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me I no understand.. I wan comment during the match I see say chain dey my hands.. I come dey wonder wetin happen.
We need to get it right with our administration for once and give it some time..
These guys at the helm of affairs will guarantee more wasted years. I sorry for the likes of Osimhen.
Even Tomori, Abrahams etc have nothing to regret..

do4luv14:
Even me that correct you howbeit with Germany,
I was just released this morning by the Anti-spam

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For twist sake, let's do the flops of the year

modified
Or can we just do a Knocking on the Door award for SE?

TheSuperNerd:
I disagree with the emboldened...

Nigerian Football's True Glories may have started with the Super Eagles but it surely doesn't end with the Super Eagles.

We have national teams who did exceptionally well this year. We have players who dorned our jerseys and repped with distinction. Are we gonna ignore them just because the Super Eagles lost 5 friendlies in one year?

What about the fact that this same Super Eagles sit top of their Afcon Qualifiers group? We could lean a bit on that.

Now look at this, holistically... in 2022:

- Nigeria's U17 Golden Eaglets won the Wafu B Afcon Qualifiers tournament with distinction. We won all games. We have lads like Emmanuel Michael, Abubakar Abdullahi, Precious Williams, Richard Odoh (GK), Jibril Azeez, Raphael Oyebanjo, Basil Mbata, Ebube Okere, Ozor Okeke, Miracle Ogwor, Yahaya Lawali, Jeremiah Olaleke, Light Eke etc all in that squad of truly talented youngsters.

Are we not gonna recognise them?

- Nigeria's U20 Flying Eagles won the Wafu B Afcon Qualifiers Tournament as well. We won it unbeaten.

The squad includes impressively talented lads like Daniel Daga, Ibrahim Muhammed, Tolulope Ojo, Oluwatosin Adegbite, Nathaniel Nwosu (GK), Ahmed Abdullahi and a few more.

Are we not gonna recognise them?


- Nigeria’s Flamingoes won Bronze at the FIFA U17 WWC becoming the Second African side to bag a medal at that level.
Impressive lasses like Opeyemi Ajakaye, Amina Bello, Edidiong Etim, Miracle Usani, Taiwo Afolabi, Faith Omilana (GK), etc.

Should we ignore them too??


- Our Super Falcons didn't win the Wafcon but we saw Asisat Oshoala earn a Ballon D'or Nomination and ranking this year. When was the last time a Nigerian player man or woman earned that?


I think we should go ahead with the NNFF Awards. We have feats and talents to recognise even in the midst of a bad year in general for the Super Eagles.


Cc Danielnino00, Icon4s.

Moffi no join FB players.

Our problem is coaching..

Any coach that takes over Nigeria also have to review past matches.
By now we should have moved away from using the same tried and failed midfield combinations.

And again, the defense needs a serious look in. Any new coach that comes without reviewing the past will start experimenting with the same players in the biggest leagues.

At the moment the only department that we are okay is the Forward department.. The lack of balance overall is the problem..
I always had my reservations about Peseiro.

Get a proven tactical coach who really understands where Nigeria is coming from and where we want to go.

Mujtahida:
This analysis is just too simplistic as a diagnosis of the problem of our team.

Super Eagles is poor because 90 percent of the players are FB(in you people's mind, FB make up 90% of the team). What sort of nursery school thinking is this?
Ekong
Aina
Bassey
Iwobi
Aribo
Ebuehi
Maduka
Lookman
Moffi
Ajayi
Are FB players.

Moses Simon
Iheanacho
Osimhen
Ndidi
Onyeka
Chukwueze
Bonke
Onuachu
Uzoho
Shehu
Musa
Awaziem
Omeruo
Are the Nigerian born players.

On a given day the team is a fairly balanced mix of both FB and NB. Yet it is the FB who are responsible for our poor footballing fortunes?

So if the team is made up 100% Nigerian players, we will bounce back? I really do not understand this kind of simplistic almost naive narrative.

The one unwavering factor for inclusion in the national team is quality. Not whether you belong to any of the categories of FB or NB.

Fact however is that for many years we realized that owing to the regression of our local teams, our best players are those who ply their trade abroad and even at that it is just basic common sense that you pick your best players from those who play in the best clubs in Europe and elsewhere(if they are the best)

Either way he has one or two World Cups to go.
When Southgate his gone, he will try England again.

