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chrisley024:
Where you saw this

diggz:
Babayoko never looked good playing beside kante abeg. Dude is useless.

Joebie:
PERFORMANCE: TALKING TACTICS AND POSITIONAL PLAY

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Angel Di Maria: The art of wing play
PSG's Argentine wizard Angel Di Maria shares the secrets of bossing the flank
Sid Lowe

Always be inventive

“When teams are defending deep – ‘parking the bus’ – it’s important to stay relaxed and focus on keeping the ball moving and searching for the gaps. As a winger you have to keep doing what you’re there to do: run at someone, create a chance or draw a foul and deliver a cross into the area for the strikers. For wingers it’s important to try to be inventive: to do something different to beat the defenders and create a chance for your team.”

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Creativity is why you're in the team

Drop in when you can

“At Madrid the three forwards always have freedom of movement. We can swap places and look for spaces whenever we want. If you’re out wide, you watch what the others are doing: if one player goes outside, try to drop inside to fill the space. You’re always looking for room. Me, Ronaldo, Benzema, Adebayor – whoever plays, Mourinho asks us to do the same thing: to be mobile and when near the area, to take people on and take our chances.”

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Seek space when your team-mates move


Remember: track back

“Mourinho wants us to be aggressive, with and without the ball, so I’ve had to adapt defensively to what he wants from us. I knew if I was going to be in his team that I’d have to run and put my foot in. It’s because of this that I’m playing and getting better. My position is different now [to when I was at Benfica] so my mentality is a bit different. I know the coach wants us to run and pressure but still have ‘air’ left to attack, so I have worked with that in mind.”

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Get your foot in and help the defence

Creating chances is key

“Some wingers may be happy with dribbling past a few players but it’s important to remember you’re in the team to make chances for your team-mates. If you can make space for the forwards or play a pass for them to put them one-on-one with the goalkeeper, that’s when you’ve really done your job. Fast wingers can beat defenders. The best wingers make goalscoring chances.”

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It's not all about beating your man

Accept you’ll get kicked

“At one point this season, I got kicked so often that I got frustrated. But after a while you realise that it’s something you have to endure when you’re dribbling past players. Some kicks I can accept; when it’s one of those that the defender has no choice because otherwise you’re through on goal, that I can understand. But when it’s a foul that’s unnecessary and can really hurt you, that’s still difficult to take.”

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Getting kicked: It's in the winger's job description

Keep evolving

“Every year, you grow in all ways – in a football sense, in a mental sense. And the older you get, the better you understand football; the better you know it. You come to learn things that you did not know before and I’m still trying to evolve now. For example, I’m trying to improve my positional play: when to pressure and when to back off, when to open up the pitch, when to close it. As an attacker, you can’t just be happy to beat players. You want to make an all-round contribution to the team.”

Source: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/performance/training/angel-di-maria-art-wing-play#7s2te0zYlc0fjUIJ.99

Mujtahida:
Omo you are on your own ooo. Not the annoying draw soup I saw during the Olympics.

Mujtahida:
I think from the article the onus is on Rohr. Me no trust Nwakaeme.

Icon4s:
There is always a threshold for optimum performance.

If you recall in one of our earlier discussions where I gave the average age from which different Nigerian players start declining. I gave that of defenders as 26/27 and went further to name most of our more recent defenders comparing their performances between when they were 21-23 and 26-28.

Yes I do not tolerate Green horns in the Super Eagles defense. Green horns I mean teenagers that have not played football at professional level or are just at the first season. Or have played like 2 seasons in less competitive leagues.

But note that I did not say Balogun should be dropped. He should depend more now on his positioning than speed. That is how experienced defenders that no longer have pace cope.

Balogun would be 30 by next year. Trust me he cannot be as quick as he was 3 or 4 years back.

Mujtahida:
Loogan I think the NFF is aware of Dessers and have reached out to him.

