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Amedino99:
if you wan chop dlaw money just tell am say you don see option wey nigeria fit use enter USA 2026 world cup he go believe you sharp.

I never recover. I be like woman wey still never believe say her boyfriend don ditch her. Once she see him, call, she go get hope again.

Hope dey kill. But let it kill me again oo.

JohnBullMySon:
Last comment I'll make on this issue sha.

The way you described citizenship is not the way it works. If you are a citizen of a country by descent, you're a citizen from the moment you are born. Whether you have a passport yet or another nationality. it doesn't matter. Eberechi Eze, Olise, Saka, Musiala are all bonafide Nigerian citizens. Citizenship by descent is a citizenship acquired at birth not by applying for anything. So technically all DRC dual nationality players are DRC citizens to start with. FIFA also recognizes citizenship by descent.

Now in a country like DRC, the executive government which enforces the law, is meant to revoke Congolese citizenship for dual citizens that don't voluntarily drop their foreign citizenship after 21. Now, If the DRC federal government does not revoke it, the citizenship is still valid. it is not an automatic loss.

DRC deliberately doesn't revoke citizenship anymore because they don't want to. A moratorium was passed in 2007 to put revocations permanently on hold pending review of their constitution.

Naija must go world cup. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Bossoflife25:
Imagine a player dribbles you, and your whole team is trying to fight the player. I was like what in the world is going on with football this day?

They are not used to it. Dribbling is a crime in modern football

elyte89:
If Dey do and backdate it, it will even make d case stronger ..dt will be a dumb move if Dey try it cos fifa will look at when d event took place and what d law state as at den

What a solid jurisprudential response. Abi you will branch from coaching and come and study law?

charlesemeka85:
Nothing but the truth 😔


🚨 Owen:

“Back then, Football had soul. Beckham bending it from 40 yards, Pirlo slowing time, Scholes seeing passes before they existed. Now it’s press, run, recycle. Athletes everywhere, artists rare. We’ve upgraded engines & downgraded imagination.”

Machine football, no flair, no art, just athletes running up and down playing system football all thanks to Gaurdiola. When I curse tiki taka everyday people don't understand how that dreadful philosophy hollowed out football and left us with a pathetic unsatisfying husk.

QueenJazz:
I imagine if FIFA wanted to take action, they'll start with the Cameroon vs DRC game.

Well, let's see what happens. Personally, I'm not investing myself in this issue.

I have already invested myself 100%. Make e turn out to be false but you see that small hope, I must keep it.

QueenJazz:
Is it only Nigeria that will benefit from this news? What about Cameroon? They played against the same squad too.

Woh- I'm just confused about the whole thing.

At any rate, I'm still taking this update with a spoonful of salt.

Pata pata Nigeria and Cameroon will play against each other.

BankyGee:
So is this reason part of FIFA's ineligibility rule?

Is this not something that has to do with the country and not football?

If as a country you say you don't operate dual citizenship and then you use a dual citizenship player, what it means is that you have used a player that is not your citizen. The implication is that every country can then use players who are not their own citizens.

charlesemeka85:
E be like say Super Eagles go qualify for World Cup intercontinental play off ooo 😳😳

Hell or sunshine, naija must go to the world cup. How it will happen, I don't know. In fact it doesn't concern me but you see that world cup, we must go.

Tessyy1701:
I love a coach that's straight forward and blunt. I will talk to Mujtahida to finalize a deal with you, you will take over from coach Brazil at Kwara United.


I'm already on Sir Kog45 neck to make that happen. My darling United needs someone like you as a coach.

Since naija crash out, I've not heard from my client.

QueenJazz:
I swear. Hope they can pull it off, but honestly I think it's highly unlikely.

I've never a more terrible bunch of underachievers in my entire lifetime of watching SE.

They folded in that match in a way that reminded me of the last Afcon final: our players became small. One could see it in their eyes that they had let it all go. Kai

Goke7:
Delaw if you’re talking like this, who wan inspire me bayi 😂 please show some interest o!

That loss to Congo was the loss of a dream. The dream is gone. Missing two consecutive world cups hurt. Funny thing is that I don't feel the pain but football taste like gravel in my mouth.

Goke7:
😂 someone wake me up when they get to semi final, wish them the best!

I lost all interest. I wish them all the best. My mind no dey.

QueenJazz:
Lol. I see you're still in Stage 1 (Denial) of the 5 stages of grief. 😂

Nothing concern me with stages of grief.. Nigeria must be at the world cup

Napoleon55:
Is this a joke or a serious sarcasm?

Hoping to be at the world is like hoping to find your lost phone at Oshodi Market or at Idumota Market.
You even have better chances of finding your phone again.

Leave me oo. Leave me. The pain is too much. Naija must be at the world cup.

And so it begins:

Again

Nehruvia:
Don't quote me, but word on the street is that there might yet be another backdoor for Nigeria. I can't disclose my sources but CAF and FIFA are squabbling behind the scenes over inconsistent eligibility rules and stipulations. And guess who's on our side? 👀

I'm not even saying this as someone being hopeful because I'm honestly not sure if I want what I'm hearing to be true because it will make us the most hated and suspect country in this World Cup cycle.

All I know is that we will be at the world cup.

Odunayaw:
I no just know which emotion to allow sef

This dugbe boys literally gave up the ghost in that last game. I really don't know what to latch on to for excitement. Last WC was the strange hope for Messi to win it.

That last world cup was fantastic.

We must be at the world cup. Anyhow anyhow.

