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charlesemeka85:
Lesley Ugochukwu dropped from France Olympic football team. Time for him to consider Nigeria

not good enough for Chelsea, not good enough for France U-23 are you sure he’ll be good enough for Super eagles?

charlesemeka85:
a player like aina is even yet to recover fully from the afcon burn out 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ekong just resumed training, the boy at Porto may not play again this year but our players no dey put body for ball

daveP:
You guys are getting me all wrong. Don't. I watched AFCON and saw it all. But am talking about the present setup and also a matter of sustenance of such OT. Not this off and on.

Discredit? Come off it. We just need this mentality regardless of hierarchy. Most times we see such zeal, the players do it by themselves and for themselves and history, not because the house is in order.

My other reply i had to use the siasia level because it is close to the game tonight.

The bottomline remains that attitude has been a consistent problem in the SE, regardless of manager. Ego battles and what have you.

We need it abeg. We currently lack it and we need it back if it was ever lost.

2018 WC, 2020 euro and 2022 World Cup Germany performed poorly in all 3 tournament what do you have to say about that? Or just watched one game and assume this is how they always play?

Odunayaw:
Those players who played their lives out in AFCON

Wetin una de find una go see am laslas

Nigerians will complain about anything and everything

mekabuachi:
At the end of the day you can only do this with players with zeal and passion for the game.... And from the looks of things those players lack it.

we all saw them play Afcon, what are you talking about?

Truidstarr:
😂😂😂😂A poor workman will always quarrel with his tools.

we only hear these type of stories with local coaches after they fail

typicalgamer:
Don’t let price tag fool you

there is a reason why the price tag is there, there’s a reason why Mbappe will cost between 150-200mill and Moses Simon won’t even go for 5mill

typicalgamer:
Our swimming pool of players

Folks here seem to make it sound like we’re the France 🇫🇷 of Africa

We’re not o

We have 1 world class player

Then everyone else is journey men

The sooner we see that the sooner we stop unrealistic expectations

so you think Benin and Rwanda have better players ?

Kevin Debruyne una, zero clutch

Mujtahida:
Yes it was an handball. But even though, even though

😀😀

Mujtahida:
Ojoro penalty. Denmark has played well.

well deserved pk but Denmark have been unlucky

mostob:
That's why I added Omeruo and Ekong though. I don't think Balogun would want to come back again.

he want to

Mujtahida:
He came to Nigeria for the 1999 U - 20. His name was Ronaldo then.

first time I saw him play, took a keen interest after he scored a very funny penalty against Croatia

kendrick9:
Nah you're just blinded by nostalgia.
Which is funny cause Lampard wasn't even an exciting player.😆
He got like half his goals from Pens and deflections.
Don't get me wrong Lampard was a good player, a goal scoring midfielder, but KDB is just a better footballer

disagree with the bolded but I agree that KDB is more complete

TheGoodJoe:
I hope you watched Mahrez play for Manchester City.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TokOKh_0kzc

anybody who watched Mahrez at Leicester will tell you that’s the best version of him

charlesemeka85:
looku enjoying his holiday quietly while osimhen dey Lagos dey form “na we get Lagos” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

him and Aribo are spending their holiday together in America

Ronaldo Nazario: "I think I love more tennis now than football. I cannot watch football matches. I think it's too boring."

"I can stay for 5 hours watching tennis."

🇧🇷🗣️ Ronaldo Nazario: "I think I love more tennis now than football. I cannot watch football matches. I think it's too boring."

"I can stay for 5 hours watching tennis." 🎾📺 pic.twitter.com/cFXwim8Yzm

— EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) June 26, 2024

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Danielnino00:
The only reason England may not sack Southgate soon is because they are too egoistic to hire a competent foreign manager... if they sack hum now and decide to hire another English coach, who is more competent? All of them have been exposed..

I have said it several times, everything about English football is overrated... Remove the foreigners from English football and nobody will give a sh*t about it anymore

Potter will be a much better option

Mujtahida:
Bro, just check out that French team. So assuming the tide of immigration turns say from Europe to Africa, an English man or Italian can become an igbo man or Nupe or hausa man to the extent of totally dominating certain aspects of their life and our people will keep quiet and just accept it?

that’s why they are a developed country, they understand that the English man is better at it and he’s not blocking them from coming into the team if they are good enough. Have you read somewhere that a native French player better than Mbappe didn’t make the team because of Mbappe?

Our players are enjoying their summer break while their European counter part dey sweat for field. Advantage of Afcon holding mid season

benji93:
In all of this politics of taking sides, i have a question. Did Finidi George truly say that 'He cannot beg Osimhen to play'?. is there an audio evidence or sth? Or is it just another report distorting facts to captivate an audience?

from what journalists have said, I think he said it but to a gathering of few friends/people, I guess someone from that gathering went to tell Osimhen

mekabuachi:
i really hope it's not true tho... just checked his stats that man is on a loosing streak

he has proven himself to be very good with lower ranked teams

daveP:
All this useless tournament dates are the trademark of Motsepe tenure as CAF president. Wafcon 2024 in 2025?
AFCON during Christmas period? These guys are trying hard to make nff guys look like the lesser evil sooo bad.

