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tbaba1234:
Yes, he benched Pantillimon. That is very impressive.

Reuben is the first choice but he is out injured. Pantillimon was brought in at the last minute to replace him but his performances have been suspect.

It takes a brave coach to rely on an 19 year old with no experience.

tbaba1234:
Pep Mel chose Uzoho based on his performance in training sidelining the more experienced Pantillimon.

That, my friends is remarkable.

Icon79:
No wonder, he's been off my radar. Well, we can still give him a chance to take a claim if he's still the same Ike Uche. After all, his brother Kalu Uche was our best player in South Africa 2010 and Ike is a much better player than Kalu. The only problem though, we have so much options in the position he players so he's gonna miss out.


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Icon4s:
They should as well call for Osaze and Martins

Icon79:
And we're talking about two TAP-INS. The NFF should just forget that guy. He had his chance and simply decided to pitch his tent with the 3 Lions. God luck to him. I have totally lost interest in him .... unless he transforms into Leo Messi or Gabriel Jesus tomorrow.

....moving on.


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NgcoboP:
I don't believe this story.

tbaba1234:
Advantage of foreign born players have include

I.good foundations, they are very well taught.
Ii. Right age

You know that barring injury challenges, they can play for Nigeria for a long time.

Usually, by the time a talented locally born player is discovered, he is already old, can not learn new tricks.

A player like Pius Ikedia was predigiously talented, if he got the right grassroot training, perhaps he could have been like an Overmars.

When our players go abroad, they often have to unlearn things.

Grassroot development also needs quality coaching. We do not have it. At least, not at a big enough scale.

tbaba1234:
Even, with the best grassroots program, we might have cause to reach for better players with dual citizenship. That is just the truth.

In recent times, Nigeria has not struggled to have young players abroad in decent leagues but we still have gaps in our team especially in the defence. If a Nigerian with dual citizenship can do the job , why not?

Our league is poor so we need to improve that. But even with necessary investments in the league, we will still chase a quality acquisition if necessary. The MLS is heavily invested in, yet the US gets players with dual citizenship playing abroad.

We do not need to chase everyone. Only those who have shown great potential.

Joebie:
Pinnick is working. People just want to be heard when they fear they have lost relevance. Trying to get Nigerian players who can add something to the team at the moment and improving our grassroots development program are two different things -- Apples and Oranges. Make your point without condemning our fine efforts. Alaba wanted to play for Nigeria. It's dumb to have ignored him with the excuse of focusing on homegrown talents.

Mickael2:
precisely correct, all those secondary school football tourneys are dead and buried. It is only in Nigeria that such happens, in 2008 I think, we were preparing for the NNPC games, the coach said that they check weight, 60kg maximum(so a kid who is muscular is already out of the games), I was 65 at first but after running up to 5km every morning for two weeks, even Mark Henry would slim down. Then the actual football came, private school, we were all very tall with long limbs, as at then I was 1.85 but was it my fault that my gene is a tall one? But they came and told us that the height limit was 1.67(?) or something even more ridiculous than that. Back then football was still not a big thing and the only means of development was through such secondary school football tourneys, but in a situation where you remove a kid just because he/she is too tall or too muscular does not make sense and academies in Nigeria aint helping out, they only develop the football skills of the kids but education wise they do nothing and they don't even give you enough time to read your books or attend classes elsewhere.


Grassroot football is dead, it died a long time ago. Our academies are not well equiped to train future stars, some of them are hardly educated, how will they understand coaches and highly technical terms?

goldfish80:
He was right to kick against the employment of Rohr. At the time employing Rohr was a huge gamble. His CV doesn't exactly inspire much confidence. He hasn't been particularly successful in any of his previous jobs in Africa and even Europe.
We are talking about a guy who was unceremoniously sacked by Club Africain of Tunisia..

“We’ve gotten to the point where we can’t even have one more training session with him, especially from the standpoint of player discipline and the style of play,” club spokesman Taoufik Gahbiche said in a radio interview.

The man is actually very correct when he talked about discovering home grown talents. Let me ask you, these foreign born talents who have ditched us in the past, who among those players have really developed into world class players apart from Alaba and maybe Dele Alli.
Can you drop some names you can say we have really missed in the Super Eagles apart from those 2.

elyte89:
Boss,am only imitating our unofficial scout here who love to mention any name dey come across, d ajaguns,onomah josh,Aiyenugba and co's
Ever since Mikel Agu messed,I dont take dem serious again,dey shouted Mikel Agu's name b4 his invitation like say no o,d guy na one Ronaldinho,shio,yeye ppu



National team is not a tea party,if u dont av anything extraordinary to give asyde what dis present crop of players are doing,deres no point extending invitation to such players.
I dont mind if rohr retains those called up against Cameroon and Zambia, den maybe give a chance to any new left back,good central back/midfielder, and an out-out striker(dts if any),if not,am only expecting a 27-man pre-lim team list to b pruned down to final 23man list for strong cohesion and maintain b present team brotherhood.

We dont want d usual 60man list 2months b4 worldc cup like what our predecessors av done,dts counter productive.
Like d Yoruba's will say,E ma ko iru mo shapa.