QueenJazz:
I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

cc: Cocony, Mujtahida

I really don't know the reason for that. Let Japan catch Congo and with their slight frames you'd see how they will outplay them.

For me it was not that Congo played gidigbo football which in a certain sense is what is meant by African football, we were just too timid. Our players get snowed by the weight of the occasion. It happened in the last Afcon final.

By contrast Super Falcons matched Morocco toe to toe.

The psychologist of the team needs to find out why this is happening. Twice is worrisome.

Is it really that difficult to find 22 good players? Such that there won't be need for first eleven as in any player in a position is as good as the next man?

Out of 220 million Nigerians?

Amedino99:
I have already come to the realization that as a country we are NGMI. The super eagles are not an exception to this. After every failed outing, the nff will always put out a statement saying the next outing will be better. Its never better. Our hopes were raised by beating benin, raised higher by beating gabon and dashed on Sunday. We should have known it was too good to be true based on the way we started the qualifiers. Be that as it may, we have not option than to move forward, Our next match is meant to be against egypt on dec 14 for an AFCON friendly. Lets look forward to the next outing and hope as always the other team is less useless than us and we get to change the thread title to AFCON champions for the first time by next year.

We will never make it. In the voice of that coach berating his player 😂😂

Procashtips:
Your point is that he deliberately didn't pass to Oshimen out of malice, what if he felt the others were in better positions to score than Osimhen?

I'm always careful when I make my points. I said IF he was motivated by malice, then it's awful. It is precisely because I want to give him the benefit of the doubt that I used the word 'if".

Kog45:
Haha that pass belonged to Chuckwueze but Ndidi messed it up and Osimhen was not in better position...LOOKMAN did well with that pass

Osimhen was in a better position. Go watch the video and see him raving at Lookman. I'm not saying that Lookman was wrong to have cut back that pass. I'm only just wondering why he didn't pass to Osimhen.

Procashtips:
Those he passed the ball to had no reason not to score.

I won't blame him at all for that pass, infact those guys (any of them) had more room to score than Osimhen.

You don't get my point.

Immediately after our match against Gabon, I watched one YouTuber saying that Lookman doesn't have good on-field rapport with Osimhen.

I dismissed it.

But see that pass Lookman cut back and Chukwueze and Ndidi bungled it? That pass ought to have been made for Osimhen. Osimhen was clear. It would have been an easy tap in. Only God knows what made Lookman decide to give a cut back.


If we had scored that goal we would have picked them apart or at best we could have held on to our lead given that for all their attacking onslaught, our defence held the line.

Was Lookman motivated by malicious thoughts? "As in this guy takes all the glory. Let me pass to another person jare".

If that is what motivated him then it's a big let down because we can all see the results of that kind of petty thinking. The team is greater than all of them. USA dream is gone. Osimhen will still get glory. Nobody can stop his shine.

mrwilliams9:
There is a habit of these players folding in big games. Playing with no urgency or desire…

2022 WCQ against Ghana
2023 AFCON final against CIV
2025 CAF playoff final against DRC

Let’s see what comes of this AFCON but some players will definitely need to be replaced after this cycle.

The match against DRC played out exactly the same way the final against CIV happened. In both matches, We scored first but the opposition wasn't fazed. They just shrugged it off and played their game. And equalized.

What struck me was how our players became timid and tame. You will see fear and panic in their eyes. It's strange.

lbrichman2:
Na because they raise our hope only to dash am against rocks..
Na there the pain come from

Too much pain bro

BankyGee:
We don't even deserve the guy in the first place. Na Super Eagles go later end him career.

If everywhere good during AFCON, make he retire in peace focus on club football.

In all our wailings, nobody dey think about the pain the players are going through right now.
Na to just dey heap curses on them anyhow.

Goke7:
Yankee, for that matter, especially for those football fans YouTube pages, those folks for don get plans omo everywhere blurr true true

It's like an earthquake struck our hearts. The effect of yesterday's loss is seismic

QueenJazz:
Words fail to describe how disappointed I was with his performance. Based on looks, I misjudged Tolu as Osimhen-lite. His finish against Russia (even though it started as a gift), and his solo effort before the near miss against SA made me overrate him.

I think the biggest lesson we're learning from this whole episode to be way more conservative while praising the club performances of these players. No matter how good they function out in Europe, when they come home, they act like complete strangers and amateurs.

They remind me of English national team of the late 2000s. There was an insane amount of individual talent in that squad (Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Beckham, Terry, Ferdinand, Owen, Crouch, Joe Cole etc) but together, they were a bunch of massive underachievers. Failed to qualify for the 2008 Euros and absolutely shiiit the bed in the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.

Once your body structure is like that of Onuachu, Sadiq and Tolu, I will never advocate for you to be in the national team unless you are exceptionally good.

Tomorrow now this same Tolu will move to Turkey and start banging goals and guys on this thread will start calling for him to be invited just as they are calling for Onuachu to be invited.

Karlovych:
Exactly, I don't know why some fans are always looking for a scapegoat after every loss, they quickly did a 360 degrees turnaround on Nwabali after the match, now it's Iwobi and Tolu.

In the previous games it was Dessers and Ekong.

Maybe Bameyi and his u20 brothers should be promoted and used for Afcon, smh

Bro it's terrible. See some people complaining about Osimhen's availability. Omo, human beings especially Nigerians are fickle and ungrateful.

This guy gave it his all. Osasu Obayuwana said Osimhen has unquestionable commitment to the Super Eagles. All it took is just one loss and the man who was a hero has become a villain.

Palm Sunday. One week later - crucifixion.