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darkelf:
Osimhen Should not be allowed to play at the AFCON

It will spell disaster for us and end his young career. His injuries are still severe and haven't quite healed

He should be patient. There is always another 2 years

I don talk my own ooo

I know some people will come for my head

I totally agree with you.
His doctors have not declared him fit and so he should be allowed to rest.
He is just saying so because of the aggressive and determined personality he has.
It is Rohr that was making Osimhen look soo indispensable.
He never integrated Awoniyi, dessers, Sadiq Umar etc into the team.
He kept using Onuachu, Musa, etc and made himself to beleif there is no alternative to Osimhen.
Osimhen should relax. the world is not going to end if he does not show up at Afcon.
If i was Eguavon i will replace him with somebody else immediately.
I wont even ask about any health.
He will be useful during our world cup qualifiers

Read and be inspired about Africa

THE 1970 BRAZILIAN WORLD CU TEAM HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON MODERN FOOTBALL.
READ IT HERE THEIR WINGERS DRIFTED INTO MIDFIELD. THER MIDFIELDERS INTO DEFENCE ETC



"Rivelino was a more unorthodox winger. He would drift into the centre, consequently creating a three-man midfield with Clodoaldo and Gérson, or taking up more attacking positions near Pelé.
Carlos Alberto was instructed to bomb down the right flank when Brazil were in possession, leaving Piazza, Brito and Everaldo to cover for the whole team. Piazza was actually a midfielder; Zagallo insisted on him playing in defence to help with Brazil’s build-up play.
It is easy to forget that such tactical tweaks were radical innovations at the tim"

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/06/17/brazil-1970-and-the-most-beautiful-football-in-history/

komekn:
Dan James has poor technical ability and vision, everything is speed. He cannot learn those things now it's too late maybe possible but very hard.

I once watched the new set of players who were U12 doing certain technical drills that they had been taught under a new regime of technical proficiency and skills.

The U23 who had not had that schooling were invited to that training session. You know what the U12 were better.

This is why you don't see kick and rush footballer s in the top football be academies in England. Football had moved on and so has English football.

One question long term and short term. Has Nigerian football moved on in terms of investment training facilities, coaching etc to create s new set of complete footballers for the future ❓❓❓

Mr. Komekn. This idea was gotten from the Brazilians of peles era. if you watch the brazilian team of 1970, the midfielder, wingers and attackers randomly interchanged positions. sometimes pele will play as a ten and the ten will move to the position of striker.
their attackers could play many positions.
Many of todays ideas of attacking football were gotten from Brazil and that is why Brazil will allways earn the respect of the world
as the masters of attacking football

TheGoodJoe:

Have you forgotten Ryan Giggs? He was a pure left winger. Taking on players with pace, skills and dazzling runs. Later in his career, Giggs moved to a creative midfield role and excelled in it. Played in the central role with so much intelligence.

1. In the modern game, positions are not fixed. In fact, football is moving to what i will
call a false 10. this is a player that plays in the wings but can also come to the center to play as a 10.
So a player can play as a winger and attacking midfielder in a match. So a winger and attacking midfielder may be
the same thing depending on the type of player.
A formation might not have an attacking midfielder but the wingers can easily drift inside to play that role.
Football is not positionally stagnant and a player can take up 2 or more positions in a match.
The idea that a player is a winger and nothing else is limited.
A winger can turn into an attacking midfielder for twenty minutes in a match and the striker can even drift to the wings
in order to confuse the opponents.
this is gotten from Johan Cruyffs total football but if u see children on the play ground, their position is not allways fixed.
Some players can naturally do many things in a match.
In fact your front 3 of 2 wingers and a striker can easily interchange positions and the winger can move to the center
while the striker drifts to the wings.
Football is fluid, dynamic, interesting and not rigid. formation has many interpretations thats all.


2. then one of the most versatile players was wayne rooney. He could play as a striker and midfielder

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Mujtahida:
What you wrote as per the highlighted portions is why I hate modern football. In fact, I spend my leisure time watching YouTube videos of old football matches or footballers of a bye-gone era. Like today, I watched Zidane's clips.