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Nigeria
We Have Contacted Red Hot Belgian-Nigerian Forward Cyriel Dessers – NFF Confirms
A member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says the body has made contacted with Belgium born FC Utrecht forward Cyriel Dessers who is eligible to play for Nigeria.
Dessers fired NAC Breda to promotion to the top flight league in the Netherlands by scoring 25 goals, but the 22 year old jumped ship few months later to fellow Dutch side Utrecht.
He got off to a flying start with Utrecht by hitting a brace in their first league game of the season, a start which has no doubt caught the fancy of the NFF who are aiming to beat Belgium to his services.
Although he has been invited to the U20 team of Belgium, he won’t need any clearance from FIFA as he didn’t get to play in any competitive game for Belgium at any level.
”We are aware of him and he has been contacted already. The coach knows he is available if he wants him. So the decision on his inclusion in the team or not now rest squarely on the shoulders of the coach Gernot Rohr “, a member of the NFF told Owngoalnigeria.com in Kano.

”He is a good striker and that is one area the coach said he is looking for options. So let’s see if he will get a call up by the coach because he is among one of the strikers we have right now, who isn’t doing badly”.
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TheGoodJoe:
At least we have an idea why Isaac Success' talent is rotting away if this story is true. No serious coach will play this kind of person.

PREM ACE SEX SHAME
Premier League star Isaac Success arrested after ‘paying four hookers £2,000 for a hotel romp’ and ‘angrily demanding his cash back

A PREMIER League ace paid four hookers £2,000 for a hotel romp — but failed to score with any of them after drinking two bottles of Baileys.

Watford’s Isaac Success, 21, was arrested after angrily demanding his money back.

Alexis Domerge was one of the escorts paid by footballer Isaac Success

Alexis Domerge was one of the escorts paid by footballer Isaac Success
Escort Alexis Domerge said the Watford star boasted of his prowess in the bedroom after paying the women £2,000 for a hotel romp.

But the 21-year-old, who has found the net only once in 19 Watford appearances, drank two bottle of Baileys — and then repeatedly failed to score with the hookers.

When the women decided to blow the whistle on Success’s lacklustre performance after 90 minutes, he angrily demanded his money back.

He was arrested in the hotel lobby after cops were called.

The Watford star became angry and demanded his money back after the girls called time on the romp
Alexis, 24, said: “He accused us of ripping him off and asked for his money to be returned.

“It was terrifying. He had paid four of us £500 each to party with him and we all got naked as soon as the money came through on our phone bank accounts.

“He was drinking Baileys straight from the bottle.

“He must have chugged at least two. I pulled off his shorts and got down to it with three other girls doing everything you could imagine.

“But he was getting frustrated. What do you expect if you drink two bottles of Baileys liqueur straight from the bottle?”

Fellow escort Michaela Carter, 30, said: “He had a nice body and all four of us massaged him for a full hour and a half — as long as a football match.

“He had been boasting to us all night about how much he earned and how much fun we were going to have.

“But it’s fair to say that Mr Success did not live up to his name during our night together.

“He seemed really keen on Baileys — swigging the stuff out of the bottle. It made me cringe because it’s so sickly sweet.

“He seemed a bit shy and awkward, probably because he’s only 21. After a bit of chat Alexis took charge and said it was time to get down to business.

Success was arrested in the hotel lobby after cops were called

Alexis says the Prem star became frustrated but blamed his performance on the booze
Alexis says the four escorts all got naked as soon as the money came through on their bank accounts
“She laughed and told him, ‘We want your money before the honey’.

“So he transferred £2,000 straight to one of the girls which was divided between the four of us.

“The partying started as soon as the money came into our accounts and we all stripped off.

“All five of us were squirming around on the bed but after a while we realised the Baileys had taken its toll.

“Eventually, I told him I couldn’t stay any longer and we couldn’t give him extra time. That’s when things started to get nasty.

“There was a lot of screaming which must have woken the entire hotel.

“At that point the police were called. We were all making a terrible racket.

“I ended up with a slight cut on my face and a bruise on my arm during the chaos.

“I don’t know how it happened. During the row I also stumbled backwards and broke the heels of my £600 Louboutin shoes. It meant I was already £100 down.”

Michaela claims the footballer boasted about his high earnings#
Things turned nasty when the girs told Success they couldnt give him extra time

Nigerian international Success, who earns £30,000 a week, booked the four girls after spending the night at a lap-dancing club in London’s West End.
In the early hours they were texted the details of the luxury Sopwell House hotel, Herts, where Success had hired a first-floor suite.

