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TheGoodJoe:
Not given a run of games because Osimhen was below the pecking order over a legend like Mario Gomez does not mean he was not good. As soon as he had a run of games, he showed quality.

Bros Osimhen was still evolving then. What did you expect from an 18/19 years old player? It is not an issue of not being given a run of games.

oloriooko:
Just imagine a snerio where Southgate refuses to cap Tammy
I wonder what Tammy will do
Come back to offer to play for 9ja or swallow the bitter pill and hope for England call up?
Anyway we can produce 10 Tammys here and we sincerely wish him a successful career with the britico

Forget Tammy. He is gone

TheGoodJoe:
Why was Osimhen not a good player then?

My comment I made then was about the flashes of brilliance I saw when he came on for Nigeria.

When Osimhen had a run of games at Charleroi, he delivered. Because a coach decided not to play Osimhen, did not mean he was not good. When he got a chance with the Olympics team, he delivered.

No one said Osimhen has not improved but he was a good player not given a run of games. Talk less of not making an English youth team which was a joke.

I didn't say he wasn't good I only said 'he is a better player now'. And his not being given a run of games was because he was below in the pecking order. Or simply not good enough. This is an evolving player.

And the talk about not making an English Youth Team well you know our Southgate naa

TheGoodJoe:
It is not that Osimhen was not good then. He just not given a run of games.

No-no, Osimhen is a better player now compared to then. And he is still work in progress.

Starboytwo:
I imagine what the super Eagles attack will look like in say 2 years from now...

Imagine an osihmen and chukwueze leading the line for the Eagles, Shay we no go kee person like this...

It's our time folks, the next 5 years should be a memorable one for the supporters of the SE......


Abraham is a good player, one man here would not make me hate him, I wish him well in his career, to be honest I do not hate any Nigerian player, home or FB, I always wish all our brother well....

I wish he gets to play a couple of games for england tho, we all know the age of Harry Kane and rashford, and we also know he only gets in if they are injured or rested, but I pray the 9ja blood in him can help him get close to 20 caps Sha...

I wish same but don't be too quick. Football can be crazy at times. These two may even fizzle out and another duo may be the ones leading the attack. I have seen this happen over time. Some people almost killed me on this thread years back because I said same about Iheanacho.
Let's just be taking the games with them as they come.

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tbaba1234:
Ok, Gnabry is officially a legend. Best caption

North London is definitely Red..

Did it in Grand style in enemy's territory

Today is my Birthday.
Wish me well guys

BascoVanVeli:
I agree with forgiveness. There should not be any noise about his invite. There is more than one way to skin a cat. If he had scored 100 goals in the Czech league we would have said let's see what he does in the champions league and if he had flopped nobody would be talking about him. So let's not dare say that was JUST a champions league match because it was so much more

Peter Olayinka's showing against Inter was a major boost for his career.

Like I said before not like we are a Brazil or Spain, especially now that we are trying to buildup a new strike force, thatat kind of performance cannot be easily ignored.

safarigirl:
nobody rates them anymore

How the mighty have fallen. They haven't been exceptional since 2010

I don't think the bolded is the reason.

Funding is a major challenge for them.

Gentlewarrior1:
I guess its Ghana

Clap for ya sef

I see nothing wrong in Shehu's invitation.
And as for Balogun he is down injured.

The new call-ups/recall deserve their invitations.

My only disappointment for now is not still seeing Ebere Eze on the list.

Gentlewarrior1:
Do you mean south african hyenas

So you don't know who awa "bredas" are?

charlesemeka85:
Chelsea have registered their first home win under manager Frank Lampard, scoring seven goals against Grimsby Town in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday evening.

Faustino Anjorin became the latest youngster to benefit from Chelsea's transfer ban following his introduction in the 67th minute as a replacement for Pedro, his senior debut for the London club he officially joined at U9 level.

Aged 17 years, 10 months and 2 days, Anjorin has become the youngest player of Nigerian descent to debut for Chelsea in a domestic competition, breaking the record previously held by Fikayo Tomori, who was aged 18 years, 4 months and 26 days when he debuted for Chelsea in the Premier League in May 2016.

Chelsea led 3-1 at the break; Ross Barkley, Michy Batshuayi and Pedro with the goals for the home team while Matthew Green pulled a goal back for the Mariners.

