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Odunayaw:
What is this "our" football that a foreign coach will not understand? The players coming to play are coached by Nigerians week in and out in their clubs abi?

Asides that a new coach will need time to gel with the team, there's no other reason not to hire one rn

Nigerian football has a rich history. Oto gloria the Brazilian 1980 afcon winning coach put some level of Brazilian football
into our football and since then our players love to dance with the ball.
Nigerian league from the 70's untill now still has its pattern.
Also the 90's team was the ultimate expression of our style of play
Anybody that wants to coach us must respect all these and not see us as a people without any history
he can just impose any footballing idealogy on.
A foreign coach wont understand all this. This is why when Rohr drew with car and other African minnows
he could not understand why we were so angry.
Also, foreign coaches underrate our players. A foriegn coach will not convince chidera Ejuke to take on
the defence of france and score a goal and have two assists as Alhassan Yusuf collects the midfield from France.
They dont beleive in us.
Watch our match against Belgium in the 2008 olympics when we won 4 nill in order to understand
our style of play.
You see a winning team is a team with a unique style of play that defeats and confounds everybody
and not neccesarly the best players
The Brazillian team of the sixtys and seventys were like this.
The Barcelona team of guardiola and the spanish team with their tiki taka.
Liverpool with their gegenpress.
Also, we just need to express our style of play which is rooted in our history and culture.
Westerhoof understood all these.
I read a story of Westerhood in which we wanted to play a star studded ivorian team with one of the best players in Africa
at that time. Westerhoof simply brough Moses Kpakor from bcc lions to mark him out of the game and we won.
Eguavon or ammunike understands our football and will just flow with things and make us conquer the world.
Generally, the problem with us Africans is that we are too Afraid to express ourselves.
When the white man first came to Africa, he told us to shut up and destroyed our cultural, artistic and religioius ways of
self expressions and this is confusing us.
Okay, besides football the entrepremeural system of the Igbo is now been studied in Universities around the world.
WE AFRICANS CAN CONQUER THE WORLD IF WE EXpRESS AND BELEIVE IN OURSELVES
THE ISSUE WITH WESTERHOOF IS THAT HE COULD UNDERSTAND AND INTERpRETE US

According to Punch newsPaPPers, Nff wants
to aPPoint another foreign coach next week.
Nff are fond of doing the right thing the wrong way.
We dont need a foreign coach
Also, we may sign another Rohr like contract with him and
so the contract has to be scrutinized by the sPorts minister before we get into trouble.

THE PROBLEM WITH FOREIGN COACHES.
They don't understand our native style of Play and how to interPrete it in
the light of modern football.
A foreing coach will not address our Problem of lack of creative midfielders
Such a coach will not use alhassan yusuf, nwakali etc and then invite onuachu and musa to the team.
Another Problem is he will be too exPensive for us.
If we appoint a foreing coach before the nations cup we are not going anywhere
Our problem is that we need a coach who understands our style of football and can interprete it for
us so as to get the best results.
They should leave Eguavon there and if they need a change, Amunike will be better
The tragedy of European coaches is that they try and force an alien style of play on Africans and it
does not work.
Westerhoof is one of the few foreign coaches that really understood us.
Also, a foreign coach in the next 1 week will not understand our football.
He will play our players out of position.
the problem with Africans in general is that we do not embrace our originality which is unique
and with which we can conquer the world. That is exactly what happened with the usa 94 team.
We did not care that Stoichkov was in Barcelona and Bulgaria were one of the best teams in the world.
We simply expressed ourselves properly
WE DONT NEED A FOREIGN COACH FOR NOW!!!

Oasis001:
We need real 10 in the Squad. Real Playmaker who can dictate the Game. New Coaching Crew should do their best to get at least 2 natural 10, regardless of League as far as they are talented.


Ain't a Fan of Nwakali, but would rather give him chance than begging Olise to play for us. That Dude even seems overrated, cos I've not seen his (audio) playmaking at Palace.

Alhassan Yusuf and Nwakali have been drafted into the team by
Super Eagles new coaches.
Incidentally, Aigbogun has allways liked alhassan Yusuf and wanted him in his youth team
but he was stopped by his Swedish club.

https://scorenigeria.com.ng/super-eagles-new-coaches-draft-alhassan-yusuf-nwakali-for-2021-afcon/

The appointment of Dr. Terry Eguaoje is fantastic in the Super Eagles coaching crew is fantastic
he has conducted over 700 coaching courses in the last seven years and NFF wants to bring him as consultant coach
Dr Eguaoje has conducted several FIFA, UEFA and CAF sanctioned coaching courses in US, Africa and other part of the world.
He was born in Nigeria and is a seasoned coach with UEFA A licence coaching.
He is the founder of the Football Coaches Association of African Nations (FCAAN.
IT IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS TO HAppen to our football.
He has all that technical knowledge of an European but he is a true Nigerian.
He has been doing several coaching clinics in Nigeria.

daveP:
We go soon see Rema, Buju and Flavour 2 for Afcon list with some news on how local league is this or that. Anayo fit go Afcon sef.

