andrewbaba44:
Make I see the Warey wey go try troll this man for here especially they my yeye Chelsea fan friend neobulletzz

Subzero047:
The whole Nairaland, Super Eagles thread is with the Greatest of all Time on his final tonight , Go Argentina go!!!

Meliforme:
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He might win it, but it is not God answering his prayers.

[s]Gambling is evil and should be discouraged.[/s]
This is not the mentality and the future we are working hard to build for our children.

andrewbaba44:


Gaffe of the century

None of this ones will even smell top 10

Philosopher1979:
WHY FOOTBALL ACADEMIES HAVE MORE TO OFFER THAN THE NIGERIAN LEAGUE PLAYERS

Why academies outshine NPFL clubs in talents export – Agents
’Tosin Oluwalowo
30 July 2020


Nigerian football agents say the prospects of playing for top European sides is the major reason why a large number of the country’s up-and-coming prefer playing for academies to play for Nigerian leagues clubs.

Football academies have been the latest exit point for Nigerian players seeking to join top European clubs, with Golden Eaglets captain to the 2019 U-17 World Cup in Brazil, Samson Tijani earlier this month sealing a lucrative move to Austrian champions, Red Bull Salzburg, from Lagos-based academy, Collins Edwin Sports Club.

Super Eagles trio, Samuel Chukwueze, Wilfred Ndidi, and Kelechi Iheanacho sealed moves to big European clubs from local academies. While Chukwueze joined Spanish LaLiga side Villarreal from Umuahia-based Diamond Football Academy, Ndidi joined Belgian Pro League side, Genk, from Nath Boys Academy of Lagos, with Iheanacho moving directly to Manchester City from Taye Academy of Owerri.

A look at the present Eagles squad shows that only Ahmed Musa, Oghenekaro Etebo and Daniel Akpeyi played in the local league before moving abroad.

While the list of Nigerians who have joined big European clubs from little-known academies is on the rise, Nigeria Professional Football League clubs, the nation’s flagship professional league, has struggled to Import quality talents to Europe.

Those who move usually find themselves in the backwater leagues in Europe.



Some agents, who spoke with our correspondent, said Nigerian league clubs paraded too many old players and expensive, which puts off European scouts.

“Most NPFL clubs don’t have quality young players; they rely on older players with experience. NPFL clubs also put big money on the players. When you place $1m or $500,000 on a player, the club which wants the player will want to see his quality and age. For them to invest money, the player must be young. You can’t place $1m on a player that is 29 years when the clubs can get younger players from the academies,” an agent, Marshal Mbre, told The PUNCH.

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“Most NPFL coaches don’t take time to develop their players and teach them what they should know, because at a certain age, you can’t learn again. The clubs who claim they have feeder teams also place players who are relatives of government officials in the teams, they just keep them there to pay them allowances. I have gone to an NPFL club and the feeder team players are older than the first team players. They just take in players who are short and claim they are aged 15 or 16 when in fact they are older than the first team players,” he added.

Another agent, Friday Kujah, stated, “Nigerian clubs pick players from academies and sign them on maybe a three-year deal, but when a foreign club shows interest in the player, they demand for between $300,000 and $1m. Nigerian league clubs are only using the players as personal properties and an avenue to make money.

“Academy owners are ready to invest in players and train them to bring the best out of them but when NPFL clubs hear a player has trained, they will start making demands from the clubs.”

Sunshine Stars chairman, Tajudeen Akinyemi, said NPFL clubs’ penchant for old players made it difficult for them to export talents to Europe’s top sides.

“When the likes of Daniel Amokachi, Finidi George, Mutiu Adepoju left for European leagues, they left from our local league. But presently things are not working like they used to be, we are lucky that we still have academies that are producing talents,” Akinyemi told The PUNCH.

“I once asked a player who came for trials in Sunshine his age and he replied me, ‘are asking for my football age or real age, sir?’ The difference between his real age and football age was nine years. So, clubs must ensure they recruit players who are really young, not old ones with fake ages. This is where we got it wrong; we must find a solution to this type of thing. And if we don’t do it, the NPFL will have a lot of problems.”

Copyright PUNCH.

https://punchng.com/why-academies-outshine-npfl-clubs-in-talents-export-agents/

TheSuperNerd:

Bia Andy, I don post this same thing here already naa.

Nna eh... Still slow to getting the news, I see.

andrewbaba44:


You cannot force it on us

Continue your fantasy of your fake goat

Cr7 fan boys and low self esteem by hearing the name Messi

More sleepless nights to you

FirstbornWds:



Who be this one?


Just come here and yarn dust

andrewbaba44:


Nothing consign GOAT and dstv

Chop your L

andrewbaba44:


A player with no level that has achieve more than Chelsea as a club

Subzero047:


Ororo is finished

andrewbaba44:


Lukaku not world class ,but if he is playing for Chelsea he will be world class

But ekuke timo Werner is world class

To many drug addicts here

andrewbaba44:



E pain you

Well i praised kelvin phillip after the 1-0 against croatia if you where here

Even your fellow chelsea fans in the chelsea fan section knows they are overrated

Pedri is better than kelvin phillips i repeat, both of them played their first season in the top flight football and the 18 year old did better

Go hit your head for wall for my opinion,

Transfermarket was not stupid to rate pedri at 70 million euros

So its not you guys doesn't like anything english, but i was the only one before that doesnt like english so how come you are referring so many of us now just because we share the same opinion ?

andrewbaba44:


Kelvin phillips is not better than 18 year old pedri

England like hyping average players

You wont hear noise about locatelli ooo, a player that has been good from when he was 18 at his ac millan days and has been doing so well in italy 2 games so far , but you will hear a hype about a player who just played his first season in top flight football all because he is starting for england

andrewbaba44:


Baba calm down

You know say I sabi the truth

andrewbaba44:




Suddenly ben chillwell is better than tripper because he now plays for Chelsea ,but when he was at Leicester you won’t say this

E pain you

Subzero047:
Imagine forcing human beings to play after watching their friend fight death for 15 minutes

12large1:
Honestly, most of you guys might not see the big deal but the fact that Nigeria couldn't score 1 goal against cameroun in 180 minutes with the likes of onuachu, kelechi, Ahmed Musa, Simon all playing speaks Volume. Yes, we need a playmaker but that's not enough reasons to justify our lack of goals vs cameroun. Remember, it's the same cameroun that V moses and ighalo totally annihilated

Ppogbae:


Her father is half Nigerian and her mom is white

jihday:
Her father is Nigerian. Read her interview below.

Former England youth defender Ashleigh Plumptre says she would play for Nigeria at senior international level - if the West African country came calling.

The 23-years-old, who plays for newly-promoted Women's Super League (WSL) side Leicester City, is eligible to play for the Super Falcons because of her father's Nigerian heritage.

Having helped guide the Foxes to the FA Women's Championship title in 2020/21, Plumptre was voted player of the season and rewarded with a new two-year deal.

And, despite 30 England caps at youth level, Plumptre says she would like to play for Nigeria.

"The idea of me being able to play for Nigeria, with that being an option, I would happily grab that with both hands," she told BBC Sport Africa.

"What representing something that really means to somebody is very important. Obviously, there's a lot of things I can openly say that I don't know about Nigerian culture but I want to learn because I know that it's in me, and it's in my sister and in my dad.

"We can only get it from my granddad, he's the only thing that we know in terms of Nigeria. I've obviously visited Nigerian relatives in America and in England.

"Seeing this little journey my sister and I have been on, and the understanding of our family heritage, not just that but watching Nigerian documentaries and learning about the past is incredible."

Understanding her heritage

Life-long Foxes fan Plumptre played 25 games this season for the club she first joined as an eight-year-old and previously played in the WSL with Notts County in 2014, before moving to the United States.

Stints stateside with US college side USC Trojans and LA Galaxy followed, before she returned from studying in January 2020 to play a key role in a memorable season for the Foxes.

After establishing herself at club level, Plumptre who has a British mother, believes a potential international career with Nigeria could pave the way for other biracial footballers to follow.

"What it will mean for me as somebody who is British born but with Nigerian heritage is huge. People look at me and they think I'm tanned and that I've been on holiday, they don't think that I'm Nigerian," she added.

"I don't think that should be significant in saying whether somebody is Nigerian or not because it's in your blood, it's not about what you look like.

"My sister, she looks African because she has an Afro and her skin tone is darker than mine, with that obviously, she's had different experiences in school than I have had.

"I think with football being my platform, I am using that as something that's bigger than me. As much as I can resonate with my Nigerian heritage.

"I feel like I can hopefully inspire someone like my sister or other kids like her maybe in this country or other countries to look at me and be like you know what? It doesn't matter what your skin tone looks like.

"If you can resonate with your heritage and it means something to you, it means you can represent something bigger than you, then that's what it comes down to.

"I think people too often look at the surface of this rather than actually try to find out inside what our drives and passions are, and what means a lot to us."

Following the Super Falcons

Leicester City's Ashleigh Plumptre has played for England at youth level

The continent's most successful national side with nine African titles, Nigeria are the only African team to have played in all eight Women's World Cups since 1991.

Despite possessing the talent to potentially make the step up to Englands senior side, Plumptre has been growing professionally and fully aware of the Super Falcons' rise in the global game.

"When you look around there are several Nigerian players playing at the top level of the women's game," she pointed out.

"With the Super Falcons I have been following them and the continued progress the team is making. But one player that I remember is Asisat Oshoala.

"She was at Liverpool when I played for Notts County, then I was about 16 and the big thing was having Oshoala over at Liverpool.

"That was the big name and then she obviously went to Arsenal. And everybody knew of her and how talented she was. For me an an English person, she was Nigerian football to me."

She's hoping to meet the club's Nigerian international duo Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho soon, insisting that the pandemic has made it difficult to link up with them.

"With Leicester Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Ihenacho have been a good roles model for me. It's funny we haven't met but that's all because of Covid but at some point hopefully we'll be able to meet each other," she explained.

Plumptre has been immersed in the culture, food and music of her father's ancestral home, but admits she has never visited the country.

"I listen to a lot of music but my favourite genre is classic 90s R&Bs, the stuff my dad grew up listening to are what I listen to now," she explained.

"But with regards Nigerian songs I like, I will go with veteran and legendary musician King Sunny Ade because I've heard some of his records.

"I really enjoy the Nigerian Jollof rice, fish stew but my favourite meal is moi-moi [steamed and flavoured cakes of ground beans]."

jihday:
From the interview she's very very willing all she needs is a call up

Arabiandude:

Must some of you always find problem in almost everything?
Not that the guy might even play.
Okay, they have explained before that they can't invite an NPFL player in situation like this because it will take almost a week for their visa to be processed and if that's the case, who should be the best to be called as replacement?
This guy is uncapped at the SE level, I agree, but please tell us the capped player that should have been called as replacement.
The time some of you uses in finding faults in whatever others do, use that same time and energy to make money please