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maidaboi:
we need a good dribbler in the middle
tbaba1234, joebie, thesupernerd please can you rank our midfielders base on there dribbling abilities
cc forum members can also help

charlesemeka85:
SIMY ALREADY SHOWING HIS QUALITIES



How Super Eagles Lined Up In Training Session – Crotone Simy Scores Spectacular Goal
May 24, 2018013

Ahead of their upcoming friendly game against Congo DR in Port Hacourt, the senior national team of Nigeria had their second training session witnessed by Owngoalnigeria.com.

As usual the team were shared into two different teams by coach of the team Gernot Rohr after the traditional warming up, light exercises and shooting drills.

Rohr lined the team up in a way which suggest he is already building the team for the Congo DR friendly as most of the regular players were lined up in one team, while the rest who are trying to win a spot were lined up in a separate team.

The highlight of the one hour training session game saw newly invited Crotone forward Simeon Tochukwu Nwankwo open scoring in a spectacular fashion with a lob over the head of goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa.

Team A.

Francis Odinaka Uzoho (GK)

Leon Balogun

William Troost-Ekong

Ola Aina

Elderson Echiejile

Ogenyi Onazi

Joel Obi

Oghenekaro Etebo

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Junior Lokosa

Simy Nwankwo

Alex Iwobi

Team B:

Ikechukwu Ezenwa ( GK)

Kenneth Omeruo

Chidozie Awaziem

Stephen Eze

Uche Agbo

Kelechi Iheanacho

Mikel Agu

Odion Ighalo

Tyronne Ebuehi

Moses Simon

Ahmed Musa

Osas Mahawi

safarigirl:
make these ones dey dream, na so the wings of African Pride go fly over them

Joebie, no be you I tell say we go choose Wings of African Pride for bragging purposes? Nigerians can be very arrogant

kennysville:
Where I am @, they call it "yellowbone"

TheSuperNerd:
Your bullcrap talk on K.Nwakali stinks. Discuss something else mister. You are clueless on this one.

First of all, he is 19. Second of all, he is a midfielder... not a forward player. Plays AM and CM.

And you can keep harping rubbish about him using the team to bolster his career. Did he invite himself? You really are giving this little kid a lot of credit... you think he is that influential to force himself on the coaching crew? You really talk bollocks for one who claims to know so much. Mister... take a bloody hike!

Your pessimism and half-truths syndrome is stinking up the whole place. Rubbish.

ChrisKels:
Chai oke osisi. Anya fulu Ugo 1 of Idemili, ekene kwa m gi odogwu. Truly bro, uv seen it all. U a role model

AIG07:
can't stop laughing

tbaba1234:
2 games after joining them in January.. Bros, that is poor.

Mujtahida:
Leadership is not necessarily about building infrastructure. It's about uplifting the consciousness of your people, making them see themselves in a great light, birthing a resurgent dream in their hearts. As in the first responsibility of a good leader is to deliver the Word. That's why I hate all these our transmission transmitted leaders. Take away paper from their hands, come hear absolute rubbish wey go dey comot from their mouth. No word, no dream.

Mujtahida:
I don't know why it's the aside from football yarns that I seem to enjoy. Maybe I'm trying to starve myself before the action begins.

Now make I chip in this small point into the discussion being had by the quartet of Joebie, safarigirl, omanbala1 and yourself: it's not about black men or black women. Looking at it this way we'd only trade blames and fight each other. It's the black race that needs healing.

tbaba1234:
Elderson has hardly played this season. I do not know the level, he is now. He could not play in Turkey and Belgium second tier.

ykalhaji:
Omo Ebola don escape for Congo ooo... Are we still playing Congo ? 3 confirmed ebola patients escaped quarantine although now found. 27 dead 5 are healthcare officials. WHO is preparing and warning against another West African epidemic. Even without the game Nigeria is at risk.

AIG07:
that is why I do tell my friends that beauty is a thing of the mind. It's more inner than outer. Most of our people have what I called "IDENTITY CRISIS" they always want to appear like every dick and Harry celebrities.

OMANBALA1:
I don screw one black(when I was single... ) woman before just because I started a conversation with YOUR HAIR LOOK GLAMOROUS....And she was shocked and that was disturbing because her hair was so dark,tough and beautiful but she though I was kidding because she didnt even know her hair was beautiful because you rarely see a black woman with natural hair.

Do you also know the white people think black hair is beautiful ??

OMANBALA1:
Ikuowen Utin Udoh is more attack minded while Dure Ebube is your classic left back. Ikuowen will be more effective in LWB.

TheGoodJoe:
Just as TheSuperNerd pointed out. There should be indices to select players. Club form can act as a boost. Just as a good and regular quality performances in the grades of the Eagles can push a player up the ladder. Club performances also have their forces to raise the level of a player

safarigirl:
foreign hair get range and most girls cannot afford the range you are talking of. E no pass 3% of girls that can buy that range of foreign hair.

Maintaining natural hair is far more expensive than what 80% of ladies can afford

Abeg leave us with our foreign hair, na so una go dey bobo pesin for here about natural hair as if most Nigerian guys appreciate such. Anything girls do in this country, it's because of Nigerian men, to gain the approval of one man or the other. Y'all created the monsters you see today, so, enjoy them .