The beautiful game has become machine game - stats, stats and God damn stats. It's painful to watch particularly for some of us who watched football at a time when expressiveness was allowed and fused into the framework of productive outcomes.

Today in the the sick name of END PRODUCT the beauty has been sucked out of football with an uncompromising viciousness that saddens me, the flair swallowed by the aridity of numbers. In the temple of jogo Bonito, an alien god who spits out only stats and money has been erected and is now worshipped by devotees like you. In fact it is like the god of soccer has left the temple for demons of soccer.

As if when football was beautiful, teams did not win.

Zidane was elegant to watch. His haul of laurels tells us that a player can be a sweet, delightful maestro and be highly effective. He won everything of note there is to win in football - league titles, champions league, world cup.


Ronaldinho was a volcanic splurge of beauty and mesmeric speed. He was a winner. He was a unplayable and single handedly decided games.

Denis Bergkamp was a god of the first touch. His goal against Argentina in France 98 as was his goal against Newcastle in the EPL are the works of unrivaled genius. He won many trophies with Arsenal. And so were Maradona, Baggio, Kluivert, Van Basten, Zola and many other great players who played great football and also stood on podiums to receive accolades, recognitions, trophies and titles.

So this artless, cold, soulless football we play today, all in the name of winning is a travesty of the beautiful game. Football is meant to entertain - flicks, spins, roulette, silky moves, mazy runs, golazos, leg overs all go into the mix of win. One should not be sacrificed for the other.

I detest modern football with a passion. For me just as Socrates of Brazil said beauty comes first- victory is secondary. And yes, victory and beauty can be coupled together.

The truth is that it is because we do not have high thinkers that is why football has become so drab. All art is about the triumph of that which is beautiful. And football is an art. Europeans have turned it into a debilitating scientific exercise. I sometimes wish Europe was not the dominating center of world football. Even the Brazilians have been sucked into this vortex of wack football. Thank God for YouTube. I use it to remind myself of an era that is gone. Perhaps one day a generation of coaches will arise who will say no to machine football. But I doubt it.

Well, In my opinion, Guardiola still plays beautiful expressive football
and that is why i like him.
He in fact once said he does not play for tackles.
Beautiful football will allways return and triumph in the end.
If you are 3 goals down in a match you might need a Ronaldinho who does not mark to score and create 5 goals for you
and this your statistic will fly out of the window.
Anyway I THINK GUARDIOLA IS AN EXRESSION OF BEAUTIFUL FOOTBALL

Read about the boy that saved Africa

komekn:
It seems a lot of you are CAUGHT UP in a nostalgic era of entertainment football. Where dribbling, showboating without commensurate end product was the order of the day.

Sorry to inform you that FOOTBALL HAS MOVED ON, that kind of football is pleasing to the eyes but will not win you tournaments.

It's now about cohesion, work rate and END PRODUCT, I really do hope that my friend Eguavon is not sentimental and emotive about a bygone era that no longer exists.

It's the same mentality that makes you assess players based on youth football exploits of donkey years ago.

Dribbling showboating without end product is essentially rubbish in today's highly tactical and disciplined strategic planned football environment.

I remember when Mahrez, Raheem, etc did all that dribbling and showboating, they don't do that anymore , it's all about END PRODUCT.

There is such emotive bias among many here some are blinded by sentiment based preference not HERE and NOW performance.

In this regard KC is off the boil , essentially out of his 5 seasons at Leicester in the EPL he has had only one very good season the rest 3 and a half have been abysmal. He should be dropped until he finds form for now.

The HERE and NOW forward players are Awoniyi and Dennis they are doing better than Victor O. as it stands currently. Many will not like that .

I really believe after suffering a serious fracture to the face including eye socket he should not be going to the AFCON. He should be allowed to recover properly and get match fit.

Nwakali is a non starter , has DONE NOTHING WHATSOEVER to deserve a call up to the SE, he is not even outstanding in the lower quality Segunda Division.

