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Icon4s:
25 mins after this comment was posted and there was no single "like" . Well, i gave the only like it has thus far.

Go Super Eagles!!!

Good evening house and thanks for the kind wishes and prayers.

bossto:
I see....All things being equal, Awaziem and iheanacho would be dropped

andrew444:
Henderson is an headless chicken

Mikel is already 32 and I see no wrong in him playing this afcon ,I just hope you don't drink snipper

Yeah Henderson is a goal scorer as he has scored just one goal this season .

Henderson will never achieved what mikel has achieved

darkelf:
Henderson scores and assist in crucial ties and he isn't overrated

I guess you people will still rely on Mikel 2 yrs to come

smh for you

tbaba1234:
Osimhen to join Atalanta for 15 million almost done.

Atalanta has taken pole position to sign him. Champions league football.

Curtisaxel7:
Let's just say I by a stroke of luck i got to meet a couple of people who are close to him and a few other players personally, from Akwa Ibom....

I don't want to go into specifics for fear of betraying my sources, but just know that Aniekeme Okon is in his early thirties, or late twenties at most.

Icon4s:
Brother, since we are like family here, I just came out of a surgical operation. Currently still hospitalized. But no worries, it came out good and I am recovering.

I didn't watch the game because the Hospital's management made it as a policy not to switch to football games due to their hypertensive patients. I never knew until 5 minutes before the game when I requested for super sport .

BascoVanVeli:
And so what, I owe you money?

Curtisaxel7:
Clearly Emeka's father didn't pay the complete sum required for a starting shirt.

It's clear that in this Aigbogun's team, team selection is strictly for the highest bidder. Can anybody say Jamil Muhammad is in any way better than Oforborh?. Yet Jamil somehow started against Qatar and USA with a dismal performance.

Is there any logical reason why old papa Offia with zero flair and speed was preferred to the far better Makanjuola?. In the few minutes Sor Collins played against Ukraine, it was glaringly clear that he was far better than that 30 year old buffoon called Effiom.

Aigbogun is just a businessman with his eyes on monetary gain. No wonder he found it hard to select foreign born players to beef up his team, even though his local boys are CLEARLY sub par.

Anyways, wetin concern me sef?. Na our future SE go suffer am.

BascoVanVeli:
I no dey fear una. Tijani Muhammad will be pivotal today and Nigeria will win this ball.

gamaliel9:
Let us see what stability can bring to the table this time...after this AFCON more creative midfielders should be sought...Dele Bashiru and Oforb
should get a look in.

mostob:
throwback... almost a year ago... upon all these preparations... o mehn

tbaba1234:
Good news, another player to look out for

BascoVanVeli:
Newly promoted Bundesliga side Union Berlin sign Nigerian striker Suleiman Abdullahi permanently



Gbenga Adewoye

goal.com




The young Nigerian forward has been rewarded for his decent performances for the Iron Ones with a permanent deal

Newly promoted German Bundesliga side Union Berlin have signed Suleiman Abdullahi permanently from Eintracht Braunschweig.

The 22-year-old teamed up with the Kopenick-based side on loan at the start of the season and delivered satisfactory performances.

The forward scored two goals in 19 league appearances to help Urs Fischer’s men gain promotion to the German top-flight.

On the back of the striker’s contribution to the side, the Iron Ones have activated their option to secure his permanent transfer.

In his reaction, Abdullahi is delighted with the opportunity to continue his stay at the Stadion An der Alten Forsterei.

"I'm very happy to continue playing for FC Union Berlin,” Abdullahi told club website.

“It was a good year for me and I'm looking forward to the new season and the Bundesliga,"

The former Nigeria U20 star will be expected to support the Super Eagles in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

Three-time Africa champions, Nigeria have been drawn in Group B along with Burundi, Guinea and Madagascar.

Gernot Rohr’ men kick off their campaign in the biennial tournament against the Swallows on June 22.

DrLikita12:
Camp opens today

forgiveness:
Tottenham really impressed me today. I never expected them to play this way.

However, the coach made a big blunder by changing the team that won Ajax. He should had started Kane from the bench.

I think they need to add a good striker to deputise for Kane.

andrew444:
I don't need google as I watch every bit of John utaka career ,utaka was a very good player and won the league with a small team like montepeiler,utaka giroud and belhanda was their. Best player and utaka scored a winner against psg ,a psg that had ibra during his early psg days

But did the great utaka scored 22 French league goals ?Hello No

He didn't even score 15 or even 10 goals .

tbaba1234:
I saw more from Amah as a goalie than i have seen so far from Oremade plus he is really young.

tbaba1234:
I am simply assessing his performance so far. If he shows something better in the next game, i will also acknowledge it.

