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Subzero047:
The guy wanted to walk in and be offered a job

Learner

The audacity

Joebie:
Abiodun Baruwa interview

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How has it been since your retirement from active football?

I’m doing great in United Kingdom with my family. We are all here and everything is fine.
I have been in London for the past 16 years and I have established my company called BRW Sports management. The company is about seven years now. Our main task is to scout for talented players in Africa, including Nigeria.
I have also obtained the Level One and Two certificates as goalkeepers’ coach from the English FA and another certificate as an outfield coach. At the moment, I’m planning to return to Nigeria to coach any of our national teams or any club.

What efforts have you made to actualise your dream of coaching any of the national teams

Thank you for the question. I spoke with the Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick, about my intent to coach any of the national teams.
We had a brief telephone conversation. I also sent him my resume along with my photographs while I was in the national team for him to remember me.
So, If I’m given an opportunity, I would prefer to coach or be part of the Under 23 or Super Eagles’ technical crew.

So, what was the NFF president’s response

For me, his response was not encouraging. On the day I spoke with him, he said he was in a haste for a meeting and that I should call him back. Since then, he hasn’t picked my calls. I opted to send him messages on WhatsApp and he still didn’t reply to all the messages I sent him for about a year now. I hope, someday, he will consider me and give me audience.

—SunNewsOnline

Na this kain mentality dey vex me, why can't he start somewhere and get noticed? Why lobbying for a job with the SE or dream team not even the U-17, all these opportunist sef their matter dey tire me

nelszx:
Its same format as the 2014 WC, we can even play Senegal, except they want to use FIFA ranking with seeded and unseeded teams.

Yep, FIFA ranking will be used. Top 5 teams can't play themselves

Joebie:
Samuel Kalu

See statistics like goalkeeper own, this guy really need to up his game

elunico:
Dessers is levels above the Belgian league.

League never start na, these ones are just friendly

Nigeria's 23 years old midfielder, Azuibuike Okechukwu pictured at his club's dinner party today

TheSuperNerd:
Saka will fit in nicely in our team and give us better quality depth on the left and quality cover on the right. He can play in Chukwueze's absence easily on the right. His addition will give us absolutely top quality cover on both wings and at wingback too in a 3-5-2.

Also, Saka is within our reach. Steps are being made to get him. Eze for now, isn't within our reach. He made his bow for England U-21s competitively and still playing "undecided".

Saka within our reach? Do you mean we won't need any application for him?

IDENNAA:
Becareful what you defend. Nwakali has shown many times he played what we could expect when he gets in form. He is freekick gifted, defence splittling passes, deft touched , long ball merchant , dribbler, crazy confidence and courage when on the ball and never in a hurry to give away passes like Iwobi due to limited creativity...lol

Sorry o, which Nwakali is this? Which club does he play for? Because if seems I've never heard/seen this particular player before

andrewbaba44:
You are wrong bro

Otu player no go fit win 30 caps for Holland and earned a move to juventus while playing for an average team

30 caps in over 10yrs despite the fact that Holland have been starved of quality attackers in recent years, thank you for buttressing my point

andrewbaba44:
Azubuike teammate eljero Elia rocking the vintage 94 super eagles jersey

this guy na another otu, first saw him at 2010 WC I tot he's a very good player, I no know say na empty barrel

andrewbaba44:
Well said concerning iwobi


Papa azubuike you be really odenigbo

Guyyyy

IDENNAA:
I state again , Nwakali is the most complete Nigerian attacking MF in the horizon! There is none better!

Aribo is not an attacking MF
Azzeze is not an attacking MF
Eze is not Nigerian

So, who is better than an inform Nwakali

When was the last time anybody saw an inform Nwakali?

Edopesin:
I'm sure you know how many games huesca played between February till the end of the season besides work permit didn't stop him while playing with Porto b where he was unimpressive

You are even going too far, he was supposed to be the star player of our U-23 at that mumu Olympic qualifier

andrewbaba44:
What did they do to awaziem ?

If it’s about him not making their team then did did nothing as they have better players there ahead of him

Musa yahaya was not good enough

Some people here said porto don’t like naija players

Conspiracy theory, if they are good enough they'll play first team football

andrewbaba44:
Good morning my people

Happy bday 2 me

I am Grateful.

Andy baba, more happy years to come

IDENNAA:
Correct Naija G to gbadun !
The most interesting piece on this matter is that we have never had an English man who played for super eagles and actually impressed and became a hero. Every single one of them is either a pretender or an outright failure in super eagles colors... . Namely , Reuben Agboola , Shola Amobi ,Efan Ekoku , Efe Sodje etc. Well , maybe the current batch could rewrite the history and actually give us some hope in these English youngsters.

Meanwhie , Iwobi has nothing more to offer than we already see, Aribo would eventually be benched by real talents like Azeeze , Mikel Agu , Okechukwu , Nwakali etc. You cant come all the way from English and displace our home boys. Stay your English aass in England and play for your country of birth. Our samba like style doesnt fit into the way the English play.

LMAO

Aribo's close control is fire

TheLoneCitizen:
There are 21 Nigerian players in the Latvian Higher League.

