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Icon79:
Actually, it wasn't just Reuben alone. We can excuse him if he had fumbled on only one or two players, but Keshi fumbled on:

Michael Uchebo
Shola Ameobi
Ejike Uzoenyi
Kunle Odunlami
Ramon Azeez
Uche Nwofor

And I can go on and on. So it wasn't just one player. The entire bench was useless - sold to the highest bidder.


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Mujtahida:
Sir I think tbaba1234 is justified in putting questions mark on Keshi's selection for the World Cup 2014. Your comparison with Westerhof taking Emanalo doesn't do justice to the truth. Look at Keshi's team to Brazil 2014. Only first 11. No bench. Is that what Westerhof did in 94? This shouldn't be about white coach or black coach. Look at the situation itself devoid of skin color. If Rohr does same he'd be criticized indeed some even still criticize his team selection and insinuate corruption. Keshi's selection for the WC was terrible. Was Keshi a terrible coach? No. He was a good coach who for reasons known to him and others like komekn made wrong selection. Doesn't come even a stretch close to Westerhof and Emanalo.

Whoever will campaign to terminate Alpha Beta contract in 2019 will win the election. Lagos state is run like a criminal cartel,with a godfather at the helm of affairs,who appoints his puppets and makes them funnel money to his various front companies like Alpha Beta and Visionscape.

Humility017:
but emenalo was still active even though it was a local team every one knows...he was still playing...but in Gabriel case...he played no active football that season...
which coach will do that?
or call up....uchebo in place of imoh Ezekiel...or drop or ignore the likes of otigba just to part way for his boy azubiike egwekwe...

had it been an indigenous coach was still in charge...don't think some of this foreign groomed players will be on the GWG as it is today......

many a time the foreign coaches do better than the indigenous coaches not necessarily because they're better in tactics...but because of honesty and integrity....they uphold in team selection...

comodo:
Emenalo was playing in USA, @ least he was kicking balls. But Gabriel?? Oh Keshi. Make I close mouth sha.I have not forgotten when Onazi was injured. I looked @ d bench and started weeping.

tbaba1234:
Emenalo was playing in Germany at the time, i believe. Reuben was not even playing football..

Keshi's selections were sometimes very baffling. Siasia's Olympic team, also very baffling, Oliseh, baffling..

You might disagree with some players called by Rohr but as a whole, the best Nigerian players bar a few are on the team.

Amodu, Keshi, Siasia and Oliseh are very good coaches though.

tbaba1234:
Rohr is a blessing to Nigerian football.

Look at the moves of Nigerian players, this winter..

Shehu Abdullahi moved to a better league
Musa back to Russia
Ideye, Etebo, Success, to la liga
Kayode left where he was not playing
Elderson found a new club where he can at least play

Everyone is looking to get active. On of the best transfer windows for Nigerian players.

In 2014, we carried a Rueben Gabriel who had not played football for 2 years to the WC. This is the difference between local coaches and foreign coaches. The coach pushed them to get active before the WC.

elyte89:
Otigba is just anoda player...fine he was passionate about it,but do u knw aw many millions of crude talents who wants to represent Nigeria at different level at all cost and deir talent is wasting(home and abroad). don't let us b emotional abt dis becos he's foreign breed

We can't av everything in life jare.

tbaba1234:
Imagine Tammy Abraham changing allegiance back to Nigeria.

Otigba rejected an invite from Hungary to play for Nigeria even without assurances from Nigeria.

If Otigba bribed media houses and others to write glowing articles about him, perhaps he would have gotten invited.. Already, we see articles calling for Taye Taiwo, Austin elide etc to be invited for the world cup.

This same Nigeria invited players like Austin Oboaropkpo.