What makes you to think Anayo iwuala is not good enough.
Because he does not play in Europe
Football does not allways work like that.
He might even turn out to be one of our best players and get us vital goals and assists.
Football is about opportunities and advertisment.
Some players are good but not well advertised.
He might be better than some European based players.
Westerhoof prefered Amunike when he was in Zamalek to Tijani Babangida.
Also, time changes things. He might move to Europe in a few years and do big things.
I have watched him play and he seems a very creative players.
Football is not straightforward like that.
In fact, that was Rohrs mistake. He thinks club form is everything and it does not allways work.
The issue of club form does not work for Moses Simon and paul Onuachu.
In fact, i think Anthony Nwakaeme can be a better player for Nigeria than Moses Simon and other wingers
in better leagues. Football is not as straight forward as this

darkelf:
Awoniyi can't score more than 15 league goals this season

Remember this post

Now that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard.
he only needs 7 more goals to beat that mark.
What is the reason by the way.
I mean he is in form and firing and
only injury can stop him

The scandinavian leagues (sweden, norway et are the best kept secrets of Nigerian football.
Going forward, the following players are the next big thing in Nigerian football.
Time will prove me right

Ishaq Abdulrazaq: The young boy from ifk norkoping is developing into a fine footballer.
He can play as a right winger, wing back or as an attacking midfielder. He is a dani alves like player.
At only 19 he is doing well for his club and will move to the big leagues very soon

Samuel Adegbenro: I used to underrate him but now i dont.
He can play as a striker, attacking midfielder or winger. He also plays in ifk Norkoping and he was the highest
goal scorer. He will soon move to a big league as early as next summer. He has allways been on the radar
of clubs since 217 but i now think he is fullfilling his potentials.

Stephen Odey: He is finally fullfilling his potential in randers fc and as time goes on he will crack it in the
big leagues if given another chance

Tosin Kehinde: He is an attacking midfielder who was once in Manchester United youth team.
He is growing in leaps and bounds and will soon join a big club.

Rahael Onyedika: The central midfeidler is growing in leaps and bounds and will soon be in the
big leagues in little time

I think these Scandinavian leagues are good for our players.
They seem to appreciate African players and understand their problems.
They tend to work on their tactical deficiencies and polish them
I think generally, scandinavians appreciate African culture and tend to be friendly towards them.
They also appreciate African players and dont just bench, underrate and dismiss them.
So i think our players should go and develop in that league.
It worked for paul onuachu and frank onyeka and it really develops African players.
Those top 5 leagues are not sincere with our players and just use and dump them without trying to develop them

DANGOTE ABOUT TO BUY ARSENAL!!!!!

Dangots attemt to buy arsenal is about to become a reality according to
football.london.

https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/aliko-dangote-arsenal-takeover-worth-22371428

MY THOUGHTS ON THIS ARE MIXED

1. IT SHOW NIGERIAN FOOTBALL DOES NOT LACK MONEY BUT NFF IS SO CORRUT THAT IT
CANNOT ATTRACT SONSORS LIKE DANGOTE TO THE LEAGUE
2. DANGOTE SHOULD TRY AND INVEST IN ENYIBA OR VANDREZZER RATHER THAN SOME FOREING LEAVE
3. ON THE OTHER HAND, IT MEANS NIGERIAN TALENTS LIKE AKINKUNMI AMOO, ABRAHAM AYODELE MARCUS, AUL MUKAIRU ETC
CAN NOW EASILY COME TO ARSENAL AS THEIR OWNER IS A NIGERIAN
4. ALSO, THERE WILL BE COOERATION BETWEEN ARSENAL AND NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AND SO ARSENAL CAN OWN A FOOTBALL
ACADEMY IN NIGERIA OR EVEN ARTNER WITH NIGERIAN CLUBS AS TIME GOES ON.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE MONEY WILL STILL FLOW INDIRECTLY TO NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AS TIME GOES ON

