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Tolexander:
you are late bro
https://www.nairaland.com/4032960/photo-president-buhari-watching-nigeria#up

Thanks.

Muhammadu Buhari‏ @MBuhari

Let's celebrate our Super Eagles, holding Cameroon to a draw in Yaoundé. The march to #Russia2018 continues, and they have all our support!

https://twitter.com/MBuhari/status/904791216805609474

hoopLA:
What is not entirely true is that the crowd were booing Cameroon as a result of the officiating.Regardless of where you got that info from.
Hence the back story.
If you change the narrative to suit your description then it is no longer credible. The focus is not the issue because you only intend to make your story sensational and appeal to emotions of those reading it but I'm calling you out on that.

You can avoid the semi final to make your story juicier but that isn't what happened. I'm here to stop you from spreading fables that sound nice but aren't true.


I'm tired of this unnecessary back and forth. If you want to choose which details to ignore it's up to you but those of us who recollect know that it is a stretch to say the booing arose from the officiating.

All these semantics aren't really necessary if you admit that you were aware of the semi final. The Moroccans were going to side Nigeria ab initio. And like I said, even though you refuse to accept it, the officiating only made the support for Nigeria more from the host fans.

Your source was a magazine you read. Yet you come here and try to dispute an opinion from someone who followed the competition.
Yit knew about the semi final yet you chose to take complete football's view instead of what you know. The same complete football that broke false news about Etim Esin failing a drug test in Lokeren in Belgium is who you are choosing to live and die by.

I'm not sure what this means to you. If you cannot take simple corrections or criticism then it's hard to accept that you are objective in the first place.

So you mean that if Moroccan fans told Complete Football that they felt that Nigeria was cheated and they expressed their feelings because of that it is still not true because you say so? ? My God!

You even accept that "the officiating only made the support for Nigeria more from the host fans" and yet you are still trying to negate the same thing. I said that the Moroccan fans felt that Nigeria was being cheated and booed the Cameroonians, a Moroccan fan said the same thing, you also said that it made the Moroccan fans support Nigeria even more and you are still saying it's not correct. Jesus Christ! Are you listening to yourself??

Should I also have written about the Cameroon vs Cote D'Ivoire match in 1992?? What the heck is this guy talking about??

And what do you mean by "someone who followed the competition"?? Do you think you are the only one that followed the competition??

Jarus:
Camerounian keepers get big clubs in Europe from the 80s till today.


The current first keeper of Ajax is also a Camerounian. Idris Kanemi has been one og the top keepers in La Liga for about 15 years.

Yeah, Song'o also played for Deportivo La Coruna.

seyizma:
Please who knows if AIT will air the match?

I heard that both AIT and NTA Network will show the match live.

hoopLA:
That is you concluding for me.

This is what I said:



Read the emboldened again.

I don't know how you arrived at your conclusion because I laid a premise for the Moroccan crowd supporting Nigeria from the start. I mentioned the crowd booing their national anthem. Was there any officiating done before the anthem that we aren't aware of?I went a step further to say that the officiating heightened the animosity towards the Cameroon players.
It's all there for you to see.

Because you want to pick an argument with me you have to force feed me with conclusions drawn that have almost no bearing to the topic.

Knock yourself out sir but don't conjecture scenarios that you imagine in your head. No one is faulting your write up. I'm only trying to add some clarity to the scenario you painted.

You wrote That's not entirely true. What then is not true?

Of course I knew about the Morocco v Cameroon game but I left it out because that was not my focus. My focus was on the Nigeria v Cameroon match. The comment by the Moroccans that we were cheated was what I read in Complete Football at the time. Nowhere did I say that that was the only reason that they booed Cameroon, so what did I write that is "not entirely true"??

