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That girl from oshoala academy, is she part of the team ? She was the main striker during qualifier

Deltamani:
Don’t even know how far they’re on it right now, cause i heard they were going to play 3 different countries (Colombia, Australia, Mexico) going to the World Cup but will there be time for that as they haven’t even left Nigeria ..

When it comes to the big stage Danjuma isn’t tactically sound so I don’t expect much from him even though the team is currently stacked.. Memories of the past teams he has handled and the last performance at the All African Games in Ghana still lingers

England can't contest in Olympics as a separate country from great Britain.....I believe in what waldrum is doing if only some heavyweight can leave alone to pick his team for a tournament, if some players were not forced on waldrum to Olympics waldrum wouldn't have used his power also to invite Onumonu which greatly affects the falcons

yinkeys:
NFF should retain Waldrum
Let’s see what he can achieve & improve on in 3 years
They can let him go in 2027
Hope they can get a few friendlies in from countries in Europe or Colombia
How do we compete with the powerhouses in football
We also need reliable replacements for older players
Friendlies can help improve the team and show us new talents
Falcons struggled to keep possession, string passes, create enough chances or score goals against top 10 teams
England, Holland, Sweden didnt even make it to the Olympics

People wey dey protest for ojota no reach 100 swore don lose

Firing in the 3rd quarter

I'm not like your useless father

RealDaughter:
Just like you and your future children if you go get future

Yeah Nigeria needs to know politicians only care about their own interests....if you elect Peter obi tomorrow he's going to do everything Nigerians are blaming tinubu for today,.....only if Nigerians can read they wouldn't have supported the opposition in 2012 , sometimes you stand with the government

Nairalander248:
Sometimes I wondered, was it the same subsidy removal that you were against in 2012 that you came to remove and made people suffer unnecessarily... BAT is playing with Nigerians

Young girl you have a useless father

Why lose momentum? Tinubu is yet to resign o [center][/center]

Most of you are idiots with useless permutations..... mention 1 president in Africa that didn't seek re-election

Weretuntun:
i am strongly belief that tinubu will stepdown for another person just like joe biden,to contest for 2027 election.
being in presidential ticket in 2027 is wrong calculation for tinubu.
nigerians have learned their lesson.

The fact the coach is not playing her means she's not good enough

Deltamani:
With the few minutes she has gotten did she do bad? It was the Coach choice to play other players before her!

After how many years? How many tournaments? I don't think she's good enough for international football

Deltamani:
She will definitely grow into that Right Back Position…!

Obi still want to this legend death score political points Obi omo weyrey

Omo I hope waldrum didn't invite MacLean after 2 years to keep her on the bench throughout the Olympics? Because if you're calling back a player you haven't found useful in 2years then you must have a very important role for the player . Except the coach didn't call the player himself

Babajide is the one we are missing not ordega

Deltamani:
Exactly… Wingers that hardly turn their back when with the ball, they will run at you! Like Catch me if you can.

But I haven’t seen anyone in that frame from the U20 qualifying games till date.

But again let me take you guys back, I would have picked Ordega ahead of Ifeoma Onumonu going to the Olympics.. She’s still among the top3 quickest forwards we have.!

If we're serious the heads of AFN and NOC should be suspended by now but everything in our country is man know man

daveP:
You know name calling is not the way by the affected. You don't expect Favor to call out the name. She has called out the bodies involved. It is majorly fans that brought Nigeria in. The elephants that scattered the grass can't be the ones to clean the grass or restore it. System can't clean until upright and clean handed folks are in it and fear nobody powerful. Dora Akunyili kind of personalities need to be in majority in Sports Federations to achieve cleaning. Till then....

So is Nigeria a single person? You have to name the organization or the person that has wronged you any way to clean up the system

daveP:
Is it far fetched if they say so? Other countries use that term and it's not a big deal, especially in a corrupt environment as this. How will two federations that represent the country not bear the brunt of that generalization?

The issue that now remains is that our media has unanimously perfected this craft of hiding names so well that it is now the standard.

Police officer kill, they won't drop name
Soldier do this or that same MO
Thief caught in public agency, same
Boss somewhere responsible sabotages, all same MO.

Nigeria will continue to bear such burden of said individuals until the right things are done and justice is not perverted or coaxed. 1 cocky fellow sitting somewhere in a sport federation office with AC feeling too powerful and arrogant over the hardwork and sweat of an athlete that is so dedicated like Favour??