Humility017:
not really...I think they lost concentration in that match

andrew444:
They where not good ke ?

Who was the Dutch guy ?

A team that dominated Brazil in the goalless draw

Dominated Korea despite loosing and won Switzerland ?

andrew444:
Which 3 years musa comot ?

Musa comot nothing less than 5 years

The players that removed 3 or 2 years from their age are those players that played the 2013 u17 World Cup and even some of the 2015

Musa will play for long and I see him playing in Qatar 2022 even if it's as a sub

Make I end here before I talk more

forgiveness:
Foreign coach for under age competition!? Hmm! I don't think it is a good idea.

Humility017:
that's why we opt for foreign coach...
the money used to hire Thomas Dennerby for the super falcons would have been used to hire an under 20 foreign coach....


the super falcons for now don't need a foreign coach

Humility017:
not about how many countries went with academy players...
I still remember how manu garba academy boys whipped NPFL teams...in star 6 tournament sometime back...

the best players are in the academics... not about what other nations does...
pick these boys 6-10 months to the tournament...brush them up and see how best they deliver.

Humility017:
exactly but oga Icon keep saying the under 20 are for professionals playing in league teams and not academics

we can all see for ourselves that the old men paraded as under 20 are waste

tbaba1234:
Oremade is a poor goalie

Isahalbash:
Which 5years? 10years minimum daz what they removed. Those that removed like 3-5years are the ones that look very young.


I had a friend who was 25years then real age( those small small ones you see on d field; the u17 type)... He told me his football age is 16yr.


Imagine Musa claiming 18 in 2011 when I was 20 then nd dis guy if I mistakely call am Musa dem go beat... I must say bros.

naptu2:
Why not? They have an experienced coach, the players are very good and for once they've had a good preparation. The problem is that they are in a very tough group, but did you think that the 1996 Olympic team had a chance against Brazil and Argentina (especially after losing to Togo in Lagos)?

They have as much chance as any other team at the World Cup.


I learnt (as far back as 1985) never to write off any Nigerian team. Nigerian teams can defeat any team in the world and they can lose to any team in the world. I only start assessing a Nigerian team from their first match of a competition.


Nobody gave the Golden Eaglets a chance ahead of China 1985, but they won the competition.

I thought that the Soviet Union had defeated Nigeria during the Miracle of Damman (I had actually left my house because I was depressed and dissapointed), but we came back from 4 goals down and won the game on penalties.

If you had read Nigerian newspapers ahead of USA 1994, you would have thought that Bulgaria would beat us 0-6. All they wrote about was Stoichkov, Kostadinov, Letchkov and how Bulgaria had beaten France, yet we beat Bulgaria 3-0 and topped our group. We even went on to push the star-studded Italian team all the way in the second round. Complete Football had published a terrible article before that World Cup, in which they claimed that Westerhof came to destroy our football!

Nigeria played a friendly match against Togo ahead of the 1996 Olympics. Togo defeated Nigeria at the National Stadium in Lagos and the fans went crazy and rioted. The players could not leave the stadium for an hour after that match. People said that the team was going to disgrace Nigeria, but they beat Brazil in the semi-final and beat Argentina in the final.

All Nigerian newspapers wrote about before the semi-final with Brazil was "Ronaldo this" and "Ronaldo that", but we ended up beating Brazil.

Nobody thought that the Super Falcons would get to the quarter-final of the 1999 Women's World Cup, but they did and they pushed Brazil all the way in that quarter-final.

Just as I've seen Nigerian teams win when nobody gave them a chance, so also have I seen Nigerian teams collapse when it seemed easier to win.

Nigeria and Brazil were 0-0 at half time in the first match of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and my uncle was already talking about a repeat of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, when Nigeria drew 3-3 with Brazil. However, Nigeria collapsed in the second half and we lost 0-4.

We thought that Nigeria would do well at the 1987 World Youth Championships. We had a star-studded team that included some of the players that had won the U-16 championships in China in 1985. The team had stars like Nduka Ugbade, Etim Esin, Jonathan Akpoborire, etc. However, we lost our first game 0-4 to Brazil, drew 2-2 with Canada and lost 0-2 to Italy. We were last in our group!

So, you see, you can't just write off any Nigerian team. We have very good players like Oshoala, Oparanozie, Ordega and Okobi. They have played with the best in the world and are very experienced. We also have a coach that has gotten to 3rd position in the 2011 World Cup. The big question is whether he has been able to make the players understand how he wants them to play. However, we have a very difficult group (I wish we had Cameroon's group).