forgiveness: Hmm! Saka is a very good player though this is not the first time seeing him play. He will be a very good addition to the team.
Tiago Ilori played CB for Sporting Lisbon today and from what I saw, he will be a very good addition to the team. I wonder why NFF or Rohr never tried to approach him until now.
I saw a little bit of Adekanye in first half for Lazio though I didn't know he was the one until I saw he assisted on Livescore.
Wilfred Ndidi in action for Leicester City against Liverpool. Photograph: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images
Leicester City have more points now than they did at this stage of the 2015-16 season, when they went on to win the title. They are unlikely to repeat that 5,000-1 success, but they are giving Liverpool the closest run for their money. After a run of five straight victories in which they have conceded just one goal, Leicester are second in the table a point above defending champions Manchester City.
Brendan Rodgers is doing a fantastic job. Since he joined the club in February, only Liverpool (65) and City (58) have picked up more points than Leicester (46). Winning their second title in five years – and the second in their history – may prove a stretch, but qualifying for the Champions League is a realistic target.
Rodgers deserves all the praise that has come his way, as do attacking duo Jamie Vardy and James Maddison. Vardy is the top scorer in the league with 12 goals and Maddison’s fine form earned him his first England cap earlier this month. At the back, Caglar Soyuncu and Jonny Evans have formed a solid partnership, with the departure of Harry Maguire barely noticeable. Leicester have conceded just eight goals in their 13 games so far, the fewest in the league. They have not conceded a goal in their last four matches.
Vardy, Maddison and Soyuncu have made the most headlines but the unheralded star of the show is the tough tackling Wilfred Ndidi. Leicester signed the midfielder from Genk for £15m in January 2017 in the hope he would replace N’Golo Kanté as the ballwinner in the middle of the park. The Nigeria international enjoyed a decent start to life in Leicester, but he has really taken his game to the next level this season under Rodgers. He protects the defence and allows the attacking players to thrive. All in all, the 22-year-old has become the perfect foundation for Leicester to excel in Rodgers’ favoured 4-1-4-1 formation.
Rodgers has an abundance of attacking players, with Ayoze Pérez, Youri Tielemans and Harvey Barnes all establishing themselves in the team this year and complementing Maddison and Vardy. Pérez has formed an excellent partnership with Ricardo Pereira down the right flank, with Barnes developing a similar understanding with Ben Chilwell down the left. The full-backs are among the best in the league at providing attacking outlets from deep.
All these attacking players are able to hurt opponents because Ndidi is behind them, drifting across the midfield, winning the ball back and recycling possession. He has made more tackles (61) and more interceptions (37) than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues this season. The sight of Ndidi pursuing an opponent is not one that Leicester supporters will tire of any time soon.
Ndidi’s passing statistics are not particularly spectacular. He has not set up any goals and his total passes (577) and pass success rate (84.2%) are the sixth best in the squad. He is not in the team to create chances. Ndidi’s role is simple, but that should not diminish his importance to the side. Crowbarring so many attacking players in a Premier League team would be unthinkable were it not for his impact as the midfield anchor.
Ndidi has a measured approach to keeping opponents at bay. Granted, he has committed 19 fouls this season (only 17 players in the league have made more) but he has only been booked once in his 12 appearances, which suggests there is an intelligence to his game. For such a young player, he shows tremendous maturity.
Leicester gave Ndidi a new six-year contract last summer, which looks like an increasingly wise move. If the club are to return to the Champions League, they need him in the centre of the pitch, tracking down opponents and starting attacks. He is not the most glamorous name on the teamsheet, but he may be the most important.
I never see this type before oh.. this on na extreme of extremism.
safarigirl: There was a post on Quora where one stated that she cannot imagine birthing a male child because she sees men as beasts and she can not bring a beast into the world.
On the same thread, some others were agreeing with her, see testimonies of women aborting their own babies because they were boys. One said she can't find it in her heart to love her son the way she loves her daughter, and imagines he will grow up and rape a girl.
The same mentally unstable people kept saying, "My husband is different though, I have worked on him......"
I did not know if I should pity the poor boys these witches were aborting and abusing, or the husbands they must have successfully emasculated and stripped of their sense of self.
Humility017: I tell you.... he is a traditional bini guy then it was very terrible...He don't believe men are supposed to cook....women wear trousers and many other things...
he once said...if his wife is to wear trousers and him wear trousers...then who is now the man....he made the statement in church a very big Church...right at the pulpit.
thank God he is in the US now...and he is married.... he told me recently that Nigerians are the ones that apologize...The Americans don't and will never apologize to you.
In the matter of equality, I don't want to go religious on this topic. But often times I have to school some men who claim to be Christians on this. People like to make reference to the old testament when it suits them but cling to Jesus in other aspect that suits them. Let me not go on, we can talk about these things in private if you consider yourself a Christian, so we don't derail this thread further, also to show regard to those of other religions here.
Chidonsky: Exactly my point,is just beyond what it look like on the face value.It is suddenly like a virus eating deep into young girls, who now masked themselves with feminism as a cover up for their lapses.Even those who lack good morals and upbringing now parade themselves as feminist.I would gladly support the females against the fight on ill treatment but if it has to do with woman being equal with man then they should count me out.What most women lack from men in present day Nigeria is respect and simplicity of leadership.I mean men pusing those egocentric attitude behind them.
Feminism is supposed to be about women fighting against unfair treatment by their male counterpart. But I'm afraid if you pay careful attention to what those in the forefront of their struggle are canvassing for you will realize that they want far more than that. I'm not afraid of feminists because I can easily differentiate them.
