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And then he went on to admit that the only way African football can grow is if we invest in our local leagues and our local coaches. Why are you not quoting that?

What he is effectively saying is the idea of hiring me for world cup was ridiculous and silly!!!!

Whats is our response to that revelation from Lagerback? we are asking Lagerback to stay for another 4-year contract.

How ridiculous can a Nation get

Did you see Adebayor’s and Kanu’s comment on local coaches in Africa (excluding Arabs) he practically said that most local all sort of things like before you play for your country and Kanu also confirmed that such system is killing the growth of indigenous coaches in Africa except those from Northern Africa,

Lagerback cant get a job elsewhere except Africa, with their inferiority complex.

At 61years some managers feel that they cant handle club football so international footie , love him or loathe him he is laughing towards the bank,

Guus Hiddink took South Korea to the semi's in 2002 and since then they have developed their own coach, The same cannot be said about Nigeria,


I think it was in one of Napoleon Hill's book he quotes

Those who know more than you would more likely to earn more than you, .

he did not play a lone strikers he played 2strikers, and what makes you think that martins cannot play that role. omar22 i hope that your not in anyway trying to defend lars decision to build his team around yak because your wrong. i would rather play obinna,martins,uche,obasi,osaze even that old fool kanu before i consider yak

Name the second striker?

Am not saying he should build a team around the Yak which is impossible to build a team around a lone striker, 

give Lagerback a hundred years, he wont do better than this. As for Sani Lulu, he's only talking with his pocket at heart

True!!! if you pick a PIG, put lipstick, makeup, foundation, perfume or aftershave!!!


It would still be A PIG,

Its not that Lagerback was working with a rough diamond, he is working with a bunch of ego's who cant see pass their manliness and the weekly wages,

who is fooled by the rubbish statement, before is it my father that you would blame, kai imagine paying this cow 300million naira for him to humiliate us kai 300million that would feed me from now till ever just for a silly backside redneck to even do worse than amodu

I believe his contract at the end of July, Their would be another job waiting for him, I guess Nigeria should go down on their knees with a begging bowl and beg Amodu to come back and manage Nigeria for the next 10 years

Unlike some people he didnt blame the world, the jeep, the players, their laziness, the injury, the NFF, The OPP, The CIA or FBI for his failures,

The Same as Marcelo Lippi he said its all his fault

na so what flashes did aiyebenni show, he was totally useless in nations cup, not only was he bad, he was lazy. there is absolutely no excuse for lars to build his team around aiyebeni

Tell me his option?


It’s a simple question!!

From what I have seen in world football only Carlton Cole or Gabby Agbolahor could play the lone striker and they both opt not o play for Nigeria…

this stuff is like abc,123

Why dont you go and do it? if its that simple!!!

Name another Nigerian striker that could play the lone role? looking at the nations cup video means, what? that he should always look back, most news managers at a club wipe the slate clean, why would you want to watch a video of a competition were the player were not motivated to play for Amodu!!!

New managers gives everyone a fair chance,

Yes he had the job from Feb, what happened to international window in March and April for Friendlies? the NFF ,essed it up,

4months is enough for a coach to know that yakubu should not be our number 1 striker

He had the players for the first time in the third week in May, theirs no quick fix in football, a player who misses the pre season at a new generally struggles

;d ;d

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying - Michael Jordan



i KNOW we lost but we crashed out of thr world cup due to minor incident which were man made problems not the fault of the manager, but we played better than what I have seen since Nigeria / Ghana 2000 and this is a team lagerback had for the first time from the 3rd week in May, the team were able to string 4 or 5 passes together , Its Ok for Amodu to bully the like of kenya, Benin or Zambia but these teams are catching up, Amodu did not try to improve his ability / knowledge

wow osaze the man that single handedly made nigeria qualify in 2009 is now branded as a fool just because of a white coach. if your osaze won't you be frustrated, he came into this worldcup as nigeria star man looking to find a new big club only for this goat of a coach to bench him for who "sani keita" now i know how many fake behind nigerian ans we have

No man is an island


Osaze is a FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL its not formula 1 when its you and your car, but its a team sport,

Which part of disbanding the whole NFF the dont understand,


In the end they bring back the Biology Teacher (Onigbinde) or Poster boy (Amodu) as a decoy to embezzle funds

Bunch of raving, stewpid conjectures.

Local coaches are not given enough time and support (by FA and the immensely moronic Naija press) to succeed. Westerhof had 5 years.

*Westerhof painted the future of Nigerian football to them (FA) during his interview, this was why Ahikomu backed the dutchman to the hilt


*They saw that Amodu lacked vision and he was a poster boy (yes man)

*Chuckwu the same as above

*Siasia wasnt a yes man, thats why they didnt like him, remember when he was taking the team to holland in 95, he wasnt co-operative enough!!!

