TheGoodJoe:


When you can achieve something with a simple pass and you go for something dazzling, it is showmanship. It is not by saying perish. You can't stop tactical advancement. It is nature.

And that's why the game has lost its flourish. Dead, sterile football. It will perish.

Marjoribanks:
You argue like a young man who was introduced to soccer during Pep's era.

No reasonable human will rate De Bryne ahead of Zidane. De Bryne will not even make the list of the top 20 footballers of all time! Abeg rest this disrespect!

Na Pep na im be him alpha and omega in football. Before Pep there was no football, after Pep they will be no football.

They are talking about footballers, he's mentioning De Bruyne. Chai, football has fallen off its high perch

TheGoodJoe:


Zidane is known for showmanship please.

False. Are Messi, Maradona, Pele known for showmanship? No. These are players whose every touch was purposeful. It's just that in playing purposefully they did so with flair. But the flair did not diminish the purpose but rather enhanced it.

May tiki taka aka machine football perish

charlesemeka85:
and what made you think that zizizou and his likes won’t adapt to today’s football that is based on high intensity?

Intensity ko!!

Na lie Bro. There was intensity in the days of Zidane. He likes to create imaginary criterias and run with it. Go and ask the players who played in Serie A in the 90s. They will tell you that their training regime was so intense that players used to vomit. I've read about it. Allow TheGoodJoe make him Dey talk him gibberish dey go. Intensity ko, immensity ni

You see that Zidane, you see how effortlessly he moves with the ball, he was fast and strong.

TheGoodJoe:


The passes and touches is not the problem but workrate. De Bruyne and Modric run like crazy on and off the ball.

Work rate my foot. Football is not rugby

TheGoodJoe:


My good doc, I disagree because in today's game, it is hard to have room for the magic.

Let us use Foden for instance. He is strictly a direct goal threat and focused in being key to our wins.

Not taking anything away from Zidane. What I am saying is,

Zidane is better than the new breeds of 10s when it comes to magic.

But these new breeds are monsters when it comes to goal contributions. Muller for instance is better than Zidane when it comes to work rate and tactical discipline in the offensive third.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muTrsRd77gk

See the bolded. That's why I hate this soulless machine football spawned from the deranged mind of an unfeeling monster. May tiki taka perish!

TheGoodJoe:


Does not change that Muller has more goal contributions than the magical touch.

Does not change the fact that Muller recognizes magical football rather than the deadpan football of tiki taka full of numbers and statistics

Amedino99:
haaland is thriving in man city with passing being one of his main weakness. They should just be feeding him ball on time like an infant being fed pap he will be alright.

Hahaha hahaha your pap description made me laugh
Feed the Yak and he will score abi

TheGoodJoe:


I will like Osimhen to work with Enrique due to his offensive style of play (Taka). However, PSG coaching department is so unstable that I won't want Osimhen caught in the crossfire of their incessant sacking.

Arteta has not fully convinced me but he looks tactically sound and I believe he can improve Osimhen.

I agree with a move to Arsenal.

You say taka? Osimhen cannot thrive in tiki taka abeg

AndSunGorilla:

Nit completzky a new idea. Remember we had teams like Leventis, Iwuyanwu, Eagle Cement, Julius Berger, Nigerdock, Ranchers Bees, BCC Lions, Udoji Utd, abiola Babes, Femo.Scorpions, Katsina Utd, Gabros, Jasper, Ubah FC, Mobil Pegasus etc which were all privately owned but where are they now?

During military era. Economic structure is different now. See the banks now versus then. See telecoms now.

typicalgamer:


The sad truth is Frank oyenka is our undisputed CDM not even ndidi Dan touch him

Ndidi is riding on past glory

What Onyenka did for us during afcon I’ll love him forever and ever

Onyeka was absolutely incredible. I forever salute Frank the tank

do4luv14:
The law @ Mujtahida here and the link is up there

Thank you Bro

Truidstarr:
Shameful that a match of such magnitude in our own back yard we can’t even find the match to watch online.

I enjoy their games oo. I pray they qualify. SA proving to be a thorn these days

Amedino99:
I think there is a super falcons thread.

Abeg, the link

Why the silence on this thread on the Super Falcons match against SA?

Philosopher1979:


If not for injuries Amuneke would have been the best winger Nigeria ever produced. I mean barcelona snapped him up from Portugal. He was something else

Barcelona really had no pedigree like that oo. Na the Messi years and Guardiola give them stance. Before Messi era, I think they had won the champion's league once. Can't even put them side by side with Madrid.

ChrisKels:


Okala is a common surname in Ohafia, Abia State. Most Okalas I know are from Ohafia, and a few from Owerri. I still remember one brilliant law student then who graduated with first class honours from my school she was a native of Akanu Ohafia - Miracle Okala. Though, Emmanuel Oguejiofor Okala was born in Anambra, I don't think he is from Anambra State neither is he Igalan. Do Igalans or Anamberians bear Okala?


Nb: My first post was deleted by spam bot, but I just discovered that they have restore it after I made this post. You can find my first post directly under your original post where you asked about the state of origin of Okala

Yes Igala people bear Okala or Ogala

Kog45:
Emma Okala was born in Onitsha but surprisingly Kogi people of Idah saying Emma Okala is from Idah….but historically possible based on migration between Idah and Omanbala peoples of Anambra,reason why i need Sir Idennaa or Omanbala to shed more light on this….

