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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

komekn:
Bruv why are you talking like this ,how can you omit the darling of this thread, the Midfield jagaban, the Ogididgba of long ball passes and through balls the maestro of Spanish football that Arsenal and the whole of Europe are too blind to see ,but our NFF have uncovered with their X ray vision, NWAKALI .

Yes! They are too blind to see. I repeat that Europeans are not infallible in their judgement. In midfield he is better than Aribi. I can say it in front of Wenger, Maurinho or whoever.
We are a footballing country and we have knowledge of our players. No Jupiter can tell me otherwise about Nwakali.
Europeans have to explain to us why he is not good enough. They are ridiculous. We Africans should not let Europeans confuse us. He is better than onyeka as a passer

komekn:
Bruv why are you talking like this ,how can you omit the darling of this thread, the Midfield jagaban, the Ogididgba of long ball passes and through balls the maestro of Spanish football that Arsenal and the whole of Europe are too blind to see ,but our NFF have uncovered with their X ray vision, NWAKALI .

Yes! They are too blind to see. I repeat that Europeans are not infallible in their judgement. In midfield he is better than Aribi. I can say it in front of Wenger, Maurinho or whoever.
We are a footballing country and we have knowledge of our players. No Jupiter can tell me otherwise about Nwakali

TheGoodJoe:

Also, as long as these players keep working on it and growing this way, they will get better and with time start dominating. That is the beauty of the system.

Spain lacks goal scorring strikers and wingers.
Their forwards are almost like midfielders.
I mean their forwards are not even too good in the air.
This limits the creativity of their midfielders.
They need forwards that are strong, fast, good in the air, can score goals and are also skillfull.
If Spain had Osimhen, Giroud and Mbappe in their team they will be unstoppable
As someone said even if they had Sergio Ramos, they could have scored from a set piece.
No, it is not the failure of tiki taka. They just need a different type of forward.
Morata is just an average forward thats all

charlesemeka85:
Chelsea’s style of play doesn’t suit him at all

He is among the players I want in united. He plays better when coming from the right flank or as an AM

Chelsea mostly use him as a wing back

Using xiyech as a full back is simply foolish that's all.
Maybe because they have many good players and get themselves lost for choice

TheSuperNerd:
It's been a PSG World Cup so far: No Lies here

When they return for UCL football, we would know if they continue this walk of dominance.

Until then, one of them will likely walk away with the Ultimate Prize in Football.... The World Cup Trophy. And yes I know... don't underrate Ronaldo’s Portugal too.


#Qatar2022DiariesMD

If mbappe comes to Man city I wonder how fantastic his combination with debruyne and haaland and the other players will be. It will simply be impossible. It will be like the Brazilian 1970 world cup team

gustav25:
Will you keep kwayet !!!! They ones you went to , what happened ? Perennial group stage specialist

See the France 98 team was just a version of the Atlanta 96 team but by then indiscipline had set in and we went to the world cup with a new coach that was hired just 3 months before the.
In 2002 we got tired of the indiscipline and sacked Most of them and the young players couldn't do much
In 2006 we did not qualify because our best players did not play some of the qualifying matches out of overconfidence.
If we had been disciplined a world cup semi final was sure.
Also remember we were banned from the 96 and 98 nation's cup and so could not develop the Atlanta 96 team properly.
The players were indisciplined and badly managed with frequent change of coaches and personality clashes that's all

The Nigerian golden generation of okocha, janu, oliseh etc is one of the few African teams that can get to a world cup semi final but we lost it due to indiscipline, corrupt bff officials, bribery etc
If we went with our real players to 2002 world cup we would have gotten to the semi final.
If we had qualified for 2006 world cup we could also have gone far
But okoacha and some othe players will not play some qualifying matches due to carelessnes and we will loose.
THE GILDEN GERLNERATION WERE UNDERACHIEVERS AND DISAPPOINTED AFRICA.
attitude is sometimes more important than talent.
The golden generation was like the present post Ferguson Manu
Lots of good players but no teamwork, discipline, coaching, a disorganized bff, fighting between the players, allegation of bribery etc

JohnBullMySon:
A diasporan Nigerian supporting an African country not his origin against his country of residence and maybe citizenship is Pan-Africanism taken to extreme stupidity. It shows you don't care about the country just want to reap.

It is more common with middle aged economic migrants.

Oga pan Africanism goes beyond economic neccesity. It is a struggle to emancipate the black race. Money comes and goes but the liberation of the African race is eternal.
After all the Europeans built btheir economy by exploiting African countries of their resources.
Think in a broad historical sense. Every African is in this struggle.
Rascism us everywhere.
Barclays Bank that sponsors the English premier League was established by the money made from the slave trade in Africa

charlesemeka85:
Portugal is one country in this completion that no one is tipping to win this competition

I tip any of Portugal,Brazil or Argentina to win the World Cup

Didn’t mention france because I don’t think any World Cup winner hv ever replicated the same feat in terms of winning it back to back in the history of the competition though they stand a chance to be the first to achieve that

Brazil won the world cup back to back in 58 and 62. Pele and Garincha say high. Respect the giants of Brazil

chrisooblog:
Too glaring. Their midfield play has been excellent but just lack the quality to pry open the Netherlands defense. Plus it doesn't help having a
forward like Pulisic who is more inconsistent than fuel supply in Nigeria.

