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Ejuke!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUAmpnSeE0

Bonaventure!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzN7Mi0D2yM

Nwakaeme!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9fZxX7pOYg

Kayode!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv2APnjdQgk

Iheanacho!!!

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

Osimhen!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_6cRvjWes8

Sadiq Umar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNEP8cT9pXI

Dessers!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBjGIXKVLB8

Reading should not struggle for him. He won’t be a championship player next year hopefully.

Subzero047:
Reading are struggling to buy Ejaria, they have an obligation to buy in his contract but they are severely affected by the Covid 19

If Fulham gets promoted, owe it a lot to this guy. Been a very important team player esp after the restart of the league. These are the kinda additions we need in the SE — impact players!

Komekn you have been vindicated on this one

"...the skill, the touch, the strength, and the calmness in front of that goal. And what a finish that is from a player in unbelievable form! "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLGfYJ-AeA

Billing must find another club or he may as well forget Denmark NT as well. Lol

daveP:


Elyte89, na your spec be this o.....

How ex-Nigeria goalkeeper Egbo overcame racism to guide KF Tirana to Albanian league title glory

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Michael Madyira | 07/27/20

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The former Super Eagles goalkeeper talks about how he wrote history in European football with the odds stacked against him

KF Tirana coach Ndubuisi Egbo has likened winning the Albanian Superliga title to Barack Obama winning the American presidency since he also suffered racial abuse on the way to achieving the historical feat.

The 47-year-old Nigerian became the first African head coach to guide a European team to a league title and is also set to be the first tactician from his continent to lead a team in the Uefa Champions League.

But before Tirana were crowned Albanian champions for the first time in 11 years, Egbo - who is fluent in Albanian - said he had to endure racial abuse which he, however, did not allow to discourage him.

“There are people who don't want me to win because of my colour. There is racism. One game they threw a banana at me. They spat at me,” Egbo told BBC Sport.

“The officials of the Albanian FA did not do anything, because it was an away game and they had a white set of fans. The police and security were there - and nobody did anything.

"They were afraid of the fans there. I couldn't do anything. I just had to accept it.

“I said to them, 'have you finished'? They wanted the ground to open up for them to disappear.”

After playing for Tirana as a goalkeeper between 2001 and 2004, Egbo rejoined the club as a goalkeeping coach in 2014.

But he only assumed the head coach role midway through the just-ended campaign, in December 2019.

It was a remarkable triumph for the Nigerian who took over the team when they stared relegation in the face and transformed them into champions.

When he was appointed head coach, Tirana were 15 points off the leaders but went on to win 20 of the 23 remaining games on their way to the champions podium.

“My fellow Africans said, 'you don't know what you've done for us by winning this championship'. It is just like when Obama won the Presidency in America. That's exactly how it is seen here,” added Egbo.

The ex-Super Eagles goalkeeper also talked about the few opportunities for African coaches in Europe.

“If you look at the English Premier League, you rarely see any dark-skinned coaches there. You have to go into the National League before you see that," Egbo continued.

“I feel both joy and sadness. We are not given enough opportunities. We only want the same opportunities. It is just like what Black Lives Matter are doing, but it the football circles, to give opportunities to those who deserve them.”

Egbo’s feat took place the same weekend former Cameroon forward Pierre Achille Webo helped Istanbul Basaksehir win the Turkish Super Lig title as an assistant coach.

-- goal

Mad goal from Onomah

Tega Onomah's Stats

If we can't have our best indigenous coach to assist Gernot Rohr, then we are just playing.

I don modify am to keep the title. sorry for the confusion

Edopesin:
Lmao I didn't see the initial one .. I shock say that one na Nigerian too

3 Goalkeepers Maduka Okoye must outwit to become Sparta Rotterdam's #1

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Conclusion
With the departure of Sparta's former #1 keeper, Ariel Harush, and Coremans' injury situation, Maduka Okoye has only two men to beat for the #1 keeper spot. Will he avoid the drop to their U21 squad, considering he is the only one of the quartet who is 21 or under? If he fails, we may well see him keeping in the Tweede Divisie come 20/21 season.

My post is in parts na. You should already know the context

Edopesin:
This one no take anything resemble Nigerian

3 Goalkeepers Maduka Okoye must outwit to become Sparta Rotterdam's #1

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3. Tim Coremans

Was Rotterdam's number one for the first half of the 19/20 Season. Currently injured due to torn knee ligament and is not expected to be match fit until next year (according to transfermarkt).