The hypocrisy and bigoted double standard we show here is mind boggling. When I would mention Nigerian origin players in the Championship, many here will be screaming bias and prejudice. That the Championship is a poor level for the SE.

Not too long ago our arguably best Midfielder Etebo, after a very good World cup went to Stoke in the Championship. I actually expected him to be the next Ngole Kante, but it didn't happen, he was ok but not outstanding in the league. That accolade of outstanding went to Olise, Eze, Ovie, etc

Luckily Etebo is in the EPL playing for Watford currently not too much to report he is injured and will be out for month's.

The Championship is a league where young players leave and go straight to the top leagues and clubs more than any other second tier league in Europe. Omar Richard left Reading straight to Bayern Munich another example.

We have centred on a very few number of players and ignored the rest, players who are not necessarily making waves.

We still talk about Sadiq from the Segunda Division on a very regular basis. Some even compare him to Adebayo giving him all kinds of accolades . He has scored 8 goals in the Segunda Divisions. Elijah who plays for Luton is not in the mix although he has scored 10 in the Championship. Personally I really don't rate both of them as SE quality.

Some have decided to practice quasi tribalism with Nigeria origin players in Europe Vs Nigerian players from Nigeria. Not sure why ❓are some more Nigerian than others. Showing prejudice and open discrimination.

Terms are used like " he is one of our own" etc it's just petty small minded ignorance and narrow mindedness. We even decide who we think is more patriotic in the Nigerian context.

Actually Sadiq Umar has 8 goals and 7 assists in 19 matches. that is 15 goal involvements in 19 matchs (75%).
Sadiq Umar is not about just goals, he is a creative forward like el hadj diof of the 2002 world cup.
This is why there is interest in him. His underlying stats are impressive.
He scores, assists, passes and dribbles.
When he does not score, he completes 5 dribbles, wins penalties, creates 3 chances etc in a match.
Sadiq Umar is the most creative forward we have. HIS CREATIVITY IS UNDERRATED.
I MEAN EVEN MAN CITY AND SEVILLA IS INTERESTED IN HIM so we are not fools for talking about him.
He is only in Almeria because his club refused to sell him by overpricing him

As per Nwakali, he as impressive last season as he saved Alcorcon from relegation and was player of the month for his club.
Also, he is now a major part of the sd huesca team. In his last few matches, he was the best player on the pitch

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Philosopher1979:
Victor is a boy who saved his country from war.
He was a child of destiny who came in contact with the Universal Spirit of the Universe
and changed African history.



Buy the book here

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/victor_the_child_soldier/16453

Learn about the boy that changed history

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Mujtahida:
The point is that he analysed how the USA 94 team played and that does not mean that that this team will play 442. Did you see him use the current crop of players to analyze 442? No.

It's only natural that he'd talk about that team and he even went beyond that team and talked about the team before that.

I think the issu with Westerhoof is that he studied and understood our underlying football culture and then adapted and modified it
to produce that usa 94 team.
The problem with foreign coaches is that they are not like Westerhoof. They think we do not have any footballling history
and impose things on us. Africa can only develop by adapting and not copying.
Rohr i think made that mistake and he payed for it.
A lot of people here dont appreciate the fact that we have a footballing culture going back to the seventies and sixties and
it is a serious mistake.
Foreign coaches do not necessarily understand the mentality of our players, the best position for them, how to motivate them,
the formation they strive best in etc.
Westerhoof is a man that appreciates and understands Africans and Nigerians.
A foreigner that acts like Westerhoof will succeed but can we get one.

Philosopher1979:
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Learn about the boy who saved Africa

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Victor is a boy who saved his country from war.
He was a child of destiny who came in contact with the Universal Spirit of the Universe
and changed African history.