Njie Enow‏ @NjieEnow

Football is very ungrateful! Celebrated barely 7 months ago, today the Lions are castigated! Low turnout from Cameroonians

https://twitter.com/NjieEnow/status/904731392961077248

Substitutes

Alampasu, Ajiboye, Aina, Ebuehi, Nwakaeme, Agu, Awaziem, Etebo, Iheanacho, Musa, Ogu

1wolex85:
But how were the Camerounians able to do it? Their stars were present, from the Biyiks to Jacques Songo

They also had to rotate their players, it's just that they had a lot of very good players (e.g. goalkeepers like Antoine Bell, Jacques Song'o, Thomas N'kono, etc). They also had a lot of players that played in their local league.

hoopLA:
Please read through my post and see what I said about the part i quoted.

You claimed the booing was as a result of the officiating.
I told you it stemmed from the semifinal encounter prior.
We both agreed the final had controversial officiating.

What's so hard?

I said that the Moroccans felt that Nigeria was being cheated and booed Cameroon and supported Nigeria. You said that that's not entirely correct. Therefore you are saying that the Moroccans did not feel that Nigeria was being cheated, or did not support Nigeria or boo Cameroon. That's different from saying, "in addition to that the Moroccans were aggrieved because of the earlier match".

hoopLA:
I wasn't disputing anything with you bro.

Only giving my view on what I thought happened about the booing part. I havent disagreed with the post.
I only tried to give some insight into the booing part.

Hoener started Ndubuisi Okosieme and left Edobor on the bench. I remember Charles Ojugbana complaining about the team list before the game started and Fabio Olaonipekun mentioning it too during the game. A certain Folorunsho Okenla started that game.
Head scratching selection. Hoener was never a brave coach in terms of facing top African sides. He never did any research on those sides mainly because he spent very little time in Africa.

I remember Maroc 88 very well. I was in hospital for the duration of the tournament and saw all the games broadcast by NTA on a tv in the ward I was admitted to.

What I mean is that you started your post with, "This part is not entirely true.", but you didn't show that it's not true (in fact you agreed with it). What you did was to provide additional information (which I appreciate).

Elxandre:
Isn't this celebration enough already?
Even when Germany destroyed Brazil 7-1, they weren't as mocked by the Germans like this.

Ah! This thread wasn't created to mock Cameroon o! In fact, take a look at the first post. It's about a match that Cameroon won and I praised a Cameroonian player.

hoopLA:
This part is not entirely true.

Cameroon had beaten the host country Morocco in the semi final. They had been too physical and the North Africans couldn't cope with the aggression displayed by their opponents. This made the fans unhappy with Cameroon especially since it seemed they were fouling the Moroccans to disrupt their fluid style of play, which eventually paid of as Cameroon frustrated the hosts till late in the game when they scored the winner.

Hence it was only natural the host fans supported Nigeria in the finals. They booed the Cameroon anthem when it was played from the start.

And while the refereeing appeared suspect, it only added to the animosity. We lost in part due to conservative tactics byManfred Hoener who kept attacking players on the bench for more workmanlike defensive players. After our first game we didn't score more than once in a game. I remember Cameroon actually dominated play in both games we faced them in the tournament. Same for Egypt and Algeria though we were down to 10 men for a while in that semi final

But well done all the same. These brought back memories

And you ended up agreeing with me.

Well, I'll agree with you also. I've written on this site many times that I passionately hated Hoener, in part because of his team selection, but also because of his performance at Seoul '88.

johnie:
Nice compilation as usual, Naptu2.

Remember our duels with Cameroun at U20? The Biyik brothers, Mboma? The days of Andrew Uwe, Agu, etc?

Cameroun, Ghana, Senegal (almost got us out of 2000 CAN). Always epic!

And Ivory Coast between 1991-1994.

Remember that crazy semi-final against Ivory Coast at Tunisia '94 and the qualifiers against them in 1992/93?

salford1:
cameroun and ghana...Those were very hard nuts to crack back in the days...

You should have seen what happened after that match against Ghana in 1992. I was feeling depressed so I left home. A terrible, brutal and bloody fight erupted not far from where I was and the fight occurred because of that match. It was one of the most depressing days of my life.

Abedi Pele admitted c2000 on a BBC Radio show that they knew that Nigeria were better than them (he listed all the stars on the Nigerian team) and that we played attacking football, so they decided to defend and hit Nigeria on the counter attack.

