₦airaland Forum

mazimee:
If the NFF and Some Agents eventually pressure Gernot Rohr to add some names that doesn't deserve the call up, I won't be surprised, after all this is Nigeria where everything goes . But I will be highly impressed if Rohr can stand his ground with with his mèrit standard.

I don't think there is any pressure at this stage.

He must have had the pressures before submitting the list,possibly technical committee are vetting the list and need to ask some relevant questions before the list is make public.

On agents definitely it's normal but left for Rohr to maintain his integrity,nothing more cos getting eagles job is not that easy,so possibly through agents or some NFF officials.

nikkypearl:
She is beautiful

Hmmm,pls asked her to stand straight then you will know may be she is beautiful or not.

Joebie:
Tammy makes u-turn after Stoke loss. e papa dey Pinnick house na. Rohr on call

metaljigsaw you don get master

Joebie:
And Uzoho bagged an assist lol. Iwobi scored a hart-trick. Enyeama kept for Lille main team today. Also Aiyenugba makes Rohr’s list. Ejide too. He’s not the only one drinking

Kai Joebie this one na codeine o

Mujtahida:
It's because it is an affidavit based on what the Deponent says. I can as well go to court and declare that I am 17. The law will believe me unless someone comes and proves otherwise. And who will do that?

Oga o and NPC birth certificate is even worse,no documents to back it up and birth certificate is out.

charlesemeka85:
nope! at first iwobi and aina turned down the call but the former was convinced by his dad and lex super eagles skipper jay jay who happen to be his uncle while the latter followed suit when his father advised him to do so. also one of the biggest factors that worked in our favor was both stayed for a long time without getting an invite to any of the english youth teams(u20 and u21 teams) which made them to start having interest in nigeria

Sir the two guys didn't turned us down when we approached them.

Aina was a strong youth player for England right from U16,U17,U18,U19 and U20 even captain one of the youth team.

Joebie:
Ebuehi didnt. He only spoke about his development and club commitment initially. It was never a situation where he was considering waiting for a call up from the other country or “progressing up the ranks”.
Let me just put it this way. Ebuehi never received interests from Netherlands. Now that’s always a factor if we must be true to ourselves.

OK he did not turned us down

kingphilip:
icon4s your guy with the bottles again

I tire for jigsaw

Mujtahida:
I am just trying to encompass all the necessary documents that can show real age but affidavit of age no join ooo.

I get you the Law but i have a question,why court affidavits is so bastardised that is for dick and harry.

GavelSlam:
The electronic voting made it more transparent.

Buhari..Walahi El Rufai kai why electronic

El Rufai.....sai baba am sorry ba electronic again

Buhari...... Haba you know my fifu will now be shouting electronic voting.

El Rufai......I want to show how transparent we are in APC.

Buhari....... Kai who sent you transparency

El Rufai......I'm sorry Sir

Buhari........sorry?kai your too know is my headache.

franka19:
You should have stated that you almost got killed by government officials Armed Robbers known as SARS. You should know that they are official Armed Robbers, armed by the government to kill. They have no other official job. Just look at their faces and the way they carry out their work, you will come to realize that they are robbers.

Yes armed robbers ,in fact one of the ex SARS led Offa bank robbery.

charlesemeka85:
i could remember that the likes of iwobi,aina and ebuehi turned us down when first approached to play for nigeria but did the communication stop? hell no.

I think only Ebuehi turned us down.Iwobi,Aina and Idowu ever willing to play for Nigeria.

Mujtahida:
If you do not have primary school certificate you sure do have birth certificate. Any player must present one of this and even at that it would be scrutinised

Muj, pls forget birth certificate cos NPC has messed it up but primary school certificate. Primary school certificate is very hard to forge and very documented

I remember a guy that went back for his own after 10 years,it was intact,no alteration of name or age.

jihday:
Iheanachooooo, he scores when he want

No o Iheanacho is a scorer but Mikel scores when he want

TheSuperNerd:
And we are not done yet.... Solanke scores!!!!!!

Iheanacho na koko Solanke na English boy

TheSuperNerd:
Uhmmm... Four weeks from the same day he was confirmed to be nursing a hamstring. I suppose some good time have passed since then... So he will be ready before June 16.

Yes four weeks he will be ready but six weeks i don't think so cos it was stated four weeks to heal and two weeks rehabilitating.

This is your field which is medical,pls enlighten me cos Ndidi not making it would be a massive blow.

Icon4s:
2+2=4.

Today is May13 . WC starts June 14. I fear he may not be ready enough for the WC.

