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codemaniacs:
Ejuke is more direct. I will prefer lookman or Awoniyi to play Aribo's position.

Tella can come on at halftime for Ejuke. But since his young NFF won't even invite him.. I see him as a succession plan so for me he has to be invited as soon as possible and given game time of at least 30 - 90 mins per match

Ejuke is not more direct he is is the quintessential African player, steeped in entertainment football lots of unnecessary dribbling and limited end product.

Nathan Tella and Ademola Lookman are way ahead of him. The same thing affects Chukwueze to some degree.

Ejuke I hope has learned in the Bundisliga that defence is as important as attack and puts in a good level of defensive contribution.

TheGoodJoe:
I don't understand your point. We just saw minnows like Australia have a go at one of the best sides in the game. I made my comment before Australia scored. Watching the ball finish and commenting is easy. I am talking about philosophy and play.

Australia's problem has to do with stamina. They ran out of steam in the first half and could not press. Then the French outran them. Now the coach of Australia needs to work on pressing stamina and build from there.

While us, we park the bus. There is no room for growth. So I know why I commented. If you know about me, it is not about the results. That is why it is not about "watch the ball finish".

You look at things with rose tinted glasses and overly optimistic your too subjective not objective.

Australia had zero pace compared to France on the physicality side they were left in the dark. Add to that technical ability, and far better players.

France didn't get out of fitst gear it was a training session for them. Meanwhile Australia parked the bus and just were completely out of their depth.

You are completely misleading with your view I cannot even call it analysis.

AndSunGorilla:
Ok sir. Nwakali has been a blessed and lucky dude, he had the opportunity of joining Arsenal at a young age, an opportunity that mist aspiring footballers would never get, he was voted one of the best at his U17 days, he has played in the dutch league and in the La Liga, in my opinion, those are huge platforms, he really doesn't need the National team platform to prove himself. That said, I have said and I do believe he should be given an invite to the national team based on his performances this season but I am not the coach or the NFF tech team. That is their job to give out invites.

Mediocre poor quality performanced in a league that's largely on the level of English league two or lower.

He played and failed at Arsenal, went to the Eredivise failed got demoted to the Eerste Divisie ( 2nd tier Dutch league) he failed again, then ended up in Porto B and could not even get in the team as a regular. Arsenal finally were able to get rid contract not renewed. He ended up in Huesca but they did not rate him and tried to terminate hic contract early. He gorsy Ponferradina FC a near bankrupt club in the relegation zone of the Segunda division.

He is a desperate Dan that has no other leverage to get a better club. He needs the SE to get relevance.

comodo:
Why NFF no get this man. Why did this coach slip out of their fingers

He refused to donate a % of his salary to the powers that be in the NFF.

codemaniacs:
Remove Ndidi and put onyedika or yussuf.

Remove lookman and put Ejuke in the Moses Simon wing. Let lookman or Nathan tell come in for Ejuke.

How did you come to that conclusion.

Is the form of Ejuke better than that of Lookman and or Tella

Ppogbae:
Are you based in the US? If so, is youth soccer there as costly as they say it is? All the best to your son and his career trajectory.

Yes it is

charlesemeka85:
I love this USA team

Let me watch one of my boys Jedi, normally in plays left back for Fulham but is on the left wing for USA in this game.

codemaniacs:
Our players are not below average... They are poorly coached..

Coaching is what's important.

All these terminologies have different meanings and definitions depending on individual beliefs and perspectives.

So for me a world class player is among the top 10 in his position in the world. It's achieved over several seasons of consistency.

In that regard, Neymar, Mbappe, Lukuku, Kane, Mane Lewandowski, Salah, Haaland, Benzema, Ronaldo, Messi, etc are world class forward players.

What's an average player and what's an above average player that's difficult it's way too subjective and what's your unit of measurement.

So there will be a big difference between an average player in the EPL and one in Turkish league for instance.

Senegal is big DISAPPOINTMENT they have no belief.

And Mende no help both goals could have been saved

Starboytwo:
me thinks Netherland will add another

You be babalowo

It's a goal for Holland

There may still be small hope for Senegal.

A whopping 8 minutes of extra time

Looks like Senegal have woken up from their slumber when it's too late

Senegal have lost this game a goal against the run of play

Meanwhile Senegal are playing too cautiously like Europeans. It's better to go down fighting than go down without a single punch against your opponent.

Meliforme:
What is your take on bestiality.

The homosexuality lobby presents an argument for it's justification that if some animals do it it is therefore natural to be a homosexual.

If humans who are biological animals then it should be natural for humans and by implication to embrace bestiality as natural.

As for me it's disgusting depraved reprobate debased dysfunctional perversion madness .