Michaela said: “We met him and a couple of his mates in reception but they left, leaving just Isaac and the four of us.

“We went up to his room. It was a nice room and I could tell he had lots of money because there were designer clothes in there and Christian Louboutin trainers which can cost £800 a pair.

“He offered us drinks then started boasting about how rich he was.

“He said, ‘You won’t believe how much I earn in 90 minutes’.”

Alexis, from Brooklyn, New York, said: “I was actually quite turned on by his body. He’s beautifully toned.

“Eventually, Michaela and one of the other girls broke it to him that they couldn’t stay any longer.

“But he then accused us of ripping him off and demanded his money back.

“Several police cars arrived really quickly and about five officers came in and cuffed his hands behind his back and took him outside.

“Success admitted that he had paid us for sex.

“But he also claimed we’d cheated him out of the cash, without mentioning the reason why he didn’t have sex.

“All this commotion was more than the hotel management could take and they ordered us out of the hotel — including him.

“It’s a really nice place and I guess this isn’t the sort of behaviour they tolerate.”

The hookers said Success later called his bank and had the payments to them stopped.

Alexis said: “We couldn’t believe it when he accused us of cheating him and got the bank to get him his money back.

“We made a deal and it wasn’t our fault he didn’t have a good time. His behaviour was off the scale.”
Success signed for Watford from Spanish side Granada for £12.5million last July — then a record fee for the Hertfordshire club.

He has struggled to make the starting line-up since.
He sat out Watford’s 2-0 away win at Southampton on September 9 but went out on the town in London the following day before hooking up with the girls.
Alexis and Michaela and another 34-year-old escort were recruited by a fourth hooker, a friend of Success’s.

A Hertfordshire Police spokesman said: “Police are investigating an allegation of assault reported to have occurred at 6.30am at Sopwell House in St Albans on Monday September 11.

“A 21-year-old man was arrested and de-arrested and inquiries are ongoing.”


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4635672/premier-league-isaac-success-arrested-four-hookers-money-hotel-sex/

komekn:
Firstly,the MRI scanner in itself is 100% accurate in that it can tell bone fusion.

However, the parameters are indicative and not conclusive from which the deductions are made from. For instance the age and bone fusion parameters used by FIFA for Africans are aggregates of Asian and South American racial groups. The impact of environmental, nutritional variables on the physiological make up of individuals causes huge physiological disparities in growth, bone density and fusion.

In this regard a malnourished teenager in Africa may see his bones fuse at 21+ now a teenager in the Western Europe and North America who has had steady diet of milk and even protein supplements will not have the same bone fusion as a Sub Saharan African. Add to that racial differences and it becomes apparent it's far from fool proof.

In 2013 or thereabouts Abuchi Obinwa who was born in the USA failed an MRI scan in Nigeria, and was rejected from the U17 squad. Inexplicable but it happened.

The MRI scan has eradicated the reckless abuse that had been the status quo for many years. Currently the last few years has seen us produce the youngest ever set of U17 players in our history. However, until we can have automatic data capture at birth. Guys will continue to get married to women who are older than them without knowing, old men politicians will claim to be youths, and age cheating will continue.

In addition the obsessive quest for Youth as an indication if outright quality and value in football makes the issue inevitable. Youth is good but it's not everything. That value on youth has scene absurd and obscene huge sums of money exchange hands between clubs for the best youth players.


Where plenty money deh corruption is not far behind.

Icon4s:
Why these particular references to Nigeria

forgiveness:
@bolded said it all.

Coach trust even if the dropped players are maradona and banging in goals right left and center in their various clubs.

Al least, we saw trusted players like Gabriel, Uchebo, Ameobi, Nworfor etcetera went to the world cup because they were Keshi's most trusted players.

forgiveness:
Same goes for Kelechi, Onyekuru, Aweriam etcetera who just got new teams yet were called.

forgiveness:
From my personal observations, Rohr and his crew never wanted Kayoye in the team in the first place but were pressured to invite him.

It was reported that Rohr and his crew reluctantly included his name on the list for a mere friendlies despite the obvious fact that Kayode was the best player and top goal scorer in the Austria league, due to the outcry and pressure from the public.

It is suffice to conclude that this is the case after the coach gave him only 34 mins out of 180 mins of game time and played him in a different role from the role he became the best in the Austria league.