Kurt Zouma, Reece James and Batshuayi scored to make it 6-1 before Callum Hudson-Odoi found space in the near post and finished emphatically to round out the scoring.

Fikayo Tomori and Tammy Abraham watched proceedings from the bench for the entirety of the game and Grimsby Town's Moses Ogbu entered the game as a sub in the 64th minute

Never saw or heard anything about that guy till he came in in tonight's game maybe because I don't really follow Chelsea.

Good one for him.

ChrisKels:
What a SAVE from Awaziem!!!

Na Awaziem dey keep?

Ihenzy:
Kano Pillars’ Head Coach, Ibrahim Musa says he is dismayed by Coach Imama Amapakabo’s description of Nigeria-based players and coaches as not teachable. He challenged the national U-23 team coach to organise a course on basics of football, with emphasis on tactics and formation. Amapakabo, who currently handles both the U-23 and the CHAN Eagles, in a recent report published by footballlive.ng, said home-based players find it difficult to interpret tactics and formation. He also accused local coaches of lacking tactics and formation, saying they cannot give what they don’t know. Speaking to The Guardian yesterday, Musa said Amapakabo had the right to his opinion, adding, however, that the former Enugu Rangers coach also fell in the category of Nigerian coaches. “Is Amapakabo not a coach in Nigeria? Well, he is only expressing his opinion. Some players were invited to the CHAN Eagles and no player from the Kano Pillars made it to the team. And this is a club that came second in the league last season and even won the FA Cup. “Indicting the local coaches publicly is not a good thing, especially when the coach is also based in Nigeria. This is more so when others are blaming us for the current state of the national teams.” He said Amapakabo should have been more discreet in his criticism if he noticed things wrong with the system. “If there were lapses he has noticed about the home-based players and coaches, he is supposed to advice us since he wants to correct them. Now because he lost 1-4 to Togo, he has suddenly remembered that Nigerian coaches and players lack tactics and formation,” he said. Musa, who is in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State for a pre-season tournament with his team, added that Amapakabo should complete his work against Togo and put up a course for the players and coaches on what he thinks we lack as a way forward. “It is good to hear that he knows what we don’t know. So, he should come and impact in us what tactics and formation are, as soon as he finishes the job of qualifying for the CHAN tournament. “As a way forward for the players based in Nigeria to be part of the Super Eagles, I think whoever that is given responsibility to handle the national team should start looking inwards by going round the country and seeing the players for himself rather than depending on agents,” he stated.
The last paragraph sha got me thinking

I was really shocked at Imama's post about Nigerian coaches in particular. All because he lost to Togo.... So the Togolese coaches are better than Nigerian coaches. What a scam of a coach.

I am just afraid of our chances at the CAF U23.

Curtisaxel7:
The religion factor. Exactly what I was thinking.

A Muslim society will never fold it's arms and let any non Muslims (let alone Christians) govern them with secular laws. Even if they don't have the resources to fight with conventional tactics, they will always resort to guerilla/ insurgent tactics to enthrone Sharia. That's why the European colonizers never found it funny ruling Muslim areas. The Muslims used insurgency and various forms of armed resistance to make life hell for the whitemen.....from Omar al-Mukhtar of Libya to Toure of Mali to the Mahdi of Sudan to Caliph Attahiru of Sokoto caliphate (Northern Nigeria).

The African Muslims saw the European colonization as a purely religious struggle for supremacy between Islam and Christianity, some even saw it as a continuation of the Crusades....

Very true. Good write up

Humility017:
the west Africa weather discouraged them.
remember west Africa was tagged the white man's grave....

even though France tried settled in Senegal but they still could not stay....

the south Africa and north Africa weather really suit their life style.


prior the colonisation of the 20th century there was one of the 17the century which was aimed at pursing a more white settled economy that was when countries like USA, NEW ZEALAND (whose original indigenes = moa men/women), Australia and more....

the colonisation carried out in this countries was a bit different and all....
for example the US independence from Britian was basically "economic" the US stopped and fight to it end the payment of royalties and tax to Britain that was the independence this countries fought....

most of the whites in this countries were basically from Europe (dutch and british) for example new york was formally called new Amsterdam it became new York named after Yorkshire in England after it was bought from the dutch. like I was told don't know how true it is...

the prisoners who were Europeans where taken to this countries to own and cultivate large plantations which they later make royalties to the British government....and others it was the great need for labour to meet the growing labour demand in this countries that necessitated the emergence of the TRANS ALANTIC SLAVE TRADE and all....