CC:Idennaa

Yeah my people bear Okala but I doubt if he's Igala

TheGoodJoe:


Arsenal park the bus and made the game boring. We played an open game, Arsenal didn't.

Na lie. Tiki taka is boring 😂😂

Why is there an outcry on SM that the Man city v. Arsenal match was boring? Did they play tiki taka?

Truidstarr:
Oga Abeg…….

😂😂😂

Meliforme:


Both have different applications and or uses.

Dennis is a player who understands defending from the front, he does that better than all our strikers. He is a player that likes to win, he carries Osimhen kind of vibes. He is a fantastic dribbler. He seems to have redefined himself especially in the striker role.

However his passing, holding on to the ball, are areas he needs to work on, those deficiencies limits his role as a winger, but he excels well as a striker.

You ehn, na wa

COOL10:



No, it's not 😄😆; it's life. 😎

Life of poison 🤣🤣

COOL10:




Well, one man's meat is another man's poison. 😀

Bro, poison is poison oo. Tiki taka is poison 😂😂😂

dijon:
Put yourself in Sadiq issue. Imagine as a senior lawyer in your law firm and your boss motioned an intern to handle a brief of a big client and found you not competent to even bring up an idea or write a memoir on the case. How would you feel? Is that not diminishing and disrespectful to you that your service is not needed in the law firm and that you are a wack.

The point is that can he do it to a white man? No! He'd suck it up.

humility33:


How Finidi foolish team selection take be tribalism?

The man does nt look a tribalist but only incompetent.

If he was a tribalist he would've invited Terem Moffi sef. He is from south south not even from the south east as your mind dey carry u go

Haaa you guys have come again with this tribe thing? Where did you see tribe mentioned there? Would you say it is tribal allusion that is being made if that statement was analysed by any other person apart from forgiveness? Are you a tribal sniffer going around sniffing comments to detect tribal scent? No na.

jihday:
Not good news about Sadiq Umar coming from Super Eagles camp as it was reported that he refused to shake Finidi cos he didn't have playing time during both friendlies.
Source: Poojamedia on twitter

Him Dey mad. He has the guts to do that because Finidi is a Blackman abi. He dare not try such nonsense with a white coach. You see how psychologically black man is under the heel of the white man. They will respect white man and disrespect black man.

Sadiq wey be like draw soup. I don't even regard him as SE material.

jihday:
I hope you are happy now

That guy ehn. Sha freedom of speech

COOL10:



Lol.

If you don't pass the ball, then how do you intend to move it from your half of the pitch, to the opponent's goal? Dribble your way through? Long range shots from your half?
That's not possible. You have to pass the ball; your teammates need to have a feel of the ball.


Tiki Taka epitomizes the true intentions for the creation of the beautiful game called football( a TEAM SPORT created to entertain fans---emphasis on "team sport" ).


Football is not a one man show; it's not for selfish and aimless dribblers, who only care about showboating and taking all the glory. If I want that kind of entertainment, then I could easily watch those events that are specifically made for ball jugglers.


Football is about scoring your opponents and preventing your opponents from scoring you, and what better way to prevent your opponents from scoring than keeping the ball away from them? 🤷🏽‍♂️. Football is not Table Tennis or Lawn Tennis. It's not give me, I give you 😆.



Tiki Taka is the only football philosophy that emphasizes on playing as a team. When I watch football, that's the kind of entertainment I want. Unfortunately, there're are very few players right now who have the skill-set and intelligence that the likes of Dani Alves, Jordi Alba, Carlos Puyol, Sergio Busquets, Xavi Hernandez, Iniesta, David Villa and of course the master himself, Lionel Messi had back in the day.


Tiki Taka is life, but when it's done the right way 😄.

😂😂😂 Give me Samba, give me Jurgen klopp football not the travesty called tiki taka. May that scourge, that abomination called tiki taka perish

TheGoodJoe:


Most beautiful art of football. This is why we love the game.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMkJht0GxOs

Rabbish football. Can't even dignify it by calling it rubbish. It's beneath that word. 😂😂

COOL10:



Passing the ball around without purpose is not Tiki Taka; that's just cluelessness. Look at the Barcelona teams of 2008-2015 and examine how they played their Tiki Taka; you can't compare it with the nonsense that the current Barcelona and Spanish National team play. There's a clear difference between them.


I get irritated when people refer to the nonsense that's currently being played, as Tiki Taka; it's not Tiki Taka. Passing the ball around without purpose is just borderline cluelessness, and it showcases an inability to be creative.


The Tiki Taka system is very complex, and it requires a certain skill-set from the players. If the right players aren't available, the system will fail.

Whether purposeful or not, tiki taka is the epitome of machine football. Pass pass pass from morning till night. I even hate the name. Sounds like the sound of a mechanical contraption.

Do you like eating Egusi soup without obstacles?

do4luv14:



Sir honestly, you are still surprising me ooo

You suppose to understand the insatiable inpatient of the Average Naija footie fans,

No patience at all, even here too, worst is the Nff, this one's had been patient a little, I'd it's the former, before pinnick, They would had sacked George on the spot as they return


Nothing dey surprise me again as per naija footie

My brother, I taya. Everytime sack sack sack