1wolex85:
Where was Rashidi Yekini during these qualifiers?

This was before we had FIFA free days. Clubs were not obliged to release their players at that time, so it was a big risk for them to come and play for Nigeria. Therefore we often shuffled our team. You can see that Ricky (who was the highest goal scorer in Portugal before Yekini) played for us in the Ibadan leg of the encounter. Henry Nwosu also couldn't play in the Yaoundé leg because he didn't have the permission of his club Asec Mimosa. Yekini was playing for Africa Sports at that time.

These are obviously not the only matches between the two countries, but these are epic encounters between them. The two countries have played many matches against themselves, e.g. they played a friendly in 2015 that Nigeria won 3-0



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjjKiU4g0e8



And of course there's the latest match.

Nigeria 4-0 Cameroon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1XWCD6EF4

Tunisia 2004 Nations Cup Quarter Final (8 February 2004)

Samuel Eto’o scored for Cameroon off a fast break and Jay Jay Okocha equalised three minutes later from a fantastic freekick. And then there was a moment of magic.

Kanu Nwankwo got the ball in the middle of the park. The Cameroonians were confused because as soon as Kanu got the ball John Utaka ran to the right and Osaze Odemwingie, who had scored two goals against South Africa in the previous match, ran to the left. They didn’t know who to chase. Kanu chose to pass the ball to Utaka, who scored to give Nigeria victory. It ended

Nigeria 2-1 Cameroon
(Your summariser is Stephen Keshi)


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

Line Up

Nigeria
Vincent Enyeama (goalkeeper)
Joseph Yobo
Isaac Okoronkwo
George Abbey
Ifeanyi Udeze
Nwankwo Kanu
Austin Okocha
Garba Lawal
Seyi Olofinjana
John Utaka
Peter Odemwingie

Substitutions
Joseph Enakhire for Kanu Nwankwo
Pius Ikedia for Peter Odemwingie


Cameroon
Idriss Carlos Kameni (goalkeeper)
Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe
Bill Tchato
Rigobert Song
Lucien Mettomo
Timothee Atouba
Modeste Mbami
Geremi Njitap
Eric Djemba Djemba
Samuel Eto'o,
Patrick Mboma

Substitutions
Mohamadou Idrissou for Bill Tchatou
Pius Ndiefi for Patrick Mboma

Ghana-Nigeria 2000 Nations Cup Final (13 February 2000, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos).

The 2000 Nations Cup was co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria. Nigeria was just coming out of what was probably the best era in its football history in which it won the 1994 Nations Cup, qualified for its first and second World Cups and won the 1996 Olympics football tournament.

Cameroon had had its golden era in the 1980s, winning two Nations Cups and also reaching the quarterfinals of the 1990 World Cup, but it suffered a terrible slump after that and had a disgraceful appearance at the 1994 World Cup.

Note: Raphael Chukwu Ndukwe, who scored in this match, was one of the television commentators (summariser) during Nigeria’s last match against Cameroon in Uyo on September 1st 2017.

Samuel Eto’o gave Cameroon the lead in the 26th minute off a freekick and Patrick Mboma doubled the lead 31st minute. Chukwu Ndukwe scored for Nigeria just before half time and Jay Jay Okocha equalised for Nigeria at the beginning of the second half via a thunderous strike. It was 2-2 at the end of extra time and then came the penalty kicks.

Okocha and Godwin Okpara scored their penalties for Nigeria as did Patrick Mboma and Pierre Wome for Cameroon. Then Kanu missed his penalty and Geremi scored his. Ikpeba was adjudged to have missed his penalty, despite the fact that it actually crossed the line (Ikpeba didn’t help matters. He put his hand on his head as if he had missed). Marc Vivian Foe also missed his penalty.Oliseh scored and Rigobert Song also scored to give Cameroon their third Nations Cup victory. It ended

Nigeria 2-2 Cameroon (3-4 on penalties)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QuJiHtJLDA

Line Up

Nigeria

Ike Shorunmu (goalkeeper)

