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typicalgamer:
Go see as them they roast nff presido for twitter

Only some delusional urchins here go think say super Christmas fowl na hot shxt

To say we cannot get to the world cup final is ignorance and denial.
Is it because if the stuff that happened this year. It's just part of football.
3 years ago we drew with Brazil ans so don't get so judgemental.
Our football academies produce players every year and so we don't lack quality players going forward. Ask Supernwrd about this.
The Morocco you are shouting may loose to us or I ory coast in the nation's cup.
This judgemental attitude is out of hand.

TheSuperNerd:
We have a Dream: CAF Presido, Patrice Motsepe talking Nigeria up...

Merry Christmas Eve

Have at it....

We can win the world cup in the next 20 years or less. The golden generation of okocha could have gotten to the semi finals.
Also, with the rate at which our football academies are producing players and our foreign birns and local league we stand a chance.
One coach just has to put 2 and 2 together and fashion a winning team. I mean Victor eletu, Ahmed abdulahi, azeez oseni etc can get to the semi final of the world cup or win it by 2030 to 2034.
The talent production is there.
I know people don't believe it but our grassroots football is underrated, underepoted but very vibrant

jihday:
these countries are just smarter, if an U-18 player born abroad shows great promise they can bring them to the senior team, if such happens here we’ll see people protesting and saying maybe the NFF have been bribed

The issue is we cannot manage things and we are not sincere with developing football.
What Morocco did are two things
1. Develop their league and football academies
2. Leverage on foreign born players
3. Create a team that consists of home grown and foreign born players together.\

The problem with us is that we go on silly extremes.
If we get foreign born players we might ignore our league, youth football and football academies
which is 5 forward and 10 steps backwards.
If we build our local football, we might ignore our foreing born players which is another disadvantage
We should be able to manage this thing i mean
1. Develop our local football
2. Get foreign born players
The two of them are not competing with each other.
THEY ARE COLLABORATING WITH EACH OTHER!!
OUR ENEMIES ARE OUR OPPONENTS ON THE FOOTBALL PITCH NOT EBERECHI EZE FIGHTING WITH NWAKALI AND LOOKING
DOWN ON HIM.
MORROCO WILL DOMINATE FOOTBALL FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE THEY WILL DEVELOP THEIR LOCAL LEAGUE AND ACADEMIES
AND INVITE MORE FOREIGN BORNS.
OUR ADMINISTRATORS HAVE TO GET THIS MIXTURE RIGHT.
MY RESERVATIONS WITH GETTING FOREIGN BORNS IS THAT THE STUPID NFF WILL START IGNORING OUR LOCAL FOOTBALL
AND ANY SUCCESS THEY ACHIEVE WILL NOT LAST AND EVERYTHING WILL CRUMBLE IN A MESS OF CORUPTION AND MISADMINISTRATION.
GUSAU (THE NEW NFF CHAIRMAN) IS INTERESTED IN OUR YOUTH TEAMS AND THEY SEEM IMPRESSIVE\
AND IT WILL BE GREAT IF WE SUSTAIN IT WITH FOREING BORN PLAYERS.
i hope they get the mixture right as our administrators are immature.
It is similar to when Nigeria discovered oil and abandoned agriculture, mineral resources and local technology.
Getting foreign borns may make our administrators lazy and incompetent and before you know it we are back to square one.
1Get foreing borns
2. Develop our local football
and then everything will be allright.
The funny thing is that some foreing borns dont want to play for us
because they notice how corrupt and negligent our football officials are

charlesemeka85:
and how will investor recoup their money?

How many pple turn out to watch our local league matches?

You see the npfl is an historical brand. It has a long history of excellence which can easily be leveraged on and bring back the fans.
This is a league that produced okocha, taribo west, Ahmed Musa, kanu nwankkwo etc.
It also has tradional teams like shooting stars and so the older generation can even be drawn to it.
It has a lost pedigree that can be leveraged on. Also, we can invite our old players like ogeyi onazzi to play for us.
People will come because those memories are still with them and the older generation can connect with the younger generation with this.
It's all marketing brother. The legacy is there to leverage on and it is something

How the Nigerian league can develop.