The greatest mistake rohr can make is to ignore Anthony nwakaeme. He is in imperious form. As per the idea the Turkish league is low I don't buy into it. If he ends up playing well for us it doesn't matter. Also, the Turkish league is low in what sense. It's low but not too low.
The guy can even save Rohrs job if he is used. He can get us vital goals and assists.
You see players born in Africa do not have a good platform to advertise themselves to European football and so they may not hit the limelight on time but that doesn't take away their quality

charlesemeka85:
nwakali is very weak and fragile for modern football

Make em go dey act pornography abeg

Shebi if I dey talk am then una dey see am say I hate am

physically and athletism is overrated in modern football.
passing, dribbling, intelligence and creativity are VERY VERY IMpORTANT in midfield play.
if strenght was so important, dickson etuhu will be the best player in the world.
Is Jorginho that strong.
Modern football is confusint itself
A player that cannot pass is a liability in football.
Come to think of it, football is about passing and creating space for your players to move
When a team cannot string two or three passes together withoiut loosing the ball, they are reduced to defending
and running all day.
players like nwakali are very very important.
This is what guardiola said

I dont play for tackles, what is tackles

No, nwakali is very relevant for modern football.
Again, passing and knowing what to do with the ball are basic to football.
I dont agree with you at all

THE NIGERIAN WONDER KID

There is a new Nigerian wonder kid that just signed for sao paolo in Brazil.
His name is Azeez Olalekan Balogun and he is a striker.
Scorenigeria talks about him.
He was discovered in a scouting tournament in Ibadan this year.
You see the Brazilian league is very fantastic and is at the level of the Dutch league if not better.
for a teenager to be in a historic club like Sao paolo is something to take notice of.
It means he may have the technical skills of a Brazilian (think Neymar, Cautinho, kaka, pauleta etc
Brazilian players are technically gifted and the boy must be very good to be in
the Brazilian league.
We must take note for the future

forgiveness:
I didn’t get the opportunity to watch SE or anything that has to do with Nigeria national team after the 2002 World Cup till I heard about the fame of Mikel in 2005. Hence, didn’t watch him in U17.

It was the U20 finals, I got to watch him and I was impressed. From that day onward, I followed him till he retired at Chelsea as his fan and Chelsea’s fan.

However, was disappointed he was didn’t play to his potential till he left Chelsea.

Oyinbo man don’t believe Africans can be a playmaker hence they convert them to DMF or winger.

We need to develop our league and African league at large. That’s when we can play our own style of football.

We also needs a coach that believes in and loves Africans. Rohr does not believe in us. The issue is westerhoof believed in and loved Nigeria and Africa.
This is why rohr does not think awoniyi, desserts, okereke, chidera ejuke etc can break down any defense in the world but us instead looking for defenders and drawing with cape verde.
Rohr does not understand the Nigerian society and foot culture. He does not see our latent explosivity in the last third of the pitch which is something westerhoof could see within weeks of been in Nigeria

jihday:
he already did since, I trust the NFF not to appoint him

He will be a good appointment. What is wrong with his m. We need a coach that knows Nigerian football and culture.
In fact he is not a foreign coach. He will do well

AndSunGorilla:
What makes a league the best in the world sir at any current time?

The trick is that they have the best coaches. From Guardiola to the coach of Leeds to Liverpool coach.
There are some second division English teams that play tiki taka.
So the managerial change is the most important.
All the brains in football now converge in the epl and dish out
all types of styles from tiki taka to genegen pressing to anything in the mix.
English football is no longer 424 with wingers and kick and follow.
The new breed coaches have improved it beyond that

Kog45:
Well said,Omeruo major issue is club career.He made a mistake signing for Chelsea and till today his football career is nothing and Awaziem is having the same issue.

On a good day Omeruo and Awaziem are better than Ekong and check it out,Omeruo always comes into the party in any of our tourney....2018 WC,Omeruo had a better performance than Ekong and in Afcon 2019 he did well than Balogun.

You are right. His perfomance against Argentina in the world cup was outstanding.
This issue of club is what is confusing people. His club form may not be great but he is better.
Besides, it is not as if Ekong is playing for Juventus or so. He is playing for average or poor teams in the big league.
Ekong is overrated and needs to be dropped. Is he even better than Semi Ajayi.
I doubt it. He is overrated thats all

TheLoneCitizen:
Messi hattrick of assists. From where?

From the 10.

I allways thought that as messi grew older, the no 10 role will fit him.
He is somewhat a no 10 by default anyway. Just a false 9 a position of an attacking midfielder masquerading as a striker
He will do well in that role but maybe score less and have more assists but
by default, he is a creative player that scores goals.
He should remain as an attacking midfielder if his speed reduces with age

lloydtruth:
How many of these guys are still relevant?