3 Goalkeepers Maduka Okoye must outwit to become Sparta Rotterdam's #1

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2. Michael Fabrie
Made Rotterdam's bench 24 times in the Eredivisie. Was only in action for their U21 team which featured in Dutch third tier.

3 Goalkeepers Maduka Okoye must outwit to become Sparta Rotterdam's #1

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1. Benjamin Van Leer
Dutch Keeper with Maluku Island heritage. New Arrival from Ajax, but was not registered in their 19/20 Season.

Uzoho, Okoye transfers could be culmination of Rohr's Super Eagles project
Solace Chukwu | Correspondent | 07/24/2020
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Nigeria's pair of young goalkeepers have found new homes in European football, and could finally provide the missing piece for the German coach
In the same summer when striker Victor Osimhen appears set to join Serie A side Napoli for a fee in excess of €60 million, the most significant bit of Nigerian transfer activity may actually be at the other end of the pitch.

Within the space of a week, Francis Uzoho and Maduka Okoye inked permanent deals taking them to APOEL and Sparta Rotterdam respectively. In doing so, they may have finally provided Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr with clarity on his biggest area of concern since he took charge in 2016.

By the sheer number of goalkeepers Rohr has cycled through in his time at the helm of the Nigeria national team, he has made no secret of his discomfort with his options. At the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, all three goalkeepers were used; perhaps he simply wanted everyone in the squad to get some time, but can anyone imagine depriving an established goalkeeper the opportunity to play in, say, a bronze medal match?

Increasingly, he has been forced into more and more unorthodox decisions: when Rohr first called up Uzoho, he had only recently come up from the reserves at Deportivo La Coruna; when Okoye was first called up (and indeed up until this summer), he was playing in the German fourth tier with Fortuna Dusseldorf II.

Those actions earned him no end of opprobrium for a large swathe of the local Nigerian press, who would rather have seen Rohr invest some effort into blooding a goalkeeper based in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). Quite who the preferred candidate was, beyond vague allusions to long-time local league squad representative Ikechukwu Ezenwa not being the "best in the NPFL" remains unclear.

In any case, Rohr will feel justified in his choices with this rash of transfer activity. Uzoho, who enjoyed a productive loan spell (before it was cut short by injury) last season with city rivals Omonia Nicosia, will get a chance at European competition with APOEL. The real triumph, however, is Okoye, who gets to play in the Eredivisie.

While he will face opposition from 28-year-old Benjamin Van Leer (signed from Ajax), the 20-year-old does have the edge of being a senior international (by virtue of his debut appearance against Brazil in 2019). That ought to stand him in good stead, and the understanding is that he will be a vital cog for Sparta going forward.

The direct impact of these movements within the context of the Nigeria national team is two-fold.

First of all: for the first time since perhaps Vincent Enyeama and Austin Ejide, the Super Eagles will now be able to count on genuine competition in the goalkeeper ranks.

The consequence of this is that Rohr's decision-making process immediately changes from picking the least worrisome (to illustrate his unease: he has, in the past, taken to sending his own goalkeeping coach to their clubs to train them) of the lot to selecting the best. The criteria are completely altered, and the forge of competitiveness will further harden both young goalies.

The second knock-on is a more holistic one, and is also a little more speculative.

One of the major criticisms Rohr has faced in his work with Nigeria is a seeming lack of ambition. This has been suggested in various ways, most pointedly in his approaches to matches (against Argentina and Algeria at the 2018 World Cup and 2019 Africa Cup of Nations respectively) and selections (insisting on an ultra-defensive double pivot, playing Chidozie Awaziem at right-back, saddling wingers with greater-than-normal defensive burdens).

The addition of Rangers' Joe Aribo to the national team has seen the shackles taken off to a degree, which suggests that perhaps Rohr's cautiousness so far has been more down to expediency than a lack of gumption.

One of the big lessons of Liverpool's recent success is that having the right defensive personnel can completely transform a team: the presence of Alisson and Virgil Van Dijk has freed up the Reds' full-backs – Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson – to fly forward at will.

Consider then how much bolder Rohr's side could be in the knowledge that the goalkeeper – far from a novice to be shielded at the expense of attacking expression – is a reliable component of the team in his own right, playing at a high level in his club career.

