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See how Ideye go collect Torress jersey, wear am shap shap.

Let's give it to him. Mikel is a world class midfielder. Chelsea is just dulling him giving him limited role to express himself.

Nothing is wrong in blogging for money, we must get that clear.

You can even make blogging a career. The American guy I mentioned above does blogging full time and that's what he earns his income from.

We should however be creative about it, not copy-catting.

Nice topic.

I opened my first blog in 2009. It was basically to archive my political and other writings. I write many political and related articles, close to 30 in a year, published in newspapers. I realized the articles were scattered and didn't have them in one place. Sometimes I needed to google them to find. Some I don't know where they are today. So I decided to open a blog in 2009. I now have over 100 articles there.

Later, earlier this year, I realized career is another aspect I have passion for. I have been active on NL career section since 2008, and I realize readers respect my opinions on issues. Also, in real life, I do advise a lot of younger folks on career and education. All these motivated me to open another blog to focus on career and mentorship. I enlisted a couple of respected friends to come write for the blog. I'm trying to poach Ajanlekoko and Debosky from NL career section too. Unlike my political blog, which is just to archive personal opinions, my career blog has a bigger perspective, beyond me. So I decided to give it better publicity. I did a little research and checked similar niche bloggers in other climes. My aim is to make the blog a go-to for articles and analyses bordering on career and mentorship in Nigeria.

I want to be to career what Linda is to entertainment and Sahara Reporters (though not a blog, but a news site) is to politics. I believe I have what it takes. The major constraint is, as an 8-5 worker, its not been easy for me. But I know it's a matter of time.

Unfortunately, entertainment is what sells most in Nigeria, so Limda, Bella and co are the biggest crowd pullers. In the process of researching I met an American blogger. What he blogs on is Christian Personal Finance. So narrow a niche you may say, but believe me the blog turns traffic in US and he now makes close to 1m per month.

I don't reckon with bloggers that have less than 70% of their blog content as original. 95% of my blog content is original. Many bloggers are just copycats.

In other climes, you can blog on anything and make a name and money for yourself. Huffington post is world's no 1 blog, followed, I think, by Mashable.

Beyond the Linda-wannabe entertainment copycats, there are however a few Nigeria blogs that are doing fine. Jide of ogbongeblog.com is one of them. He blogs on tech and related stuffs. He is one of the few original-content filled blogs and his concept is creative.

Overall, I still believe Nigeria is underblogged.

jp philips: This Uruguay squad played the world cup and they won ghana by fraud, if soccer was mathematics then, Ghana may have won Nigeria if they met in the nations cup

Burkina Faso beat Ghana
Nigeria beat Burkina Faso

Complete the equation.

imperiouxx: Did you just say you or how many people have confidence in his ability? If I hear that again, I go slap your face 10X ! It's been long that this guy has been a pure useless id!ot.

Who asked the fool to cut stup!d hair cut that Balotelli was asked to stop to play for Italy in this tourney.

I gave him -3/10. So he is owing me lots of high performance in any next match(es).

You can't be a bad striker and score 15 goals in French Ligue 1 and 17 in Ukrainian league. That was what gave me the confidence.

laani: Mhuyil here @ Jarus.

On the Rating,

Enyeama has passed it, he should not get above 2/10. He lacked concentration.
Ambrose- Very lazy guy. He was behind Forlan when the move started only to disappear when Cavani released the pass. 2/10 in my opinion.

Overall, we made poor Uruguay looked good.

Hey ore.

I was suspecting that handle belonged to you when I bumped into it in one thread sometime ago.

Nice one sir.

lacosteIII: THE MAIN REASON WHY NIGERIA DID NOT PLAY THEIR BEST IS BECOS THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT HELPING MATTERS AT ALL...THEY DON'T PAY THEM AS EXPECTED...SO, HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO PLAY WITH ALL THEIR ABILITIES?...HOW DO YOU WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY...STUPID LEADERS OF NIGERIA

Mumu.

DailyNews: so many reasons made me to disapprove Musa. One, he hardly give pass to his fellow; he thinks he can score alone when he is not an exceptional player like Lionel Messi, C. Ronaldo, Arjen Robben, etc, so how? He will be watching his mate standing free but will never pass the ball to him to score, but would rather waste it and endanger our backside. Fast pace isn't just the only skill a player (striker) needs.

To those blaming Enyeama, I see no reason to blame him shaa...he was a victim of bad defence. He is still our best for now, and Africa's number one goalkeeper so far. I like him.