Can't nff get investors from quatar, Saudi Arabia, china etc. Also the man city group can buy one of our clubs.
We don't need our money for the league to run. We just need investors.
But nff are stupid and myopic. How will a league attract investors when it is not televised.
Anyway with our global reputation in football, we can easily attract investors. We have global stars like kanu, okocha, Mikel obi etc. They can easily market us to the world

Mujtahida:
I concur with you. When you win, everything you do is right, when you loose everything you do is wrong. Had France won, you'd have seen how Deschamps would have been hailed as a tactical genius and Scaloni utterly condemned for letting a 2 up lead slip out of his hands a second time.

But if we want to be objective without letting our bias color our judgment, we would look at the results Deschamps has achieved with the French team during his stint. That should guide our judgment not the outcome of one just single game no matter how important.

In spite of having top of the range quality players at his disposal, Guardiola's barca were walloped 7- 0 by Bayern. His Bayern side were taken to the cleaners by Real Madrid. Guardiola lost in a Champions league final. Yet nobody in his right mind would argue that Gaudiola is a poor tactician

Yeah, i agree with the bolded. This argentine team can't protect a lead against a good team.
It happened against Holland and now, it happened again against France.
They could not even protect a lead for 10 minutes in extra time.
Scaloni deserves critisicm for that despite winning the trophy.
I think that the Argentine defence is a little suspect and the team lacks a little mental strength.
but people won't talk as he won.
Also, he brought out Di maria at the wrong time and dybala could have played in extra time.
In fact Martinez was not in form and he used and selected him.
Well, all will be forgotten as he won

mostob:
Nigeria will win world cup one day.

May God spare our lives till then.

In the next 15 to 20 years we will win the world cup.
We have everything to do it.
Watch out for our you teams (u20, u17, u23)
Nothing is impossible.
They once said that the invention of the aeroplane was impossible but time proved them wrong.
So this is the way Nigeria will prove everybody wrong

codemaniacs:
Ejuke has the highest assists for his club and is more direct than Simon in the S.E..

when Simon plays for the S.E he plays without intensity and intent...

Moses SIMon is a wide forward and not a right sided midfielder. He is better off in a 433 as a wide forward.
He can't operate in a 442
The issue is that we have many explosive forwards who can explode in the past third of the pitch but we lack midfielders.
The quality of forwards is a serious advantage we don't know how t Ouse.
Get alhassan Yusuf, ovie ejaria, iwobi etc in our midfield and let them liberate our forwards and we are good to go.
This thing is very simple I wonder why it is so hard for our coaches.

TheSuperNerd:
Like the Midfield, like the Defence.



The above scenario also applies to the Defense. Not just the midfield.

If a few good legs outside the top leagues can still help fix our Defensive issues and also raise the passing quality of our buildup plays from the back, then we should not ignore them all because their club names don't sound sweet to the tongue.

From my observation olisah ndah is very good at keeping the ball, distributing it, passing etc. I was shocked when I saw him play at afcon. He is very intelligent and technical and might even be able to play in midfield.
But he plays in South Africa and people will not see past that.
He will prove our passing if given a chance.
I think poseiro has plans for him and he was called up against Portugal but had a slight injury

Danielnino00:
Nigeria and Benin republic have officially submitted a joint bid to host 2025 AFCON..
Algeria and Morocco also submitted a bid

With all the insecurity in the country. Are we sure we can keep separatists, terrorists, criminals etc at bay.

TheSuperNerd:
Undoubtedly.

Age wise, I should belong to this Messi-CR7 generation and when it comes to picking the GOAT, I should be in either camps but I am not like that. I love to study and REALLY KNOW. I love to research deeper than what have been served to know who truly is the GOAT of football.

My research led me to Edson Arantes Dos Nascimento, AKA Pele.

I am glad to have seen Messi and CR7 from the start but mehn... everything I have seen, watched, enjoyed from these two is still dwarfed by the Pure Unadulterated Magic or Miracle that was Pele.

I always wondered why I didn't exist in Pele's time. I really would have loved that. But then Football gave us Messi and CR7 as compensation and before that Maradona to show us whole glimpses of what Pele was.

