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Stop describing our game play as boko/ terrorist football, it is far from it.

Not as if we are playing rough/hard like the Cameroonian team of old nor playing ultra defensive like the Greek team at Euro 2004.

You guys are describing our present brand of football as boko because we don't score too many goals but that is because we are losing many chances and not for lack of creating.

Granted, the team might not have the fluidity of Nigerian teams in times past but that is because we have switched away from our traditional 442 to a whole new formation.

Samuel Eto'o : " I am still in Cote D'Ivoire learning about the next steps we need to take for us to be patriotic again.

There is something about South Africa and Angola. They play with a great deal of African based Players.

The hunger is unbelievable. They are representing Africa because they mostly play here not abroad. We will start mixing players who plays in Africa and abroad.

The level is close . Sad currently we have few who plays in south Africa, Tunisia, Morocco or Egypt.

These are good African leagues with productive development. We are now open to give Call ups to any Cameroonian who is good at his Job despite where he plays his football.

Our attention with my staff Will be to spread the net all over Africa giving a chance to every player who deserves to play for the indomitable lions. "

Camerounians are saying on social media that the times we've beaten them in AFCON we have failed to make it to the finals.

zuchyblink:
Central Africa

West Africa

ChrisKels:
People always make that mistake especially with Chad and Cameroon because they are our neighbors.


By the way, some guys were arguing with me on Twitter when I said that Mauritanian was a West African country, I come dey wonder wether my SS1 govt teacher no teach me well again. Mauritanian no be West Africa again?

Tchad is in west Africa.

If Nwabali is not fully fit then he should not play on Friday.

It's a dangerous thing to have an unfit playing in between the sticks.

Poloyanabo2:
Please what was the "huge cost" in 1989?

Samuel Okwaraji lost his life playing against Angola in a World Cup qualifier played at the National stadium , Lagos on 12th of August 1989.

Nigeria won by a lone goal.

JasonScoolari:
Angola has always been a pain in the neck for the Super Eagles... I remember what they did to us in 2006 and 2010.

Goodluck to both side.

Not only that, the last time we defeated them was back in 1989 and like u know, that came at a very huge cost.

Of all the teams in southern Africa, Angola has always been the toughest for the Eagles but I trust this crop of Eagles to beat them.

Where is Andrew?

No one is asking.

Egypt's last 8 matches at AFCON have all been draws.

Ivory Coast will beat Senegal.

Guys, thumbs up to Motsepe guy has brought African football forward to the 21st century.

Excellent facilities, the kind we used to see only in SA and North Africa.

Improved level of competition.

Excellent broadcast quality and above all, superb officiating both from refrees and the VAR officials.

👍👍👍

joxxy01:
I followed the interview of one Nigeria journalist with tvc yesterday. And from what he said, the Nigeria team doctors were not the one who conducted the test on Sadiq umar rather the test was carried out by doctors in one of those Caf approved hospital over there in Abidjan.. And the results of the test which was in French showed that Sadiq is injured and will be out for two weeks.

So the teams doctors are not at fault. as a matter of fact they could be a conspiracy theory. It could be that the Ivorians deploy it as a tactics to make us lose one of our attacking player.

Bye and large according to him... The nff and Caf will investigate the matter later

Sadiq got injured while the team was still in the UAE .

minfelix:
then whats your reason hating…its a super eagles loyal fan page..not for haters, are you mot tired being a clog in the wheel…you are happily staying in a page of a team you do not wish well..why not create a page and gather your fellow ndi ara ndi ara and happily causing misery in the name of trolling…

I don't even understand the guy's troll.

He seems to be saying he has told us we overate our team and hype our players.

Thing is, a lot of Nigeria didn't even have enough confidence in this team going into this tournament given the poor results we've churned out recently.

Nigerians didn't even show any anger when we drew with EG as if to be saying we weren't expecting much so what's he trolling about?

Blueelf:
Oh Lord my father. Why did you jettison the prayer pf thy faithful servant

You're also celebrating.

Aren't u?

gustav25:
You will weep after 90 mins

And so will u.

Our fate is tied together u know?

komekn:
Then why is he still at Royal Antwerp in the Belgium league.

Why didn't Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United see him or na only to get eye 👀.

How many of our players ( including the ones u always recommend) have ever played for the clubs u mentioned?

[quote author=Samueltemi337 post=127835001]It's Equatorial Guinea [Guinea-Bissau.]

Oh, my bad.

I tot it was the friendly the Eagles will be playing later today.

It's Guinea-Bissau not E Guinea.

komekn:
Can you please expatiate on this PROVEN WAY devoid of tribalism, favouritism, religious discrimination, bribery, godfatherism, etc please

In addition can you name the player's that came through this PROVEN WAY currently please.