AndSunGorilla:
That's Senegal's style. Solid in the middle and at the back, they don't score loads of goals yes Cisse is an ANC winner but I personally feel that he is holding the team down with his conservative approach.

Agreed without question

First yellow of the game.

Ismaila Sarr is a top player on his day .

TheLoneCitizen:
Senagal high press more European than African.

Matching up to the Dutch pound for pound.

Senegal have the players and the capacity to beat Holland but are playing too cautiously if you ask me.

A lack of invention and belief, there is no spark in any of the teams.

Everybody is playing scared.

Boring so far, nobody wants to make a mistake.

He who dares WINS.

JohnBullMySon:
[center]MY TAKE ON THE RECENT LGBT DISCOURSE/DEBATE
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One thing I do not like about gay advocacy by some Western governments and corporations is the partisan nature and the unnecessary importance attached to it. I don't believe that personal matters should become overly prioritized by governments to the extent that security and crime, poverty and economy, and issues regarding the quality of social and public life become secondary considerations. At most, governments should play a more diplomatic role by ensuring that the rights of gay and religious people are equally fought. For example, anti-gay laws are not the only issue in Qatar. Christians and other religious people face discrimination and imprisonment as well, but little emphasis has been made on it. The same goes for right-wing governments who have made it a priority to attack anything the left supports. Truth is that advocacy should be accompanied by reason and diplomacy. Qatar was never going to change their rules and there is the risk of dividing the World cup along political lines.

However, this is not to say that I am against gay rights and equal marriage rights. No one at all should be made to live a miserable life to please a government or "tradition". I will only support any anti-gay laws if it is established that there is not a single gay person in Qatar. Governments exist for humans. Humans do not exist for the government but the government for humans. As long as a practice does not infringe on the rights and existence of others, no government has the right to subjugate any minority in order to promote a certain definition of "right", "morality" or "national identity". We are all species before citizens.

This has nothing to do with whether I like homosexual practices or not, but my nature is fairness and equity even with people I don't agree with. Whether you like gay people or not, stop imposing punishments and subjugation on them. I find it funny when religious people try to use nature and science to argue against gay people. The same nature and science that has discredited more than half of the events in the scriptures. Another one was comparing gay people to pedophiles. Gay sex is consensual while child sex practices take advantage of a child's vulnerability and inadequate sexual/mental development.

And lastly, y'all should stop blasting gay people as mentally deranged and stupid or with other derogatory names. You are not better than them, and you don't have any right to insult people doing what is frankly not your business. You guys should learn to mind your business FGS. I've never seen gay people gather to insult others. Some say gay people are forcing those practices on them.TBH I have seen many religious people forcing gay people into more "traditional" practices, but I have never seen gay people force someone to become gay. I have seen gay parties attacked and people killed but have never seen any straight parties attacked.

Who exactly is the tormentor? The fundamental Christians who keep talking about a fictional "LGBT agenda" are still the ones looking for how to impose religious revival and practice of Christian nationalism on everyone in their countries. Fundamental Christians do not even believe in the separation of church and state. Diversity is alien to religious fundamentalists. They enforce uniformity by nature. You either buy their narrative or you go to hell. Literally that's what they say.

Please note that my statement is not based on morality or even scientific facts but on common sense. I don't want to define morality for anyone here. Stop defining morality for others. The same Nigerians that have institutionalized corruption, malpractice and tribalism will jump out to preach morality whenever gay people are mentioned. Is that not stupidity?

Biri ka'mbiri. Live and let live. Be matured, diplomatic and stop obsessing over gay people.

You lack knowledge.

I will give you real time continuous example, hopefully it will enlighten your academic understanding.

But before l proceed, we live in a democratic government. The rights of the minority should not supercede the rights of the majority.

Marriage is the union of a man ♂️ and a woman ♀️ the first marriage being Adam and Eve. That cannot and should not be changed.

Western governments changed that definition to suit the minority. It wasn't about equality because you can't equate two things that are entirely different.

Back to my example. When I was in high school , there were a few girls who like to hang out with boys. They were Tom boys not lesbian and not transgender. By the time they hit 16/18 that phase of development had passed and they were some of the finest feminine babes around.

In the UK �� the age for consensual sex is 16. A Nigerian family in Manchester has a 12 year old daughter who was in my opinion a Tom boy. The school began to advocate , manipulate and redefine her as transgender and give her counseling without parental consent.

Before the parents new what was happening Rachel chad become Robert. The parent were vehemently opposed to this aberration. Before they could return her back to Nigeria to get her mind cleared.

They parent were arrested for child abuse and child put into care. Now she is getting fulll blown treatment.

This is what your LGBT agenda had done to several families.

It's hypocritical double standard, you are not able to have sex until your 16 but can change your gender eith life changing finality at 12. Is that not madness.

