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Danielnino00:
Even though these kind of underground dealings is very common in government agencies in Nigeria,I gotta say this story sounds too good to be true.... A new league with investment worth $1bn is definitely something we could have heard whispers of in the news... Though a few years ago, there was talk about some private clubs in Nigeria quiting the NPFL and creating a new league,but it never materialized

of all the fake things you can read on the internet that story is the fakest. 2 weeks to launching of a 750mill dollars investment and you never start to dey make noise on social media? If you want to invest that type of money in Nigeria no random person in any ministry can stop it except the minister himself.

Unrelated: Besiktas want to return Dele Alli to Everton but Everton don’t want him back so he’ll likely finish the season in Turkey. This guy have really fallen off.

Houssem Aouar will now play for the Algeria national team over France, confirms the FA's president.

benji93:
Continue deceiving yourself. That is true on average. Only a minority of actual 17-year-olds would fail the test if it's properly calibrated. Besides by previously, i meant pre-2013. In the last 2 tournaments or so we've been more truthful, thanks in part to the MRI system. And no it's not still accurate. Remember accuracy means they were all under 17. I guarantee you the majority of them were 20 and above .

I think there must be a name for this thing Nigerians love to do, urge to always rubbish your country and her achievements.

yinkeys:
Nigeria wey Portugal tidy 4 nil
Morocco wey park bus beat Portugal
Morocco go flog us eh
They are slick with it like that, their passes, chance creation etc
They’d win one of the next two Afcon tournament
You can’t beat World Cup experience

what a sweet way to analyze football

TheSuperNerd:
Back-to-Back Cleansheets for Uzoho

Francis uzoho played all 90 today and yet again kept a Cleansheet in Omonia Nicosia's 3-0 away league win over Enosis Paralimni in the Cypriot Prothatlima Cyta Matchday 17. His side stays 5th on the table.

It was Uzoho's 6th cleansheet across 16 games played in all competitions in 22/23.

just happy this guy if finally getting game time.

TheSuperNerd:
More on Taiwo Awoniyi's performance today.

Was a handful for Chelsea especially in the second half. Bested a Beast CB in Koulibaly across a couple of physical duels as well.

@SkySportsStatto's MOTM.

won the official man of the match too, JPes was in the stadium

komekn:
If you were privy to general log standing organizational culture in the NFF when the Nigerian origin national team coach visits players, you wouldn't make that comment.

I am talking about the unspoken expectations. For instance, I know that when a Nigerian national team coach visited, the players paid his 5 star hotel bill and to make him comfortable he was entertained with female escorts (at his request) and to show appreciation the brown envelope was given.

So what Tosin is doing in broad daylight is really nothing, Eguavon is not even the head coach of the SE.

Eguavoen is the technical director, doesn’t matter if it’s a tradition or they’ve been doing it for the past 5biliion years it is a very terrible thing that shouldn’t be happening, if a coach or the NFF want to scout a player the player should never have to foot the bill

Happy new year my people

mostob:
To get people to watch NPFL matches
1. There must be an improvement in the standard of living. People needs to be financially stable. Person wey never belleful no go dey think of watching ball.

2. Adequate security must be provided. I, personally detest violence during football matches. There are lots of fans like me too who will rather stay at home than go watch a violent-filled match.

3. LMC or whatever has a big job of making the league attractive. All this selling of slots should be banned.

4. Our games should be televised and not on NTA for God's sake. This is like tasting before eating.

5. The clubs also need to play proper football. All these good and poof is kinda boring.

Lemme stop here bro.
The solution is wider than many of us think. Infact, the government has a big role to play too.

people in poorer countries pay to go watch their local league football, people aren’t just interested

solonnachi:
It seems Austin Eguavoen visited London of recent to see Tosin Adarabioyo (on request), Eberechi Eze, Malcolm Ebowei, Arthur Okonkwo. Okonkwo told him to talk to his agents if he wants him to play for SE because he wants to focus on club duties.

My question is why the sudden change of mind by Tosin and Eze? What did they see? Okonkwo seems to be weighing his options

Tosin paid for his flight ticket also gifted him match day ticket, this is very very wrong it looks like he’s paying his way to the team (wouldn’t rule out giving him something small too)

TheSuperNerd:
Super Eagles in 2022: Osimhen is Top Scorer. Moses Simon is top assist maker and Highest Capped player in the calendar year.