In fairness to him, he gives assists or attempts giving, only that the balls are usually intercepted most times before reaching the target player.

Good clarification job, ACJ Ife.

Our Great Ife shall never perish.

yoged: how about sefiu alao and babatosibe obesere. Forget those players you mention. You guys are hyping rabiu ibrahim who cudn't win a regular shirt in 3 different club. He has depreciated, as in o ti yipin... I believe this confederation cup is just a lesson for us that'll make us brave up for the world cup. How did babatunde ended up playing for the super eagles? Very soon we'll see Baba suwe in the super eagles.

ProfChris10: Brazil will suprise spain if they meet

Brazil and Spain are match, and either winning is no surprise, if the margin is not more than 2.

hornipipe: Crashed out?? Really??
Things do change in football my friend, we just need a result against Spain and [b]hope the tahitian defence would be strong [/b]and composed against uruguay and not concede more than three goals in that fixture.

Will suddenly be strong after conceding 16 goals in 2 matches? You can't do more than your ability. The Tahitians dont have what it takes to concede less than 5 from the Uruguayans.

tiarm: I think we also need a good midfilder det can hold ball very well.....

Mikel is doing that fine. And the guys supporting him (Ogu, Mba and Onazi) are not doing badly too. So we don't have problem with midfield.

Ajasnoop: Did you actually watch the match? as someone said earlier you rated players out of emotion and sentiment rather than their actual contribution. To rate Musa as a 3 is totally absurd. He was our most effective player in the first half and I agree he fizzled out in the second. Ideye was ok. He didn't set the stadium alight but he merits at least a 5

It is important that we understand the limitations of our National Team. A team where John Obi Mikel is the most influential player is a pretty average team. Yes we won the Africa Cup of Nations, but the teams were very poor. We were able to beat the only half decent team Ivory Coast and that is why we are champions.

The team's weaknesses and limitations were exposed against a very average and ageing Uruguay side. We lacked that cutting edge and maturity that comes with age and experience. The defenders are OK bordering on good but the defence can be shambolic and naive. We lack imagination in the final third and without Victor Moses and Emenike we will always struggle. Perhaps the biggest drawback of the team is the bench. Babatunde and Akpala are not national team players

However, I am very optimistic about this present crop of Super Eagles and they are destined for greatness and will come good. The caveat is that we keep the current coaching set up. Keshi is definately on the right track and is building the team organically. We do not need prima donnas like Osaze, Yakubu or even Obafemi to upset the team balance. This is a young crop of players and the official average age of the team is about 22; in real terms it is closer to 24. we can get 4 to 5 good years from these players and the fantastic thing is that apart from Enyeama and maybe Mikel, the other players have a lot of scope for improvement. So I believe the only way is up

let us keep the faith and not succumb to any knee jerk reactions

CIV is not an average side. Player for player, they match top European national teams. Drogba, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure, Gervinho, Saloman Kalou, Arthur Boka are players that have played in the biggest clubs in world football.

[quote author=Nuzo']Its really surprising that in a country of over 90 million men, we cannot comfortably source for at least 3 strikers that can stand world soccer powers.

It hurts.

Btw, I rate Jarus 9 for his ratings. [/quote]Thanks bro. Meaning, I'm the 'man of the analysis' abi na 'man of the match'.

vykte: The rating is cool! Except 4 d fact dat u gave musa a 3. Dat guy deserves a -3. He's such a bad player i wonder how he gets to play every match. Haruna lukman, rabiu ibrahim are better players and Keshi should realise some of this homebased players aint just good enough.

bro, na wa o.

dahmie2013: Please can someone help me with the implication of this loss. Thanks!

We are technically out of the Confederations cup.

We need to beat Spain with at least 1 goal margin, and Uruguay not beating Tahiti with more than 4 goals - both of which are very tall ambition.

modextus: Jarus its been long i heard from уσυ Oo..

Hey bro, I still dey o

[quote author=Zona.com]Jarus pls post ur normal player ratings.
The super eagles lost but somehow i'm happy with their performance. Echiejile and ambrose did very well, they were very composed and overlap when needed.[/quote]Posted already. Expecting Supermod to put in fp.

jp philips: truth is; it is the strikers that Initiate counters not the coach,a fast paced striker will initiate a counter by default as soon as the opponent is dispossessed in his half.

what i think keshi is avoiding is a counter attack from the opposition in case our boys are dispossessed and his strategy is fair if i must say.
we can make our runs through the flanks and Ambrose overlap and perhaps Echiejile or so isn't bad. also, you must note that keshi positions players in the midfield who has the ability to make defense splitting passes (Mikel and Moses does it very well for eagles and recently ideye).

what is the point asking for a counter attack and leaving your back vulnerable to fast paced attackers (forlan, suarez and Cavani) when you can split the defense with a killer pass from your controlled midfield? same opportunity for the strikers to score (if you have one).