Curtisaxel10:
What are you even saying, Sir?

Who is forcing what on who? Who has ever advocated for people to be sent to jail for not having gay sex?

Qatar literally STONES people for being gay. And the U.S team is protesting against that.

Homophobia is just as bad as racism. Have you condemned the anti-racism slogans and banners that have been used for decades in European footballing competitions?

If a captain wears a band saying "No to Racism", will you condemn him for "pushing political ideology into football"?

If you won't condemn anti-racist football activism, why condemn anti-homophobic football activism?

Are you really fighting to "save the sport" or are you just manifesting your hate and bigotry against gay people?

Again, what are you even saying, Sir?

I think you are misguided and have been indoctrinated with a Eurocentric ideology not based on empirical research but the assumption of superiority.

But before we proceed I take exception to the term homo- phobia. Phobia means "A phobia is an anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation" . The term phobia is designed to stifle, prevent and villify and discourse that disagrees with homosexuality.

I am not in the least bit scared, worried, afraid and or in trepidation with homosexuality. I find it disgusting, debased, a dysfunctional perversion, departure from nature and insult to God and the normal order of things.

In the first instance you show your reeducation and indoctrination by diction. Disagreement with homosexuality has nothing to do with race in any shape or form. It's a deceptive appendix to give credence to the LGBTQ agenda and political pressure groups.

Homosexuality is adopted behaviour and being black African is a STATE OF BEING or any other race for that matter

In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association, declassified homosexuality as a mental illness. However, it was not by empirical research and peer review. But the political lobby pushing it's agenda.

I don't like smoking, getting drunk or getting high on Marijuana ( legal in some countries) that doesn't mean to say if something is legal, it is RIGHT and beneficial. And because I detest that particular lifestyle doesn't mean an extreme fear of ( phobia) or HATE.

If a man choose to destroy his posterior with his fellow man and wallow in faeces that's his debased choice. It may even be legal depending on location. And of course he can go for reconstructive surgery when it gets damaged in the west.

The choice of punitive remedy by a nation is there choice and if it suits them to castrate and or stone such dysfunctional perverted members of society,then so be it . Who are you to cast aspersions.

In Nigeria homosexuality has a 15 year jail term I think they should add the promotion and advocacy of it as well for criminal indictment and commensurate sentencing.

Turning lifestyle choice to politics quest to impose your assumed socio political superiority on another nation is UNACCEPTABLE.

We have moved from tolerance to acceptance to equality and redesignation of marriage to promotion and now to Castigation of those who decry LGBT agenda. They are now going into school to promote this reprobate and dysfunctional perversion as normal.

charlesemeka85:
this is the World Cup not Caucasian football competition or euro competition

The uproar against Qatar hosting the competition is very annoying. In a sane world, a competition that designed for footballing nations all over the world to participate in should be moved around the continents in terms of hosting in order to give others a fair chance every 4 years

Football is a global sport and not ice hockey that must be played in the cold

Coming to the gay right bullshit, it’s ideal to respect the norms and belief of a people especially when you are in their dormain.

if Qatar as an Islamic country doesn’t accommodate and tolerate certain practices which they believe is against their religion and belief system why not respect that for just less than 30 days then after the completion move back to your respect countries and continues with whatever shit that seem right to you?

Agreed without one iota of doubt.

zuchyblink:
I was taking about mediocre players both FB and home bred. We choose them over good players in back water leagues.

The key reason you are in a back water league is because you are unable to put in consistent outstanding exceptional performanced. It's that simple.

So now tell us who are the outstanding players in back water league that are better than the players irrespective of place of birth in top 10 leagues please.

zuchyblink:
Semi,Ekong,Aribo,Denis are mediocre players

Semi Ajayi was born in the UK but he was a Nigerian U20 youth Nigerian player.

Ekong is better by a considerable margin than Awaziem and Omeruo.

Aribo a mediocre player a premier League Southampton player hmmm see reasoning.

Emmanuel Dennis is a player birthed in Nigeria but a direct product of the Nigerian youth system.

Iwobi is a direct product of the English youth system although born in Nigeria he left at 2/3 years old. He is Nigerian people Foreign sourced player . Is he also MEDIOCRE.❓

I think you are confused.

zuchyblink:
Imagine Osimehn,Mikel, Okocha,Oliseh and Kanu as foreign born players? Them no for play for us. They take the best and leave mediocres for us.

You are going back in the past .

The tern your coin FB is all encompassing there is no guarantee any of these players would have got into a Foreign national team.

Would Okocha, Many and Mikel get into the Argentinian, Brazil or German team I really don't know.