13 games played, 5 wins, 2 draws, 6 losses.

Goals scored: 21

Goals conceeded: 15

NB: Doesn't include the game vs Algeria B.



Top Goals/Assists contributors:

Victor Osimhen - 5 goals, 2 assists in 4 games.

Terem Moffi - 3 goals in 6 games.

Moses Simon - 2 goals, 4 assists in 12 games.

William Troost Ekong - 2 goals, 1 own goal in 10 games.

Ademola Lookman - 1 goal, 1 assist in 6 games.

Kelechi Iheanacho - 1 goal, 1 assist in 6 games.

Ahmed Musa - 2 assists in 4 games.



Others G/A Eagles in 2022:

Alex Iwobi - 1 goal

Taiwo Awoniyi - 1 goal

Samuel Chukwueze - 1 goal

Umar Sadiq - 1 goal

Cyriel Dessers - 1goal

Emmanuel Dennis - 1 goal.

Oghenekaro Etebo - 1 goal

Zaidu Sanusi - 1 assist.

Calvin Bassey - 1 assist.

Joe Aribo - 1 assist.

this is relegation form, we need to do better in 2023. For now we only have 4 games for next year, I hope the NFF would be able to arrange lots of friendlies for the Eagles

AndSunGorilla:
In the south of the country a lot of the highlights show empty seats, there has to be a way to bring people back.

I know, attempts have been made to throw the gates open with no real changes. The idea of bringing A list artists looks very good, people paid 70k to watch Asake while standing if you give them the offer of paying 1 or 2k to watch him and also watch a football game while sitting i think it should be a full stadium

AndSunGorilla:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mob71hPSxyE
Unrelated topic to your discourse, to promote our league, I THINK a lot of investments need to go in
1) a lot of marketing on tv and social media, perhaps engaging social media influencers like you and others
2) the gates should be thrown open for a couple of months
3) could we consider using our popular musicians to promote the games, eg, Shooting Stars vs. Akwa, have a popular musician perform before the game, during half time and maybe after the game
4) ensure there is adequate security
These will cost a ton but bu hopefully help to revive interest and bring fans to the stadium.

I agree with all except number 2

Blueelf:
omo this guy is at least 30yrs of age

stop embarrassing yourself

AndSunGorilla:
Going by your logic, Costa left Brazil aged 17 so he shouldn't have chosen Spain. Also do you know that Messi is older than Costa and Thiago? So if they chose Spain during the peak years of Spain, that means Messi too would have made the team before them not when Spain was being knocked out by S. Korea. When Spain won the WC in 2010, Messi was 23 and in his prime years.

Messi made his debut for Argentina in 2005, played for their youth team in 2004-2005 same period Spain couldn’t even get out of their group in euro 2004. Don’t know the year DelBosque was talking to Messi but he didn’t become Spain coach till 2008, by then Messi already had a World Cup goal for Argentina, unless Del Bosque dey smoke ganja I don’t know how he thinks it was going to work

AndSunGorilla:
But Diego Costa and Thiago Alcantara chose spain over Brazil, Jorginho chose Italy over Brazil too. Before we say Costa isn't playing well now, remember he used to be an absolute terror to defenders especially at the time where Brazil was short of out and out strikers.

Alcantara was born and breed in Spain, Jorginho only made a smart choice, also Alcantara and Costa chose Spain during their peak years not when they were being knocked out of the World Cup by South Korea. Don’t also forget that Messi didn’t leave Argentina till his early teen years (13) he also played for Argentina’s U-20 at the age of 18. Would be shocking if he ended up playing for Spain

Danielnino00:
Still makes me mad that the WAFU bloc couldn't do anything to avert this stupid zonal qualifiers format. I really don't see hoa the format has helped Southern and Eastern African teams.. they are still as before...

it’s crazy , just look at these teams. If these ones make it to the World Cup then they’ll end up embarrassing Africa with heavy defeats

TheSuperNerd:
Passion and Desire over anything else.

lol, which mumu player will pick Spain over Argentina? To even make it worse around 2003-2005, Spain wey be gbef before Xavi Iniesta and co came to rescue them

TheSuperNerd:
The 2023 Afcon U20 Group Stage Draws: Official

This is the 23rd edition.

