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krattoss:
but let's look from the other side of It..


what if these crop of players currently invited now qualifies us for the Olympics tournament.. will it be just to leave them out when the main event sets?.


I think justice should be mostly applied here.

We expect this squad to qualify us and we expect most of them to b replaced with our best legs. There is nothing like justice or no justice. Only d best legs should represent Nigeria at the Olympics and most of those best are nt currently in dat squad.

BlackAlbino6:
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The guys is injured
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Which guys?

BlackAlbino6:
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EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria name final U23 AFCON squad
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Nigeria have named a final 21-man squad for the 2015 U23 AFCON, which starts on Saturday in Dakar, Senegal, and which will also be used as qualifying tournament for next year’s Rio Olympics.

Coach Samson Siasia has listed four overseas-based professionals with the rest of the squad drawn from the Nigeria league.

The pros are strikers Taiwo Awoniyi from German second division side FSV Frankfurt, Junior Ajayi of Tunisian club CS Sfaxien, Isaac success from La Liga side Granada as well as midfielder Azubuike Okechukwu, who is based in Turkey.

There are no players for seven-time champions Enyimba after the coach dropped Kingsley Sokari and Etor Daniel for insisting on leaving training camp to play a final league game with their club in Lagos.

There is also no room for any member of the victorious Golden Eaglets from the U17 FIFA World Cup in Chile with goal king Victor Osimhen the only of the Eaglets who was in training camp in The Gambia after four of them including skipper Kelechi Nwakali were called up.

As many as 12 players on this squad were not at the recent All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville, where Nigeria’s Dream Team VI placed third at the expense of the host team.

Nigeria will begin their campaign on Sunday against Mali in Mbour.

They will also battle Egypt on December 2 in Mbour and three days later play their final group B match against Algeria in Dakar.

The top three teams will qualify automatically for next year’s Olympics in Rio.

The full squad:

Goalkeepers: Emmanuel Daniel (Enugu Rangers), Yusuf Mohammed (Kano Pillars), Emmanuel Iwu (Heartland)

Defenders: Sincere Seth (Supreme Court FC), Seun Oduduwa (Nath Boys), Zaharadeen Bello (Kano Pillars), Seun Olubayo (Sunshine Stars), Chizoba Amaefule(Dolphins), Ebuka Iroha (Diamond Football Academy)

Midfielders: Ndifreke Effiong (Abia Warriors), Usman Mohammed (FC Taraba),Tiongoli Tobara (Bayelsa United), Bature Yaro (Nasarawa United), Oghenekaro Etebo (Warri Wolves), Azubuike Okechukwu (Yeni Matalatyaspor/Turkey), Godspower Aniefiok (Kano Pillars), Stanley Dimgba (Warri Wolves)

Forward: Kufre Ebong (Warri Wolves),Junior Ajayi (CS Sfaxien/Tunisia), Taiwo Awoniyi (FSV Frankfurt/Germany),Isaac Success (Granada CF/Spain)
http://africanfootball.com/news/587647/EXCLUSIVE-Nigeria-name-final-U23-AFCON-squad
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If Chima Akas is good enough to put Elderson Echiejile of AS Manoco on the Super Eagles bench I see no reason y he shouldn't make this squad. Or is Siasia purnishing him also for being with the Super Eagles instead of his "10 days training programme?".

He should have also dropped Awoniyi and Success for not being part of his "10 days training Programme".

This team is so below par. Just imagine that we still have players like: Simon Moses, Saviour Godwin, Kelechi Iheanacho, Musa Yahaya, Musa Mohamed, William Troost-Ekong, Imoh Ezekiel, Kingsley Madu, Kenneth Omeruo, Aaron Samuel, Elderson Esiti, Kenedy Otigba, Abdul Ajagun, Michael Olaitan, Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi and others that fall within this age -grade. Well, let us qualify first and then the real DREAM TEAM VI will emerge after-wards.
I blame CAF for the timing of this qualifiers else we would have easily produced one of the best squads in the tourney.

Mammangaddafi:
Pls fellow punters while I was doing my online registration with nairabet, I registered with a name that does not correspond with my bank account name. I later found out that I cannot withdraw my winnings because of this. Pls hw can I get my money. I hv won over 300,000 naira.