So why the advertisement? You know where he dey

Still someone still has to be responsible for the system, the responsibility has to rest on someone shoulder , the system can't fix itself

lovewins:
You missed the point. This isn't a person problem but a systemic problem. It's easy to scapegoat someone to take the fall but the problem will still remain because it is system. Just 4 years ago something similar happened and it had nothing to do with registration, rather it was that the athletes were supposed to undergo certain tests that the AFN didn't communicate and fund. 14 athletes including Favour Ofili were affected. At the World championship of 2022,

Ezinne Abba who was born in the US but decided to represent Nigeria was called why she was about to board her flight that she can no longer participate. Why? The AFN didn't carry out a final test and they weren't willing to even though she could still do it prior to the start of the event. She has since gone back to represent the USA as she. Note that this happened after the testing incident of the 2021 Olympics.

The Dtigress were arbitrarily withdrawn after qualification from the World cup by the minister of Sports because he had beef with the NBBF president. Just a few weeks ago, these girls had to take an 8 hour bus drive just to play a friendly in Serbia cause the federation couldn't buy them plane tickets. Some u17 baseball players (both boys and girls) travelled by road to Ghana to participate in the African qualification event. Against all odds they qualified and returned again by road. Guess what? They didn't get to attend the championship in Egypt despite the stress they went through because the federation claims they couldn't fund it.

I could go on an on giving you several examples across several sporting federations. This doesn't even include the shenanigans we see in the football space with the NFF. My point is, we have a systemic problem which obviously includes lack of accountability. Until we fix it we are sadly going no where.

Don't worry something like this will happen again I'm a few months or years and we will come to this.

Honestly I hate it when people say things like Nigeria has failed me or Nigeria has happened.... that's sounds like a perfect cover for people commiting these crimes

Deltamani:
Exactly, the person who’s in charge of registering the Athletes that made the mistake should be called out and publicly disgraced… You can’t tell me that you were able to register the rest but Ofili’s name was the only one to escape you.

So from Olympic we go move to U20 world cup ... Hopefully we get a breakthrough striker

Deltamani:
Falconets To Leave Nigeria For U20 World Cup On August 18

Ahead of this year’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in Colombia, two-time runners-up, Falconets of Nigeria will depart the country for the U20 World Cup on 18th August.

The 2024 finals in Colombia will be the first to welcome 24 teams, with Africa supplying four (Nigeria, Morocco, Cameroon and Ghana). The team resumed camping in Abuja on 7th July and are in Group D with Germany, Venezuela and Korea Republic.


They will play international friendly matches in Colombia after arriving at the venue of the competition.

The final competition, which will welcome 24 teams for the first time, will hold 31st August – 22nd September.



GROUP A: Colombia, Australia, Cameroon, Mexico

GROUP B: France, Canada, Brazil, Fiji

GROUP C: Spain, USA, Paraguay, Morocco

GROUP D: Germany, Venezuela, Nigeria, Korea Republic

GROUP E: Japan, New Zealand, Ghana, Austria

GROUP F: Korea DPR, Argentina, Costa Rica, Netherlands

Instead of just saying Nigeria generally, there's a particular body or person responsible for this madness he/she should be named and publicly shamed

yinkeys:
The hurdles an average person linked to Nigeria has to overcome is unbelievable
Nothing surprises me

The girls can do it

It's not easy man

ReubenE:
I wonder too.

Our lead is almost gone. I can't believe we wasted a 15 points lead

Make NFF just leave waldrum make he carry us go next go next world cup abeg

They are losing cool already and shooting from distance, I just wish we took our chances

Deltamani:
If we continue to frustrate them like this, they will lose they cool and maybe mess up which might give us a chance to do something..

Spain has All the balls as expected but Nigeria has created 2 big chances and Spain 1

It's wasn't a bad game yesterday , Nobody will watch the match and say Brazil ran us over , our passing has improved a lot from the last tournament.... We still need that striker of 1 chance 1 goal because we are not a team that creates many chances especially at the highest level if Ihezuo convert that chance yesterday it would have disrupt the Brazilians

Kick the damn ball out

It's Spain nah

PDPGuy:
I’m disappointed in the Japanese team. Their trademark slick-passing game is nowhere to be found 🙆🏾

Who's our biggest threat upfront? She's the only with the lung to keep running at defenders for 90 minutes

lovewins:
Ajibade isn't our biggest threat upfront. The data doesn't back it up. Plus Randy has played her several times in midfield so I don't get what the fuss is about. Again I'll rather she plays as a forward but when you have an unbalanced 18 man roster you make the most of what you have.

Alex graduates as a right back in Liverpool, he's played primary as a right back all his career good defensively or not and Alonso had a whole year to turn frimmpong into what he wants but you want waldrum to turn Ajibade to a RWB in 24 hours

lovewins:
No. Alex isn't a natural FB. He was converted into that role at Liverpool. It's why he brings next to nothing to the team defensively and that's why England also rarely uses him there because he doesn't fit the system. Frimpong is also not a defender in that sense, he's more of an attacking threat but slots into defence because of his pace.

And yes you can design a system where Ajibade plays that role.