AIG07:
If no body does, I do appreciate it. Recently, I saw some random ladies, I whispered at them just to get their attention... I walked up to them to tell them how beautiful they are in their natural hair.(not the usual plaiting or afro thing). The surprise that came with my compliment confused me myself.

safarigirl:
is your wife in Nigeria permanently? Is her natural hair loose or is it in locks?

Of course, there are wealthy ladies who have been team natural for years, they fix at times as well. Is Adesua Etomi not in that league?

I am talking about my school because that is the small pool I am in, and it is not a private school, so many of them going natural no be because dem get bastard money


People are different, you cannot hold everyone to your standards, can you? And sincerely, nobody should be telling anyone how to best prove they are proud of their race or their colours, if not, let us kuku say that people who leave the shores of Africa are not proud of their race

The white girls doing botox to have full lips, let us say, they are not proud of their features, same as the white people who tan their skin. They are no better than black bleachers.

My point is, a joke is just that, a joke. It should mean nothing to you, it should be viewed and forgotten. If you take everything to heart, you'll have a heart attack......I should remember this the next time I feel like explaining myself

Good night Joe


BTW: I'm watching Samson, and for some ridiculous reason, the lead male and female are nowhere near the level of beauty those in the Bible are reputed to have had. Watching some ugly Samson and basic Delilah . They should have gotten Jason Momoa to play Samson

daveP:
Yeah.This pertains well to our footballing mentality.


Some are not good at club, but once in GWG, they just spark.

I for one rest on the opinion that local players that are plying trade abroad do learn one or two. Eager ones. But it's not enough, but they are learning still.

Musa has this stint of not too good club time, but is something else in the GWG no doubt.


I agree with the team levels. We have too much on our hands that we are bloated.

The thing is, the NPFL and the players therein better wake up fast. They are so snaily that scouts may not wanna look their way like before. They better wake up so that the NPFL would be producing Team B and C with eye catching performances.

tbaba1234:
The attackers yesterday were more alive than those we took for CHAN.

Samadi was the only real revelation for me. I already knew about Omoyele and Udo.

tbaba1234:
The attackers yesterday were more alive than those we took for CHAN.

Samadi was the only real revelation for me. I already knew about Omoyele and Udo.

TheSuperNerd:
And does knowing my choices even sound relevant to the issue here? The coach is Salisu... not me. His choices... his decisions. See? It is about the coach too.

forgiveness:
At 19, he scored 1 goals to help his Isreali team win the league to gain promotion to the top tier. The next season he was the third goal scorer in the Isreali first division.

AIG07:
World Cup is approaching, the thread is moving fast. The problem now is that :how does one keep on with the thread.? You come online like this you see like 5-10 pages within few hours of absence and yet one will not want to any.


I suggest that tit - bits and news pertaining to the WORLD CUP should be bolded and coloured to help people like me.

TheSuperNerd:
Uhmm... perspective. That game was to involve a better percentage of the home based lads... Salisu only had a couple of slots open for some from outside... and he made his choice. He cannot invite everyone at once.

TheSuperNerd:
I'm afraid you cannot standardize everything for absolutely 100% effectiveness when it comes to talents. Lol... this is why "hoping and praying" is part of it because like the bolded shows arguments can be made from various angles and depending on how strong the coach pushes his case for a player, you just can never tell sometimes.

A coach at any given point in time will come with his own attitude, Idiosyncrasies and more. How do you handle it also if a coach hates a player who is actually doing well enough and he makes the case that The player is not ready and lacks this or that... stuffs made up by the coach to keep the player down.

How do you handle that? sack the coach? lol... Mehn... Hope and pray is a parr of this as much as our efforts to give things a level of standard.

tbaba1234:
I still feel we missed an opportunity to see talents. It would have been a great opportunity for us to see, Alampasu, Maduka Okoye (GK), Tosin Kehinde, Ebere Eze, .....Samuel Kalu & Olayinka are still playing games. Alampasu was in Nigeria, It would have been good to see if he is still decent. Femi Thomas did not inspire confidence.

Salisu did not make too many subs because we did not really have many quality substitutes.

TheSuperNerd:
That is the key word in all you just said. Many here will still ride and die on that one term... "Special talent". Many here will not agree that some are special and many will also want to present players that they think and feel are special. To them, since no cogent/stand out criteria exists to define a special talent so anyone can be special...

Another wahala. lol


But I am in support of Classifying our teams into A (The main team), B and C. Forget D... A to C is okay.

In my very own personal database of our players scattered around the world which I update from time to time, I classify them.

Anyway, one thing we must understand is that for every era or generation we must be sensitive to the atmosphere of that particular era. Truth is we have a standard for invites to the Super Eagles... but it is just that there are exceptions to the rule and these exceptions are made certified by the coach in charge at any point. Not by us... but by the coach. We can only pray and hope that the coach, in making these decisions on who and who can bypass this standard rule, pick the right players with huge potentials for immense benefits to the team and not for his own selfish/personal vendetta to the detriment of the team.

TheGoodJoe:
Fine input and I agree with most you say. Just to add, the different grades (B, C and D) can have different scouting and camping sessions to identify true potentials and give them room for exposure with the team.

TheSuperNerd:
Henry Onyekuru news


There are strong rumors of Henry Onyekuru being on Besiktas' wishlist this transfer window for a loan arrangement of course.

Of course, I doubt Onyekuru will consider Turkey.