Bosso & Amoo's boys really in the toughest group of the first round.

How Wafu A and Wafu B Champs find themselves in the same group is really strange but well, here it goes. I guess they used the team’s Standings from the last tournament to seed them and Nigeria and Senegal weren't present at the last one.

Uganda finished runners up in the last edition. Gambia were third and Tunisia were fourth.

So the top seeded teams per group were most likely Egypt (Host), Uganda and The Gambia.

Tournament holds from 19th February to 11th March.

Recall that Nigeria has won 7 U20 Afcon titles (Highest in History).

look at the countries participating, Is this a joke? The strongest countries are in 1 group, WTF is Uganda and Zambia? Caf is really clueless

Odunayaw:
All this 2000s children

proper beer parlour/viewing center analysts

typicalgamer:
This is where your -97 iq ends Europe !!!
So you have to be playing in Europe to be considered capable for SUPER E. ?

When most current super E players are high budget NPFL players

I agree, we have highly talented 17-23 years old players outside Europe, can you please name 5?

daveP:
An Easy thing to do anyway.

debunked by Mbappe himself

andrewbaba44:
We invited iwobi when he was not a first teamer

We have invited struggling foreign base over the years ,Senegal and Morocco aren’t better than us in terms of getting foreign base ,it’s our own foreign base that prefers England before anything

Iwobi had his uncle’s influence, Ekong had his U-23 performance to thank, maybe Okoye and that’s because we have a shortage of GK. I’m not in support of filling the team with mediocre players but we also need to realize that these players won’t be willing to play for us if we wait for them to become regulars for their clubs especially the ones at the top clubs.

andrewbaba44:
Put guardiola as our coach or even mourinho ,people like saka wont still play for naija

if Saka have Senegalese or Moroccan heritage they’ll have invited him to the senior team when arsenal was using him for meaningless cup games

daveP:
Meaning if too say we get sense down here, someone like Emenalo for be our coach and dia Saka and co for don rep Nigeria and did exactly what Morocco did at the world cup!!? It won't be hard. But we are surrounded by Shege!

these countries are just smarter, if an U-18 player born abroad shows great promise they can bring them to the senior team, if such happens here we’ll see people protesting and saying maybe the NFF have been bribed

Mujtahida:
I concur with you. When you win, everything you do is right, when you loose everything you do is wrong. Had France won, you'd have seen how Deschamps would have been hailed as a tactical genius and Scaloni utterly condemned for letting a 2 up lead slip out of his hands a second time.

But if we want to be objective without letting our bias color our judgment, we would look at the results Deschamps has achieved with the French team during his stint. That should guide our judgment not the outcome of one just single game no matter how important.

In spite of having top of the range quality players at his disposal, Guardiola's barca were walloped 7- 0 by Bayern. His Bayern side were taken to the cleaners by Real Madrid. Guardiola lost in a Champions league final. Yet nobody in his right mind would argue that Gaudiola is a poor tactician

Pep wasn’t the coach when they lost to Bayern tho but your point is very valid

elyte89:
This thread lasan


And we once compared an hattrick world cup finalist to iheanacho

all the people involved will answer for their sins on judgement day

TheGoodJoe:
That even drive home my point. I think the squads quality drives him more than his coaching talent. They just stopped playing after the second equalizer. It was terrible to watch. No fight at all.

squad quality is the reason for his success right? But when we say the same thing about Pep fight go start

Oasis007:


LOL

that money will be embezzled, I’m surprised I have to even say this, are you not a Nigerian? Do you know how many millions clubs like Enyimba have made on transfers? Any impact?

Oasis007:
Banscovelli has been doing great jobs on this board with clips and info of our local players, but seem we don't care!

We'll rather hope for a player in Cyprus league gets a callup over a player playing and balling well for Enyimba.

balling well for Enyimba against his fellow farmers, raise the stakes just a little their poor tactical deficiency will be brutally exposed, abeg!!!

elyte89:
None sincerely, but anything foreign make sense

can you beat your chest that there’s a RB better than Aina in the NPFL?