But let's talk in the HERE and NOW who are the mediocre European Nigerian origin players in the SE.❓❓

As it stands I didn't think any current Nigerian player in the SE will get into the England national team.

So

zuchyblink:
Best players in the back water leagues are better than bench warmers and average players in EPL

Please name them one by one and make your objective based appraisal.

Will you have the boldness to do that or will you just HIDE in muted silence.

zuchyblink:
If a player with dual nationality was good enough he would never play for Nigeria.

Because a player is not good enough for England he is therefore not good enough for Nigeria.

That's very intelligent and positive forward thinking

jihday:
when we had only Nigerian born players we got to the World Cup semifinal and also won multiple Afcon titles

Retrogressive thinking personified.

It's this kind of thinking that allows proven public find looters, convicted criminals and tribalistic geriatrics to rule over us.

Mujtahida:
If our local born players are good enough we will never need FB players

What's your issue ❓

What does were you born have to do with the quality of your football.

Mujtahida:
This analysis is just too simplistic as a diagnosis of the problem of our team.

Super Eagles is poor because 90 percent of the players are FB(in you people's mind, FB make up 90% of the team). What sort of nursery school thinking is this?
Ekong
Aina
Bassey
Iwobi
Aribo
Ebuehi
Maduka
Lookman
Moffi
Ajayi
Are FB players.

Moses Simon
Iheanacho
Osimhen
Ndidi
Onyeka
Chukwueze
Bonke
Onuachu
Uzoho
Shehu
Musa
Awaziem
Omeruo
Are the Nigerian born players.

On a given day the team is a fairly balanced mix of both FB and NB. Yet it is the FB who are responsible for our poor footballing fortunes?

So if the team is made up 100% Nigerian players, we will bounce back? I really do not understand this kind of simplistic almost naive narrative.

The one unwavering factor for inclusion in the national team is quality. Not whether you belong to any of the categories of FB or NB.

Fact however is that for many years we realized that owing to the regression of our local teams, our best players are those who ply their trade abroad and even at that it is just basic common sense that you pick your best players from those who play in the best clubs in Europe and elsewhere(if they are the best)

I agree unreservedly

Moffi and Iwobi were born in Nigeria if I'm right

zoboizee:
It's nether coaching nor place of birth.
It's the low quality of the talents we are parading currently that is causing decline in our National team. SEs are bang below average players. They can't hold the ball well, can't string passes together continually, at lost when defending dead balls, they can't even make good use of it when presented with it. And above all, administrative ineptitude & the demonic monster called corruption.

Agreed without question ❓

If I could I would like to take somebody like TheGoodJoe to a top level academy Youth development phase U12s to see the depth of training and technicality that is given to U12 players.

His diction and perceptions would completely change.

zuchyblink:
If you are born in Africa,there is a ceiling over you. You must go through the obscure leagues before joining the big boys in the big leagues. Before you know it age don catch up with you

You have no idea.

If you are born in Africa, you can create any age you like and so you are 21 playing with 16 year olds. You then pay the obligatory Egunje and you are in the national youth team. You will then get preferential treatment as a international youth player. You can go straight to a top team in Europe.

If you are Black and born in Europe, you will first of all play local grass roots football. If you are good enough and you get selected to an EPL academy. You will go through several months and stages of trialing before you actually even get to the academy to be a trailist. If you pass all the Challenges you may just get a time limit quasi contract.

Before that you will then have to navigate nepotism, institutional endemic ingrained racism, football ⚽ politics, prejudice and preference, and several years of possibly being dropped and looking for other clubs. You will be competing with hundreds of players across Europe each season trying to take your place. If by any chance a player is bought, you have essentially lost your place (££money talks) after all of this you might just get a professional contract. By the grace of God.

Do you know that some playerd commit suicide in desperate frustrated disappointment, after being dropped.

Eberechi Eze went to over 8 clubs before he was 16.

It's so easy for black boys in football ⚽ to make it in England.

zuchyblink:
some mediocre players are playing in Europe today because they were born in Europe or they grew in Europe. Some good players in Africa age,place of birth and nationality factors made them not to play in Europe or big leagues in Europe. Some of our best are in the trenches.

Some very good black players born in Europe, brought up in Europe are no longer playing football ⚽

Simply because they are not good enough and in it have lost form. It happens, but in Europe they don't hold on to past glories.

Many African players are simply not good enough, forget this pity me, mentality.

Philosopher1979:
The North African league is not a backwater league. I wonder why we underrated players from such a league. Emmanuel amunike and John utaka played there.
Remember Mohammed Salah is from the Egyptian league.
It is better than all these Latvian and Cyprus leagues our players run to

Yes maybe so.

But did they opt to stay there, build a house ,live and go nowhere else.

They used it as a springboard to better clubs and Leagues.