Nigeria is the exact opposite. We have many good forwards but lack a midfield that will create chances for them or bring the ball to them in the last third of the pitch.
A coach that figures out how to exploit our latent explosivity in the last third of the pitch will turn us to world beaters in a year.
Our ability to explode in the last third of the pitch showed in that 4 4 draw with Sierra Leone and the 12 nilwin over Sao Tome but I don't know we need coaches that will make it count. If we are well coached we can suddenly bscore 3 goals against a team like Spain in 15 minutes and leave them chasing the game

Sabadon:
Football isnt meant for Africans maybe we should just focus on witchcraft

You have a point.
THE IFA ORACLE IS MATHEMATICAL
It is a well established fact researched in the University of Ilorin

https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJMCSR/article-full-text-pdf/ADF38A08943

Blueelf:
Loll

It is you people wishing Ghana bad that is pained

You couldn't even qualify for the WC yet you're saying you will beat a team that not only qualified but also made it to the round of 16

Beer parlor analysis abi na igbo analysis...

You are funny. So England is better than Italy because Italy did not qualify for the world cup. Our greatness as a footballing nation does not end because we didn't qualify for the world cup. We remain a footballing nation and at least in Africa we are giants.
Yes we are better than or at least equal with the Ghana, Cameroon, Egypt etcnof this world.

TheSuperNerd:
I already mentioned I expected Denmark to pull through alongside France. And more than that, I expected more from them and rightly so.

I never expected Australia to qualify but I pointed out that TheGoodJoe is right about their brave approach in certain phases of the game. Even he didn't predict their qualification. No one here did.

So much about all our players from top 5 league. Australia with players from the lower leagues are in the second round of the world cup.
I hope Nigeria learns from this and focus on our midfield and team work. We need to be well coached and work on our midfield and defence



The point is he was right about Australia's brave approach despite not having the star power of France.

Like TheGoodJoe said... the Problem with you lots are many. You want to be right even when you haven't said anything of substance. And you are all result-oriented without understanding the intricacies of team plays.

I already owned up to Australia shocking me... but I trust I am not the only one. Not even you or anyone thought Australia could go through. So rest.

So much about all our players having to come from a top 5 league. Australia are in the second round of the world cup with average players from low leagues.
They were well coached. Hope Nigeria learns a lesson from this and focus on our midfield and team work.

AndSunGorilla:
While I respect Keshi, that was the major drawback he had, I can't defend his bench, I won't lie, it made no sense. Yes he was positive, never feared any opponents, a good motivator but he just didn't select the right players to be on the bench.

His dropping of Sunday MBA was bad. He could have replaced ogeyi onazzi. It backfired. I think he was collecting bribe and inviting ekuke players.

yinkeys:
Modern Brazil team can’t do much without Neymar
However I think G. Jesus should fill that role behind the striker because he drops back a lot

2002 Brazil team is the best squad their country ever produced.
It had 4 ballon d’or winners in there
Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho & Kaka.

I can also remember Cafu, Roberto Carlos in that squad.

You are only partially right.
The 1970 world cup team was the best football team in history
Also the 1982 team comes close for sheer footballing artistry even though they did not win.
This is the reason Brazil will always be respected in football.
They thought the world attacking football

Blueelf:
I am pessimistic yes but I have not lost hope

I am saying it as it is. It is harder to build than to destroy

And I am telling you for a fact. Nigerian football need 10yrs of consistent and deliberate effort. If we miss the next World cup, I won't be surprised. If we get knocked out in the round of 16 in the next afcon, I also won't be surprised

Wde need 10yrs or more

I disagree with you.
Football academies to the rescue.
Our football academies are producing players everyday.
So we won't lack quality players.
We just need a good coach and we will be alright.
If we lacked quality players then I will be scared. We just have to get over this coaching issue.
The only aspect of our football that needs time is our local league and efforts are been made in that direction

TheSuperNerd:
I am not stunned at all. My only surprise in this game was South Korea falling behind in the first place. I have watched enough of this Addo's Ghanaian side to know what they are capable of.

They are a momentum team. Once they score, they play better and get more confident but once they lose touch with that momentum, they can be eaten up.

Addo is a limited coach too. I don talk am already.

I want ghana to succeed so that we Nigerians will understand that the problem with us is lack of good coaching.
Ghana is a very similar footballing country to us with similar calibre of players and history.
I mean for every Abedi Pele they have we have austin okocha
and for every Yekini we have they have Anthony Yeboah
We need Good coaching and that is all
and i wish Ghana will demonstrate that for us

TheSuperNerd:
Not even watching. But I caught snippets of their first and second goals. Both from set piece situations and the first was quite controversial even with a VAR check. There was a handball.

Anyway, make dem win naa... It's Korea. Uruguay awaits them in the last game.
I insist I don't see Ghana surviving this first round. Same thing I said about Cameroun even though they showed good fight today. Las Las, both will go home after the first round.

Morocco is the only African team I Stan at this WC and rightly so.

As for Senegal, we shall see them vs Ecuador. It's in their hands but will they make it?

Tunisia? Naaah. Going home too.

Ghana will make it because they are well coached and they have a fighting spirit

THE BEST COACH FOR THE SUPER EAGLES

The best coach for the super eagles should be the coach of the Siera Leone
team that held us to a 4 4 draw or the coach of the CAR team
that defeated us in Nigeria.

1. Both coaches seem to have a high sense of football tactics
2. Both coaches seem to know how to get the best out of their below average players
3. Both coaches seem to understand our players and African football in general
4. Both coaches are affordable and not expensive.

We should have seen it and contacted the coach of CAR and Siera leone immediately they started causing us problems.
I think Bayern hired their present coach from Leipzig when they saw how good he was
Big companies allways hire talented employees.
Look this is why forieng companies come to Nigeria to hire computer programmers, doctors and other skilled personel. They can see talent that can be harnessed cheaply.
Offering a coach like that the chance to coach one of the biggest teams in African football is mouth watering and with their knowledge, they will do well.
Both coaches to me will be another Westerhoof