Chidonsky: I detest feminist and feminism,i wonder if this crusaders continue with this what the female generation will look like in 10yrs time.Most of those canvassing for this were victims of bad relationship experience.I think feminism should center more on fighting against abuse on girls child,domestic violence,child mutilation and bad cultural pratices against the girl child.Afterall we all need love,care,respect,irrespective of the gender.We can't make a better world with inconsequential strife.The number of divorce is on the increase because of feminism and fight of supremacy,God never made woman with the purpose of her to strive with man but for both to work together to make their life and society better.Wisdom is profitable to direct,rather seek for wisdom than knowledge because most knowledge is infiltrated with nausating ideology.
tbaba1234: If we had a professional league, the best youth players across the country would have been absorbed into the feeder teams of club sides. It would be easy to assemble well educated under 17 players
lol. cooking is one chore among many. It does not reduce the woman in any way. So I don't see why we have to bring the lady's profession or career achievement into this. When a man takes care of certain chores that are considered manly, do we bring his profession or achievements into it? If a man thinks because is a bank CEO for example then he can't take care of his responsibilities in the house but would rather pay a servant to handle some things, then I don't see what's wrong with career wives hiring cooks. Cooking does not necessarily mean submissiveness in my view. A woman can cook for you, act like she is worshiping you but in her heart is the complete opposite. it is that food that she will use to kill u easily. People like to see things at face value.
Blueelf: Ezekwesili once gave a talk about how she still cooks for her husband till date. I marvelled at that. A former World Bank Chief Official. Some Naija ladies that are just head mistresses of schools or assistant managers of banks see themselves as tin Gods
What's a true African mother? There are different levels of feminism. There is one that wants the woman to take over from the men more like an exchange of roles. That's the one I'm opposed to, and one that will not stand the test of time if it ever happens because the family structure will be brought to nothing.
iSlayer: All these you're saying is just a consequence of Westernization and growing Eurocentrism. This thing you're saying is not US. I can say it's not African. And definitely it's not the Igbo life chaachaa. A woman can climb to the highest level and yet be a true AFRICAN mother. They are numerous who have achieved it. This ploy to do away with the family or to reduce it's significance among Africans is not good.
The Urhobo tradition is not far too different. The problem is when some men think that they are the best thing that can happen to a woman else she is finished. Women do not need validation from men. Men need women as much a women need men. But it is the "what people will say" factor that really affects lots of women from our part of the world. Like you noted subtly, it's a civilization thing. Many of our views are not unique to us considering what obtains in other climes in times past.
safarigirl: the only reason you think like this is because you are not Igbo and you have been exposed to Western ideals. If you are Igbo, you cannot reason like this.
In Igbo land, women are viewed as chattel, to be passed on from their fathers to their husbands. Much like how English women were viewed in the Victorian era.
I am just glad my father had no such training, his mother was the first female graduate from the East, so, she was not trained to be a doormat. He is well aware of what a woman should aim for; he constantly tells us that marriage should not be the aim of anyone, rather, financial independence and self sufficiency. If you cannot be useful to yourself, is it in a man's house you will be useful?
they are only almost "unmarriable" in certain parts of the world. But it's not like marriage is an achievement. Marriage is another stage in life that comes with some unique responsibilities.
iSlayer: My brother this virtues go hard for some people o. It all comes around to what I said at the first instance to Omanbala on how ladies with a feminist mentality today are unmarriable. They're chasing SHADOWS.
charlesemeka85: Former Super Eagles winger Emmanuel Amuneke has applied for the vacant Zambia national team, the Chipolopolo head coach job, Completesports.com reports.
Amuneke, who scored both goals in the Super Eagles 2-1 win against the Chipolopolo in the final of the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations last managed the Taifa Stars of Tanzania.
The 48-year-old left the role by mutual consent following the Taifa Stars elimination from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt where they lost all their three group games.
The former Barcelona player guided Nigeria’s U-17 side, the Golden Eaglets to win the FIFA U-17 World Cup at Chile 2015.
The likes of Kelechi Iheanacho, Francis Uzoho, Isaac Success and Taiwo Awoniyi were part of the team that conquered the rest of the world in the competition.
Amuneke also once had stints with defunct Julius Berger and Ocean Boys as well as Sudanese club, Al Khartoum SC.
Very good point. Many of us here believe that we need to go back to our way of doing things. I believe they were possibly a number of better talents who were never discovered. If school sports down to the primary school level is taken seriously, when we go scouting the focus would be kids in the streets who do not go to school. And of course we have the football academies as well. When we separate education from sports we have a big problem.
AndSunGorilla: I listened to Osimhens interview on YouTube and his discovery was by accident not through any structured process. He mentioned how someone encouraged him to for for U17 trials in lagos and according to him, he saw millions of people (of course he exaggerated) at the agege stadium and at the end of the day, Amuneke said no trials except if they travel to Abuja. So first attempt Vic was not even given a chance to show himself. He didn't give up and he found a way to go for the Abuja trials. Again he said too many people in Abuja, according to him, they had 15mins to play a game and show their skills, Amuneke wasn't interested in him but the team doctor spotted him and told Amuneke to watch him closely and thereafter the rest became history. My learning points are 1) what if Victor didn't have the means to go to Abuja and thereafter forget the trials? 2) what if the team dr. Didn't spot him? My point is, thousands of talents are constantly wasting away because we don't have structures that can discover them on a regular basis. When there is no structure or defined methodology for doing anything, randomness and sheer luck becomes the order of the day. We need an NFF and sport ministries up till local government level to develop clear strategies to discover the numerous talents we have as many dreams must definitely have died in our beloved country. Here's the interview
ChrisKels: According to ur friend's usual illation and doctrine of analogy, a good number of lowly rated Astana Players wouldn't make the Man United youth teams