Spot kick is a natural talent, i doubt if one can be trained to do that, if you are lucky to put together a team where one person has the Ability, then your are good, if not you cant destabilize your team for a spot kick taker.

since the days of Okocha (who happens to be a lucky dube for spot kicks, ) we haven't been that lucky anymore, even the so called big teams just manage with a few of them. our famous 94 squad hadn't a perfect one either, save for a few lucky ones.

Since Beckham and perhaps lucky lampard, England hadn't much, for over a decade, it was a Juninho and ronaldinho for a whole Brazilian team, rem. that it didn't stop scolari from dropping Dinho, when he dropped form.

most teams are like that, a 100capped pirlo does it so well for italy, whoelse? so at the exit of pirlo, no more for Italy, at least for now.
Most good teams in the world dont have spot kick takers except when they are lucky.
the truth is, there are a billion and one opportunities that can be created from skillful players, Spot kick is just a jara. i tell you what, if you have strikers that can bury any defense any day, you may not need good penalty takers.

Brilliant analysis.

Deadballs have never been our strenght, and there is hardly anything we can do about it.

brownlord: Abeg who know the state and village where ideye come from?


Very urgent

Bayelsa.

[quote author=Okija_juju]I will not speak for Osaze, but Kalu Uche we need..[/quote]Osaze doesnt have the character to be in this team. He will cause more friction. I don't support his return either.

Bro, the writer is a nairalander.

gbosaa: Did you watch the match?...you seem to be rating them out of emotion..

Echiejile did very well,i,ll rate him only third to mikel and omeruo.He should get at least 6..last night was one of his best games for nigeria.

Musa should get 6.5..He was full of pace and really troubled the uruguan defence.had some good crosses as well.

Oduamadi...6...

If it was out of emotion, I wont give Oduamadi 4 and Ideye 3. I'm a big fan of Ideye.

Rating will never be the same for different people.

SUBS

12, BABATUNDE: Thrown into the fray for injured Oduamadi, and disappointed big time. I wonder how Keshi selected someone that plays in one backwater club in Ukraine that scored 2 goals in 44 matches. He doesn’t have the quality – maybe yet – to be a Super Eagles player. 3/10

13, AKPALA: I still wonder why Keshi invited this guy. He scored just one goal for Werder Bremen in Bundesliga last season and made fringe appearances. Yes, he used to prolific in Belgium, but football is about form. Bad decision on Keshi’s part. 3/10

14, Mba: Keshi threw in a midfielder with eye for goal for a good, but not-known-for-scoring Ogu. He needed an equalizer. But it was too little too late. The ‘elephant killer’ didn’t make much impact. 3.5/10

COACH: His attackers once again failed him. I’m not sure he made the right decision throwing Babatunde into the game that early. 4.5/10

OVERALL NEGATIVE: Super Eagles need sharp attackers. All their recent goals were scored by wingers, midfielders and even defenders (Mikel, Oboabona, Echiejile, Oduamadi and Musa). No reliable top 9 yet. I still think Martins and the Uche brothers are still relevant to this team.

OVERALL POSITIVE: I think we expected too much from this team and we are impatient. The team is still under construction and these boys are still young. We also forget that Uruguay are champions in a continent that has Brazil and Argentina. What’s more, Forlan, Suarez and Cavani are no small players in world football. Not forgetting others players from Athletico Madrid, Liverpool etc. And this is a team we expected our own Ukraine and Belgian leagues players to defeat. It was a decent showing in my opinion.

http://jarushub.com/2013/06/21/player-rating-nigeria-vs-uruguay/

Again, Super Eagles’ attacking inefficiency and Uruguayan defenders’ tactical discipline saw Nigeria technically crashing out of Confederation Cup. The Eagles, who were dominated in the opening minutes of the game would later go on to give a gdecent account of themselves in the match with the South American champions.

