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TheGoodJoe:
If you can not see improvement in Sterling, then how can you see other things. See a tweet by the former Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh.


Sunday Oliseh ✔@SundayOOliseh
Is this the same Raheem Sterling or a Clone? lol. What a complete metamorphosis.Superb technique,Vision & joy to watch.Infectious. Bravo!


Guardiola already said it will take time for his system to bear fruits. If anyone studies closely, the improvement is tremendous.

Navas played well against Chelsea and Arsenal. Meanwhile, he was not a regular, does that mean he was rendered useless? Delph has not played for a long time but was brilliant against Chelsea, does that mean he was useless.

Maybe some people expect money to buy immediate success, what I expected was not immediate success. As the team keeps understanding the game, we will keep improving.

TheSuperNerd:
Revealed – Players Rohr Plans To Invite For Future Games Ahead Of MFM Stephen Odey


https://owngoalnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image-68.jpg


Despite calls from most Nigerians on coach of the Super Eagles Gernot Rohr to include the top scorer in the Nigeria Professional League Stephen Odey in his plans, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal some other plays are well ahead of him.


* Osas Mahawi


Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/04/05/revealed-players-rohr-plans-to-invite-for-future-games-ahead-of-mfm-stephen-odey/

TheGoodJoe:
You do not know the criteria. Something I have explained before. Note, Amunike knew what he was looking for and picked a player who suited his philosophy. How many teams in Nigeria train their players with the tiki taka philosophy. Amunike is a coach who embodies that. You can see that the player selected walked into his starting eleven.

It is possible to have six hundred players and only one embodies the philosophy. It is not our culture. The other players selected went through rigorous training to understand it.

TheGoodJoe:
For real. I said. Are you saying you did not follow the news? We had a thread dedicated to the junior teams.


Nigeria U-20 Head Coach, Emmanuel Amuneke has decided to have a three -day open screening for new players ahead of the team's camping for a 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against Burundi, Vanguard reports.

Following Democratic Republic of Congo withdrawal from the tournament, Burundi progressed to be entitled to lock horns with Cup holders Nigeria.

Dates

Amuneke called for the open screening between Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 April before a group of 30 invited players arrive camp in Abuja on Monday 11 April.

http://www.futaa.com/transfers/amuneke-opens-screening-camp-for-u20

Icon4s:
I understand. But na make them begin the preparation on time.

In fact you deserve more. Take this one knack am down.

Joseph1013 we suppose dey do comment of the month award on this thread. Pick up 4 best comments or contributions and we vote.

That tbaba's comment deserves a look in.

Na that one go cause fight pass. Forgiveness go dey analyse singular and plural with that hin shine shine teeth.

TheEminentLaity:
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TheGoodJoe:
WHEN YOU HAVE A SYSTEM. For now we do not have the system and so we can not short out these young geniuses fighting their way out of poverty. Our open camp system has served us fine. Why stop it?

TheGoodJoe:
Let the educated ones compete against the uneducated ones. If any uneducated one is better, he deserves the chance. Talent and Discipline is key. Thumbs up to Manu Garba who helped a player like Yahaya speaking his native dialect to help him grow.

TheGoodJoe:
Until we have the systems in place, we can not start screening out kids from humble beginnings because their parents could not educate them. Football is another way to empower kids out of poverty. Look at Musa Yahaya. Imagine screening him out because he is not book smart and wasting such talent.

TheGoodJoe:
Jamb Question. As I said, the best opportunity should go to the kids with the best talent and Discipline. Book Smart is not a guarantee.

TheGoodJoe:
Even book smart, well schooled players fall for bad agents.

TheGoodJoe:
LOLS. You are still missing it. Rooney shows that a player like Ifeanyi Ifeanyi can be young. Looks deceive.

Such a simple thing you have decided not to understand.

A Rooney is not a cause for concern. An Ifeanyi is a cause for concern. Simple something!

TheGoodJoe:
That is why I said you are missing the point and you went all out to elaborate that you are missing the point.

I will not go all out to defend Ifeanyi Ifeanyi but I will also not go out to condemn him because like Donnaruma, looks could deceive.

goldfish80:
What they were issued was not first school leaving certificate. First school leaving certificate come directly from the state education board.
Date of birth and some other data you mentioned is not captured in the first school leaving certificate.

goldfish80:
Probably you haven't had a cause to go retrieve your school cert. When you do have a cause, nobody will tell you to run back to your primary school headmistress or state education board to retrieve the doc.