Who helped you when you were paying your money to them.

BascoVanVeli:
yea that's what we always say they can be replaced. Same boys who suffered in Congo with the coach now he turns his back on them. No loyalty in this country. Sokari is the definition of servant to Nigerian football anywhere we needed him he was there and he performed. Our population is our biggest hindrance because it allows people treat others like crap, there is always a replacement but the question remains, is it good?

Spot on. Our coaches never learn.

Mjshexy:
Another news, first they said the tots wanted him, later Arsenal & now my darling Barcelona. It's well oh

Yes, the best clubs are after him. Barcelona will be a good deal. He may jst be an Eto'o in d making.

chronique:
I hope this isn't true;Nigeria cannot fund 2 wars against boko haram and biafra separatists at the same time. We do not have the financial capabilit and manpower to achieve that.

If Nnamdi Kanu dies nothing will happen. U think Igbos are like those blood thirsty Boko Haram. No Igbo man wants to die bc of another man.

Even if he dies so?Highest his loyalists will make noise for 1week and go back to their normal businesses. I mean, where is Ralph Uwazurike today?

kindredspirit:
Guys, I'm going to miss Daniel Etor in this team. I wish he wasn't axed. Dude was a real workaholic with an "educated" left foot. He's (was) the best player in the U-23 team, IMO.

About the strikers : I wish Junior Ajayi's goal-conversion rate was higher. Boss fritters away way too many chances than he converts. If there wasn't a dearth of age-grade strikers in the league, Ajayi wouldn't make my team list, honestly. I've never seen him hustle up a striker's goal the way, say, an Awoniyi or an Efebo does. I've seen him miss a couple of simple tap-ins that had the whole 'Sooting Stars' supporters in Adamasingba holding their heads and going "YEPAAAAA!!!!" Lol.

Defence: I wasn't surprised to read that Erhun Obanor was dropped. Sometimes, he gets carried away with his ruggedly as a defender and he fails to use his smarts. It also spills into his overall conduct on the pitch as he always seems spoilt for a fight. I knew it was just a matter of time before he would lose his captaincy,which he eventually did then, with that sort of attitude.

Nice thread guys. Siasia is a coach after my heart ( no homo ), so I'll be following this thread leading up to the competition.

Spot on bro. As for Erhun Obanor - a player that played at the 2014 CHAN when he was 19yrs old,he was bought by Abia warriors at d begining of d season from a lower division club and I think he did well this season but I think Chima Akas of Sharks FC is a better left back.

As for junior Ajayi: One thing he has going for him is his good positional abilities. He is nt a kind of striker d defence will crowd out so easily. He knows how to find homself in good scoring position. And i agree his goals convertion ratio is poor bt he still scores plenty of goals bc he creates so many goal scoring chances for himself due to his good positional ability. And i think in d absence of d Europe based strikers he can get d job done.

I have always lamented abt d lack of quality Nigerian strikers that are currently age 21-22yrs. A typical U23 side should have 90% of players within 22 & 23 yrs of age. It is so bad(d lack of quality home based strikers) dat Siasia had to try a 16 yrs old Victor Osimhem.

This team holds promises bt after we qualify for d Olympics. With d crop of players with which we want to prosecute d qualifiers only God will help us.

joseph1013:
If NFF expects Granada to release Success at this time, they are kidding. No foreign player will be released for the tournament. You expect players in the middle of the Season, outside FIFA window to come? Funny. Even the ones sanctioned by FIFA, Clubs are still grumbling.

Forget Success. Not when his Granada is battling relegation.City will nt release Iheanacho and I doubt Awoniyi' availability also. Now, this y I am nt happy with Siasia for d dropping of Kingsley Sokari and Daniel Etor. This duo were instrumental to our AAG bronze medal. He is further depleting a below par team.

TheGoodJoe:
Victor Osimhen should learn from his experience in camp. It is a star studded squad but Osimhen should work harder because Coach Siasia has his eyes on him.

Wishing the Dream team the best.

I am not surprised he was dropped. He is a good prospect but needs to work very hard, sign a good professional contract and get his career on d way. Come 2020 Olympics we hope to have him as our arrow head in d attack.

