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mostob:
Now,you are getting my point. Their brilliant performance earn them multiple and consecutive call ups not because they like or comment on NFF pages. If maduka can get call up without any brilliant performance at club level,then you have no right to write off Dele because of his lack of game time. That is my point.
Maduka being a fine boy might be the reason his invitation dey sweet your belly like this.

Kog45:
Hmmmm,Alampasu,Maduka,Uzoho and Ezenwa.

Walahi wahala dey with what am reading here from respectable monikers.

This thread is losing it and there is need to bring sanity especially when it comes to analysing with facts not emotions.

My question does Maduka deserve eagles call up?capital NO cos on what criteria.

Alampasu had his opportunity through invitations but Uzoho two LA liga appearances gave him a break through and replaced Alampasu from always Rohr three goalkeeper list .

But at 22 do we say Alampasu should be discarded cos he was still with U23 cos i remeberthst Uzoho was our WC keeper as U23 keeper playing in LA liga third division and i was impressed.

Ezenwa was a third keeper with Enyimba and was still getting eagles call up.

I think we need to understand how national team invitations is done.It centre on a lot of things,ranging from talents,disciplines, player attitudes, coaches trust and player agent.

I want to state it that have been watching eagles sin afcon 1980 and i can tell anyone who care to listen that national team invitation is not only about performance.

It was on this thread I was hearing that Zuby doesn't desrve eagles call up but what can we say about Chidi Nwakili invitation by Rohr.

Rohr have his network of searching for players and it's left for those involved to recommend player for him.A Nigerian ex fortuna duselldorf player Darlington Omodiagbe was the brain behind Maduka invitation and he has been on it for sometimes.

If Maduka come good,no issue but based on his performance he did not deserve eagles call up whatsoever.

safarigirl:
I don't know how transfermarket.com works, but what I'm seeing says he was not in the squad for the tail end of the season

I will give you and Alampasu the same advice I gave Daniel and thr NPFL boys, if you want something, you must hustle for it. When Maduka was hustling for attention, commenting and liking NFF's social media posts, Alampasu was thinking Rohr has time to travel to Portugal and watch his games against bottom feed, or maybe tune to YouTube and watch the games that cannot be found.

Hustle o, make your mates no dey get National Team Call-ups, while you remain in limbo

oloriooko:
So Rohr did not see any local player even if na goalkeeper to invite for the friendly?

Humility017:
*same route I mean

komekn:
Actually at the time I brought into the discussion The inclusion of Seyi Ojo.

Who has played left wing and left sided midfield with defensive responsibility for Liverpool and on loan at several Championship teams.

In modern football the Wing Back has evolved from the restricted Full back of yester years. Essentially this position us defensive but more attack based. This means that wingers will depending on the team flirt with both position. That's why Aina played on the wing several times for Hill in the Championship.

Seyi Ojo has the most important attribute for that position PACE but with added technicality and as you can imagine he can cross the ball something we lacked so obviously.

DrLikita12:
I find the whole chemistry thing weird and I think I might have mentioned it here during AFCON. The core of the team has been relatively constant yet at times it feels like they just started playing together a week before a game. Maybe it's a formation issue, maybe they just have more 'off' days than normal...whatever it is I hope we can sort it out.
It would have been nice to see a few more new faces but I understand that we cannot discard the whole team. The early invite probably didn't help as well; the season hasn't even started for everyone.

forgiveness:
Ajagun still remains the only AMF playing in a top league.

Clint02:
Nawa o. Ona no dey sleep sef?

charlesemeka85:
And with their legs tied as well. Coach pep Guardiola joebie

DrLikita12:
The list is out.
It seems early though

charlesemeka85:
performance related yes but is he better than the young strikers and wingers we have in our possession now? do we lack better players in the position he plays?

forgiveness:
Age shouldn't be the SIU measurement for players selection into the National team. Performance should be the major criterion for selection.

MetalJigsaw:
please Which club want to buy him in EPL? because I want chukz my boy to play in a big club if he is to move out of his club Valencia.

Or he should leave Spain and go to LA Liga where he'll be playing against the like of Fc Barcelona and Madrid and even Barca where we have Messi and Neymar.( and i love Neymar so much I don't want him to leave at all).


I will be very happy if Chukzy moves to LA liga.

tbaba1234:
7 minutes with China: Once again Nigerian clubs show their true colours

If there was really any Nigerian who thought the results of games in the CAF Champions’ League and Confederation Cup would have been any different from last weekend, then that must have been a really optimistic person.