Hayatou must be credited for how adamant he was about Afcon date, that January date was very sacrosanct to him, he never changed the date for anybody/anything despite the huge pressure from Europe/Fifa

typicalgamer:
Only an African elder would want someone younger than him to treat and address him like an elder

Seems some of y’all haven’t lived outside the shores of Nigeria

There’s no Ekaro sir for abroad

It’s a free world I’m surprised a 3rd world country is so adamant on respect and acknowledgment when there’s a bigger problem out there

it’s our culture, don’t see a problem with that. We don’t have to copy the Europeans/Americans

elyte89:
Who is nff talking to? To be d next super eagles coach?

rumor says Thomas Saintfeit

BascoVanVeli:
Ok but how did that affect Finidi for him to quit like that

it’s foreign technical adviser o not technical director

BascoVanVeli:
Guys this Technical director isn't that the position Augustine Eguavoen was having?

yeah, there have been talks that he’ll be removed, have another person been hired

opes:
Was happy yesterday, My team, Sunshine Stars defeated Doma FC away from home and escaped relegation

I hope we’ll better next season, having to fight relegation is annoying

elyte89:
Dem say comceicao na rohr 2.0 😄😄

who said? All these naija journalist are fighting for their pocket jare

elyte89:
D present Cameroonian coach might be coming.nff has discussed with his lawyers and he’s within d budget ($30k)…nothing concrete yet - eaglestracker

a 30k coach must be garbage, his first job aside he has never spent more than 2 years on a job. They should just give the job to Fidelis or something because weytin be this

TheGoodJoe:
How many years did we spend with Rohr, Eguavoen and Peseiro?

It is better we spent it on a better developmental National team program. A long term plan defeats a short term approach.

Finito.

spot on but you have to show workings along the way, not that we’ll be struggling against Benin and Rwanda and you want us to believe that you have a long term plan

MetalJigsaw:
" I will rather we miss the world cup than allow what Victor did to stand because IF this situation is not nipped in the bud right now, it will set a wrong precedence in the team that certain players can get away with anything, and one day, someone like Osihmen will slap a Coach - and it will be free for all fight, do you want the Super Eagles to be in the news for such event? na so e take dey start, when misbehavior is overlooked and not punished- it will grow wings until it becomes a normal thing for Coaches to be slapped by players - Victor must be punished

In the last nations cup, Ghanaian fans almost physically attacked the players of the black stars at their hotel entrance, they poured insults on them and mocked them like say tomorrow no dey - they blocked their bus from even leaving the hotel - they blamed key players like Mohammed Kudus, the Ayew Brothers (Dede and Jordan) for the poor showing of the Black Stars, did any of these players swear Ogun for the fans ?

- IF France can do without Kareem Benzema when he was World Player of the Year, definitely Osimhen is not bigger than Nigeria


"In 1989, Some Super Eagles players then did almost what Victor did right now - they talked trash to the press about NFF and demanded for $30,000 to be payed to them upfront before they show up for camp at Algiers’1990 Nations cup

Players like (now Late) Steven Keshi, (now Late) Phillip Osondu, Samson Siasia and co held the nation to ransom and we were all panicking about our nations cup showing - You know what Clemens Westerhoff, our Dutch technical adviser did then ? he expelled all of them from the team - these were Nigeria’s best then - we still came back from that tournament with Silver Medal even though our boys were very inexperienced, they were very hungry for success because they never expected such opportunity.

Westerhoff threw the camp open for whoever wants to play to come play—/ many unknown players came and one of them was a 17 year old Daniel Amokachi from Ranchers Bees of Kaduna, Others were Ben Iroha, Toyin Ayinla, Ayo (Dodo) Ogunlana, Uche Okechukwu, Osita Aniweke, Ajibade Babalade, Moses Kpakor, Friday Elahor, Thompson Oliha, Alloy Agu, Isaac Semitoje, Herbet Anijekwu, Emma Okocha (Jay Jay Okocha’s elder brother) and a few others that became the best Super Eagles of 1994

And when the recalcitrant players like Keshi found out that Nigeria survived without them, they became more commited and issued apology to the team and country and their patriotism spiked. That event taught me a leason that in life, learn to let go for certain things to work out

So Stop displaying fear and weakness by trying to cuddle nonsense - Victor must be punished and if he cant take the punishment let him retire from International football, he is not the first to do so and he wont be the last- the world does not revolve around Osimhen


If my favorite player ever and the deadliest and most lethal finisher in world football history - Marco Van Basten could retire at a very young age of 25 because of Injury and the world of football did not stop, then Osimhen can retire from the super eagles and the world of Nigerian football will continue, talents abound in Nigeria - he will not be missed more than 6 months trust me!!!!"

VanBasten retired at 28 not 25