The antics of late Keshi is rearing its ugly head once again in the national team.

The antics of not playing or giving enough game time to an unwanted player, and playing players out of their favourable position for them not to shine in other to protect their vulnerable and preferred players.

Unfortunately, for them the lad is on the book of one of the biggest clubs in europe which they least expected and one of the one they are using to justify invitation.

Because if they are happy about his success, they would have congratulated him and invited him for the qualifiers, but on two occasions the mischievous coaching crews don't deem it fit to put him on standby. How pathetic?

The excuse was he did not play football for a very long time but now silence is all they gave because they dare not talk about game time and goal scoring. Chai! This people think say 180 million Nigerian fans na mumu. .

If they dare, they know they will be exposed.

Mickael2:
Mikel is a nigerian legend not a football legend for me(all na legend sha). Meanwhile the rinse repeat system varies in speed. For great players or near great players like Ronaldo the process was quick from Sporting to ManU, Odegaard as well. If Kelechi is anything like these players then he won't stay for long there, no need wasting a spot on the national team for him

Joebie:
Nigerian Players Watch in the Europa League:

BATE VS Arsenal
Alex Iwobi will not travel to Belarus after sustaining a thigh injury (Good news for Aaron Samuel?)

Konyaspor VS Guimaraes
It's unclear whether Konyaspor forwards, Imoh Ezekiel and Patrick Friday will be involved as they welcome Liga NOS side Vitoria S.C (Guimaraes)
Ezekiel have suited 4 times for the Turkish modest side, whereas, the relatively unknown Patrick Friday have only managed 62 minutes. Friday has scored one goal since joining Konyaspor from Arabian side, Al Qadisiya.

Lazio VS Weregem
Peter Olayinka is most likely to make the trip to Italy, with Waregem
Compatriots and teammates, Kingsley Madu and Bala Aliko, are not expected to make the matchday roster, as they both have not been capped at the domestic level so far this season.

Lugano VS FCSB
There are no official reports about Stanley Amuzie's work permit application status in Switzerland.
It is very unlikely he will make the squad that will welcome Steaua of Romania.

Ostersunds VS Hertha Berlin
Alhaji Gero (Ostersunds) will lock horns with Jordan Torunarigha (Hertha).
Both players are expected to make the bench for their respective sides

Plzn VS Beer Sheva
Super Eagles duo John Ogu and Anthony Nwakaeme will be at Doosan Arena (Czech Rep) to face Victoria Plzen

Rosenborg VS Vadar
Samuel Adegbenro's Rosenborg will welcome Macedonian champions, Vadar FC.
Adegbenro is expected to start for the Norwegian side.

AC Milan VS Rijeka
Rijeka Number one shirt, David Nwokolor is currently Rijeka's third choice keeper. He is expected to at least make it to the stands in Milan

AEK VS Austria Wien
Muazam's Europa league debut loading.

Everton VS Apollon
Lookman Ademola's Everton welcome Apollon of Cyprus.

Locomotiv VS Zlin
Moses Ekpai Ubong's Zlin are away to Locomotive Moscow

Partizan VS Kiev
Theophilus Solomon is expected to play a part for Partizan as they trade tackles with Dynamo Kiev

Skenderbeu VS Young Boys
Albanian side, Skenderbeu which has Orelesi Nurudeen in their roster, welcome Young Boys of Switzerland.

We have so many players in the Europa league, and a handful in the champions league. Very impressive considering our football in the past few years.

Neymar1095:
Another 5:0 incoming

Joebie:
Abi where was Ekong playing when he first got a look in by Naija?

Ehizibue has played almost every outfield position in his recent career. I think that's utility seeing him now play as a RB. That's another VicMo right there.

mumemma:
did it takr Ndidi this long to adapt.

Kog45:
Yea am one of d people that criticised him for poor showing against SA and if i may ask u,did he had a good game against SA?

No doubt d guy is young,promising and have great future ahead.Thank God he was able to get a club who believed in him and he hasn't disappoint,making team of d week is a plus for him and should keep it up.Hope he replicate d good form in eagles colour.

Joebie:
Chidozie Awaziem makes Ligue 1 Team of the Week