₦airaland Forum

TheGoodJoe:
There were things I couldn't do until I learned it by mastering the essentials and training on it repeatedly. So what do you think that was?

There are kids that could not juggle the ball at all. However with multiple training they become excellent ball jugglers.

So what do you think?

the fact that you are comparing yourself dey kill me 😀

TheGoodJoe:
You have heard from Tevez and Di Maria. You can still keep arguing and shouting liar.

let me hear from Figo and Rui costa, Argentines worship Messi what do you expect?

TheGoodJoe:
"We would also see him work relentlessly on his free kicks and he would tell us about something he had seen somewhere, and he wanted to perfect it, and he would work again relentlessly until he did... Nicky Butt, former CR7 teammate.

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Messi would not need to work relentlessly on the training pitch to become one of the most awesome free kick takers of all time.

That is the difference.

Ronaldo scored his first freekick at 17/18 (against Portsmouth in 2003) while Messi scored his at 21 (2008) if Messi didn’t work on his how did you think he learnt how to play it? In his dreams?

TheSuperNerd:
Ronaldo was a natural talent. Even the great Fergie saw that as much in one game before he pulled all the stops for Man Utd to sign him.

Alex Ferguson's eye >>>>>> Rodri's opinion

They played a preseason against Lisbon, Neville Ferdinand and co were amazed by what they saw and told Ferguson they must buy this boy

TheGoodJoe:
I think Rodri was totally misunderstood. Rodri believes CR7 was not a naturally gifted kid. I understand that because same was for me. As a young kid, I used to even miskick the ball. I couldn't dribble or mark to save my life.

Then came Amunike. I used to study Amunike intently and tried to replicate the things he did. I used to spend long time on the field training alone.

Then came Celestine Babayaro. I learnt marking die hard from Celestine. I had personally recorded matches. I didn't miss Nigerian games to watch these guys on different periods.

They made me and I learnt so much. The icing was Overmars of Ajax. I learnt and practiced to become a good player. Still regret the offer of Coach Monday Sinclair to work with him today. He personally approached me and said he wants to groom me. I was more the school trajectory and turned down the offer.

So the "unnatural talented kid" became a guy that the person who groomed Finidi George and Richard Owobokiri gave a grooming offer to.

do you know what it means to start for Portugal at 18 years of age? Portugal not Azerbaijan o

TheGoodJoe:
I am from Akwa Ibom State but born and bred in Port Harcourt.

ok bro, but your wahala too much 😀

elyte89:
I won’t b surprised if thegoodjoe no b Nigerian 🇳🇬

😀he is, I think he’s from Rivers

opes:
Aliyu Zubair did well. Took El Kanemi from NNL to NPFL, won FA Cup, took charge of Flying Eagles to win WAFU U20 championship

he’s not an ex international so nobody will praise him

elyte89:
No 3 Our defence needs to stop conceding cheapo goals (making reference to the two dead balls we conceded in d last 2games

seems this is a local coach problem, even under Keshi we conceded a lot from set pieces

AndSunGorilla:
For me, I like Eguavoen but I don't think he's the man to lead us to the world cup giving the precarious situation where we find ourselves. On the flip side, almost too late for a new coach, so this is a real conundrum, catch 20-20.

Still hoping we qualify for the world cup.

Eguavoen won’t win us the Afcon, bring in a better coach and let him use the remaining World Cup qualifying games to get familiar with the team

Subzerooo:
Best performers of the match
Osho
Moses Simon

Worst performers
Gbashiru
Gbassuf
Victor Boniface

gbaniface 😀

ChrisKels:
Our 013 U17 squad was fire, but our 015 set has given us more quality talents. That 015, (including the dropped players) currently has 3 good players in the super eagles today in Osimhen, Chuks and Osho, and we should not also forget that Nwakali got some caps too

Osho? Wow!

Odunayaw:
Where did you see a question first

I just confuse

Setaleonoz:
Algeria beating team 5-0 ,3-0 etc.. but when it gets to afcon proper they start struggling

while we always struggle to kill off our own opponents in qualifiers but when tournaments start we’ll somehow drag ourself to the final four

TheSuperNerd:
Meanwhile... let me say this now because I see that a few are already waiting to push this as the next agenda on our GK role.