Like as if Chelsea and Leicester swapped places on the table this season.

zuchyblink:
please replace:
Ighalo with G. Salami.
Musa with Ezekiel Bassey.
Igbonu with Bature Yaro.
Abdulahi with Musa Muhammed.
Echiejile with Stanley Amuzie.
Most of our foreign pros are over rated.
Our starting XI for subsequent matches should go like this:
..............................Ikeme...............................................
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Musa..........Balogun.....................Efe............Akas
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....................................Onobi.........................................
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........................Bature...................Onazi....................
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Bassey..........................................................S.Moses
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...................................G.Salami......................................

This is likened to Mixing sand with grains of rice. This is no team.

BlackAlbino6:
[color=#000000]I just pray the miracle happens. It will be a plus to our attacking options.
Why is Aminu Umar (Osmanispor FC, Turkey) and Amuzie Stanley (Sampdoria FC, Italy) not on the list of the U-23 foreign pros for the U-23 AFCON which doubles as 2016 Olympics qualifiers, have they not recovered from their injuries? [/color]

Injuries.

BlackAlbino6:
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I thinks its high time players learn to respect their national team Coaches. If your Club is on your neck, there is a better and diplomatic was of handling it, than what Kingsley Sokari and co did.

The players have been asked to go. Their colleagues who are in camp preparing can as well do the job. No single player is bigger than the team. If those who are in camp took their Coaches warning with all seriousness, fail to do the job, let it be on record that we failed to qualify for Olympics because we held onto discipline.
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This can be likened to cutting off of the face just to deal with a running nose. Peeps following this U23 Team know that Sokari and Etor have a lot to offer this team. Infact, they are the engine room of that midfield. It is true that no play is indispensable but our local coaches should know how to manage situations like this. Ok what of Chima Akas that was with Super Eagles and played against Swaziland is Siasia also excluding him from his U23 Team bc he was in the Super Eagles camp? Siasia should simply have reached an understanding with Enyimba for Sokari and Etor to join up with the Team 2 or 3 days later.

Orkpekyandega:
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Awoniyi, Success lead foreign pros for Rio Olympics qualifiers
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Taiwo Awoniyi to join Nigeria for Rio qualifiers in Senegal

Nigeria have named Germany-based striker Taiwo Awoniyi and Isaac Success from La Liga side Granada in a final squad for the 2015 African U23 Nations Cup in Senegal, which will serve as qualifiers for next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Awoniyi is one of several foreign-based professionals picked for the tournament, which kicks off on November 28 in Dakar.

The 18-year-old striker is on loan to FSV Frankfurt in the German second division from EPL club Liverpool.

The other overseas-based strikers are Isaac Success of La Liga side Granada and Junior Ajayi, who has been flying high at new Tunisian side CS Sfaxien.

Nigeria begin their campaign on November 29 against Mali in Mbour.

Egypt and Algeria are the other teams in their first round group.
The top three teams in this tournament will qualify automatically for next year’s Olympics in Rio.
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Well, a good well one. We expect to see more foreign pros. Plus Siasia should call back Kingsley Sokari and Daniel Etor as d NPFL is over now . We cant bank on d foreign players cos their clubs may nt release them, espacially Isaac Success.

Abeg, let's share old memories. Which was ur first mobile phone?

If yours is not listed here chose 13.
Mine was number 1

joseph1013:
I believe in the Super Eagles. I will whatever the draw gives us. We have good enough players to qualify for the World Cup.

That is it bro.

Probability before the slots are drawn:
The probability of being drawn with Ghana is same as being drawn with Cape Verde, Algeria, Senegal or CIV which is =1/5.
Same thing with probability of drawing Cameroun or any other team in pot2 = 1/5.

Now, the probability of drawing both Ghana and Cameroun = 1/5 * 1/5 = 1/25.
That means there is a 4% chance of being drawn with both Ghana and Cameroun.
Ie 4 out of 100 chances. Simply put it is very very unlikely that we are to be drawn with With both Ghana and Cameroun.

At least I still remember some little arithmetics.

One thing is sure: no easy grp. Even if we are paired with Cape Verde, Guinea and Libya which i consider d easiest possible draw for us.

cc: TheSuperNerd, TheGoodJoe, Bascovanveli, safarigirl, terzurum5, joseph1013.

