikel IMO.

Kog45:
Sir do you think anything is in the pipeline.

Yeah.

2019 All African games qualifiers will commence later this year. Shortlisting of players would have commenced already.

TheGoodJoe:
The team B is not the CHAN Super Eagles but a group of players who are close to be part of the main Super Eagles. Also those dropped who could have made the team. Also most likely those who have a big shot of making the next Olympics team.

SUPER EAGLES B/OLYMPIC MEN TEAMSalisu Yusuf (Head Coach); Imama Amapakabo; Kennedy Boboye; Fidelis Ilechukwu; Alloy Agu (Goalkeepers’ Trainer)

The NFF listed the above as the coaches for the team B although I still have some disagreement with the arrangement.

However, the team should promote competition for the current squad, a room to test likely candidates for the Super Eagles with less risk and also integrating potentials who are distant to the culture of the team.

The Nations Cup qualifiers starts after the World Cup. This should be a chance to prepare those who would challenge for places now.

Players like Alampasu could have been tested during this break.

Ow! I see.

Something may actually be in the pipeline for this but nothing made public yet.

My people........ how una dey?

TheGoodJoe:
Good Evening Papa TheSuperNerd

You have any idea what is going on with the team B of the Super Eagles? I expected a friendly in this international break, even on a small scale with some young local prospects.

By Super Eagles Team B you mean the CHAN Eagles?

What are they playing friendly for? What value will that add to the system? When their mates were busy with friendlies against Poland and Serbia.

The only other national team that played friendlies this break were the Flying Eagles against Egypt. Great friendlies if you ask me? That is where we have the young local prospects you commented about.

TheGoodJoe:
Kanu Nwankwo will have my support if he develops an economic team that will provide economic strategies that can pull our nation out of that financial crisis we find ourselves. Come up with ways to manage our resources and reduce wastage in the NNPC.

It is a noble gesture to want to run for President to set things right but the task ahead is too big than just having a good mind to make things right.

Good luck Papillo.

Nigeria's population is about 10 times that of Liberia and so are our problems 10 times that of Liberia (if not more).

Kanu should not think because George Weah is president of Liberia he too can become president of Nigeria. Being President of a complex union like Nigeria is a very big responsibility to shoulder. Ask Goodluck and Buhari how far.

komekn:
Prospect possibly its all speculation, let him make the first team first or go on loan and prove his quality , youth football is a not a great indicator of progressive quality.

I know hundreds of boys who got to the peak of youth football at top clubs but a few years later are playing non league football.

I share this same opinion bro.

That is why I do not trust players who are only tested at youth level.

That is why I called him a PROSPECT for POST-2018WC and the 2020 OLYMPICS.

My philosophy is players should prove themselves at senior club level before getting a call-up to the Super Eagles.

mazimee:
Somewhere in the news, Arsenal has made a €30m offer for Ndaidai, but Leicester no gree.

We are gradually getting there.

tbaba1234:
Tosin Kehinde (19) on choosing to play for Nigeria:

"Nigeria has always been a part of me. I was born there. My whole family are Nigerian. I come from a very strong Nigerian background so the influence has always been around me. When you are growing up, when you see players like Jay Jay Okocha, how good he was and the current crop of players such as Alex Iwobi and Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi, the desire to get the opportunity to play for Nigeria has always been there really." [bbc]

Good prospect post-2018 WC and 2020 Olympics.

Russianruble:
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Coach Who Discovered Shehu Abdullahi Tells Rohr – He Is Better As A Holding Midfielder Than Right Back
April 2, 201806

Coach John Obuh who gave Bursaspor of Turkey and Super Eagles ace Shehu Abdullahi his breakthrough at national level says the 24 year old is better as a defensive midfielder than at right back.

Abdullahi has played most of his senior international career at right back for Nigeria, but at club level he has turned out as a defensive midfielder, and that is the role he is currently playing at his Turkish team.

Obuh who was the first to play the former Kano Pillars teen prospect at right back during his time with the Nigeria U-20 says Abdullahi can do more for Nigeria if ‎played from his original role as a defensive midfielder.

” He came to me as a holding midfielder and was very good in controlling the ball under pressure but he was very fragile and slow in recovery, but very good in passes and long kicks. So I needed such at the right back, hence I converted him”, Obuh told Owngoalnigeria.com in an exclusive chat.

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” I think he can do better in the holding midfield as it is today”, the coach who recently resigned from his role as coach of Kwara United concluded

Shehu will make the 23 man squad barring injuries he is a very important player and would play him as a DMF

Coach Obuh, we know this.

But the thing is we have numerous options at the Defensive midfield position. We need him more at RB.

Mujtahida:
Crosses are not in the DNA of this present set of SE - they don't know how to give it, they don't know how to finish from it. Poor, poor, poor in that regard.

Even if Samuel Kalu comes in with crosses the fact that the team doesn't know how to make use of crosses might just be his undoing - after he crosses three times and nothing comes out of it, he would fold up. This is not an indictment on Kalu but on the team.

Haha, football can be very funny.

The same Samuel Kalu can make a debut now and be making wayward crosses.

What have we not heard on this thread? It is always that player that has not been invited that is always the best.

TheSuperNerd:
But why na? Dont want him to join Iwobi nii? Folks like Sir Tbaba and Chief Icon4s won't mind. I am almost certain Edi287 won't mind too... Lol...

Ndidi at Arsenal.... To be or not to be... Time will tell shaa... In the meantime, start having some Small love for Arsenal just in case he ends up there...