AIG07:
.....had it been Sia1 extended a hand gesture to him and that could have changed the whole story just like that of Troost...

andrew444:
Baba no vex jor I no mean the way you see am

andrew444:
Na everybody go play for naija abi,dem for give you the coaching job of super eagles make you carry everybody go World Cup,if dem give you chance you go carry 100 players go World Cup,and wetin bring Austria and Switzerland here,Nigeria is better than Austria if you say Austria is better than Nigeria then I think you don't watch football rather you watch hockey,David Alaba? Make we fry beans ?does 1 player make a team ?maybe the David Alaba will play all the position in the national team....Bros you no make any point because you want every tom dick and harry to be invited,I repeat my self you make no single point.....Thank you

andrew444:
No b small wahala

andrew444:
Na everybody go play for naija abi,dem for give you the coaching job of super eagles make you carry everybody go World Cup,if dem give you chance you go carry 100 players go World Cup,and wetin bring Austria and Switzerland here,Nigeria is better than Austria if you say Austria is better than Nigeria then I think you don't watch football rather you watch hockey,David Alaba? Make we fry beans ?does 1 player make a team ?maybe the David Alaba will play all the position in the national team....Bros you no make any point because you want every tom dick and harry to be invited,I repeat my self you make no single point.....Thank you

Joebie:
I watched the first half.
It was like I was watching a game in the championship leauge. lots of gra gra they hardly settled in. Musa has a couple misplaced passes. Nothing special really. I foot bored. I may go back to complete the match

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asha80:
errrm it is inevitable in football..you cant always cap every player who has dual nationality or is qualified to play for two or more countries..once in a while one escapes the radar(maybe due to not showing much promise earlier or the coach at any point when the player is willing not fancing him)

Brazil=diego costa(spain)

italy= enzo scifo(belgium)

MetalJigsaw:
He! waited for Nigeria to come for him because he knew fully well that Nigeria is a bigger football nation to Hungary.

Ekong could be average as you labelled gim but he's still way above Otigba nevertheless.

MetalJigsaw:
Eze might be a green horn among the defenders but he earned his invitation. Same as Agbo


you're just been emotional instead of applying logic

andrew444:
Loosing Kenny otigba,a player that was not a regular when he played for kasimpasa,a kasimpasa which Kenneth omeruo is always regular there,that guy is not better than any of our defender and Nigeria is a great footballing nation than Hungary

MetalJigsaw:
Gbam!! As if he can displace any of our dear defenders

MetalJigsaw:
For an average player, Nigeria lost?? we no need am

MetalJigsaw:
For an average player, Nigeria lost?? we no need am

Danielnino00:
His last game for Nigeria was very horrible.... I felt like appearing at d stadium and slap him...
karma caught up with him sha....

elyte89:
Is dis not one of d candidate boss Forgiveness canvassed for a world cup slot ...bro take heart, May God give u the FORTITUDE TO BEAR THE LOSS

Abbeyme:
I just do not fancy this Dino Melaye of a guy.

He doesn't have the decorum of an elder. Except he is not yet an elder.

tbaba1234:
Please stop indulging this kind of talk.. There is a section for it.

asha80:
convincing mikel to go back to DM will take some doing..moreover I think he is playing his best football ever for eagles now that he has been pushed to AM which was his first love anyway before mourinho appeared in his life..he also seems happy playing that position

Icon79:
Good point, but I doubt it tho. I mean, players who are already in the system (Onyekuru, Osimhen, Alampasu, or Nwakali) could possibly still get an invite for the subsequent matches, but I won't expect Rohr to start reconsidering folks like Martins, Kayode, and Ideye at this stage.


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MetalJigsaw:
But they mostly felt somewhat disappointment about he list.

MetalJigsaw:
And it's not like it's a World Cup list. Other players will surely get their chance in the subsequent friendly matches after the upcoming March ones. So why all the fuss?? Everyone cannot be invited at the same time!

Lipscomb:
you see how this bastard and useless asslicker take the mater that doesn't concern him as his constituency projects. is that what his people sent him to do at red chamber? Bukola can get kicked out at anytime after all that seat not his hereditary.

BlackPantherxXx:
Why are you, IPOB yoof licking the ass of Saraki, a Yoruba man?