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Oh cry me a river....

Africa should Boycott this and that like they will miss us.... European have been crying for more places.. African voluntary given up 5 spots will be like manna from Heaven to Some other countries.

People shout racism as if Matuidi and Neymar were white, or Brazil is a white nation


J Rodriguez was ticked from piller to post

Who was the bigger cry baby Alonso or Vettel

publicenemy: Yes...theses are stuff didnt add,pardon me.
But as a coach who would you rather have in your team.

I think messi is a more brilliant player...but ronaldo is more of a goal scoring threat.

Ronaldo could be easily frustrated, Messi could get you out of Jail

Abu Mikey: FIFA = RACIST

The last I checked Neymar is black

Messi has better technique, better control of the ball, better running with the ball, he is better at riding tackles, Messi is better at passing (long or short or through passes) Messi has the better vision, Messi can handle been double marked

alexdidi: Its still an achievment!

You called 1/8 an achievement?

Itoroetti :
go read about the design of the stadium and the stadium it is model after.dont argue what u dont knw

The Allienz Arena is a FOOTBALL Stadium designed for the 2 teams in the city of Munich, The UYO stadium is a multi purpose stadium... a 30k stadium at most could be extended to 40k. And the Allinez was built deep below ground level. It was modelled after Metlife stadium in new york

robosky02: the stadium is 30,000 capacity
it is model like the allianze arena home ground of bayern munich

No its not...... Dont ever make that mistake, the Allienz arena is a work of art, a Grada A UEFA Stadium (meaning it could host the final of the champions League)

Hmmm

I dont blame him....

fubbyy: Mourinho killed mikel's career, don't ask me how

Mikel played one season under Mourinho... so how did he kill his career? Ramirez was an attacking player at Benfica, Ancelotti played him as a holding midfielder, you dont hear the brazilian crying wolf, Carlo destroyed our player

alexdidi: afcon na. Mikel dominated.

Thats one game out of how many games? its like 1 game out of 8 or 10 games Mikel out performed Yaya

Can you close the door and switch off the light on your way out, dont let the door hit you when you are closing it.

Lordabas: Keshi played his mind games well and he got what he wanted. Better luck to him.
But 168million? That's approximately $1million and its pretty small in modern football terms.

Really in international football its quite good

kechywillz: he should have left chelsea when he had the opportunity,wen Inter milan came for him,he could have utilized that opportunity then. But now,i think its too late,inter milan may not be interested in him again,after his beyond par performance at the world cup.

Inter wanted him for close to nothing

alexdidi: dont 4get he outplayed yaya. Bt yaya is beta sha

When?

colo$$u$:
And where did you place Hugo Lloris and Manuel Neuer

I thought Neuer was a Sweeper?

kendrick93: am using ur logic.. marketable-popular.. thats wat u said

Marketable and Popular are not the same thing...

kendrick93: stop shiftin d goalposts..we are talkin worldwide. who gives a poo wat lyon fans tink.. puttin ayew with benzema is an emberassment.
and yes,ronaldo and messi are more popular dan beckham.. d new generation,most dnt know beckham. even my 3yrs bro knows who messi and ronaldo are

Pay attention to details I said Beckham is MORE MARKETABLE THAN THOSE 3 PLAYERs ALL TOGTHER


And in FRANCE..... (I said in France) Ayew is more Marketable than Benzema

50calibre: Well I'm not really making a case for France alone, but Europe as a whole.

How can you compare Andre Ayew with someone like Benzema, a champions league star who plays for arguably the greatest club in Europe, They are not in the same calibre at all. Ayew may be more marketable than Benzema (which I'm not sure of) because he plays in France but globally, Ayew is no where near Benzema.

Rodrigues is a break out star of this World Cup, 2 months ago most people never heard of him and falcao isn't at the World Cup.

Besides, you over estimate yaya youre. Yeah he's a very good player but he hasn't really shone on the big stage.

Are you for real

Do you know how much it cost Monaco to take him away from Porto last year (you call 45m a break out player), A player that was in the same team as Falcao and Hulk at Porto under AVB, I cant believe you thought Rodriguez was a rookie

kendrick93: so in ur brain u tink ayew is more popular dan pogba? ayew is an avetage playa who cnt even get games for marseille.. and beckham isnt more popular dan messi and ronaldo. thats a big lie

If you live in France you will know this Benzema was a Lyon player that the fans hate, Ayew is the son of a Merseile legend who they love so dearly... Like I said you have to live in France to know this.