Leave Safarigirl make she dey yarn her own.

Which African contigent wey dey Liverpool wey no dey Arsenal? Mohammed Elneni and Alex Iwobi no be African contingent?

markfemisgay:
They are better than most players in the green eagles.

You mean this thing

markfemisgay:
Jordan ibe Henry onyekuru Cyril dessers udoakhai touraniga sone aluko are my choices. Ahmed musa and Odion Ighalo has no business with the green eagles.

Haha, so these are the "the best" players you were talking about?

markfemisgay:
We don't want to settle for second round in this tournament. The current squard lack the prospects of reaching the quarter final. Coach rohr must invite the best not these mediocre players. Runs out of thread before I am lynched by rohrnatics.

Heyssss... not so fast. Before you run, tell us those "the bests" you are talking about

elyte89:
D cancer won't make him a rookie,he would b only match rusty,just few practice matches in training coupled with 2/3 consecutive games,he would be 50percent OK,and once he's 50percent OK,he would b better Dan uzoho ,even if d latter doesn't sleep at all,all he does his training

O boy this your sentence is present impossible tense.

Just pray Ikeme even goes back to professional football after this whole thing.

TheSuperNerd:
Bournemouth Congratulate Highly-Rated Midfielder On Nigeria Debut

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/football_pics/23203Nnamdi.jpg


Premier League side Bournemouth have congratulated their midfielder Nnamdi Ofoborh, who made his debut for the Nigeria setup across all levels on Wednesday as the Flying Eagles were beaten 2-1 by hosts Egypt.

The 18-year-old lasted 55 minutes on the pitch in his first game for the African powerhouse.

The Cherries were quick to acknowledge Ofoborh after the game in Alexandria, posting on Twitter : ''@NnamdiOfoborh4 made his @thenff U20 debut today. Congratulations, Nnamdi! ��� #SuperEagles ��''.

While Ofoborh has committed his international future to Nigeria over England, where he was raised, the Nigeria Football Federation earlier attempted to lure Bournemouth's top prospect Jordon Ibe to the national team without success.

It should be noted that Bournemouth agreed to release Ofoborh to the Nigerian Federation at short notice because the games against Egypt were held during the international break.

He plays primarily for the Cherries U18 team but has some games under his belt for the U23s this season, having trained with the squad in Spain during pre-season in July 2017.


**Ifeanyi Emmanuel
Photo Credit : afcb.co.uk

Source: http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=27158

Note that he was released because of the international break. Meaning that we can get a lot of these players if we organize Friendlies such as this during the international break.

CAF should also adjust their U20 qualifiers time table to for follow the international break so that teams will have their best players available.

I still believe that our 21 team can be playing friendlies during international breaks.

safarigirl:
if na so, let us also move on from comparing this team with any of the old teams.

Let us act like the Nigerian Super Eagles team only came into existence last week with the Serbian game, since we cannot make reference to our old games again because of one loss

Hahaha, you sef.

Oasis007:
RULES OF FOOTBALL WHEN WE WERE KIDS

1. The fat kid was always the goalkeeper...

2. The owner of the ball decided who played...

3. Penalty (otherwise called PENARITY!) was awarded
only if an injured player could curse or fight a lot...

4. The match only ended when everyone was tired...

5. No matter how many goals you scored, the winner
would be determined by the last team to score...

6. No referee and linesmen. You could run with the ball
even behind the goalpost...

7. If you didn't participate in repairing a damaged ball you were given a match ban...

8. If you're picked last, you're a loser...

9. The guy who's never picked was to fetch the ball from the tree or bush when it got stuck, under the car or tunnel to play in the next game...

10. When the owner of the ball got annoyed, game
over...

11. You were allowed to change a goalkeeper in case of a penalty...

12. The most skillful player got automatic selection...the most bully player got automatic selection too.......

13. No discrimination, both the children of rich and the poor played together!

14. Three corners make one Penarity!

15. All players help in household work of the ball owner.

16. If the ball burst everyone contribute to pay the owner.

17. You can't dribble the owner too much. This may lead him to stop the game by taking away his ball.

18. You can go round the goalpost still return into the field and score.

19. When you hit your toes against a stone and notice blood, you quickly cover the area of injury with sands as a form of first aid. Play continue.

20. We called ourselves by nicknames of great players especially from Brazil and England.

21. Game over when it's dark and we can barely see the ball. We all dispersed in groups to our face me I face you homes teasing one another until d last player gets home to face another round of punishment from our disciplinarian parents ������������.




This generation is missing a lot of free fun. They pay dearly (in monetary terms) for today's fun.

Please add your rules that I have forgotten to mention here ojare ��

Let's laugh Small before the Heat get outta Control!

O boy you don kee me with laughter finish here.

Let me add:

Because there were no cross bars, any ball that goes higher than the stones used as posts was regarded as "High goal"!

Referees were regarded as "lefree"

A bicycle kick was regarded as "Shangalo"

Popular names we called ourselves: Maradona, Zico, Etim, Zagalo.

Kog45:
icon4s baba what else again.I don tire for this keeper issue.

Pls check my response to Oga truidster's comment.

I did.

What even amazes me is someone insinuating I have something against Uzoho.

We know what world cup standards are.

Well, like you have opined, let Rohr decide.

But we should get ready for a tension soaked WC going with the goalkeeping crisis.

Nothing is concluded, nothing is finalized yet. Na Baba Rohr face we dey look.