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There are birth rights in sports. And this is made possibly by many factors such Genetics, to history to environment condition and socio-economic factors.

Nobody competes with Kenya and Ethiopia for gold medal at the Olympics in the long distance . It's more or less a birthright to them. If you needed to win such without representing those nations, you must at least be of that bloodline like Mo Farah the British athlete who equally has an East African roots

There was a time Angola dominated Africa basketball and the rest of Africa looked on, until Nigeria first qualified for London Olympics 2012. And Dtigress have made a steady progress of winning a 4-pleat. To show that we are capable of dominating at least the women basketball.

The glory of national team football for Africa is with west Africa (Cameroon). Our birthright for falcon is the WAFCON. It is a total failure when we fail to achieve such.

The North Africans and south Africa have better resources for club football success, unfortunately ,we from west Africa can't compete with them there.

No country in Africa can compete with south Africa's springboks in rugby. They are world champions. Egypt will always be a force to recon with at table tennis and badminton.

So when the super falcons play, it's not because we are hard on them, it is because we have a standard to protect. We are 11 times champion, forget the mission X. This is our show others only attend. Just as Kenya and Ethiopia will always win the gold medals at the long distance. African national female football championship is our own birthright.

PDPGuy:
📈 Since 2023, Nigeria has only failed to keep a clean sheet once in 7 competitive matches Ashleigh Plumptre has featured, and the Super Falcons have not lost in regular time.

🇳🇬 v 🇿🇲 5-0
🇧🇼 v 🇳🇬 0-1
🇳🇬 v 🇹🇳 3-0
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇳🇬 0-0
🇮🇪 v 🇳🇬 0-0
🇦🇺 v 🇳🇬 2-3
🇨🇦 v 🇳🇬 0-0

She has an Average rating of 7.4/10 👏✨️

Her absence at the Olympics affected the team's harmony...

Mybettingtips:
Understand Marcus Rashford has taken a salary cut to join Barcelona. He will be paid around €10m-gross, including bonuses. The concession allows Barcelona to now pay 100% of his wage.🔵🔴 (@JacobsBen)

€10m is around £8m. He earns £18m at United and took a pay cut to now earn £8.5m(€10m) gross at Barcelona. Atleast nobody de shout racism again since Rashford na black man. This scenario is similar to Osimhen’s issue. Frozen out of his present team like Rashford both players on huge salary. One is ready to take pay cut to play at one of the biggest clubs in the world and see if he can revive his career and get into England World Cup team. Our biggest star in world football is being encouraged to give up on making a legacy for himself and go to Turkey to compete against Arunanaspor, kwashiorkor fc

Rashford has been a breakout star since he was 16 years old. We knew the potential were there but he never fully hit the peak. He is leaving when he is not shining, if he was shining there will be complain. But hey, here is a win-win for both parties.

Queenslander:
Nigeria will lose this match,. quote me anywhere!!

Olodo..of all people to under rate is Nigeria. No way Zambia has anything on Nigeria.

Goke7:
Coming second isn't a trophy or looking like a club with ambitions, such a risky or low-budget side is not good enough for VO if they claim they can't afford his wages. Let them pursue players like Madueke in peace, who are more suited for their kind of ambitions!

Pele..you really seething Arsenal's decision at failing to acquire Osimhen...you'd wished they'd signed him up right. ?

TheLoneCitizen:
I have a strong feeling Manchester United hijack this deal..

But losing Mbeumo, Amad, Mazraoui, Onana and now Osimhen for one month is very unwise.

AFCON bound players by December....

Samueltemi337:
Zambia will concede lots of goals against a decent team
They are never calm on the ball

That's how they beat them at the Olympics and world cup. All they do is have Banda score four goals in a match and they end up losing by 5 goals.

What's the first half score nah. At least we should know this.

Amedino99:
footballing talent has never been hereditary. Offsprings of footballers just have the misfortune.

Not misfortune, but fortune. Because if fathers were not well known football stars , then their sons will not have the privilege and exposure to play or star for certain teams academy or feeder teams. Thus, denying children with raw talent but no previous family sporting heritage privilege the spot they occupy. One major example is the Ghanaian legend Abedi Pele. He was a great African footballer. But then look at his sons Andrew Ayew and Dede Ayew. They were very much average players who enjoyed the privileges of their father's heroics to emerge through Marseille academy but were never pn the same level as their father. If it wasn't for their father they might never have progressed through the academy to start with.

Time to watch Xabi Alonso's Madrid.
Also TAA will be starting.

Al Hilal having a couple of European football experienced players. They wanted Osimhen badly before this game.

TheSuperNerd:
Pep Lijnders, Assistant to Klopp while at Liverpool attends his first official game as Pep Guardiola's new assistant.

I also noticed Kolo Toure has lobbied himself as an assistant under Pep as well.. I like how he has kept himself up in the game. He had unsuccessful spells managing a couple of teams earlier . Prior to that he was an assistant to Rodgers.

princeabdul:
#LATEST: Strasbourg Striker, Emanuel Emegha (22) has rejected a chance to represent Nigeria.