Yira collins sor (a winger is
doing well in Banik Ostrava in the czech league.
He is seen as a good player in the league
Chinonso Emeka is in K.a.a gent with Adewale Oladoye and
he is in their youth team and he has played a few matches.
Nnamdi Oforboh and Tom dele bashiru are doing well in English or scottish football

One of the forwards is doing well in the czech league (tijani i think
Kingsley Micheal is in bologna but injured
Valentinze Ozornworfor is in Charleroi but struggling for game time but at
least his making the match day squad and will improve with time
The team is not as bad as we think and good players will come out of it.
Youth football is never a waste, its developmental anyway

humility33:
With those men at the helm of affairs esp rohr Nigeria is going nowhere

I think some players are been imposed on Rohr.
The rohr of 2019 (when we drew to Brazil) is different from the Rohr of now.
Musa, Moses Simon, Onuachu, Ighalo and some other players are been imposed on him.
I think it started when they wanted to impose home based players on him.
It also seems he has lost control of the dressing rooms and his decisions as per tactics and
players is becoming irrational by the day.
Something has gone wrong and there is an interference from somebody
and the players are not disciplined again.

Someone is dragging Rohr around and telling him what to do.
Rohr has lost it due to some politicking.
It started with that 4 4 draw with Serra Leone

drDoom3:
Also, I would prefer if Osimhen stayed with his club and helps them win the Scudetto than if he comes with us to AFCON, because there is no way we remotely deserve to win that AFCON. It is better we get beat in AFCON and learn from it than we masquerade with Osimhen carrying the team on his shoulders and end up getting bronze or something again, then we look like a decent team when in reality we are not.

Yeah Nigerian football has that disease.
Once we discover a good player, we stop building a good team
or even care about other players.
it will be pass to Victor Osimhen and Insha allah
It was once pass to Kanu and Insha allah
I want our talent pool to develop to a point
where we have 3 players or more for each position and we can play as a team.

Countries like france, spain etc have many good players and so they just dont
depend on one player for everything.
We need to get to that stage

witorwitoutyou:
GREAT NEWS FOR THE LIKES OF TAIWO,DENNIS AND MOFFI


MEANWHILE I HOPE WE DONT END UP LIKE A DAFT COACH IN THE PERSON ROHR,WHO LEFT THE ABOVE PLAYERS FOR EXPPIRED PRODUCTS LIKE IGHALO,MUSA..ROHR IS NOT FIT TO COACH A LOCAL CLUB AT TEDE/OFIKI LGA... VERY DAFT FRANCO-GERMAN

Yeah i keep saying our need for Osimhen is because of the foolishness of our coach.
He also has david okereke, Anthony Nwakaeme, emmanuel dennis, henry onyekuru as wingers
and he beleives that without chuwueze and ejuke we dont have wingers.
I dont understand how rohr reasons.
Obinna Nwobodo, Alhassan Yusuf, Akinkunmi Amoo etc should be tried in our midfield in order to replace ndidi and iwobi.
Rohr will make us believe the team cannot function when iwobi, osimhen, ndidi and chukwueze are missing
and that is sheer folishness on his part.
Rohr is in this mess because he does not know or understand our players

Omanambala:
Personally , I don't want any gaddem whitey! I want a black coach , who is tactically sound....i don't care where they come from.....be it Ghanaian , Ivorian , Portuguese , Brazil or Nigeria. What's the obsession with white coaches. I would even hire Patrick Vieri , if he is not engaged. I don't see any black man coaching a white country..or , don't we have intelligent black coaches ?

Our best bet for now is either Salisu Yusuf or Emmanuel Ammunike.
We need a coach that has been part of the system for sometime and understands the players and their mentality
and has fresh ideas.
We dont have the money for a foreign coach and it will take him time to understand our players.

ChrisKels:
That news of Osimhen suffering multiple fractures and being out till 2022 is a lie

How do you know its a lie. Where did you get your news from

nelszx:
Well that problem is generally from Rohr. He doesn't give most players ample game time to expeess themselves.

That said, Onuachu is by far the only one who has been given opportunities time and time again to show what he can offer ahead of other forwards that he had invited. But man keeps playing like he's learning the ropes.

I'm not saying he's bad or anything but he hasn't been convincing like he really knows what he's doing. I just hope he plays well going forward. Its actually my wish he gets it right like he does at genk. Nothing more

We need to forget about Onuachu and give others a chance.
He does not fit into our style of play and we have other options.
Cyriel Dessers, Awoniyi, Simmy, Sadiq Umar etc are there.
Give those ones a chance.

TheLoneCitizen:
Man if you like this kind of dominance, you don't like football.