TheSuperNerd:
Look, I've tried all I can with long epistles to kick out the "negativity" and "lies" in the minds of most Nigerians.

The mindset is so wrong!!!

It's really Crazy!!! When the "facts" are clear, they try to debunk them with "unintelligent" comments like, "bros or sister, this na Naija. Anything can happen..... Bla bla bla"

Why can't Nigerians stop living in the past and open their eyes to see that "change" has come?

Why can't Nigerians see "the light"? Why can't Nigerians see that a new era of true young talents were born in 2013 and that has carried on into 2015 and will more will still follow?

Why is the average Nigerian so mediocritic?? Why the hate? Why the envy?

It's tiring. It's sickening. It's irritating.

Gosh!!!! I'm done talking. No more of this for me. Let everyone believe whatever they wanna believe. I got a world to conquer and I'm sure these boys got big dreams to actualize too. Let Nigerians keep hating while the "Bright-minded ones" like us keep soaring.

Such a pity.

Don't mind those eediots! They are not real followers of our national teams. Bc there is an international break they now have time to type trash abt d Golden Eaglets. They keep dwelling in d past. Some don't even know that there is something called FIFA MRI scan.

I swear if any team of investigators is set up by FIFA to investigate the results of d MRI test on d eaglets due to comments from these moronic Nigerians, I am going to deactivite my account from this site and leave. I cannot b in association with pple who all dey do is to plot d downfall of there own country men.

^^^ These pix u guys have displayed were taken 2yrs after the U17. They were already U20 in d pix.

It baffles me when some malnourished, myopic peeps here say these kids are nt less than 25yrs.

It is that shameless mode that that took that trash to front page that I am still blaming. Nairaland that is viewed world-wide by different nationals.Every topic here can be assessed through google.

Mods una mess up big time.U guys can ban me if una like. Nonsense.

mrbillz:
Arsenal would be a rightful place for this lad... From a liverpool fan

Yes o.He gona b our future Santi Carzola.

Infact I was so disappointed in the moderator that moved that trash called a thread on "Papa Eaglets" .... whatever whatever. It is a shame that nairaland moderators pushed such a story without proofs and facts to the front page.

The other day some were voting Diego Cortes' goal as d best at d U17 WC all in d name of fairness.

I personally decided nt to join words with such people. I met with most of d 2013 U17 before d WC then. I must confess THOSE BOYS WERE U17, U can take dat to d bank.

safarigirl:
Cortes' goal won goal of the tournament. Followed by a Chilean and a Belgian.

Why didn't Okonkwo make top 3? Because Nigerians are stoopid

cc icon4s thesupernerd bascovanveli joseph1013

Even despite our population of internet users.
This is one of d demerits of democracy: the best candidate does nt always win.
The international community may have purposefully nt voted any Nigerian player since we won most other laurels in dat tourney.

FIFA can say what ever dey like, Orji Okonkwo's goal remains d best to me.

terzurum5:
This development is very uncalled for. I believe the Club must have been on these players' neck to make such demands.

This is not good for these players career at all. The Olympics present another platform for players to showcase their talents and become more marketable, which could also be for the Clubs' and players' benefit.

This is another evidence that NFPL Clubs are out to sabotage Coach Samson Siasia's ambition of qualifying for the 2016 Olympics simple.
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Siasia Drops Enyimba Stars for Indiscipline
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Enyimba forward Etor Daniel dropped

Nigeria U23 team coach Samson Siasia has wielded th‎e big stick by dropping Kingsley Sokari, Nzube Anaezemba and Daniel Etor for what he termed indiscipline.

The Netherlands 2005 FIFA U20 silver-winning coach said the players were sent packing after they requested to leave the camp to go for their club’s (Enyimba) last NPFL game of the season against Sunshine Stars in Lagos, even after he (Siasia) had told all the players they could not leave camp.

"I feel bad in taking this decision, but discipline must be maintained for us to achieve success in Senegal,” he said.