Pele was too complete. Messi and Ronaldo are like breakaway variations of the player Pele was.

Ronaldo is predominantly all about Athleticism, Speed, Power and Finishing.

Messi is predominantly all about High technical ability, Ball intelligence, Spatial IQ and Creativity.

Maradona was is also a god of the game, a predominantly one-footed god but Pele, the two-footed god transcends in every way.

Pele was the perfect footballer who had all of these and more.

No one like him have come up again. No one. Only players close have come. But none above him and none that matches him in Everything.

Young man, you will be a very brilliant person. Are you working in academia or something.
I beleive you should be a lecturer or a research scientist of some sort.
Your analysis are allways intelligent and on spot
So where are working now.
I hope it is in academia or research

TheSuperNerd:
What Pele could do with a football with both feet, not even Maradona came close. It is not an exaggeration... it is facts.

Pele was and remains the most complete footballer ever to grace the beautiful game. The perfect mix of Athleticism, Unlimited Technique, Limitlessly Supreme Ball intelligence, Power, Speed, Spatial awareness and more.

His ambipedality on the ball in technique, control and even his goals is the most complete I have ever studied in football history.

He was as powerfully assertive, technically majestic and in total ball control across all in-game phases with his right foot as he was with his left foot.


Maradona wasn't like that. He was majorly left footed.

Messi is also majorly left footed.

CR7 doesn't boast the high-end technical might of Maradona and Messi not to mention Pele himself.

Everything that everyone of these top ballers from Maradona to Messi to Zidane to Ronaldo de lima to Ronaldinho to CR7 to Neymar did with a ball, Pele did it first. Do you know how insane that is?

He didn't have any highlights reel to reference. He invented almost all on the spot. These guys came later and replicated it and didn't even replicate all of Pele's Magic.

If there is anything I would have wanted, it is to have lived during the era of Pele to witness first hand all and more of the magic he dished out then. because the truth is even the clips, Videos and different report accounts dont show all of it.



Watch these clips below and understand....

1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYokNMEgRvw

2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VbZmkfelfw (Watch this directly in the YT app).


Respect to the GOAT of GOATs abeg. That you didn't watch him then doesn't erase historical facts.

I THINK THE ISSUE IS THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE
THAT THE SOUTH AMERICAN LEAGUE WAS EITHER AT PAR WITH THE EUROPEAN LEAGUE OR EVEN BETTER
SO THE FACT THAT HE DID NOT PLAY IN EUROPE CONFUSES THEM
PEOPLE FORGET THAT UNTIL THE 90'S SOUTH AMERICAN LEAGUES WERE AT THE SAME LEVEL AS EUROPEAN LEAGUES
EVEN NOW THE DIFFERENCE IS NOT THAT CLEAR
IF ALL THE BRAZILIAN PLAYERS RETURN TO SAO PAULO LETS SEE THE EUROPEAN TEAM THAT WILL BEAT THEM
TO A LARGE EXTENT IT WAS THE SOUTH AMERICANS THAT REALLY BROUGHT OUT THE BEAUTY OF FOOTBALL AND REINVENTED IT
I DARE SAY THESE SOUTH AMERICANS MADE FOOTBALL BEAUTIFUL AND MARKETABLE

ChrisKels:
How do Ivorians do this? Even from the most obscure leagues, the biggest clubs in the world still sort after their talents. This one now is about to join Chelsea from Molde.

Ivorians are the greatest underachievers of African football. So much talent but mediocre achievements. It baffles me. They produce talented players more than most African countries. Maybe it's a coaching problem

TheSuperNerd:
We were rubbish in the middle against Egypt. Our attacks came from the wings only.

Egypt outpassed us in that game. I analysed that in here after our win.

Fake Oracle and Elite Delusionist... Run back to your beer parlour cave and cease your caps.

In here, you are way out of your league in football analyses.