It's right there, Osimhen!

kendrick93:
You can't force an unwilling horse.
The Saka's, Olise, Musiala's etc have at no time indicated even a slight interest in playing for Nigeria..A total non starter.
Maybe in Complete Sports and beer parlour gossip but anyone sane knew it was dead on arrival.
Truth is the best young players wouldn't even think twice if given a choice.
Nigeria has to settle for players like Iwobi, Lookman.. who are are attainable cause they have no hope of say an England or Germany call up

I might just be one of the few SE fans that is not really keen about these foreign borns. For goodness sake let them be!

We have our own proven way of getting getting quality players thru the production line and that is the youth team.

All the world class players we've ever produced have been thru the youth teams.

Ikpeba, kanu, Taribo, Okocha, Babayaro, Mikel and now Osimhen have come thru the youth ranks.

The only exception is of course Victor Moses.

There was a time the foreign borns were not even eligible to play for us and we did just fine. Now, we lazily look up to them to fix every hole, real or imagined , in the NT.

Mujtahida:
That 4-4-2 is suicide. I spent this holiday watching clips of Tunisia 94 semi finals and finals. One thing struck me. The commentators stated that our midfield was thin. That Cote D' Ivoire and Zambia had better midfield but that our strength lies in our attack. E surprise me but on reflection I see that its true.

Westerhof didn't use 442 at Tunisia 94, he used 443.

In the semi finals against CIV, the attack was Yekini, Amokachi and Siasia while the Midfielders were Finidi ,Okocha and Oliseh.

And no, our midfield was not thin in both matches. We dominated CIV and lost so many chances.

In the final against Zambia, our midfield only capitulated following okochas removal.

This is extremely paltry.

About 100 Million USD for almost 2 million people.

State government needs to get creative in the area of revenue generation.

No state should be having a budget of less than 500M Naira.

Nice one.

But hope u know, as it's often the case, the souvenir was not served to all and sundry at the party.

It was just shared to a few maybe like 20 people.

NairaMaster1:
They are civilised. The languages include Hebrews, Yoruba and Igbo. Not necessarily their native language.

This list has to be about native languages and not that of immigrants otherwise, Nigeria also will have more than 537 listed.

Also, other Cosmopolitan countries like the UK, Canada, Russia, Israel will all be on the list if immigrants languages are counted.

The writer got it all mixed up in his writing.

While acknowledging that CAF APOTY started In 1992 he still went to credit Abedi Pele as the APOTY of 1993 whereas CAF APOTY 93 is Rashidi Yekini.

CAF started organizing APOTY awards in 1992 and decided to go with France football's choice which is Pele.

From 1993, CAF decided to make their own choice away from France football and yekini was crowned for that year.

The common assumption that Abedi Pele won 3 APOTY is nothing but a myth.

komekn:
It's simplistic to display ignorance and present it as intelligence.

Simply put the best players end up in the best teams Ceteris paribus .

Therein lies the problem my dear, in reality, things are seldom always equal.

There will always be gray areas and exceptions.

Jamie Vardy played In the obscurity of lower English game till his late 20s but nobody can doubt is quality today.

ChrisKels:
Not when you are doing well especially for any of the top CAF teams such as Sundowns, Orlando Pirates, Kaizer Chiefs from SA, Zamalek, Club Africain etc

I just don't understand this recent idea of always assessing a player solely on where he plays. This is so simplistic and very misleading.

We are talking about the AFCON for God's sake where a lot of other countries will be presenting players from various leagues in Africa! Not as if our opponents are bringing players from real Madrid or Barca so I don't see the reason why someone playing for Orlando Pirates can't make the team.

The Egyptian team that won back to back Afcon titles doesn't have a large number of players playing in Europe.

JASONjnr:
The annoying one is the recent OSIM slangs. .....



Just nonsense.

What does it even mean?

But u guys that are bashing the OP I'm sure u have sisters, cousins and female friends that you've , at one time or the other, wonder what they see in the guyz they are dating because they (the guyz) don't possess any outstanding physical qualities.

You expect that these girls should have good taste.

Same goes to ourselves too, sometimes we wonder why some girls we are Interested in choose a particular guy above us seeing that we have better physical qualities than the other guy.

Bottom line? Girls will always have some kind of physical attributes they look out for in a potential partner ( same for guys anyway) and the OP's list is not in any way unreasonable.

Save for the height part, a lot of guys meet her criteria.

Let the OP breathe.

AndSunGorilla:
The Zambiateam that won ANC in 2012 where were they playing?

And also the Nigerian team that won the 2013 edition.

And o, the Egyptian team that won 3 consecutive AFCONs and have been in 2 finals since.

Even the Cameroonian team that won the 2017 Edition, where were they playing?

Truidstarr:
You Dey use 94 quality to judge 2023 quality? So do your research… example Ajax was at par with the likes of Milan… Barcelona and Madrid as at 94. The English premiership we all admire today was rubbish back then. It was rated between 5th to 7th.

How many of the 94 squad played for Ajax? Just one.

Apart from that one ,all the others played for average teams, clubs that are not better than Chaves today.

Yekini, the highest goal scorer of the competition, played for Setubal and we had no issues with that.