Chief i dey fear too and what about Ebuehi groin injury.

bataderemi:
Any news about Ndidi's injury?

Thank you Ndidi na KOKO.

safarigirl:
when I got admission to Unilag in 2010, they had the same requirement of 16 years, one girl was even rejected cuz of it. In uniabuja though, I saw 15 year olds who entered school

I guess that one differs according to school and maybe who sabi way.

Primary school might be the easiest, but it is quite unfair to many who don't have the certificate, so........

OK good i thought things have changed especially on 16 year of age requirement for university admission.

My son had the same primary education history as yours but i made sure he got his primary school certificate.

I know some don't have it especially Ajebutters like you but something good to have cos it unraveled so many things.

safarigirl:
most of us did not complete Primary school, so, where do we want to get primary school certificate from? You think people finishing Secondary School at 14 completed their primary education?

That one is out of it. At least 50% of graduates today, do not have a primary school certificate

My pont is this primary school certificate is the easiest way to discover age falsification.

In the 80s and 90s you must be 16 years of age by October 1st before you can be admitted into university but i don't know the present criteria.

Icon4s:
Wilfred Ndidi, Ifeanyi Mathew, Alhassan Ibrahim( Musuam) and 2 other players all failed the MRI on the eve on the CAF U17. Fact remains they failed the MRI.

We have all come to accept the fact that so many products of the U17 fail to progress in their careers and this failure starts right from the transnsition From U17 to U20.

Not all U17 graduates are good enough for the U20!

That is why I still give kudos to Manu's selection and criticize Amuneke's. Manu understands this fact and introduced some new blood into his team while still keeping some of his U17 boys who were really exceptional at The U17. But Amuneke kept almost his entire U17 team. Only 1 new player was added. And don't tell me there were no players outside that U17 crop that were good enough to Break into the team.

Sir this country is failing in sports generally not only in football and age falsification is one of the factor and the only way to address it is to go back to the drawing board.

Let's go back to history of U20 in summary in Nigeria.How it started and the pioneer of Fly eagles in Nigeria.

The maiden U 20 WC was in 1977 introduced by FIFA with the aim to produce talents for national teams but Nigeria fully participated in 1979 U20 WC qualifier with the likes of Stephen Keshi,Henry Nwosu who are in secondary school and failed to qualify,also missed 1981.

In 1983 we appeared in our first U20 WC and first FIFA major tournament with Raymond Best,Tajudeen Disu and Samson Siasia who was dropped cos he was writing his WAEC meaning he was in secondary school and later made 1985 with Andrew Uwe who was a student at University of Ife.In 1987 we have Adeolu Adekola a unilag student,Nosa Osadolor in university of Ife.

If you check the record very well,national sport festival, NUGA,NIPOGA,Principal cup,YOUSFON,Dallas cup,Dana cup which Nigeria normal participated every year are the games that produced bulk of our U17 and U20 and produced players for our leagues.

After Scotland 89 and Saudi 89,Nigeria was banned cos of data error on Samsoy Siasia,Andrew Uwe and Dahiru Sadi,we missed 1991 U17&20 and NFF failed to find alternative plan for players produced by various games.This created a wide gap of players succession.

We came back in 1993 after ban was lifted and this started massive in flux of NPFL players into our U17 and U20 teams,really surprised to see Kanu Nwankwo who i watched in 1991 against Ranchers bees playing for U17 and also Wilson Oruma of Bendel Insurance,Taribo West of IBWA in U20 with Emma Teberen.

Since 1993 it has been in our system to go for league players especially for U20.We don't care about university game again, NIPOGA games and YOUSFON was no longer funded as before,the yearly Dallas cup was off.Good to have league players but not old league players who have spent more than 3 years.

I think if player like Andrew Uwe,Nosa Osadolor,Adeolu Adekola,Victor Gbenebichie,Emma Olisadebe,Seyi Olofinjana,Gabriel Jigbale,Tunde Sanni,Olaolu Ashaolu can be find through university games then why NFF are no more concerned about present university games.

The bulk of our U17 are always from national sport festival,principal cups,YOUSFON games especially international youth games,no much league players until 1993.

If things can be done at least fairly in the 80s on age falsification cos Ikechuckwu Ofoje was dropped from 1987 U20 camp cos of age.He was even the captain but dropped due to his age record with YOUSFON.

Honestly things must change and to be having this discussion in 2018 on age falsification is pathetic and shameful.