How they played:

1, Enyeama: Although the goals were hardly his fault, the manner he concedes in almost every match for Nigeria (including against Super minnows like Tahiti, Namibia, Malawi, Kenya) calls to question his continued claim to Nigeria’s goal post. He can do better. 5/10

2, Echiejile: He could have also done better with his overlapping runs. Overlapping to initiate attack and losing final ball is not exactly the hallmark of a modern left back. If he knows he can’t do that, he should have stayed at the back jejely. Average performance. 5/10

3, Oboabona: Decent showing for an home-based against world class strikers, although not his best day. Less active than his defence partner. 5.5/10

4, Omeruo: Coming of age. A good showing against one of the strongest attack line in the world. He intercepted ball many times. He was helpless in Forlan’s goal, although I believe he could have charged the former Man U striker better. 7/10

5, Ambrose: Like his left side partner, his recovery rate when he overlaps is poor, exposing the central defenders. He did decently to assist the attack team though, especially when the wingers were fumbling. 5.5/10

6, Ogude: His raw tackles continued and almost got a card. After that, he was hardly seen. He is not able to take his chance to prove himself in the golden absence of his competitor, Onazi. 4/10

7, Ogu: Assisted Mikel in the midfield and made it possible for the Chelsea man to make daring moves forward. He later went into oblivion though. 6/10

8, Mikel: Easily Nigeria’s best player on the field. He showed his class, proved the difference between a Chelsea first team player and backwater league players. He was outstanding, commanded the midfield, despite the Uruguayans having more men in the midfield. What’s more, he scored world class goal. His lowpoint was a couple of critical indecision in the second half. 8/10

9, Oduamadi: Hacked down within first twenty minutes. Struggled as he did, he couldn’t make an impact in the game again. Unfortunately, those were the first minutes of the game the South Americans dominated the game. Prabably he could have converted, were he to be around when Nigeria began creating chances. 4/10

10, Ideye: He continues to disappoint those of us that have confidence in his ability, and prove critics right. For someone that scored 17 league goals in Ukraine this season, it was a bad outing. A golden chance he saw in the second half was also lost when he was not able to guide the ball well for the crucial turning. 3/10

11, Musa: Again, all run, no substance. His final ball remained poor. Bad crosses. Worse, he gave away ball that resulted in the second goal. 3/10


http://jarushub.com/2013/06/21/player-rating-nigeria-vs-uruguay/

trappatoni: keshi should look into the super eagles attack,guys like ideye and musa should not be in the starting line up. nsofor, martins or odewingie should be recalled.these three on their worst days will score half of the chances ideye has been throwing away since nations cup.

You should ask where Nsofor is first.

Nsofor managed 3 goals in Russian league that the Musa you said he should replace scored 12 goals.


Nigerians don't follow the performance of their players, they just analyse football with performance of 10 years ago.

Nigeria's best strikers this last season

1, Kalu Uche, 19 goals in Turkey, 2nd highest goal scorer in Turkish league, 2nd highest scoring African in Europe 2012/2013 (behind CIV's Bony Winfred, who was second only to Messi in Europe with 31 goals in Germany).

2, Ideye, 17 league goals and a couple of goals in UEFA, 2nd highest goal scorer in Ukraine

3, Ahmed Musa, 12 goals in Russian league

4, Imoh Ezekiel, 10+ goals in Belgium

5, IK Uche, 12 goals for Villareal in Spanish Segunda division, driving them back to La Liga

emiye: Well, like i said, any kind of win with a single goal differential from nig. 2-1, 3-2, 4-3,.....

For the other match, Tahiti might just pose a spoiler for uruguay, might also depend on how early uruguay starts scoring.

If Tahiti decides to attack lesser than they did against spain and nig, the loss might be reduced.

A single goal-differential win for Nigeria takes Nigeria to 6 points, +5 GD. Let's not hope against hope, Uruguay will put more than 5 past Tahiti.

CFCfan: On the bolded countries, it's still a bit of a surprise that Nigeria has to wait til the last day of the 2nd round qualifying series to book a place in the play-off round. The Super Eagles should have been out of sight, at least with 2 games to spare.

Imagine. Nigeria had theeasiest draw.

Imagine, Zambia, Ghana are in same group. Togo and Cameroun too.

We have Namibia, Malawi and Kenya, yet had to wait till last day.

seunlayi: but wait O, even if we qualify, it is certain that we will have to face Brazil in the semi final which may led to .... Don t let me say it. Eagles should just learn their lesson from this three matched and come back home to prepare for the main thing by playing high quality friendly matches

Qualifying for semis is enough achievement.


Some of us never conceived winning the tournament, but a decent showing. Semi final would have been a decent showing.