Buy the book here

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/victor_the_child_soldier/16453

Tinneh:
The major problem in a 4-4-2 formation is risking being overun in midfield, those that watched leicester vs chelsea would have observed that without tielemans in that game leicester really struggled in that game as neither ndidi or soumary could control the tempo of the game, until maddison was subbed in...so for us to be effective with that formation we would need a cm who can control the tempo of the game, make tackes and be a good ball progressor.. Presently i dont think any of our cm has that skill set..
I also dont think a mid pairing of ndidi-aribo would be effective in a 4-4-2 formation

You see players like alhassan Yusuf, Nwakali, ovie Ejaria somewhat have this skill set
and this is why we have been shouting they should be in the team.
skill set and tactics can be more important than where a player plays.
In fact, Akinkunmi Amoo can play both as a winger and an attacking midfielder and so he can just play in the wings
and help out in midfield at the same time.

Tinneh:
Lol wetin u expect before?
4-4-2 isnt bad if you have technically sound midfielders, also the overload on the wings is an added advantage, personally i feel its a nice formation if we get a good cm to pair ndidi..
Iheanacho/iwobi as ss
Ejuke and samu on both flanks, oshimen wouldnt be short of supplies

this is why a player like Alhassan Yusuf will be good for Central Midfield. He is a natural cm.
From the little i have seen of Alhassan Yusuf, he is like the Ogenyi Onazi of 2013/2014 who collected the midfield from pogba
in the world cup and won the nations cup.
With Iwobi as a support striker,
he can drop back in midfield and make it a 4 3 3 and then go into attack mode again to change to 4 4 2.
A player like nwakali will also be good as he can play cm and support striker at the same time.
The second striker can be anything from a cm to an am or even Sadiq Umar with his creativity will be a good support striker.
Not to talk of Aribo.
4 4 2 can be like 4 4 1 1 or 4 3 3 depending on the personel.

EGUAVON SHOULD TAKE US TO THE WORLD CUP

I read part of Eguavons interview and i realized he knows what he is doing.
His actions even indicate this fact.

1. Immediately he wants to correct the problem of our lack of creativity in midfield
by inviting nwakali, alhassan yusuf etc.
2. In his interview, he understands his players and their strengths and weaknesses.
3. It seems he plans to use Chidera Ejuke and Samuel Chukwueze behind a striker
4. He seems to understand the Nigerian philosophy and style of play with wingers, good passers in midfield etc
5. By the end of this afcon the problem of lack of creativity in midfield will be gone thanks to Eguavon. No team will
dominate us in midfield again
6. He knows the players inside out and how to use them. He even said iheanacho is positionally confused which is
a very intelligent statement
7. I have said it we just need a coach that understands us, our mentality and how to use us.
8. He has the westerhoof model which is the only model that seems to work
9. You see, foreign coaches flatter to deceive. They look so attractive but are like wind without rain.
What happens on the field of play is all that matters not someone playing in Real Madrid.
10. We may hate it but our most creative players are not in the top 5 leagues and eguavon understands that.
He does not mind and wants to use them.
11. In football, even if lewandoski, cavani, ronaldo and Ibrahimovic are in your attack, without creative midfeidlers
and wingers, your attack will be limited. This is what Eguavon understands and Rohr does not.
12. As per the guy from the Isreali league, he may turn out to be another sunday Mba. Not all players in obscure
leagues are bad. It is just by percentage. 15% of players in obscure leagues are good while 85% of players in the top 10
leagues are good. It is just finding the 15% in obscure leagues that are good that is the problem and the Isreali league guy
may fall into the 15%.
14. Eguavon may not seem attractive but he will deliver at the end of the day.
15. Someone mentioned the fact that the USA 94 team did not play for the top teams of Europe but it made me smile.
African born players dont get the recognition players born in Europe get early in their career. they may have to wait till
after they are 25 to get into teams like barcelona, chelsea etc. But that does not make them bad. Talent is talent everywhere
and a boy in Mushin can be more talented that a player in west Ham.

humility33:
You nailed it
Na Baba plan be that

But if they do well in cameroon the sports minister will not allow
him to bring the foreign coach.
So i foresee this man not being our coach eventually.
Things will happen between now and the end of the nations cup