As a prerequisite to be in camp, players must be made to come with the afformentioned documents just like they came with their clothings and soccer boots.

Youth football goes hand in hand with education. A player shouldn't be worthy of consideration if he uses lack of education as the reason he cannot provide his school papers. One thing should be clear, because as we play to win football matches at the cadet level, we also showcase the quality our education. Football and education are like twins and rightly so.

I recall with shame when Ramon Azzez was asked to read the FIFA fair play rules from a piece of paper as a duty of being captain. The young man struggled to read four sentences. It was a huge national disgrace if you ask me. It shows the young man is sparsely educated. It wasn't a good advertisement for Nigeria irrespective of the fact that it was a football tournament and not an inter school debate.

TheGoodJoe:
You missed the point. I am saying that MRI is it just the reason for our growth in football. It also has to do with talent. I am also pointing out that we have produced young quality players without the MRI.

As for Harry Redknapp (Doubt it was Allardyce), Kanu already had a Heart Condition long before he joined Arsenal. How he expected Kanu after his career at Arsenal to perform like a young Bobo beats my imagination.

The idea of using appearance to pick out the age of players does not add up because of the likes of Pogba and Donnaruma.

Anyone who wants to hinge his belief on that is free. Does not change the fact that looks is not a guarantee.

goldfish80:
That is why I added the caveat in my last paragraph that anyone who cannot provide such verifiable documents should come with their first school leaving certificate.
We all know the age range which a kid is expected to graduate from primary school. You can't claim U17 while your first school leaving certificate says you graduated from primary school in 2005.
Anyone who cannot provide the aforementioned certificates should be disqualified from attending screenings. There are many ways to kill a rat.

TheGoodJoe:
MRI helped our football but some like Awaziem, Mikel Agu and Victor Moses did not use that route to stardom. We produced quality young players in the past like Oliseh, Oruma and Finidi without the help of MRI screening.

The fact is that not all players that look older than their ages are overage. Ask Rooney.

goldfish80:
Speaking on the issue of age falsification and lack of public records. I wll disagree with the summation we don't have public records. We actually do.
Anyone born in a government accredited hospital or health centre is issued with birth certificate. This record is well cataloged in the hospital database that even if you come back after 50years the record can be called up.
I personally had an issue last year which I went through the process and within 30 mins my file was pulled out.

Also any baptised Catholic have his records kept forever. I have seen people who got their baptismal cards reissued when they was about to Wed and their records called up by the catechist within minutes. Some of the records predate the civil war.


The case with age forgery is aided by the lax attitude to verifying data.
If the NFF wanted to verify age and cut cost they should simply have a unit in the state FA's who will verify documents from players coming from their state or better still, for those without a birth certificate, they should be mandated to come to camp with their first school leaving certificate. Its very simple.

TheGoodJoe:
We have a lot of challenges here to turn our system overnight. We do not even have enough centres to provide Medicare. Simple. Looks does not determine age. Whether verified or not.

TheGoodJoe:
The point is simple. A young player can look old and that can not be an accurate reason for doubting a player's age.

TheGoodJoe:
I share terzurum5 ideology. He is not saying Pogba is overage. He is saying we should stop using looks to tag players overage. If Donnaruma was Nigerian, no one will believe he is a teenager because of his looks. People should not suffer because of the failed system.

terzurum5:
Now I can deduce from your previous posts that as far as we do not have a comprehensive system of records, our age declaration will not be accepted, even when the persons concerned are telling the truth.

Therefore, even when someone from the advanced Countries presents his age we should not doubt because such persons are from climes where standard and comprehensive data is kept.
Paul Pogba looks older than a 24yr old person, but I should be forced to admit his age is real.

On the other hand, I should always doubt the ages of Nigerian youngsters such as Iheanacho, Simon, Musa Yahaya and co even though appear to be young and as well a true reflection of their declared age, just because they are from the part of the World where comprehensive records are not fully adopted.

Can you see the useless doctrine the whites want to force on us

terzurum5:
I met a foreigner early last year, we discussed on so many issues. He told me that he has worked with some people from a particular state who where very honest. "He now believes that anyone from that State is honest."

These generalisations do not always prove to true.