"I have already been called by Nigeria, but I just want to play for the Netherlands."

He will later come and say Nigeria never invited him.

charlesemeka85:
still many here go tell u say Ndah better pass am 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't mind them. I always say the high quality of opposition Bassey faces regularly cannot be compared to that Ndah at South Africa..

TheSuperNerd:
Calvin Bassey named Fulham FC Player of the Season for 2024/25

Alex Iwobi ranks 2nd.

Note that Bassey ranked 2nd in his fulham maiden season.

This was the EPL team I watched the most for 2024/25. I'm glad the two players who were the reason I followed Fulham were recognized for their efforts. Bassey needs to minimize his errors next season, then he is fully ready to play for the top three sides ( Liverpool, arsenal and city)

Napoleon55:
Don't act as if u are not aware that it was someone from this thread that gave him the advice that shaped his career.

If not for Komekn who advised him at that time to leave Bundesliga and Wolfburg to a lower league and work his way up,he would still be be languishing in Bundesliga by now,but he took his advice, now he is superstar.

Now he is in situation where a sound advice without sentiment is needed, some of us believes on the long run,it will be better for him if he choose to remain in Europe even if it means lowering his wages for a while to play for a top club now and in his 30s he can go to Saudi Arabia.

Eweee😂😂😂🤣
Wetin be this naw. You guys are mean.

Subzerooo:

For Christ sake , how and will buchi say this...like really... even if he don't owe them nothing , you don't say it like that..

Ppogbae:
Ever since Napoli won that historic league title, Osimhen and Kvara's career trajectories have been complete polar opposites. Heck Kim Min Jae has gone on to win Bundesliga with Bayern.

I don't care how people on this thread continue to justify this situation, but at 26 years old one of the best strikers in the world has no business playing in Saudi Arabia. Victor should be rubbing shoulders with the world's best at the highest levels. If any of these Al Hilal reports are true, then it is truly disappointing. You can go and justify this situation anyhow, but this is truly disappointing. I hope I am wrong and he makes the right choice.

Osimhen's overenthusiasm might be his weakness. He really needs to learn a whole lot. Pls if I recall well, when he won the league with Napoli he flew his family in to Italy . His elder sister had called him out on social media to express her pain (this things all starts in the family) about how Osimhen treated her husband who was Osimhen's agent/sponsor. In fact she was barely happy in any of the photos, her unmet psychological expectations from the sour relationship...

Osimhen wins the league with Gala and this time brings in Tunde Ednut , VDM and his beloved all loving family of twitter influencers. His daughter and Cameroonian girlfriend (still in his life picture) but without his immediate family to celebrate the rally?? Why though will this happen?

His outburst with Finidi is left to time to heal for me as a Nigerian . But his medium and language of communication was totally preposterous. Is that how he actually talks when pissed or upset? That's not a man stuff and I recall his elder sister spelling it out that he is a boy.
Paparazzi are always flooding or after celebrities, but you will go after one and snatch his camera or whatever happened, this can only be swept under the carpet by the influence of his big club Gala. but to others in the business this seems like a turn off in personality. Even Balotelli is more European to Osimhen, Ballo could attract the big clubs he is black with an Italian identity. You are not.
Osimhen cannot continue to be a boy. Life will hit you and to go to Saudi , because of who or what is a backhand slap on his quality of football. Quietly , Fabian Ruiz is doing great with PSG. Kvara scored in the CL final as well. Kim Min will always win at Bayern. Wining at Gala is good. going to Saudi is bad. But worse is his character that cannot sustain his relationship with family and his work.

Starboytwo:
The way this Russians take set up is crazy, they look impenetrable...

And they fast too.

No wonder dem dismantle Zambia...

I'm expecting a much better 2nd half pls..

We should have been worried about any team beating a Zambian side 5 nil...Nigeria can't beat Zambia like that.

Moses Simon tried to beat the Russian right back and couldn't..he tries to cut in through his right he couldn't and square a pass he couldn't. I hope he realizes barring his goal against Jamaica he didn't really play well.
No excuses here about season fatigue. They all played in their various leagues. He is beginning to drop in his quality. And we will be needing an upgrade on him.

No better link to watch this game.

kennysville:
So are you saying that we were notified of Shehu Abdulai's infringement before our match and yet we fielded him? Make it make sense abeg

I learnt we were notified. Fifa actually sent a mail to an nff official. The story was that the nff official wasn't always checking the mail and according to them he was sick at that point. But that didn't hold water for fifa. They eventually deducted our point.

I also think it should be the same , the negligence of FIFA , CAF and SAFA doesn't hold any substance here since people have come to realize this SAFA mistake. the law must still be maintained

BascoVanVeli:
I just realised he didn't mispace a single pass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Zlyv06I-g

Sometimes Komekn is right about his assertion, we can see the golf in class from an EPL under 21 player and our local league player.