Humility017:
Football
Stop begging Nigeria-born foreign players to play for Eagles, Onigbinde tells NFF
By Alex Monye
16 October 2017 | 4:10 am

Former Super Eagles coach, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has called on the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) to stop pleading with Nigerian -born foreign players across Europe to play for the national team , saying such trend could hamper the nation’s football development efforts.
Onigbinde described as a big shame the recent trend in which a nation that has produced former winners of the prestigious African footballer of the Year award like late Rashidi Yekini, Victor Ikpeba, Emmanuel Amuneke and Kanu Nwankwo are wooing foreign players of Nigerian descent to play for the Super Eagles .
The FIFA technical adviser advised the NFF to create a programme to discover talents from the Nigerian league system and the grassroots, saying if a technical team was constituted to watch every league game in all centers every season, national team coaches would have a pool of talents to choose from while preparing their teams .
The former member of the NFF technical committee advised Nigerian coaches to update their knowledge of the game to meet the current standard of their counterparts in Europe, adding that if Nigeria did not produce good coaches, there is no way they would churn out quality talents.
“I find it embarrassing that Nigeria is begging Europe-born players to play for the Super Eagles. If in the past the country produced quality players, I see no reason it cannot happen now. The problem is that the NFF doesn’ t have a developmental plan. This is why they focus on getting other players.
“If a technical team were sent to all league venues to watch players and pick the best and send it to a particular data base in their Abuja office , such players will be monitored from time to time and Nigerian coaches at the end of the day would have a pool of players to pick from .
“Anybody that says Nigeria no longer has talented footballers is not being fair. There are quality players everywhere in the league, under the bridge and the grassroots, but there is no adequate mechanism put in place to search for them.
“It took me some minutes to pick Vincent Enyeama as my number one goalkeeper for Super Eagles after watching him in a game. I had never met him before I made that decision,” he said.
Onigbinde also advised the NFF to ensure the Super Eagles prepare well to make an appreciable impact in Russia.

https://m.guardian.ng/sport/stop-begging-nigeria-born-foreign-players-to-play-for-eagles-onigbinde-tells-nff/

Just30:
you just need one cedi to get a coke
While a 1kg bread will cost you 2 cedi in Ghana
It cost 365N in Nigeria

Nawteemaxie:
Even Ghana wey we pursue?

ChrisKels:
Kog45 please give me my beer because it is Sunday again. Last Sunday I told you uzoho was gonna start before or by January but u went for my jugular.

My stance (Enyeama, Ikeme and Uzoho) will never change because world cup is still a whit far.

tbaba1234:
If Francis Uzoho keeps playing, he can break into the WC team

Chrismario:
Yes, he hasn't been on bench. Fans started calling his name due to his form for Deportivo B.

Chrismario:
Uzoho starting for Deportivo in laliga vs Eibar.

forgiveness:
Honestly, I rate Tiago Ilori highly than Dominic Iorfa.

Humility017:
you're welcome....
at least they've begin to eye the super eagles....I will want us to go for tomori too ...the guy is good...being a defender who must have been tutored by Chelsea FC over the years...and also he is a CB.

Humility017:
England Youth International Defender Eager To Hear From Super Eagles Coach Rohr



England youth international defender Dominic Iorfa is eager to represent Nigeria if called up by coach Gernot Rohr ahead of their preparations for the World Cup 2018 in Russia.
Iorfa who is on loan to English Championship side Ipswich Town from fellow Championship team Wolverhampton Wanderers has represented England at various youth levels.
Two years ago he trained with the senior team of England as back up after the team were hit with several withdrawals while in camp for a friendly game.
However the defender who snubbed overtures from Nigeria as his father Dominic Iorfa Snr insist on his son reaching the age of 22 before deciding his future, has now declared for Nigeria.
” He is at the age now , where a decision on his international future has to be made, and like his father said few months ago, he is ready to play for Nigeria, but he is yet to be called up”, a family source told Owngoalnigeria.com.
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tbaba1234:
I remember Iorfa was approached early before his injury and his response was to wait till his son was 23 years. This was way before Ipswich was even in the works.

That is essentially saying if England is no longer calling us at 23, switch to Nigeria.

Good thing, he is still young.

Paperwhite:
Fools! As if the SW now matters to the bigot president esp.you and Tinubu.Just tell the world that you guys regretted your foolishness in installing the catastrophe "change" Afonja man.Sophiscated zombies.

lilmax:
he doesn't need to

how buhari deceived many souls is what I don't understand

Joebie:
If they didn't want their kids to play initially, they have their reasons. Some of these parents want to explore the option especially if their children meet the grade there.. They believe it's better professionally for their wards. Parents look for the best for their children. When it becomes apparent Nigeria may favor them more they have a change of heart.
It's human, even our parents sometimes make decisions for us that they THINK is best for us.. but later rescind. It's a choice.. I have a niece who is already showing promise in track and field at the age of 7. I'd never advise her to run for Nigeria if she makes it to that pro level, as long as the way we do things in athletics today stay the same. I want the best for her.

tbaba1234:
Dominic Iorfa Snr did not want his child to play for Nigeria but once the chance for England started to fade, he started talking about playing for Nigeria. Good thing, he is still young.

tbaba1234:
Dominic Iorfa Snr did not want his child to play for Nigeria but once the chance for England started to fade, he started talking about playing for Nigeria. Good thing, he is still young.

Fringes:
My good man, let us talk privately. I'll send you an email.

Destined2win:
Davido is a spoilt child

Mickael2:
he believes in one touch football, the only game we played one touch football was against Zambia back then, that means the players are not playing to the coach's instruction, why? Because the coach has been unable to pass his philosophy across? Why? Because he is not tactically gifted.

I like the way he goes about his job, letting the players do what they know(I mean till today Moses and Simon still run around like headless chicken) but I won't call him what he is not, and he isn't tactical