Daninya33:

Update: Tomori Should Abandon England, Consider Switching To Nigeria_ Babayaro Cries ���

Tomori was recently excluded from England's World Cup squad by Gareth Southgate despite his impressive for for club AC Milan.

Reacting to the snub, Super Eagles legend, Celestine Babayaro, has advised the player to switch his allegiance to Nigeria while he still has the chance. Fikayo has featured 2 times for the Three Lions despite 8 invitations.

"He is 24 year old and by the next World Cup he will be around 29," told owngoal Nigeria.

"That could work against him but if he wants to have a clear chance if going to the next World Cup, then he has to consider switching to Nigeria. He's still eligible going with the new rules," he concluded.

#NPFLUpdates

At least dem for bring in Okoye, make dem share the goals 2-2.
4 goals for one keeper no look good. Peseiro did Uzoho bad.

do4luv14:
Now Joebie, bros prophhad come to pass6, Finally Portugal had won us 4 zero,

And Wonders Am Surprised nobody is saying anything about Uzoho chopping 4, And of its Maduka the Drums of Attack would had been sounding long after the match

u know see how dey use short passes carve our defense open again and again.. ?
I was so glad that match ended

M7even:
Why are they all hyping Bright osay. Even in his personal mind he would have realized how badly he flopped. He was allowing that young black Portuguese left back have a field day driving foward at him. Aaah. So confused was he they took his wing for a ride in the first half hence the pressure that led to the cross hitting his other hand. He was stretched and well stretched till the second half. He knows in his mind he definitely was poor.

My brother pick the one you agree with and leave the rest for another moniker

Stormtrooper11:
Is this sarcasm?

I forgot to add we missed Nwakali. Charles ur food don ready.

Odunayaw:
I used to think I was good at sarcasm...this one weak me

TheSuperNerd adjust your timing of posting pics of the boys tagging then with their nicknames from before the game to after. E go sweet like that. I no like chop Komekn bitter leaf soup.

Thanks mods for putting me in jail because of my 4-0 “prediction”.

7 things:

1. What happened to that team that flogged São Tomé ?
2. Bright Osayi performed so badly compared to Aina’s SE debut.
3. Onyeka brought his Man City A game.
4. Dennis should be our designated PK taker
5. Moses Simon should get the captains arm band
6. Etebo was so damn confident on the ball that he was spraying passes near the goal post.
7. We improved as the game wore on. We would have gotten back into the game had the PARTIAL ref not ended the game prematurely

Bonus: Peseiro is the best thing to have happened to SE since Rohr

Hahaha Ras Kimono classics

chrisooblog:
"we play Saudi, we beat Saudi, we play russia, we beat russia, we play portugal, portugal gives us 2-0, aruma stylee styleeee" 7

Also this classic for the Atlanta Olympics "when Nigeria beat Brazil, when Nigeria beat Brazil ooo Bebeto come dey cry when Nigeria beat Brazil"

Lol. Thanks for the correction sir

Icon4s:
Na 2-0, no be 4-0.

My elder bros used to sing � “We play Portugal, Portugal give us 4-0 a rhumba styleee la la”

Yes pretty much. But dem go brand am wella

Mujtahida:
Loser's World Cup abi? Good idea

Why haven’t they thought of a mini tournament for big weights that didn’t qualify for the WC?

We need to tweak that midfield. We keep using the same failed personnel that won’t bring anything new to the mix. Choosing players SOLELY based on the leagues they play. Cut it if they are not cutting it for SE.

TheSuperNerd:
Iwobi, Ndidi, Etebo Midfield got owned by that Algerian Midfield in 2019 in that Afcon semis. Absolutely reduced to mere passers-by.

Also, we saw Aribo x Ndidi Midfield against a Tunisian Covid-ravaged Midfield and they were totally shit. Totally clueless. Rubbish all round. Tell yourself the bloody truth and stop this nonsense.

Just stop capping Fabyom. We need to upgrade our midfield personnel in terms of tactical and technical quality and cease this "he plays in the EPL mentality".

Player Actual Quality >>>>>>> League One plays in.

