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Earthquake2:
Paollo Gozzi is his official name

I hope this will not be a Philip Billing case

Humility017:
when I said that coach is lazy. ...you all think may be I don't like him.....

what's left for him is to keep eyeing and lobbying rohr to give him some of his players less 20 years of age...instead of him to go scout for players...

tbaba1234:
He is left footed but plays mainly as a CB.

tbaba1234:
He played 90 minutes in Juventus 2:1 loss.

forgiveness:
Oga! This is a national team and not private property. Distinguish the difference first before you make statement.

tbaba1234:
Paolo Guzzi (Chigozie) Iweru just had his debut wth Juventus.

forgiveness:
I am beginning to have a rethink. Chukwueze should be on the plane to AFCON and even start on the RW in every matches because he is currently the best Nigerian winger (RW) in the form of his life in the whole wide world as I write.

The Samuel Kalu who is suppose to play on that wing is currently not seeing game time in his club. In fact, he has not made 5 match day squad in their last 6 matches.

Are we going to the AFCON with an inform player (Samuel Kalu) who is not only currently warming bench but is not even considered for games?

In my humble opinion, if Samuel Kalu doesn't see games until the end of the season, and in addition, doesn't outshines Chukwueze, he should be replaced with Chukwueze direct and not even considered for a place in the squad.

We should also look for a player that can deputise for Chukwueze on the RW and I think Peter Olayinka is the best candidate for this. That's after seeing him in a friendly.

The fact that his club started him against Chelsea and he still went ahead to distinguished himself above all his team mates shows he deserves to be given a chance. At least this time around he is in form.

We saw what Paul Onuacha did when he was given the chance to prove himself.

Chukwueze might be our own Mbappe in this tournament. There's need to reward performance of players in other to encourage them to do better.

Bringing players not making match day squad over players doing better in a competitive league or tournament is a no no for me.

BascoVanVeli:
It would be criminal to omit John Obi Mikel from that team.

TheGoodJoe:
U20 is no way close to the seriousness of the National team. The standard I use for the senior team is the best quality of players we can assemble and Chukwueze is definitely among the best.

I doubt most of our wingers will keep him on the bench if Villarreal had the luxury of selecting our wingers to play against Barcelona will keep Chukwueze on the bench.

If Chukwueze is among the best we have, Rohr is doing the team a disservice dropping him.

Finito.

Earthquake2:
Do you have any other option better than Mikel?

TheGoodJoe:
Manu Garba had every right to drop Nacho from that U20 team because he was not part of the qualifying players and he did not camp with the team.

Finito.

forgiveness:
Maybe he also paid his way. Don't put your trust in man.

tbaba1234:
He was at the WAFU tournanent

Humility017:
c'mon it is not funny.....

forgiveness:
Manu can err. That's the point.

forgiveness:
He was not considered for the tournament not until the first choice goalkeeper failed MRI test. Do you understand now?

tbaba1234:
Highlights of Joseph Oluwabusola, Bournemouth under 16 GK and Golden eaglets player. There is a good chance, he will start.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkYgSYXZ5WA

forgiveness:
Manu was the U20 coach who benched Iheanacho, Simon etc despite being in form. Wasn't he?

iSlayer2:
Nah. Not really.
The players,
The level of the teams,
The development,
The organization et al.
It's all improved now. It's not what was obtainable prior to this time.

The players on parade (from the big boys) are of better quality than previously. This is as a result of better organization at the top. There are more FBs in the teams (actual good players), which I daresay is beneficial to the growth of the game in Africa meantime.

I'll say something here, many don't know the ton of good this MRI is doing for the African game. Do you know how disastrous fielding overage players at cadet level is to football development? Do you know that's a big reason the African game is/was not growing? They play with kids at the cadet level then get out there and poof they're gone! They can't keep up. Hence, no continuity, no growth. Nothing. Because they're old men.


You see those under 18s/19s/21s leagues the Europeans have in place? Or something like having feeder teams playing in lower division league football? Very very important. Sadly, I don't know how feasible this will ever be across Africa. You need your young players playing regularly in a serious structured system (like those leagues). This system of bringing players from all around the place few months before tournaments is not the best. A good number of them are not playing serious football regularly. They can never be as good or sharp as those Europeans playing serious football regularly.



Recently, the system has just been fair enough. You can tell from the young African players who are making it into some good leagues and thriving.


So generally speaking this Afcon, talking about the quality (which I'm keenly interested in) should be better. I hope not to see too much drab football.

Eleniyan15:
If Nigeria Get to Quarter Final
We are winning it, you don't want to play Nigeria when it just 2-3games to win something big or qualify!!!


Naija for the money

iSlayer2:
Better.


I mean the football in Africa is getting better.

iSlayer2:
I believe it's getting better.

ChrisKels:
I dont wanna be a kill joy, buh I would advise u lot celebrating this draw to pipe low for now. Remember Rohr is the kinda coach that goes to tournaments to experiment, rather than participate, on the false pretense that "my team is young and this is just a learning curve for them". Brace up for more excuses in Egypt. He did it Russia.

iSlayer2:
Well, atleast arrange house first before sweeping the outside.

jihday:
this should be 9 easy points

Oasis007:
Cameroon unveil AFCON Jersey.

andrew444:
Almost all are first afcon

gamaliel9:
This AFCON is going to produce high scores....7-1...6-0...5-1...we may even see 9-0...

Who is with me?

Water will find its level

raindodger13:
Jokes aside, we shouldn't take any of these guys lightly, especially Guinea. We still need to have the right players in place and properly execute for 90 minutes. This is the Afcon, anything could happen.

Earthquake2:
Nigeria to play Ghana and Senegal in friendly

Where is Pinnick getting money to sponsor these games, Does it mean past NFF president were embezzling the funds