Godwin Okpara

Taribo West

Celestine Babayaro

Mutiu Adepoju

Jay Jay Okocha

Sunday Oliseh

Finidi George

Nwankwo Kanu

Raphael Chukwu

Furo Iyenemi

Substitutions

Julius Aghahowa for Raphael Chukwu
Tijana Babangida for Finidi George
Victor Ikpeba for Mutiu Adepoju

Cameroon

Boukar Alioum (goalkeeper)

Raymond Kalla

Pierre Njanka

Rigobert Song

Nlend Pierre Wome

Bissan Lauren

Salomon Olembe

Marc-Vivien Foe

Geremi

Samuel Eto'o

Patrick Mboma

Substitutions
Joseph-Desire Job for
Lucien Mettomo for Raymond Kalla

Senegal ’92 Nations Cup Third Place Match (January 25, 1992)

Nigeria lost to Ghana in that painful semi-final of Senegal ’92 and then played Cameroon in the third place match.

Cyrille Makanaky missed a penalty in the first half and Friday Ekpo scored for Nigeria via a 77th minute freekick. Kesack Maboang equalised for Cameroon in the 85th minute.

The Cameroonian defence had heavily policed the most dangerous man in Africa and highest goal scorer of the competition, Rashidi Yekini, but he broke free in the 88th minute for a classic Nigerian counter attack (which would become common between 1991-1994). A long ball from the opponent’s half is played in front of Yekini who is on the run. He outruns the defenders and slots the ball in the goal. Thus it ended

Nigeria 2-1 Cameroon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvXg8HrFsIg


Line Up

Nigeria

Alloysius Agu (goalkeeper)
Nduka Ubade
Augustine Eguavoen
Abdul Aminu
Reuben Agboola
Mutiu Adepoju
Friday Ekpo
Finidi George
John Ene Okon
Victor Ikpeba
Rashidi Yekini

Substitutions

Nigeria

Emeka Ezeugo for Augustine Eguavoen
Dotun Alatishe for John Okon.

Cameroon

Jacques Songo'o (goalkeeper)
Stephen Tataw
Benjamin Massing
Victor Ndip
Jules-Denis Onana
Bertin Ebwelle
Emile Mbouh
Jacob Ewane
Guy Tapoko,
Cyrille Makanaky
Kessack Maboang

Substitutions
Eugene Ekeke for Jacob Ewane
Ernest Ebongue for Cyrille Makanaky

Italia 1990 World Cup Qualifier (27 August 1989, Stade Omnisports, Yaoundé).

Legendary former Nigerian player and coach, Paul “The Wonder Boy” Hamilton was appointed the chief coach of the Green/Super Eagles in the mid-1980s. A German, Manfred Hoener was appointed Technical Adviser of the national team in 1987 and made Paul Hamilton’s boss. Hoener and Hamilton led the Eagles to the Maroc ’88 Nations Cup and the Seoul ’88 Olympics. Hoener was involved in a disagreement with the NFA after the disastrous Olympics performance and he quit.

Paul Hamilton was back in charge of the team again, but the NFA treated him like dirt. In fact, he often had to use his own money to hire buses to take the team to the stadium to train.

Then in 1989 the NFA appointed another foreigner, the Dutchman Clemens Westerhof as technical adviser of the Super Eagles. Westerhof’s first game was against Cameroon in Yaounde.

Two weeks before the game Samuel Okwaraji slumped and died at the National Stadium in Lagos in a game against Angola during the previous round of the World Cup qualifiers. Henry Nwosu also couldn’t make the game in Yaounde because he didn’t have permission from his club Asec Mimosas.

So Westerhof’s first game was a crucial World Cup qualifier against rivals Cameroon. Nigeria, which was at the top of the group, needed just a draw to qualify for the next round. The players promised to win the game in honour of Okwaraji.

However Nigeria lost via a 31st minute strike by Francois Omam Biyick. Cameroon (on 9 points) qualified for the next round and Nigeria (on 7 points) crashed out.