Get the best fringe players available. Those inflows na just for survival. It’s not helping us in the long run.

AndSunGorilla:
No way the Europe based guys could have played sir. The only other option would have been guys based in North America. Anyways don't forget it's a friendly and we should have gotten appearance fees as well. Now if any of those guys japa, it would result into inflows for their local teams, the NFF and our economy at large (friends, families and girlfriends too go benefit). Therefore I disagree that the friendly is a waste.

That’s more reason why you need a legit Team B

Samueltemi337:
The team A dey win matches?

It’s high time we had a true team B. What we are getting will not help our rankings or support Team A in anyway.

So what are the gains of this friendly?
The players we are trying to market from these games when dem see better opponents we go see their true color. Waste of resources.

Samueltemi337:
We are actually playing well


I'm impressed

Osimhenia!!!

Abeg make the Group runner ups compete for that spot hahaha

PDPGuy:
Tunisia may be thrown out of the World Cup if their Sports Ministry makes good it’s threat to interfere in the running of the Tunisia FA…

No be Truidster if Dessers no dey

Truidstar:
Osimhen- Fast, aggressive, good hold-up play, potent goal scorer and decent header of the ball.
Moffi -aggressive, has an eye for goal, decent finisher.

Desserts- intelligent in the box, decent finisher

Name your top 3 SE strikers and why

When u no call person name and he know himself.

charlesemeka85:

You are much welcome *praying*

TheSuperNerd:
This man sef. You and Vawulence these days. Calma Joe, Calma....

And thank you.

Nerdie as u don decide to show face, the next gbas gbos edition go hot o. You and your comrade, I no know who be Tom or who be Jerry.

As per your takes, na your usual yarns, the only thing be say u put a face and doings to it.

Keep it up and keep the vawulence dept alive

TheSuperNerd:
TheSupernerd debuts on Naijafootballers TV show

So uhmm... I took out time away from work on Monday (reshuffled my schedule) to make my debut on Naijafootballers' football cruise show.

Naijafootballers are Organisers of the Annual Ballers Awards and they have a huge media presence on Instagram.

So uhmmm... It's my debut on their show. Expect to see more of me via that medium.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2by1u8YDnME


Gracias!




P.S: Now many curious ones will see the face behind the moniker. Lol

Enjoy, for those interested.

Where was Smalling when Osimhen missed an earlier effort? Close marking Victor or left for dead?

Tammy, on the hand, has been very miserable all season. Today, again I can say we don’t miss Oghenetega.

komekn:
Smalling for 90 minutes had him more or less caged till he stumbled and VO got him wrong sided and scored a top class goal from a near impossible angle.

Dem dey use MRI verify U23?

PROVERBZ:
Guys MRI machine is not very accurate.
I just saw someone I know from secondary school.
he was a senior.
he was like one class ahead of me and he probably is like a year or 2 years older than me.
I am currently 23 years old which means I do not qualify for the under-23 selection but I have seen him dressed in the Nigerian kits and is currently with the team.

I beg make u recommend better players for the U23 coach not the ones when dey warm bench steady

komekn:
There is NOTHING to say.

We all know that age falsification is endemic in every area of life in Nigeria.

If a person realises that by shaving off 3/4/5 ,etc years of his age, will be the difference between staying in Nigeria in abject poverty with zero prospects in life. Or going to Europe playing football with a crazy money and great prospects.

What will 99.9% of people do , particularly as there is no means of proving that he is telling lies.

So why are we all pretending that nobody age cheats in Nigeria.

Na this kind battle komekn suppose pick

solonnachi:

Yesterday they drew 1-1 with 3SC @ Ibadan in a friendly. 3SC scored first in the 2nd half and they equalized via penalty. Not sure this team is ready to face Tanzania. Hope we are not disgraced this weekend. Even the foreign based are unknown and play in lower leagues or 2nd/3rd divisions. Why were the Ladan Bosso u20 boys not selected for this game? Only Nathaniel Nwosu is u20 GK, John Amah was once an u17 GK two or three years ago. Success Makanjuola played last year for the u20s.

as long as you were not Uzoho's classmate, nam dem say matter be this.

charlesemeka85:
ok leave this ur long story

The guy am talking about is the son of the caretaker of the building I lived in workslayout during my imsu days