Indeed, in much the same way that Alisson was the final puzzle piece for Liverpool, the sorting of the previously uncertain goalkeeper position could be the making of the Super Eagles. The carefree attacking talent of Osimhen, Samuel Chukwueze, Alex Iwobi, Ola Aina and Samuel Kalu, for so long constrained by the (coach's) knowledge of his team's inherent fragility at the back, may finally be able to ride roughshod over opponents in a manner befitting their abilities.

If so, it is these two transfers, more than anything else, that will come to represent the culmination of the German's work.
--goal

If he say something stupid no be internet cries and rants go end am. Abi buhari go deny am entry into Nigeria. Wetin consain dem consain Naija PR?

Why don’t Nigerian Arsenal fans withdraw their support of the club?

daveP:
Did Arteta just indirectly slight The SE?


Lol.


"He's good enough for the Three Lions... "


Saka o.


Well provided Saka says nothing stupid, irrespective of which side he chooses. No p

But Ndidi’s stats and play should make him one of the hottest DMs. I don’t see why those top clubs will not be looking to get the best.

mostob:
Nacho should go and join his boss at real betis.
As for Ndidi, no vacancy in most of the top clubs.

We expected him to bench Vardy at Leicester based on his exploits im Man City abi?
Did Leicester help KC in his development? Maybe. But one thing I believe, if the duo of KC and Success have been in LaLiga for example even Chukwueze will be getting advice from them by now. EPL have not helped their careers IMO.

Sportilitica:
I hope we all don't change mouth if he goes on to struggle in another club. This was how we said when he left Man city. Let the guy florish where he is, he will get the ovation he deserves especially in the Europa league.

If that what will make him leave I’m happy he laughed. He no tire to play second fiddle sef. He should go where he will get regular minutes.

sheyishemba:
Nacho is very stupid he is not meant to laugh considering the magnitude of the game ...Wes Morgan missed a shot ...if he was Wes Morgan he would have done this same thing .am damn sure British media will come for his head ...if his contract ends with Leicester he might be heading to championship,turkey or Belgium what he did today might tarnished his image in england and might not be able to see PL club to sign him considering racism.

When Man U is your dream team since childhood and you get this treatment finally. Looking forward to the day every young Nigerian player will dream of playing for Gombe United lol

Modified
Make Ndidi look well before he jump ship. Maybe go to Barca lol

mostob:
BTW, what was Ole thinking when he brought on Ighalo less down a minute to go.? Na so Ighalo bad reach?

Abiodun Baruwa interview

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How has it been since your retirement from active football?

I’m doing great in United Kingdom with my family. We are all here and everything is fine.
I have been in London for the past 16 years and I have established my company called BRW Sports management. The company is about seven years now. Our main task is to scout for talented players in Africa, including Nigeria.
I have also obtained the Level One and Two certificates as goalkeepers’ coach from the English FA and another certificate as an outfield coach. At the moment, I’m planning to return to Nigeria to coach any of our national teams or any club.

What efforts have you made to actualise your dream of coaching any of the national teams

Thank you for the question. I spoke with the Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick, about my intent to coach any of the national teams.
We had a brief telephone conversation. I also sent him my resume along with my photographs while I was in the national team for him to remember me.
So, If I’m given an opportunity, I would prefer to coach or be part of the Under 23 or Super Eagles’ technical crew.

So, what was the NFF president’s response

For me, his response was not encouraging. On the day I spoke with him, he said he was in a haste for a meeting and that I should call him back. Since then, he hasn’t picked my calls. I opted to send him messages on WhatsApp and he still didn’t reply to all the messages I sent him for about a year now. I hope, someday, he will consider me and give me audience.

—SunNewsOnline

Lol

Edopesin:
Antonio Conte (Inter Milan coach):"The rumours about Lionel Messi to Inter are absolutely fake. Don't trust these fake news. He's not joining Inter, not even in fantasy football

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One of them is the biggest liar I’ve ever seen (outside the internet as well). I’ve exposed him, and he ran away like nothing happened, still ranting on here and calling people names. And to even think that some people believed his lie shows how some are gullible.

Subzero047:
Sheyishemba you know people to respond and people to ignore

Some people only thrive in bringing down others because their worthless self esteem desperately needs it.