As we already know in the Champions League, Kano Pillars managed a 3-2 win at home against Asante Kotoko while Enyimba lost on the road to Rahimo FC, the champions of Burkina Faso.

The most disappointing result for those who were optimistic had to be that of Niger Tornadoes who fell at home in Kaduna to Santoba FC.

What is wrong with Nigerian clubs?

The answer to this is as easy as knowing that I am using my fingers to type this piece and not the fingers of anyone else.


There are hardly any football clubs in Nigeria, most of them just groups of human beings, some footballers, some coaches, other officials who live their lives to fight for three points every Sunday.

The structure is poor, the coaching is horrible, the vision is non-existent and most of all, there are hardly any clear cut policies and philosophies. Then there is the little matter of Nigeria’s yearly pre-season ritual where whole teams are changed for completely new ones which has proved over the years to be our Achilles heel.

What do we do now?

Clubs have to re-think their collective existence. What is the point of these football clubs? Why do they sign players? What do they hope to achieve? Is it to donate three points to their state governors every week so he can be happy or is it to build lasting legacies for themselves, the fans and all? Is it to build structures, both physical edifices and a team that can stand with the rest of Africa, or is it just to continue the norm? Gather players and fight for three points every Sunday?

Our clubs need to retool. Can Club A, for example, begin to own its players rather than depend on academies for their existence? Can they decide on the kind of the club they want to be? Can they build training pitches and begin to create the kind of players they want after deciding what kind of club they want to be? Can Club A, for example, go for the kind of coach that fits their philosophy and support him achieve their lofty or modest target? Why does every Nigerian club, even one that just came in from the lower division set a target to win the league and play on the continent? Isn’t that why we end up with the likes of Niger Tornadoes and Wikki Tourists on the continent?

The last time I saw a Nigerian club that had a distinct playing style was Rangers International with Imama Amapakabo 2016), MFM FC with Fidelis Illechukwu (pre- 2018), Lobi Stars with Solomon Ogbeide (2017-18), Akwa United with Abdu Maikaba 2017 and 2018) and Plateau United with Kennedy Boboye (2017) and this is because playing style has never been important as long as we can get three points every weekend through any means possible.

Why do Nigerian clubs have budgets for “tactical” and please do not ask me what that means when players have not been paid?

Nigerian clubs need to reboot. They must start afresh and be honest to themselves, like a kid in Nursery school and tell themselves whatever they are doing so far is not working.

Let Nigerian clubs start from telling themselves, “A is for Apple, B is for Ball, C is for Cat…”

They need to go back to the very basics of running the football.

The most frustrating times of my life in the last ten years has been when I have to go to the Stadium to watch a Nigerian League game at the same time a European League game is airing… The football is ugly, boring, uninspiring and most of all not worthy of a 6th tier game. I’m at the stadium fighting sleep and tears, knowing that if not that I had to do a job I would be at my comfortable home or bar enjoying a game in Europe.

The Nigerian champion should not lose to the champion of Burkina Faso, no matter what. The Nigerian Cup finalist should not lose at home to a team 9th in the Gambian League. This is how bad Nigerian football has fallen. Not that it did not happen in the glorious 70s and 80s, once in a long while it did. But these days it has almost become the norm.

Nigerian club owners and managers need to ask themselves tough questions. Why are we in this thing? When I leave, how many people will remember me ten years later? How many people know the names of the last ten chairmen of the club? So why would they remember you? What am I doing wrong? What can I do better? Tough questions that will give tough answers.

There is something fundamentally wrong with Nigerian football. The structure is poor the coaching is mostly non-existent and there is too much government interference. Most of us know what it is wrong but either do not want to start that change, lack the will power to do it or are simply there trying to convince ourselves that all is well.

Maybe, at the end of the 2nd leg games, Enyimba will be the only one left out of three clubs in the next stage where they will be joined by Rangers. This is not where Nigerian football should be.

Nigerian clubs showed their true colours over the weekend. The excuse that the league had not kicked off before the CAF competitions is no longer tenable. When you have a structure, then these things may not really matter. Just like Al Ahly winning the CAF Champions League when the Egyptian League was on hold for more than one year or even Asante Kotoko coming to get two goals in Kano without League football for over one year.