Nomyth:
Hmmm

What if Eguavon wins or get to the final of afcon with impressive performances
and some of the players are selected in the team of the tournament.
At this point nobody will care about this new foreign coach with a mediocre vc.
they should not sign any agreement with him till after afcon.
It should be a pre contract
and the contract should be scrutinized by a Lawyer and the sports minister
If we decide to sack him or not employ him at all we dont want to pay him for a year
while he is not working for us all because of the contract he signed.
He is not even familiar with Nigerian or African football and his track record is even mediocre.
If it was ten haag the coach of Ajax at least we know we are having a young, dynamic coach that
is full of ideas whose football philosophy matches our own (Westerhoof is from holland
Let us sink and swim with Eguavon
foreing coach should be after the world cup

komekn:
Very weak EXCUSES, because his agent is not good, when the product in is not good even the best agent cannot sell it. And which good agent want to carry "bad market" by comparison to other players.

Do you know how many black player born in Europe did not make it They should say it's because they were not born in Africa or because they are not White.

The French national team is almost entirely black, what is your point Umtiti was born in Cameroon but plays as a CB for Barcelona and France. Eric Bailly Manchester United CB, was born in Cote d'Ivoire, so also was Maxwell Cornet of Burnley ( IMO s racist team and Manager)

With the fast pace, physicality and aerial dominance required for the EPL even the Championship both Awaziem and Omeruah will fall flat on their faces.

I remember at the last AFCON Omeruah could not handle a very basic long ball , that led to the goal by Cameroon. This was a school boy error, but he got bullied and missed the clearing header. That sort of ball is the bread and butter of the EPL and Championship.

The pertinent question should be how much better we would be if we had better CB than these two mediocre defenders.

These two guys have had numerous opportunities to show that they are quality, buy they just cannot make STEP UP. And if SE wants to compete on the global stage we need far better players.

I have a personal experience.
I am a writer and i wrote a book a publishing company was interested in.
However, the money needed to publish it was too much
and then, they could not find sponsors for me because i was not living in europe.
If i was in Europe i could be a world class writer by now,
In fact, one other of my books i could not also publish or get a publishing company to market for me as the price is
not affordable due to the high exchange rate of the naira to the dollar or pound is quite high.
It might take me time to be recognized as a writer simply because i am living in and born in Africa.
See, this is a link to one of my books i publised online if you think i am lying.

https://okadabooks.com/user/Philosopher1979

I need a publishing company to market them but been in Africa limits me but i will get there someday.
So this is the way it works for our footballers

drDoom3:
Onuachu scores again. Inevitable.

Alhassan Yusuf also in the starting line up for Royal antwerp.
I learnt Eguavon is interested in him.
He will be called as paul Aigbogun is a fan of alhassan yusuf
and wanted him in the youth team but his then club will not allow him

Meliforme:
My appraisal of them is not from their Whoscored ratings.
I don't even know their rating on Whoscored.
But i beg you not to look down on Whoscored, those guys are very good.

The quality of the league they feature in, doesn't make them below par.
You will need more than talent to feature at the biggest stage.

Mr Komekn, I will pick Awaziem and Omeruo ahead of some EPL defenders.
Most EPL clubs don't have good defenders.

Actually, Awaziem is one of our best defenders.
I watched him play for Nigeria in the qualifiers and he was very good.
He is in Turkey because his old club (Boavista) could not pay his wages.
Also, maybe his agent did not advertise him well.

Home grown African talents are not well advertised by their agents and thus, it is no fault
of there's that they are not always in the big leagues or clubs.
Believe it or not Awaziem with the way he plays is one of our best defenders and even Rohr during his time
could never drop him from the team.
He has been fantastic in Turkey and he will join a big team or league as time goes on.

As per Omeruo he is average but you are right. A lot of players in the bottom 10 of the English league
and in division 2 are not better than him. He is at the same level if not better than Semi Ajayi or
players in a club like Newcastle.
Life is not always fair and assessing a player by his league is not always straight forward.
in fact, if Simmy Nwankwo was born in Europe, given his career record, he will not be in Salernitania
but again, he does not have a good agent.