Sugarboyy:
Give it to Hakimi and it will be well deserved.
Imagine a defender scoring 9 goals and topping it with a UCL trophy 🏆. What else does he need to do to win it?

I disagree, Salah's stat will get him in top 5 ballon d'or nomination. I doubt Hakimi is in contention for that because the face of their PSG team is Dembele whom many don't even consider a favorite for it.

Except Hakimi makes the ballon d'or list ahead of Salah then you will say he will win the AFPOTY.

If bridges can be mended. I'd wish Victor goes back to Napoli.

The value he has and wears was as a relationship between him and the club.

Emotions aside, Napoli are Seria A Champions. A testament that they can do it "AGAIN" without him.

Here is the jerk, I don't think Lukaku has the lungs of Osimhen. Infact Lukaku is an average backup. If Napoli have any serious ambition next season they better turn to the guy who first made it happen for them in the person of Victor Osimhen

ADL knows better.

I was really hoping Osimhen's next club will be subjected to less transfer rumors, based on the last summer transfer nightmares.
Can the Nigerian bloggers and his friends on X let the boy just be?
When there is a concrete deal it will be well known.

daveP:
Wait, no Nigerian SE players has reached this 300 milestone?

Iwobi will certainly break this record. He has 290 EPL appearances as at today.

TheSuperNerd:
I must say that Eberechi Eze may not have turned out for Nigeria but I am happy for how his career hss turned out so far. Taking Crystal palace to their first major trophy in their entire history is huge and remarkable and doing it against the biggest clubside of the last decade in England, Man City was even sweeter.

Congrats Eze.

Just too bad this still wont get him Regular England starts. But City or Arsenal needs a player like Eze.

Eze will be a huge upgrade on Odegaard and also a fair KDB replacement with a touch of David Silva (although Wirtz is eyed by City too).

'huge upgrade on Odegaard and also a fair KDB replacement'. I like how you put it

chrisooblog:
Lookman reportedly named in Serie A team of the season.

This guy won man of the match in like 10 games this season.

BankyGee:
Victor Osimhen is now Galatasaray's second highest African top scorer and the first Nigerian top scorer in the history of the club!🔥🇳🇬

He's done this in one season! Shattering records and setting new ones.

1. Shabani Nonda – 37 goals in 93 matches
2. Victor Osimhen – 35 goals in 39 matches (and counting) 🆕
3. Sofiane Feghouli – 34 goals in 162 matches
4. Mbaye Digne – 26 goals
5. Henry Onyekuru – 22 goals in 71 matches
6. Younès Belhanda – 22 goals
7. Didier Drogba – 20 goals in 53 matches
8. Mostafa Mohammed – 17 goals in 57 matches
9. Garry Rodrigues – 16 goals
10. Aurélien Chedjou – 12 goals in 119 matches

Victor Osimhen still has 3 matches to go and 3 more goals to top this chart in a season! On LOAN! 🔥
King of Strikers! 🦁👑🇳🇬

Osimhen needs two more goal right now. This is his true statement call to prove when you are BIG you are BIG

Samuel Chuwkueze had a big game yesterday for Milan. He came on as a substitute when Milan was down by a goal to Bologna. He contributed to the three goals Milan eventually scored including providing an assist. He was massive in the game.

This is clutching at straws moment... what's gone is gone for good. Only a rare miracle will make us qualify for the world cup. Infact it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for us to qualify. The earliest we start accepting this fate the better it will be. I don't even remember south Africa qualifying for any world cup since Korea and Japan 2002 . 2010 was because they qualified as host. Here is a golden opportunity staring at them , and we we are just playing all our last cards on them. UsaCanMex will not have Nigeria and it is a bitter truth

charlesemeka85:
Following the NFF formal protest to FIFA, Zimbabwe have now moved their home game against Bafana Bafana out of South Africa.

The NFF, as first reported by SCORENigeria, complained to FIFA that South Africa have been handed an unfair advantage in the qualification race to the 2026 World Cup as their final four qualifiers will all be played in South Africa.

This is because both Lesotho and Zimbabwe picked South Africa as their home grounds after their own stadiums were not approved to be staged the World Cup qualifiers.


On Tuesday, Zimbabwe announced that they have changed their home ground from South Africa to Rwanda for their World Cup qualifier in October.

Zimbabwe initially played the qualifiers in Rwanda before they settled for South Africa, were they recently forced a 2-2 draw with Benin.

The three other qualifiers involving Bafana Bafana will be played in South Africa – vs Lesotho, Super Eagles and Rwanda.

They lead Group C with 13 points from six matches.

TheSuperNerd:
U20 Afcon Update

Arierhi Kparobo (#9) and Precious Benjamin scored as Nigeria's U20 Flying Eagles defeated Hosts, Egypt 2-1 in a friendly ahead of the U20 Afcon Opener.

Bidemi Amole assisted Kparobo for the first goal.

Divine Oliseh won the penalty which Precious converted.

They should take this tournament seriously, especially the home based players. Their tournament performance can help them get money moves in the middle East as well as the Egyptian league.