Cameroon 1-0 Nigeria

Line Up


Stephen Keshi

Uche Okafor

Samson Siasia

Ademola Adesina

Dahiru Sadi

Sunday Eboigbe

Friday Elahor

Etim Esin

David Ngodigha (goalkeeper)

Osaro Obobaifo

Dahiru Sadi

Substitutions
Alloy Agu for David Ngodigha
Uwe Andrew for Dahiru Sadi

Cameroon

Thomas N'Kono (goalkeeper)

Bertin Andrew Ebwelle

Andre Kana-Biyik

Benjamin Massing

Stephen Tataw

Emmanuel Kunde

Emile Mbouh

Bonaventure Djonkep

Louis-Paul M'Fede

Francois Omam-Biyik

Ernest Lottin Ebongue

Substitutions
Thomas Libih for Andre Kana-Biyik
Jacob Ewane Ebwelle for Louis-Paul M'Fede

Italia 1990 World Cup Qualifier (10 June 1989, Liberty Stadium, Ibadan).

Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola and Gabon were drawn in the same group for the second round of the qualifiers for the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

Nigeria played against Cameroon at the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan and goals by Stephen Keshi and Samson Siasia gave the Eagles the victory. It finished

Nigeria 2-0 Cameroon

Line Up

Nigeria

Peter Rufai (goalkeeper)

Augustine Eguavoen

Stephen Keshi

Samson Siasia

Augustine Eke

Friday Elaho

Etim Esin

Wole Odegbami

Ayo Ogunlana

Richard 'Ricki' Owobokiri

Andrew Uwe


Substitutions

Ademola Adesina for Augustine Eguavoen

Cameroon


Jacques Songo'o (goalkeeper)

Hans Agbo

Andre Kana-Biyik

Benjamin Massing

Stephen Tataw

Emmanuel Kunde

Emile Mbouh

Louis-Paul M'Fede

Francois Omam-Biyik

Jean Paul Penda Bang

Richard Tchakounang

Maroc 1988 Nations Cup Final. (27 March 1988). The beginning of the anger against Hayatou

Nigeria finished at the top of the group after a goalless draw with Egypt. Cameroon was second. We then played an incredible semi-final with Algeria with scores at 1-1 at the end of extra time and which required the then longest penalty kick series in Nations Cup history to separate the teams. (I almost died of tension. My dad stopped watching and went to sleep because he couldn’t stand the tension). Nigeria won the penalty shootout 9-8.

Nigeria played Cameroon again in the final.

And that’s when it happened. It was a fantastic counter attack. The ball out from defence was perfect. Folorunsho Okenla kept it from going out and passed to Samuel Okwaraji who played a perfect cross for Henry Nwosu to head it into the goal. It was a perfect goal. The referee disallowed it for no known reason. There were two Cameroonian defenders that kept Nwosu onside, but the referee disallowed the goal for no known reason.

You can see it again at 20.27 in the video below.

Sunday Eboigbe tackled Roger Milla at the edge of the penalty box in the second half. Milla fell into the box and the referee awarded a penalty to Cameroon. (You decide if it was a penalty). Emmanuel Kunde stepped up and slotted the ball past Peter Rufai to give Cameroon their second Nations Cup victory. It ended

Cameroon 1-0 Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCp8DbRQnZs

The Moroccan fans felt that Nigeria was being cheated and the ended up supporting Nigeria and booing Cameroon. Many Nigerians felt that the referee was biased against Nigeria because the new CAF president, Issa Hayatou, was Cameroonian.

The Federal Government organised a grand reception for the national team and the vice president, Admiral Aikhomu declared that the Eagles were super. Some Nigerians had complained that the name Green Eagles had brought bad luck to the team and others argued that there was no such thing as a green eagle (they were wrong), so the new name stuck and the Green Eagles became the Super Eagles.

(by the way, during the opening ceremony the women in my house were raving about the handsome Moroccan crown prince [now the king] and his handsome brother. You can also see them in this video).