“All players in camp were told not to leave camp as the team would be traveling this weekend to The Gambia for pre –Championship training, only for these three players to come and ask to be allowed to go play for their club as they wanted to be part of the victory parade. I had no option but to allow them leave and also in the process, leave them out of the team."
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That was a harsh decision from Siasia. I was surprised to see Kingsley Sokari on Enyimba's substitute list today. After all it is nt as if they are goin for d tournament proper yet. It is a 10days training programme. Daniel Etor and Kingsley Sokari are strong members of that U23 team, Siasia should have given d trio till Tuesday to join d team.I hope he will nt regret this decision. Nigeria really needs to b in Rio.

terzurum5:
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Dream Team VI escape plane crash, stranded in Accra
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By Shemmy Sholabomi
The country’s Olympic team cheated death on their way to Gambia for final preparation ahead African U23 Championship
Nigeria U23 team escaped plane crash on their way to Gambia on Sunday morning towards perfecting strategies for the African U23 Championship billed for Senegal.

The Dream Team VI opted for the west African country after their trip to Morocco was cancelled owing to visa issues.

Goal gathered through one of the Nigeria U23 officials as at the time of writing this report that the pilot of the Arik Airline made an emergency landing in Accra, Ghana due to unexpected technical difficulties to the aircraft and has since been left stranded in the Ghana capital.

"Thank God for his goodness and his mercies we escaped plane crash on our way to Gambia, the pilot had to make an emergency landing in Accra we are still in Accra," a senior official of the team told Goal after the incident.

"We are still stranded here and we are yet to get any news from Arik officials.”
The team is likely to depart Accra on Sunday evening after the Nigeria Football Federation might have arranged new travel plans.
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www.goal.com/en-ng/news/11252/nigeria-u23/2015/11/15/17346902/breaking-news-dream-team-vi-escape-plane-crash-stranded-in

See o!

No weapon fashioned against this team shall prosper.

We will safely land in Gambia, then travel to Senagal to win d Olympic ticket in Jesus name. Amen.

Plane crash no be good thing o. The only time I can close to it I experienced nightmates for weeks.

Chai! this op u wicket o.

I wonder how Chelsea fans sleep at night. They are jst too passionate abt their club dat d only think they think abt and know in football is Chelsea. It is so pathetic that even clubs like Norwich and Bournemouth can easily pick 3pts at d bridge.

xtrorse:
If majority of Igbos aren't in support of IPOB many of your kind won't be running helter-skelter. You and your cohorts would have at least sponsor protests in those cities where IPOB youths held peaceful demonstrations.

Cease fooling yourselves and your backers. The earlier you relay back to them that your mission was DOA the better.

I will not be a party to any protest. Those deluded youths don't understand that agitating for Biafra is not a solution to their problems.

Biafra is nt the solution to our problems in Aligbo.

noblezone:
on the day of referendum, even this Igwe will vote for Biafra.

Many of these people are only scared. They love 8iafra deep down their hearts.

Who in his right senses will love Nigeria: a curse to the black race?
A creation of slave traders.

Anybody supporting Nigeria must be wicked, selfish and evil or must have lost their dignity as Africans.

Long Live Biafra.

Emmm...u are still including d SS in ur dream Biafra? cos i am sure u know if a referendum is carried out including d SS u already know d possible outcome.However, if u chose to make ur dream Biafra only d landlocked SE, u may get ur Biafra but that country eh only God go save person.

But, a referendum is nt gotten on a platter of Gold. There is no situation now that will warant d UN granting any part of Nigeria a referendum. Infact, d middle-belt of Nigeria even has more reason to want to secede than d SE.

Last bullet: Anybody hu is chanting for Biafra now, is selfish, Lazy, hopeless, myopic & wicked!

kingdompropty:
The thing about a movement is that up until the time of Independence many will keep doubting.

They said Buhari will never be president up until election night.

The youth have spoken, Ndigbo have spoken. Leave the 1%.

My friend speak for urself. Majority of Ndigbo are nt in supporting of this embarassment u people are calling a movement.

These are words from true Igbo leaders not dat opportunist called Nnamdi Kanu and his myopic low life followers.

lanrehamd:
Wen d British want to launch an attack, they create a problem to justify their mission.

It is people like u that were responsible for the spread of BH in Nigeria. Instead of saying d truth and shaming d devil u are busy pointing fingers at Britain - jst like how u pple pointed fingers at GEJ's government.

Islam is a nuissance to our society.May God protect us from muslims.