You can settle for Naijafootballers group chat. They talk your kind of analysis there. Delusionists UTD. Loolll

Actually, in that match against Ghana Eguacon got himself confused or listened to some foolish confusionists
He did not use nwakali or alhassan yusuf and started playing iheanacho as a midfielder
That was the mistake he made.
He was actually getting it right at the nations cup
But somone in the coaching crew or the nff staff confused him with nonsense

komekn:
Have an open mind Ovie and Nwakali are not on the same level by a huge margin.

They both play for the second division of a top 5 league in Europe so they are the same level. The Spanish Segundo and the English second division are the same level

elyte89:
Sincerely I don’t know

Like say na modric,ronaldinho kind of players we get for midfield

What a player has to offer is more important than club form.
For example if a secondary vschool has maths teachers but has a shortage of English teaches there is no need looking for maths teachers and we may have to lower the expectations for English teachers.
We lack ball playing midfielders so we need to lower the standards for them on the other hand we have too many forwards and so the standards will be higher for that.
We need midfield personnel that can basically pass, mark and control the midfield. Nwakali, ovie ejaria etc fit into this and so we need to lower our standards as we don't have any better. ABI the important thing is for them to do a god job for us

Another thing is that if we get that midfield right we can score goals against baby team in the world as we have good forwards. Our match against Sao Tome showed this

codemaniacs:
Nathan Tella declared his interest to play for Nigeria... nobody went to meet him, or snap pictures with him..

If the "good" foreign born players want to play for Nigeria all they have to do is say they want to play for Nigeria and the NFF should be quick to cap tie them....


the main problem is favoritism and favoring players they know which makes sure the SE formation does not change and why the SE consistently has a small number of midfielders invited...


payment for selection is not a problem for foreign born players.. foreign born players are richer than their Nigerian counterparts and if there's anything like payment for selection then that means the entire SE should have at least 20 foreign born players..

the other problem is the Nigerian coaches might call up and favor players that are in their Agency or affiliated with their agency..

I think this attitude of not appreciating our need for midfielders has to change. Is it that the midfielders don't come from the agency of the coach.
Look I think we are our greatest enemy. Our officials are too short sighted.
If the world cup was held in 1996 we might have reached the final but within two years the team deteriorated.
Also we held Brazil to a draw in 2019 but within three years the team deteriorated again. I suspect these nff officials constantly okay favouritism and politics.
Again the way we don't like midfielders sounds demonic. Is it that someone does not like alhassan Yusuf, ovie ejaria etc. Maybe they don't belong to their agency.
Our officials are too myopic. Winning the nation's cup and getting to the semi finals of the world cup will generate money for them to steal.
There is a way you can steal money and still engineer development. You just don't steal like a mad man without any vision for development

With Morocco appearance in the semi final I think it is time for an African team to win the world cup.
Ivory coast and Nigeria and some other African countries have more talent than Morocco so there is no excuse again. Our players are exposed to European football so why the fear.
It's an idea whose time has come. Yes Nigerian and African football has evolved bto that stage.
Can't everybody see.
Mikel has outplayed Spain in midfield before.
Musa has gone toe to toe with Messi before.
Kanu has dribbled everybody in Europe before. Drioga, eto, okocha etc can rub shoulders with the best.
The next journey is to win the world cup.
We should bstop being afraid.
Westerhoof was trying bto show us our potentials but we didn't get him.
Morocco is sending us a message. They has broken a psychological barrier

Mujtahida:
Africa should win through the French team. How is that a French team? The fraud of cultural diversity degrading the concept of ethnic nationalities and turning the whole world into one indistinguishable mixture of races.

It is modern globalism engineered through the globalist attitude and policies such as slave trade, colonialism, Arabic imperialism such as the Arab conquest of Africa, modern trade, travel and communication etc in which nationalii and ethnicity is redefined and the lines of identity are blurred.
Welcome to the modern civilized global world

I hope I don't sound like an academic but I know you got me

charlesemeka85:
Hoffenheim interested in Casa Pia’s winger Godwin

For Godwin Saviour slow and steady wins the race. He has developed over the years and now at 26 he is on a rise.
People like komekn will give up on a player like this.
If a player in a lower league is making progress and he is young then he has a chance.
He spent his time in the Belgian second division.
Azeez oseni is also impressing me. He is impressing in the Slovakian leagy and may soon go somewhere better.