Remember that Kano Pillars and Niger Tornadoes just played a Cup final a fortnight before their games.

Nigerian football at club side level is almost non-existent. Let the change start now. But are we confident it will?

http://nigerianfootballer.com/2019/08/7374.html

andrew444:
A gambia player might be deported and work permit will be cancelled for using fake identity, he came into Germany as a refugee 2015, dude is claiming 21 years already playing for hamburg first team successfully .

Shebi most of una think say person no fit dey all those countries come falsify age, there are so many bakery jatta out there that will have a successful career with their fake age till they retire from football.

Even hamburg his club stated that the player have valid and genuine documents to proove his age and everything



Hamburg midfielder Bakery Jatta has reportedly obtained falsified documents to be able to remain in Germany, where he emigrated back in 2015.

The Gambian lied both about his name and his age in order to benefit from a German law that aids young immigrants.

According to Sport Bild, Jatta is actually called Bakary Daffeh and was not born on June 6, 1998 - date mentioned on Hamburg's official website - but instead on November 6, 1995.

When he joined the German side, Jatta also claimed that he didn't play for any elite team in his country, but as the same publication revealed, he donned the colours of Brikama United.

Moreover, he also spent some time on loan at various teams in Nigeria and Senegal and in 2014, at the age of 16, he was called up by Gambia's Under-20s.

https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2019/08/07/5d4ae5d1ca4741e9368b45fe.html

charlesemeka85:
U know whether the Saka Wan play for us? I think getting xavier Amaechi seem easier now. Him and Saka are immersely talented. Their is also a young 9ja arsenal youth teamer banging goals for fun and another who is a very talented cm midfielder

OMANBALA1:
Story story...Oga ,go do refresher course abeg.

MetalJigsaw:
you like to take beer?

komekn:
That proposition in bold is the anchor of favoritism and sentiment based preference. You have indicted yourself before the players has proven himself you have already earmarked him for glory and umerited selection.

Then you confirm your bigotry and double standard. It was OK to give umerited accolades to Osimhen but not Ok for justifiable accolades to Okereke. "What's good for the goose is good for the gander".

For those with a bit more football understanding know that youth football is only indicative but far from conclusive.

Everything in football is short term. To be underpin the inclusion of a striker on the basis of youthful glories of two years priory is ill advised at best at worst ludicrous. However , if you are Superdelusuional then it make sense to your befuddled mind that is unable to decipher between fantasy and objective reality. But to any other person with a balanced mind recognises such sentiments as futile in determining quality.

We are currently doing the same thing with KC for the past three seasons his last season at City was poor. We still keep looking at him instead of looking for players currently perfoming.

When a player is not perfoming we simply put him to one side pending when he will start to perform and look for those that are currently performing.

One season doesn't make a player it takes a few seasons to get consistency.

Meliforme:
Just like the way we struggled against Iceland. Joebie and sentiments.

andrew444:
He also scored in the dfb pokal this last weekend

andrew444:
Agreed

So many attackers are also not left out

Let's also watch for awoniyi in the bundesliga

Lucque:
Bros okereke was not d one dat scored 10goals in d u17 world cup... Nd den seemed like his career was going to waste wen he suffered travails at wolfsburg... Okereke was not d one who some ppl here called wasteman... Okereke was not d one we all feared myt not live up to our hopes of being d new heir to d SE number 9 jersey.... Pls forgive us if osimhen gets more honorary mentions for his performance on his debut ( dat some ppl here have not been able to compliment because of d shame of eating their words about d lad... They know demselves). The fact dat we mention okereke with hushed breathing is gud for d lad... Dat will lower d pressure on him... nd pls i think we all have d ryt to our preferences.. so lets not make it seem like we are one unbiased group of analysts.... Cos we aint...

charlesemeka85:
Celta Vigo Hand New Deal To Former Nigeria U20 Invitee Emmanuel Apeh

charlesemeka85:
Lol I'm trying to describe the type of mentality an average 9ja fan have. We love living on past glory.

This is the same reason why since jj retired we don't appreciate the input of any other AM cus we have this believe that you must be as good as jj before u can be deployed as the teams number 10 forgetting that players like jj kanu and other greats comes once in a life time

charlesemeka85:
But many here will expect the team to beat Brazil when both teams meet because we won them before at the 1996 Olympics .

A typical Nigerian will boast that no be Brazil wey we flog for Atlanta?