*Eguavon needs exposure

That same Ghanian team as of now is the only African team not to have lost a game in this world cup. You are clearly under-rating their ability.

I dont care whether Ghana is in the final of the world cup, The name GHANA alone is Motivation for the whole squad or the whole country, History has shown that if theres any country Ghana wants to beat at football its nigeria and vice versa,


@Sagamite, by now we should be able to see your lip print on Amodu's backside, I heard that North Korea is looking for a new manager, ask your God father to apply for the job, its target driven he would fit in well and if he gets caught collecting bribe,

^^^which foreign coach won us our first nations cup in 1980? Our local coaches have tried whenever they've been called upon despite the lack of support they are given

Otto Gloria took the team to the 1980 nations cup


Biology teacher Pa Onigbinde bottled the 1984 ANC final by dropping Rufai for Okala in the final

Our local coaches lacks ambition,  they similar in thinking to the English coaches

was it Amodu that told Martins to not convert the innumerable one on ones' he had in the game against Ghana? When these boys played under Amodu we blamed Amodu saying he was technically deficient and when Amodu came out and said these boys were average, it was as if the sky was falling. Now that Lagerback has successfully failed, we are now coming to terms with the fact that are our boys are average

Against Ghana's U21 we only had to break through the Ghanaians who decided to sit back, for about 75 minutes Nigeria played with a lone striker

Comparing the Ghanaian movies stars to the Nigerian is like comparing Bollywood to Hollywood….   The problem here is that Ghanaians are just trying to fast track their industry up to the level of Nollywood that’s why they are throwing money at it but still a bit short of the quality of Nollywood……….

But going at the current pace theirs a strong chance to the Ghanaians could surpass the Nigerian movie industry…


But i have always thought the nigerian acting is hideous but Ghanaian takes the biscuit, they need to invest in some drama or acting school

Jennifer choose her career (FRIENDS) over having a family, but the whole affair kicked off on the set when they were shooting Mr & Mrs Smith

When they see oyinbo looking all professional and dignified with specs, dem dey look to the sky to God that "thank you o". Even before SE play the Saudi Arabia match, some of them don dey talk say dem don see improvement for SE.

blah blah blah


You sound like someone who has been oppressed or been bullied by an oyinbo,


The gospel truth is Nigeria had 30 years to gain the knowledge of managing players but no, typical black mans thinking "enough is good enough" a lack mentality until that changes we African would pay top dollar for someone else's knowledge,

Amodu would have got us to QFs.

Quarter final of WHAT!


Egg race or Sack race!!! I honestly believe we are not talking about football here!

ahh, the cookie don fokasibe Amodu is also not a magician. Westerhoff was appointed 1989, until 94 before he won the nations cup.

Westerhoff took homebase players to Algiers 90, he refuse to rely on the Keshi, Siasia, Ndubusi etc who were demanding money before they appear for the national team also so many teams refuse to release their players…. But I think its only Yekini played abroad (that may be African Sports in Abidjan or in Portugal) but taking a home base team to the finals and he had the chance to build on the team Amodu couldn’t manage a RAT RACE….

Ask yourself why a coach Amodu with a wealth of experience in the local league would fail to bring in any decent talent from the local league to bolster the team. Scapegoat my butt!

They dont have enough to bribe him, collecting between £15k-£20k from each player got in the way of Amodu's thinking, if you know that at each Nigerian game theirs a window for you to earn between £100k-£150k (with Ogunjobi and Co) then you could easily tell the local lads to F-off,

omar22 may god punish you and lagerback, you don't need 3 months to know that keita is not a right winger

You sound like someone who grew up on cow Milk

go and play messi on the left wing and see how he does,

The 2009 CL final Messi played in the Center whilst Samuel Eto played on the left,


Please tell me who scored and who won

@montelik (m)


Look Amodu has had 3 bites of a cherry; I haven’t seen any improvement from the 2002 team to the one that made us look like a laughing stock in Europe in Angola…. During the qualification, we (Nigeria) got through the back door, people said he achieve his target, is part of his target is to rely on Mozambique doing us a favour? (Like in 2002 we had to bribe Ghana just to squeeze Liberia out), I like to see a manager who cares for his team, not being lazy, update yourself, improve on your man-management skills and not line your pocket………………. Look at Keshi he went away educated himself got TOGO to the world cup

Now for Amodu to prove me wrong…  he should do the same, the role of a football manager would always be available Congo, Gambia, Guinea whatever lets see him apply for a job and see how far his ability would take him… Until then he would be regards as COCO THE CLOWN

A man achieving his targets is not incompetent.

What target?


ANC Semi final WOW!!!! anyone could get Nigeria to the Semi Final

Eguavon
Chuckwu,  I am so glad that the looney was sacked

SK did not. NK did not with Brazil that is a better team. Swiss did not with Spain.