Hmmm... interesting read

Humility017:
France wanted make Algeria a settled economy.
they wanted settle there just like the way the British and the dutch settled in south Africa.
but this Move was strongly resisted....

it rarely lead to several attempts of France to revolutionize the prior existing cultures in other to aid their plans but it wasn't easy and it was strongly resisted....

I guess the religious differences must have played a role too.

Why the British no come chose to settle for Nigeria sef

rabzy:
Of all French colonies Algeria was unique. France has been in Algeria since the early 1800s while others came in late 1800s and 1900s.
France also consider Algeria not as a colony but as part of France, it was like Puerto Rico or Hawaii to America, so a lot of French settled there over the years.
That made the war very brutal and in fact the French generals never wanted to stop and attempted several assassinations on Charles de Gaulle who negotiated the talks.
It was a bloody war with atrocities committed by both sides.

Excellent write up. We really have good historians in the house. I am always a student of history. Now I know better.

SamuelAnyawu:
Yeaaa not a state

Good

SamuelAnyawu:
She could not write down the name of her state?

See you sef

Is Port Harcourt a state?

komekn:
The screen shots give an insight into the historical deep seated bitterness and never ending hidden hatred towards France by Algerians. From that bloody civil war the fought to gain independence from France in 1962.

The younger generation may not feel so bitter but it still lingers. Don't forget Zz Zidane is of Algerian origin.

But you will begin to wonder why France held Algeria for that long. Morocco and Tunisia who are neighboring ex-French colonies both gained their independence in 1956. Francophone West and Central Africa gained theirs in 1960. So why the extended colonization of Algeria till 1962?

ChrisKels:
Why do the Algerian communities in France hate France so much?


NB: This is why French players of Algerian descent always put Algeria first before France.


TheSupernerd, icon4s, tbaba1234, elyte89, Komekn, junnyjake, TheGoodJoe et al

Algeria had a bitter fight to independence in 1962. They were the last of their subregion to gain independence. They suffered heavy casulties. Although Western Sahara is still being colonised by Morocco after the Spaniards pulled out from that territory.

However, France has maintained a good relationship with it's ex-colonies, Algeria inclusive.

Humility017:
oga basco can defend him and this result

What will be there to defend? 4:1 loss to Togo?

ChrisKels:
I pray they don't qualify. Nothing good has ever come outta this CHAN rubbish. Not even a single player has been produced for the super eagles from that nonsense, from inception. Na waste of money.

Honestly, that competition is share waste of resources. NFF should stop taking part in it because it is not yielding any useful results for the national team.

tbaba1234:
Fifa ranking, imagine losing 4:1 to Togo

I don't know which defense anyone will have with this kind of result.

Better we don't even take part in these CHAN competitions at all.

Egypt doesn't play in CHAN

tbaba1234:
Fifa ranking, imagine losing 4:1 to Togo

Honestly, I am so angry right now.

tbaba1234:
4:1 Togo

Imama

Nonsense. Mtcheew.

[quote author=tbaba1234 post=82468607]3:1 Togo

Imama with another away loss[/quoote]

I don't like this CHAN competition because things like this. Now it is in the records that our SE lost 3-1 to Togo. And the result goes into the FIFA ranking calculator. Mtcheew. Countries that are not at par with you will be flexing muscles because your best legs play outside the country while they will present most of the A team players.

It was before that no one cares about FIFA ranking but now it is used for all FIFA and CAF competitions draws.

The only major positive i can take from that game is that most of the players are U23 and so the game is more like a build up towards the CAF U23.

tbaba1234:
Another shocking half from pepe. Simply not performing so far.

He is not better than Iwobi. Arsenal has wasted money.

BascoVanVeli:
You you for gree

Oga Icon4s wan use akwa to cover up his club's shortcomings. Let them go to Sudan and get a win

Oga no use Enyimba cover your shortcomings abeg.
Toddlers in football beat your team. Sebi u say una get playing pattern . And your coach is collecting salary?