AIG07:
Three years ago, my dream was to see Garba Manu deputise(serve as an assistant to) for any foreign coach the federation might decide to employ. Leaving our age grade teams to Ugbade and Amuneke while Samson Siasia continues with the Olympic team.

But lo and behold my dream hit a dead end the day Salisu Yusuf was made the Coach of the SEs. I couldn't farthom what resonated that decision.

It irks me so much when I see huge tasks like this committed to incapable hands... Today we have a certain Paul Aigbogun handling our u-20 team a team very close to the national team. A team expected to feed and supply us(SEs) future quality talents and professionals, is now filled with overage men who have relatively passed their peaks- this is a very serious matter.

I hope we don't experience another years of drought in the national team.

Hmmmm what a great comment but you know what NFF love yes sir coach.

Hope you remember NFF and Keshi wahala,NFF and Siasia feud and NFF and Oliseh war,for God sake Finidi George is available but NFF went for Paul Aigbogun.

Icon4s:
Any player who falsified his age should be dropped.
Simple and short. And not to condemn and disown the entire team.

This age falsification is simple to detect,just asked any player for his primary school certificate.

Sir,primary school certificate in Nigeria is the most difficult document to forge and that's why government don't reckon with it cos it will exposed our politicians and civil servants.

I remember when i was working with federal agency,I was the youngest and oldest cos i used my hospital birth certificate but others used court affidavits.

Age falsification is a real issue in Nigeria and not helping our sports.

tbaba1234:
The man graduated from Kwara Poly in 2013..

We are in 2018..

Let us say, he graduated at 19. He will be 24 now... This is minimum..

2013 wahala dey o

tbaba1234:
All of my siblings entered university at 14/15/16... My immediate younger sister was out of school by 19 and she studied law, a 5 year course.

This is not the case here.

Hmmm tbaba1234 and age?first one need to find out if the guy truly graduated from Kwara poly and what year and may be he already had his NYSC.

I think with this his true age would be ascertained.

DrLikita12:
When I was graduating one of my classmates was 14/15, two years younger than the rest of us. There was a girl in my school who was 9 in form 1. So it's not uncommon. Some schools also make up the time. University of Ilorin is one example. As far as I know students graduate within 4/5 years regardless of strikes and other interruptions.
I hope he is not being dishonest because it not only discredits him, it discredits the country.

Thank you.I think this age of a thing is being exaggerated.

I'm one of the old school here and finished secondary school at 16 marked my 16 years birthday during my WAEC and i have a friend who did 5 years course and graduated at 20 in 1992.

I have said it here that a friend was in Japan 93 camp at 16 and his real age,so we still have them young doing it.

tbaba1234:
Your goalscorer today has a HND from Kwara Poly (Accounting).

Do not worry i will do my investigation and feed you back.

MetalJigsaw:
I go with you 100% But why Kayode instead of Onyekuru?

Honestly am okay with Kayode or Oyekwuru but with Musa,Simeon,Moses and Alex in the team i don't see Oyekwuru making it especially he is just coming back from injury.I see Kayode as third striker behind Ighalo and Iheanacho.

Nevertheless the third striker position is open for grab and i will not be surprised seeing players like Sadiq,Simmy and Onuachu gatecrashed.

mazimee:
If he get sense, he should push for a stay with CSKA MOSCOW. He will benefit a lot from playing in CSKA MOSCOW.

I think Sallah failed at Chelsea and came back to Liverpool,so we cannot say,possibly he can get it done at wolves.EPL just too lucrative to ignore.

Humility017:
it will take a miracle for kayode to make that list.....though i will want him there...
I fear simmy might steal the slot

My list not Rohr.yes Kayode and any third striker would work their socks off to make the team.

Modified... Simmy stats not encouraging and watched him closely recently not my type of striker.

Humility017:
we have end it long ago boss....
just wanna speak up.

thanks....trust your weekend is going on well sir?

Cool my guy and yours

Humility017:
ezenwa is far better than agbim....
ezenwa outing in the last CHAN is something worthy of applause but same can't be said of agbim during the CHAN tourney in south Africa that year...against Mozambique his outing was shambles... and lots more everyone who watch that Chan will tell you same....

agbim was a basket kind of goalie...
but still keshi sticked with him...
rohr can be exonerated being that he is not too conversant with our local league but keshi knew this...that agbim wasn't the best in the npfl even the league management company cried out that his Chan team wasn't the best the epl could offer....
he is was simply a business man who sees football as an opportunity to fill his pocket and not to win laurels and make astute name for himself...

Sir my point is not about who is better between Agbim and Ezenwa.

Pls let's end it.