Well, its good football to me.
Other teams have to figure out how to cope with his tiki taka style of football.
I understand i mean you may have very good players in your team
but guardiolas team will not allow you to touch the ball and the opposing team
will be reduced to passengers and nonsense.
Guardiolas football at its best does not give the opposition the chance to have the ball
let alone a sniff at goal.
His team does all the playing and there is no competition.
Anyway there is no best way of playing football but i love Guardiola possession football.
Its the best for me

fabyom:
Football is all about movement. Chelsea wing backs are better on the ball and their movement is opening up the midfield for Kante and Odoi to run into. Chelsea and Leicester are playing the 352 with the right set of players. The quality of the wing backs is the difference. Unlike Rohr!

playing 3 5 2 without good wing backs is like playing 5 3 2 with five defenders. So your wing play is stiffled.
This is worse when there is little creativity from central midfield due to the defensive prowess or attitude of your opponents
who block everything going through the middle with defensive midfielders.
In the process you leave your creative wingers on the bench and your strikers are frustrated as there is no service.
This is what happened to Rohr in the last international matches we played.
When you have very good wingers, playing a system without wing backs like 4 2 3 1, 4 4 2, etc is the best
especially when you dont have good wing backs. The irony is ola aina and zaidu sanusi are better as wing backs.
Rohrs problem is his tactical ineptitude

Joebie:
The identity of the Serbian coach — 61 year old former Heart of Oak coach,

Did the research. He has worked in Nigeria and coached
Lobi stars, Enyimba and Kwara United before
between 1993 and 2004.
He has also coached African teams like Orlando pirates,
Kaizer Chiefs etc before.
They probably selected him because of his experience in Nigerian and African football.
That is if you are right

charlesemeka85:
we play the same style of football with the Dutch

Yeah that is part of the reason why westerhoof and bonfere Jo succeed. Ducht, Brazilian, Spanish football allow creativity and improvisation which our best players are made for. In fact, Otto Gloria our afcon 1980 winning coach was Brazilian.
So it's a long time. Any coach that stiffles our creativity does not get the best out of us.

mostob:
According to my source,Rohr's sack letter is being typed now.

Imama Amakapababo to take over.

Here we go guys!

Imama Amakapababo failed with our u23, home based team and wafu teams
He ruined 3 Nigerian national teams within a year.
Imama Amakapababo is a disaster waiting to happen
Salisu Yusuf will be better.

HOW TO SACK ROHR

We can give rohr a new role in the team.
We will give him the role of technical adviser, scout and general manager.
That is he will just give his own opinion on how the team should play,
manage the players and keep them from a mutiny and scout players for us.
The coaching, training and tactics will be managed by Salisu Yusuf.
Salisu Yusuf will be the real coach while Rohr will have his role.
He will still collect his salary but he will not coach the team except to ask for advice.
That way Rohr will not really be the coach.
He will also ask as the spokesman for the team
But Salisu Yusuf will coach the team and select players.
They should just give him a new role and appoint a coach for him

Danielnino00:
His pace lasan!

This guy will go far.... it's obvious...

Believe it or not, he would do much better with a supporting cast of Chukwueze and Ejuke beside him...rather than him drifting to the flank all the time to hustle for the ball ...

Victor osimhen is like rashidi yekini and amokachi put together in one person. He has the work rate of amokachi and the agrresivenes and goal sense of Yekini. Watching this match makes me know why European s are crazy over him. The guy is simply good

codemaniacs:
The important thing is that you guys have noticed it and are voicing out.....

I quoted your comments because I saw a similar word to sabotage ( under-utilizing )... I think Rohr should take the most of the blame but the NFF are also responsible because we don't know the politics going on in the team selection...

I think they are forcing players on Rohr and he is too gentle
There is a conspiracy to remove good young players from the team for some sellfish reason.
Rohr was not like this before. He introduced Osimhen and Chukwueze when they were teenagers
and brought in other young players.
some people have hijacked the team from rohr and he seems to cowardly to stop it.
The sellfish interest of some politicians is at work.
They could not do that to Westerhoof.
Time will tell the truth.
some of those players will tell the truth a few years from now.
The conspiracy to put mediocres in the team is looking untenable by the day.
We keep having good players all over Europe and the world and they cant keep on
with their bias.
I KNOW BELIEVE THIS IS pOLITICS AND BIAS AT WORK.

Danielnino00:
I really feel for Ola Aina...Imagine being so versatile and you can't get to start regularly in the team....

The team has been hijacked by some powerful people and players are not been selected on merit.
I think some players are been forced on Rohr.
It is getting obvious that Rohr has lost control of the team and some powerful nff officials are controlling him.
The team is been picked on bias and sentiment and thats all.
I HAVE STARTED BELIEVING THIS.