I will scatter that table before you even set it up. Charlesemeka85, I know you are among.

So this is it.....

Even if Maduka Okoye drops a buffon world class performance vs Rwanda, I don't care!!! He will return to the bench as our second choice while Nwabali Stanley continues his deserved role as Super Eagles Number 1.

Thank you for reading. 😎

as it should be

viccy12:
Nerd nwanne , longest time. Odenigbo Aroli greets.

For Nwakali, you know the insults and disrespect i took from the likes of Charles Emeka and his gangs, but I had never lost hope in that young man. I am happy for him and every young man should learn a lesson from Nwakali's struggles

alaye relax o, it’s just England 3rd tier

TheSuperNerd:
Bruno Onyemaechi is yet to drop a bad game for Nigeria and it is impressive. Bruno plays like a left fullback who reminds me of how Chidi Ordiah operated on the right as a RB.

Bruno truly is a standout and deserves his flowers. Makes me not miss Zaidu so much at all.

Pajero have blood on his hands, didn’t even give Bruno 1 minute at the last Afcon

charlesemeka85:
I remember him. Was a member of 2005 u20 team 🙁

May his soul rest in peace

yea, and he’s the 3rd person from that squad who has died, Olufemi Adebayo and Isaac Promise are the other two

opes:
The majority, 5 out of the 8 players are FB. Won't totally blame them, even Partey, Fatawu, Baba Rahman are guilty of doing same..

the coach dropped Partey and Inaki Williams is actually injured as he missed last weekend’s game, Semenyo was seen limping after his team's game on Saturday and Lamptey have never been fit

@supernerd, do you know Promise David? A new kid on the block in Belgium, plays for Boniface former club, Union StGill. He currently has 4 goals in 9 appearances (2 starts), report says he’s eligible for Canada too but we already capped him at U-23 level

Sad News: according to multiple reports, former U-20 and U-23 player, Gift Atulewa is dead

BankyGee:
What y'all think? 🤔

Eguavoen won’t do 3 ATB and no way Osho will start this game

isan:
Those foreign borns did them dirty ..... Your country is on a rope and you're pulling out

Opoku and Paintsil aren’t foreign born, why you decided to blame only foreign born is very surprising

zicky:
Bro how many matches did Onuachu started just like Boniface now. Coming in 10mins to end of a game is not chance.

I remember he started our first game at Afcon 2019, there were other games too that I can’t remember now

minfelix:
if an all black England/French/spanish team meets super eagles it would be like an all african game…it will be a kinda physical game.
we go come out jam ourselves wella

you are deceiving yourself, jam-body football has never and will never help anybody

zicky:
oga make we leave that side, Onuachu had a mini world class performance in Belgium, in the national team he wasn't really given enough chance. We just don't rate him abi his style of play.

he was given enough chance.

Bannedlargejr:
Men STFU Chelsea had an offer for him on the last day of the transfer window and he refused only to sign for a Kebab backwater league and you want us to smile. Even playing at Tottenham is better than kebab league

mtcheew

GMBOFASIA:
He is saying the truth 💯 there are double standards going on here nobody is saying Osimhen isn’t world class but why was onachu not getting the praises and all when he was playing in Turkish league

maybe because Osimhen is our number 1 striker who has proven himself

Samueltemi337:
Omo galatasaray attack na die

they had 102 points last season, won’t be surprised if they do more than that this season

AndSunGorilla:
The GoodJoe is right, the team is fatigued. After they conceded the 2nd goal, Pep was drinking lots of water because os fatigue due to dehydration sef.

Waiting for when the GJ would get fatigued of arguments too.

😀 that last paragraph can never happen

TheGoodJoe:
Same thing. The team is fatigued. This game actually emphasizes my point

fatigue in early November? Alright boss

Hotepking:
Awoniyi and Iheanacho have no business in the team, check my previous commentary about those two on here, I've always insisted they are deadwood that have no business in the national team. But at least Awoniyi and Nacho are seeing minutes here and there for their clubs (which is the barest minimum to ask for), when last did Umar Sadiq play a single minute this season? Perspective and context is always key in addressing these issues

Awoniyi 122minutes played in the league, Umar 205 minutes played. I know what you are