The Beckham bit well I say no more

abatically: Pogba is more marketable than toure right now due to their age. Pogba can easily be sold for 50 million, u can't get more than 25-30 million for toure. If u know about football u should already know toure is already 31. Also benzema is more marketable than ayew.

Value is not marketable dont mistake that concept, You wont buy David Beckham for £1 but he is still more marketable than Messi, Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic all together.

Tell me who is more popular around the world Karem Benzema or Didier Drogba

50calibre: The fact Columbia and Costa Rica are in the last 8, has nothing to do with FIFA's preference. FIFA isn't going to rig games just to allow teams advance because that's what it wants.

France as well as other big European teams are very much beneficial to FIFA without necessarily having big marketable stars. A large part of FIFA's revenue comes from TV rights, these countries have very large viewership, then not to mention the fans who travel all the way to brazil, ticket sales, & even marketing rights (for even the not so big stars)

Despite the lack of notable stars in the French side, I can assure you Benzema & Pogba are more marketable than any African, Columbian or Costa Rican player.

Are you serious?

Yaya Toure is more marketable than both players mentioned above, Andre Ayew is more marketable than Benzema in France, then you mentioned Pogba compared to Rodriguez, Martinez and Falcao. Please market wise France in nowhere in the position to influence FIFA's finances, Germany/English yes but France hell no

Noah13: Here is a clear reason why African teams will never win the world cup


1. Ben Arfa (Tunisia) - France

2. Paul Pogba (Guinea) - France

3. Karim Benzema (Algeria) - France

4. Samir Nasri (Algeria) - France

5. Govou (Benin) - France

6. Zinedine Zidane (Algeria) -France

7.Luis Nani (Cape Verde) - Portugal

8. Christian Benteke (DRC) -Belgium

9. Jerome Boateng (Ghana) -Germany

10. David Alaba (Nigeria) - Austria

11. Oguchi Onyewu (Nigeria) - USA

12. Angelo Ogbonna (Nigeria) - Italy

13. Dennis Aogo (Nigeria) - Germany

14. Okaka Chuka (Nigeria) - Italy

15. Gabriel Agbonlahor (Nigeria) -Scotland

16. Patrick Owemoyela (Nigeria) -
Germany

17. Nedum Onuoah (Nigeria) -England

18. Patrick Vieira (Senegal) - France

19. Mousa Dembele (Mali) - Belgium

20. Romelo Lukaku (DRC) - Belgium

21. Sami Khedira (Tunisia) - Germany

22. Vincent Kompany (Congo) -Belgium

23. Danny Welbeck (Ghana) -England

24. Mario Balotelli (Ghana) - Italy

25. Mamadou Sakho (Guinea) -France

26. Bacary Sagna (Senegal) - France

27. 7Patrice Evra (Guinea) - France

28. El Shaarawy (Egypt) - Italy

29. Dirick Origi (Kenya) - Belgium

30. Ramires Makukula (Swaziland) -Brazil...

Please tell me how Nigeria treated Thompson Oliha or Sam Okwaraji's family?

sean079: did u watch matuidi truout d game, d way he tackled se players was just too dangerous. he played lyk agbero in dat match

Thats how he played against Equador and Swiss, his tackles are hard

50calibre: Hahaha but you're forgetting the locations were already fixed before knowing (apart from estimates) how many fans each teams were bringing with them, then the US showed up with Hundreds of thousands of fans.

Conditions can only be made convenient for you, it doesn't guarantee you success, you still have to play. Those trans you mentioned are out, because this time, the Americas stepped up their game.

Don't tell me you believe FIFA doesn't care which teams advance to the knockout stages, money rules football, Ideally, FIFA wants the big spenders lurking around and that's why the US's performance at this World Cup is a good thing for FIFA.

It depends on the country hosting the world cup, FIFA knows if Brazil goes out in the group stage the tournament will die and instant death, because the fans will switch off compare to South Africa where the public showed alot of interest and alot of fans travelled to Jo'burg. FIFA favoured both host in Korea/Japan because of this fear but saying this very world that has both Colombia and Costa Rica in the last 8 for the first time could also meet in the final quashes your train of thought that FIFA wants the so called big teams (which some of them are already home). Marketing wise France offers nothing to FIFA, they dont have a marketable player in the same class Rooney, Torres, Neymar etc let alone Ronaldo so tell me what has FIFA has to gain but making sure France gets through? Oh to relive W Germany vs France semi's at the 1982 worl cup

50calibre: Well they did react, probably not as vociferously as they should have. Sometimes decision go your way, some times they don't, thats football.