Line Up

Nigeria

Peter Rufai (goalkeeper)
Sunday Eboigbe
Bright Omokaro
Yisa Sofoluwe
Augustine Eguavoen
Stephen Keshi
Samuel Okwaraji
Henry Nwosu
Rashidi Yekini
Ndubuisi Okosieme
Folorunsho Okenla

Substitution
Humphrey Edobor for Folorunsho Okenla

Cameroon

Joseph Antoine-Bell (goalkeeper)
Emmanuel Kunde
Benjamin Massing
Charles Ntamark
Stephen Tataw
Andre Kana Biyick
Louis Paul M’Fede
Emile Mbouh Mbouh
Bertin Olle Olle
Roger Milla
Cyrille Makanaky

Substitutions
Richard Abena for Olle Olle

Maroc 1988 Nations Cup Group Game (17 March 1988)


Nigeria took a fantastic squad to the 1988 Nations Cup and everybody believed that this was our opportunity to win our second title. However, we were drawn in a group of death with Cameroon, Egypt and Kenya. We destroyed Kenya 3-0 and then played our second match against Cameroon (a repeat of the 1984 final).

Rashidi Yekini did great work down the right and crossed the ball to Samuel Okwaraji who fired in a thunderous shot from outside the box to give Nigeria the lead in the second minute. This was the fastest goal in Nations Cup history at the time and it was used in the opening montage of the NTA Network News in the late 1980s and early ‘90s.

Roger Milla equalised for Cameroon in the 21st minute via a bullet header that beat Peter Rufai in the Nigerian goal and it ended

Nigeria 1-1 Cameroon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9ZYHyTVwU

Line Up

Nigeria

Peter Rufai (Goalkeeper)
Sunday Eboigbe
Bright Omokaro
Yisa Sofoluwe
Augustine Eguavoen
Andrew Uwe
Stephen Keshi
Ademola Adeshina
Samuel Okwaraji
Rahidi Yekini
Michael Obiku

Substitutions

Humphrey Edobor
Wole Odegbami.

Cameroon

Joseph Antoine-Bell (Goalkeeper)
Emmanuel Kunde
Benjamin Massing
Charles Ntamark
Stephen Tataw
Andre Kana Biyick
Louis Paul M’Fede
Emile Mbou Mbouh
Roger Milla
Eugene Ekeke Ebelle
Cyrille Makanaky

Substitutions
Bonaventure Ndjonkep
Berin Olle Olle.

Cote D’Ivoire 1984 Nations Cup Final (18 March 1984)

For some strange reason I remember the 1980 and 1988 nations cups very well, but I don’t remember the 1984 and 1986 nations cups that well. In fact, the only two things I remember about the 1984 Nations Cup are that

1) We defeated Ghana
2) Theophile Abega

Nigeria played against Cameroon in the final of Cote D’Ivoire ’84. Muda Lawal (one of my favourite Nigerian players ever) gave Nigeria the lead in the 10th minute and Rene Ndjeya equalised for Cameroon. Then magic happened in the 79th minute. Theophile Abega waltz through the Nigerian defence (it was so beautiful! He was like a ballerina.) he played a give-and-go with Roger Milla and fired a shot that beat Okala in Nigeria’s goal. It was amazing.

Ernest Ebongue scored in the 84th minute to give Cameroon their first Nations Cup title.

Cameroon 3 – 1 Nigeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3kK-zEWfys

Line up

Nigeria

Stephen Keshi

Ademola Adesina

Baba Ali

Sunday Eboigbe

Humphrey Edobor

James Etokebe

Paul Kingsley

Muda Lawal

Henry Nwosu

Emmanuel Okala (Goalkeeper)

Yisa Shofoluwe

Substitutions

Clement Temile for Baba Ali
Paul Okoku for Ademola Adesina

Cameroon

Joseph-Antoine Belle (Goalkeeper)

Ibrahim Aoudou

Rene N'Djeya

Theophile Abega

Emmanuel Kunde

Bonaventure Djonkep

Roger Milla

Ernest Lottin Ebongue

Francois Lea N'doumbe

Isaac Gibbert Sinkot

Charles Toube