Clint02:
If Nigeria happens to be the first African team to win the world cup,omo I can't imagine the roar throughout the whole of Africa...across the world even. There will be great joy in the hearts of every African.

With yori yori football. The unique brand of Nigerian football we will

YORI YORI FOOTBALL, THE NEW CONCEpT OF FOOTBALL FROM NIGERIA THAT WILL CONQUER THE WORLD

Yori Yori football is rooted in Nigerias history and culture as a footballing nation.
Tikitaka has conquered the world
We have seen the Brazilian Samba and the Gegen press.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR YORI YORI FOOTBALL
It is a combination of African or NIgerian, Brazilian and Dutch football.
It has been played down the decades by various Nigerian teams and now in modern times
it finds it fullest expression.
Examples of this unique brand of football are:
The 2015 u17 world cup winning team
The 2014 u17 world cup winning team
The Olympic team of atlanta 96
The afcon winning teams of 1980 and 1994.
The brand of football is unique and not team from Europe or South America can understand it.
Amunike played it with the u17 team and fifa could not understand Nwakalis role.
I BELIEVE THAT STARTING FROM NEXT YEAR THIS STYLE OF FOOTBALL WILL START CONQUERING THE WORLD
THE WORLD SHOULD GET READY
JUST AS SAMBA pRODUCED pELE AND TIKI TAKA pRODUCED MESSI,
YORI YORI WILL pRODUCE A NEW AFRICAN WORLD pLAYER OF THE YEAR FROM NIGERIA.
WE WILL BE UNCONQUORABLE WITH THIS BRAND OF FOOTBALL.
You see it is when we Africans embrace our uniqueness that we can actually conquer the world.
Adaptation and not immitation is the key to Africas progress
and in Yori Yori football our unique style of play adapted to modern football will conquer any team

temi1290:
So you mean if afcon was held alongside Copa america and euros, they would have prevented their African players from leaving citing covid-19 but bate an eyelid for their euro and american players?

As for the weather, that's where tech comes up but unfortunately we are so backward in that, can't there be fully built stadiums where an umbrella like structure be made to cover the stadiums when this rain start, like divert the rain and channel it somewhere else?

The issue is that there is this sentiment that Cameroon and other African countries must host it.
Most North African countries and South Africa have that kind of technology but they want other countries to host it.
My take is that, the afcon should be shifted to June (as it has been for the last few years) and then, it should be hosted by the African country
with the best technology.
Cameroon can in the mean time work on their technology so that they can host the Afcon in June. Caf should give Cameroon or other African countries 5 years to acquire this technology. With time, other African countries will learn to have the capacity to host afcon in June.
Cameroon cannot hold everybody to ransom because they want to host the afcon when they are not ready.
The best thing is to try and develop the technology and capacity themselves

maidaboi:
Sadiq with a goal

One thing I appreciate Umar Sadiq for is his creativity and all round play.
He allready has 7 assists this season and will definitely get to double digits in assists this season.
When he was in Serbia he had 17 assists a season which is rare for any type of forward (even a midfielder.
He is a better form of the france 98 el hadj diouf as he scores more goals.
I can understand why clubs are after him. He is a creative forward who scores goals.
His underlying stats are monstrous.
In a match, Sadiq can complete 5 dribbles, create 3 chances, win a penalty and have 2 assists
even if he does not score.
I hope he can do it in a better division

IDENNAA:
Cc.ChrisKels

I was called "ezi" ,"mumu" , "crackhead" etc simply because I said Kelechi is the most talented midfielder we currently have...lmao

Na God dey fight battle for the powerless!

That useless whitey made sure Onyekuru , Nwakali etc never had the opportunity to show there talent...very demonic wicked soul!

I have explained it before. Any coach that doesn't understand our history, culture and evolution as a footballing nation will have limitations.
Most foreign coaches just don't understand us