I believe if a Nigeria player had made such vicious tackle, he could have been shown a straight red, no doubt about that but it's clear FIFA favours the big European teams mostly because of sponsorship deals, it's clear as daylight, even Jurgen Klinsman said it.

In the group stages, the big teams were placed in favourable locations, bigger stadiums, and given more experienced refs, all these to ensure they had a smoother ride advancing to the next round. It pays FIFA to have these teams in the knockout stages.

Most of these Refs are just scared of backlash, they play it safe. Only few experienced Refs like Howard Web make tough calls without fear.

That being said, if you play your football right, out play your opponent & score a clear goal, no one can deny you that.

Oh dear common man, please tell me how many Nigerian fans went to Brazil? 100, 1000, 10000 I dont think we have up to 3000 fans when we have Australia who has up to 10000 fans, the south American teams have well over 1000000 fans in Brazil the stadium has to be strategised. and the teams were rotated and Nigeria played in a community which was claimed that they originated from Nigeria... So tell me FIFA wanted the big teams in the later stage why are teams like England, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia are already home, The ref who took charge of the Brazil vs Croatia was rubbish and was new, an Algerian took charge of the Belgium vs US game and if am correct an African took charge of the 2006 final in Germany

Chanchit: If you were taking note of everything going on in that match, you would know that Onazi was our engine room in that match, what happened after his exit..? Mikel was finally exposed.

Are you saying that we dont have cover for Onazi in the squad of 23?

fijiano202: Racism is part of FIFA package to the world cup...Alex Song gave a player an elbow and was given red card immediately but when Sahko of france did the same thing against ecuador the Ref said he didnt see it and FIFA gave him no punishment after the game.. Oliver Giroud elbowed Mikel no card was given,Maltuidi tackle Onazi without the ball he only got yellow card...Evra hold Osaze with both hands and no penalty was given...

And what race is Sahko of france

Name a penalty given because of a bear hug in the penalty box

alekside: It still doesn't make it right.

Yes it wasnt right, but it was a miss timed tackle, which is bound to happen in any football match

Mazi_Omenuko: Keshi didn't protest enough to get the attention of the cameras! The most annoying thing was that the SE players right on the pitch didn't do a single protest! Don't they see how spain and barca players crowd ref whenever such incidence occur? Evra held Osaze with two hands when Osaze went to nod the ball inside the penalty area and the ref ignored it! The incidence happened right in the prersence of the ref; yet no single SE player raised hands to appeal for a penalty! It was so glaring!
Onazi's injury collapsed our midfield and this goes to show it was a calculated attack! That wasn't the first time the french had tried injuring him. He survived the first assault. Did you see the french assaulting Mikel like that? No! Because the knew he was useless and harmless!

Abeg, make una no remind me of that game again!

BOLD Blame that on your manager, who couldnt make the necessary adjustments

alekside: I understand you though, but I believe reckless tackles which could lead to career ending injuries should also be punished retrospectively.

Btw, Suarez bite is not the worst in football. Some Players spit on their fellow players why some intentionally try to break another player leg when they lose it. Let's stop falling for the useless British press censure.

Am sorry its a miss time tackle, When Bright Omokaro ended Algeria's Hamed Djamel's career we hailed him even gave him the nick name 10/10

Edoblakky: I believe we got what we deserved! After Onazi was injured and the referee issued a light punishment, what did our boys do? Nothing! We think football is fairplay? This is exactly how Italy handled us at USA'94 world cup. They took out Amokachi and Amuneke while we played fair instead of taking out Baggio. When Onazi was taken out, I expect our players to take out Pogba. And if they take out Osaze, we should take out Benzema. We may cry all we like but football is not fair play.

You couldnt say it any better!!! Since 1994 we have learnt sweet F*** A** If you watch Argentina vs Swiss, the aim of the Swiss players is to stop the Swiss in their tracks, take them out knowing thats so far you do not show your studs going into a tackle then its a yellow card!! the French guys tackle was miss timed. All these blame Blatter and FIFA is looney, Onazi went off, what did Coco the clown called Keshi do?