South Korea tried to fight fire with fire and got burnt,


North Korea sat and parked the bus against Brazil the only time they came out is when they scored, look at when they tried to stand toe to toe against Portugal they got hit 7 goals

Swiss PARKED the bus only scored on the counter

Check his stats and see how poor he was.

If he was that poor he wouldnt spend that long

Amodu's subs resulted in goals.

You mean taking off a holding player for another holding player when we are chasing the game, bravo

He succeeded. He was mandated to take us to the semi-finals of the Nations cup. He succeeded. On the other hand Lagerback was appointed with a mandate to take us to World cup semi-finals

Lagerback has a contract to the end of the world cup… so theirs nothing to sack!!! Asking a manager to take Nigeria to the semi-final of a world cup, is like asking Nigeria to build their own rocket and send it to the moon by the end of July we hired a manager in February or March and he got to meet them in the 3rd week of May… we had 3 international windows to play friendlies between January and May the NFF mocked up…, The worst the NFF could do is not give him a long term contract… either way he would collect his $900k fee and any bonus involved…. Look at Ivory Coast who had Sven, he took could do a quick fix

Which U-21 side? Lying rubbish.

The same "U-21" that is the sole hope of Africa now? The ones he dominated the game for 80 mins against are the ones tormenting European countries but you think Amodu would go and lose at WC? Logic?

They way you predicted we would be hammered at ANC?

Hammer ko, Shovel ni!

Sole hope,  yeah they are the continents sole hope,  Amodu in that position those players wouldnt be anywhere near the national team,  no matter how much you kiss Amodu's backside,  Amodu was IMCOMPOTENT (according to Etuhu)

First Game: Our game plan (one thing tkb likes to constantly refer to  ) was to surrender that we would lose, so not bad as long as it is not embarassing. We did not come to compete. Just make sure the score line was not humiliating. We lost a chance to attempt to nick a draw since we did not come to compete.

Second Game: He brought in a striker to defend a one goal lead (by taking out our best and most creative player), when he had a hard working and experienced DM on the bench and no DM on the pitch. The Greeks exploited this and utilised the middle. They equalised and then won. We lost a win and then a draw. When we should have played defensive for as long as we can.

Third Game: Played Afolabi in LB despite the fact he struggled there a bit in the Greece match, Echiejile being OK and Adeleye, one would suspect, would have done a better job. Continued playing Obasi despite his poor performance in the first 2 games. We are out of WC.

His selections and tactics were a major part of why we are out of the WC.

First Game – Our game plan was the same plan for every manager that has met Argentina and that would meet Argentina… Or is their a team that has gone all attack against Argentina?


Second Game – We went a man down against the former European Champion


Third Game – The same Obasi that created the chances for Martins and Yakubu that they missed


If he was that poor how did he made Sweden for over 6 years……


Like I said your Aristo……………. Would struggle to manage a TEA PARTY

[quotehow can you lose respect for him when we have a useless coach that plays players on the wrong place. osaze was excellent in his right winger position, he was nigeria best player, the only player that i taught could find a big club after world cup, but what do lars did, he carry useless sani keita put for right wing play osaze from left,center and all wrong position. the guy played 2 45 minutes game against argentina he was good but selfish

I have never heard so much hog wog in my life,   Ozaze is a winger (1st) then Right winger (2nd) if Ozaze cannot play on both wings then he shouldnt be an international player,  Arjen Robben plays on both wings, Ribery both wings, C Ronaldo both wings/striker,  Messi is left footed played on the right,  He is just bitter that he doesnt get enough game time, every skill you have comes with great responsibilty,  I guess him being the HERO was his main concern against Argentina,

Amodu should have taken us to WC and then they are free to sack him if they had a case

Yeah and let the Super Eagle equal or beat Zaire 9-0 hammering by Yugoslavia in 1974,  If Amodu cant beat an Under 21 Ghanaian side how would he get to beat the big boys

I am all for foreign coach but I am against the sacking of a[b] man doing well[/b]

You sound desperate, Doing well Amodu cannot manage an Ashewo house (Brothel) let alone a school team,

This guy is fool, he has lost all the respect I have for him, because he was dropped he decided to come out with this rubbish, if his to be learn you don’t talk ill about your ex manager, Lagerback might get a job at the club he plays for in Europe, and he would find himself being squeezed out, one minute you called Amodu incompetent now turning against your current manager, what would he do if Lagerback’s contract with the eagles is been extended? Their goes his international career…… I think he should engage his brain before he opens his mouth…


If he wasnt gREEDY we would have drawn the Argie game

Atleast the players went for it compared to when we were playing the Ghana under 21 team in Angola or when we were playing a ten men senegalese,

Amodu looked like a rabbit caught in the headlight (you the reaction)

the difference between Lagerback and Maradona