All of them are 21 years of age or under, except:
Alampasu(23yrs), whose age is well documented, and;
Christian Pyagbara (24), who has been playing football for almost a decade.

Football Hustle.

Pyagbara is 24? That guy have been around for about a century

sheyishemba:
it is debatable bro
and moreover it depends on the style and pattern

It is not debatable, whichever style or pattern combine both of them they can't lace Auba's boot

andrewbaba44:
First choice that has played 14 league games for about 3 seasons ?

Na Mendy be first choice lb even under Zidane

It's true, it was zidane who restored Marcelo to the starting 11

sheyishemba:
ya the one typing out of your ass
is ndidi or gueye better than casemiro
is aubmeyang better than Jesus and firmino we can debate that no really clear difference
you spoilt everything by saying mane and sallah coz neymar is playing volleyball abiii
think deep before you quote next time

Huh?? You just wan push your narrative

Tamunotonye22:
Lol, easy man, just easy with the pressure.

obafemi Martin's - inter
Victor obinna - inter
kanu - inter
Christian obodo - fiorentina
oliseh - Juventus
Stephen makinwa - Lazio
ikechukwu Kalu - sampdoria
akande ajide - Roma
taribo west - inter
adewale wahab - roma

I left out Makinwa because around that time Lazio were a midtable team, Sampdoria isn't a top team and when did Kalu play for them? And who in Jah's name are Akande and wahab?

komekn:
I know Bobby but l don't know Simi l still have his number on my phone.

Who cares

elyte89:
U left d main topic abt simmy...and decided to comment on "Bobby " with just a paragraph.. Bobo yi sick

anise Broda yen ni problem

[quote author=Joebie post=91931630]Igbekeme clearly has had a better career even in the lower leagues than Nwakali. There is no debating that.
However football is present and continuous performance. If Nwakali rises above Igbekeme based on consistent performance I will say it as it is.
But no one can lie when the facts are glaring.[/quote]Nwakali doesn't have a career yet

andrewbaba44:
Lol was there a time we even have 10 players in the whole of seria A ? Let alone players in top clubs

When he said lots of players I no con understand. We've only had West for both Milan teams, Kanu, Obagoal and Nsofor for Inter

Tamunotonye22:
I love your point of, very direct and positive. I also expect him to do so, the Serie A is now active like the early 20s and the influx of attackers shows that they are about to take over. I remember when their were lots of Nigerians in the top clubs of series A, big step for osimhen and this should also be a challenge to the others who think playing in the Dutch league or Latvian league should be praised.

When? Mention 10

komekn:
Managers make up their mind up about players very quickly.

Then you have an uphill task to prove that your good enough. Remember that saying about "First impressions last"

Go and look at the squad of Huesca and look.at how many are loan moves from all over the place, it looks half or more of the team are loan moves.Then the next group are free transfers and then a few are actually bought.

Club no get money.

They will get a lot more players in for La Liga what they have will see them relegated immediately.

So he is going to have more competition in midfield with much needed players coming in. How will he survive better quality competition.

Time will tell.

This isn't absolutely true sha

andrewbaba44:
No bro

Ünai emery get sense oo


He will never play Chuks as a full back

Chuks will be so regular under emery and he will be better then before

Mark my words

Person wey play Torreira for 10

elyte89:
[b]Yet we claim we av world class players [/b]wen dey hardly win laurels for deir clubs,all dis things count

Only a dreamer will say this

komekn:
Bournemouth AFC forward players
Josh King
Callum Wilson
Stanislas Jnr.
Arnaut Danjuma
Dominic Solanke

He was never supposed to be their key source of goals. They paid £20 million for potential not yet realised, he had after 21 games scored one goal for Liverpool. They expected him to be a lot better than he is and he is a great disappointment.

They should have got a proven goal scorer with Danny Ings but they did not.

Solanke was not even rated by the coaches we were all shocked when we saw the transfer fee. All l can say he was well marketed.

You think you are sleek abi, you listed players that aren't out and out strikers as his competitors you then put him as last on the pecking list. Solanke is a waste man that can't do well in EPL, after playing for 3 Epl teams he can't even boast of 10 league goals, he should count himself lucky if he can get a league 2 team to take him on loan

TheSuperNerd:
According to Oma Akatugba Who dropped the exclusives on Osimhen's Medicals being done and transfer update which he said would be made official by Tuesday or latest wednesday, Vic could be costing Napoli €81 million euros.

Likely breakdown is €50 million + Adam Ounas (worth €31million) OR €51 million euros + Adam Ounas (worth €30million).

Now that's an African record if confirmed officially.


And I think it's really cool Vic is permitting his entourage to give the privilege of exclusive info around his transfer to a Nigerian Journalist of international standing but not only because of that. It's because they have a good relationship and an understanding. That's some fine home bond. A brotherhood thing. Class act from Vic.

So other Journos looking to get an exclusive bite off the transfer of Vic would inevitably reference Oma.

Ladies and Gentlemen.... The transfer drama is about to come to a sweet end and a new chapter shall truly begin for our Super Lad, Osimhen. Stay tuned.

Napoli fans have been going mental on his mentions and DM just because he broke the news, Osimhen will receive so much love in Naples I just hope he hit the ground running