Morocco is winning bthis match. Mark my words. History will be made today

TheSuperNerd:
Modric at this World cup: Zero goals, Zero Assists, 5 games played yet he is at it again. Midfield General.

No G/A but we all can see his midfield influence. He even had it better in 2018 at this stage of the competition in terms of G/A but it was similar influence and it culminated in his ballon dor year.

Modric is a NON/LOW-G/A midfielder but his primary body of work is more about orchestrating his team's plays and conducting passing sequences like the maestro he truly is.

The middle game is a world for more intelligence and brains before the use of brawns and G/A stats.

Appreciate the true artistry of midfield plays. This is what we need in the Super Eagles and we have the personnel that if picked right can give us something close enough.

I pray and I pray that Victor eletu emerges at AC Milan. If he does well in the u20 world cup next year then big teams will start looking for him and he will get into a big team in Europe just like Mikel of 2005.

Besides Supernwrd have you noticed that the present u20 team seems to be interesting with many promising players. Onuche Ogbelu etc.
2023 could be interesting in Nigerian football

TheSuperNerd:
Follow-up report on Naija lads in action across Europe today: December 8


✅️17 y/o rising midfield sensation, Victor Ehuwa Eletu scores his first senior goal for AC Milan as his strike earned them a 3-2 win over Serie D side, FC Lumezzane. It was a Clinical finish and the march winner.


✅️Cyriel Dessers and David Okereke both got on the scoresheet in Cremonese's 6-0 friendly win over another Serie D side, Salsomaggiore.

Victor eletu is our new Mikel obi. The comparisons are obvious.
He will be part of our u20 next year and he will shine just like Mikel in 2005
Big clubs will start running after him and he will enter into a good Club next year
Lastly 2023 will be his year.
Wish him all the best

iamdynamite:
Agreed without reservation, but we are a footballing nation..short and simple

As per our league it was good until the early 2000's. So it has not always been like that. Our league is even historically good.
Okocha is from Enugu rangers
Kanu from heartland.
Mutiu adepoju from shooting stars
Finidi George from sharks of portharcout
Stephen keshi nnb
Rashid uekini shooting stars
And many others
Also, the houses of our former stars are in Nigeria and we have an emotional link with them.
Adepoju and yekinis houses are in Ibadan
We should brespect our footballing heritage

Marjoribanks:
Should I start to mention Nigerian players that went through academies too? No country is not investing in its football. The core of their team was not born in Morrocco!

Football academies yapa.
Barcelona football academy
As Roma football academy
GBS football academy
Triple football academy
Prince kazeem eletu football academy
36 lions football academy
Pepsi football academy etc
The Nigerian secondary school principals cup has been revived since last year
Many academies and grassroots competitions

minfelix:
Wait first, a country that has good football history in
1. Winning Age grade tournaments (U17 WCups)
2. Represented Africa in U20 tournaments and getting as far as the final.
3. Winning all category of medals at Olympic level
4. Lifted Afcon more than once
5. Produced African best footballer of the year more than once
6. Won so many bronze and silver medals at Afcon
7. Heavily and fully strengthened at female football level in Africa with countless trophy.
So because we never reach Quarterfinals for world cup or we no qualify this year makes us a "no footballing nation" abeg gerrout with this stupid submission we are fully a footballing nation..if we are presently poor, our record will still prove us to be a footballing nation....

Exactly! Even the African countries that we are claiming they are better than us have not done much. Senegal won the nation's cup only once and they do not get to the semi final often.
Algeria don't do much in international football.
We are a real footballing nation.
It's like saying Italy is not a footballing nation because they have not qualified for the world cup for twice in succession.
From our antecedents another nation's cup medal is near
Also, we will soon produce more world class players apart from Osimhen.
I'm tired of the insult here

typicalgamer:
We’re a football loving country oga

We’re not a footballing or sporting country

Because if we are, the facilities would speak for itself are we clear ?

At least we have a stry footballing history. Also football is played everywhere on the streets in Nigeria.

Mujtahida:
Is Nigeria a footballing country?

Yes we are a footballing country with a strong footballing culture. We have to respect that