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KusherAbel:
Thanks for the link. It was an enjoyable read. Stumbled on this article


The expensive car joke

There were many stories. Daniel recalled how hard they had given their all in a camp in Holland and Westerhof, so impressed, told them he had a huge surprise for them. He said that he had gotten Mercedez Benz Motors to donate a car to each Nigerian player as a promotional package, which could boost their sales in Africa. He said each member of the team would have a Mercedez Benz car the following day and that the keys were ready.

“And truly, he brought some keys and distributed to us. Excitement reached heavens,” Daniel recalled. “Coach Christian Chukwu was already celebrating this and Keshi had called the wife to come down the following day from Belgium to Holland to drive a car home. Keshi was in Anderlecth at the time. Some of us still in Africa were wondering how we would take our cars home, hoping that some people would help us ship them home. Expectation was high. The time of delivery came and Westerhof directed us to the corner he said the cars were lined up. We got there and saw toy Mercedez Benz cars lined up. It was such an embarrassing joke that Chukwu warned him never to do such a thing again. We were all disappointed but it was part of him to drill you, exhaust you in training and also entertain you with such jokes that make the place lively. He had humour, he had discipline and he could make you fight like a bull in the field. He gave me the name The Bull.”

Look this is easy. I read the link u pasted. Rohr problem is that he does not understand the average Nigerian player. I read where Moses kpakor from a local clibside marked out the best player from Ivory coast and I smiled.
People here won't believe me but a combination of kelechi nwakali, akinkunmi amoo, chidera ejuke and tosin kehinde will solve our midfield problems. Rohr needs to understand our players and their mentality.
We need maybe a black westerhoof whose mind operates like gim

Surebaba01:
CAR coach wants to coach Nigeria

I agree with him. I have thought about that maybe the car coach can be our next coach.
He seems to be tactically good.
Rohr has some limitations that any well coached team can expose.
A team like Zambia with a few exceptional players (daka etc and a lot of carpenters and average players
might defeat us if care is not taken.
Maybe we should make him our next coach.
He seems like another Westerhoof in the making

Mujtahida:
Modern football is moving towards wiping out the dribble. If football continues on this current trajectory, I predict that in the next ten to twenty years, dribbling will be a memory. That's why I hate modern football - pass, pass, pass from morning till night.

It won't work. In fact, the more defensive things get the more intelligent dribblers will be needed. When a defense is too tight dribblers are needed to create space. Watch kanu and Messi's dribbling to see how dribbling is still needed.
Modern football will realize it needs dribblers or else matches will end zero zero with all this tight defending. Modern football is confusing itself

minfelix:
Hopefully? No longer certainly!! Nigeria is now a minnow

NIGERIAS GREATEST WEAKNESS IS THAT WE HAVE A BADWEAK COACH
WHO CANNOT READ A MATCH, INVITE THE BEST PLAYERS OR MAKE THE RIGHT SUBSTITUTION
THIS IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM.
OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE NOTICED ROHRS WEAKNESS AND ARE SIMPLY CAPITALIZING ON IT.
CAR CAN READ US LIKE A BOOK. WE ARE SO OBVIOUS
JUST STUFF THE MIDFIELD AND DEFENCE WITH PLAYERS AND THEN WE WONT HAVE SPACE
AND HIT US WITH LONG BALLS.
IN FACT, THEY KNOW WE NEED NDIDI REMEMBER BENIN (I DONT REMEMBER THE COUNTRY)
GAVE IWOBI FAKE COVID REPORT BECAUSE THEY SAW OUR GAME REVOLVES AROUND HIM
ROHR IS SO LIMITED AND HIS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE IS A BIG PROBLEM
I CALL IT THE ROHR FACTOR
WE MIGHT GET TO THE SEMIFINAL OF THE NATIONS CUP
AND THEN WE MIGHT EVEN NOT QUALIFY FOR THE WORLD CUP
AND IF WE DO, WE WONT GO PASS THE GROUP STAGE
ROHR HAS SERIOUS LIMITATIONS IN HIS THINKING HE NEEDS TO WORK ON

andrewbaba44:
Umar is having another good season at division 2 and he will leave to a better league and I am so sure of that

If nwakali is doing well At division 2 he will also move to a better league soon

England didn’t cap vardy while he was playing for fleetwood town

If nwakali is lucky he will be called up

Meanwhile i believe Sadiq Umar could end up in newcastle after their take over by Arab billoniares.
I mean his price tag will not be too high for them and they
are the richest club in town and will want to buy anybody.
Newcastle are like chelsea in 2004 after the Abrahamovich take over. I believe he will
succeed there

andrewbaba44:
Umar is having another good season at division 2 and he will leave to a better league and I am so sure of that

If nwakali is doing well At division 2 he will also move to a better league soon

England didn’t cap vardy while he was playing for fleetwood town

If nwakali is lucky he will be called up

The problem is we lack personel in midfield. We are desperately in need of midfielders and so our criteria should not be too high. We need his skillset now. If he was a winger or striker nobody will mention him but our midfield options are too thin for us not to consider nwakali. We have to be realistic. Time is not on our side

sheyishemba:
Nacho cannot play behind this dude...he is not a maestro he will end up being a passenger in the game...you need a maestro to play behind this kind of players...look at leceister they have two maestro behind vardy alone; tielemans and maddison that's why Rodger will prefer to play maddison ahead of nacho in the AMF role...he can't give you that authoritative stamp in that central position...I will compare nacho with harvertz and Muller to get the best out of him play him as an SS...but if we want to get the best out of SE then you don't need a two-striker formation or an SS the two-striker will continue to fail as long we don't have a maestro to control the midfield we have a world class DMF in ndidi but a good ball driver in aribo not a maestro...take chelsea for an instance in the match against juve...we lost the match and couldn't control the midfield cos their were no maestro in kovavic and ziyech...had it been someone like kante or even mount played the match we could have control the midfield and play more creative football...the only player that is close to a maestro is iwobi and even amoo to an extent till we get a better maestro in the likes of eze, olise et al we will continue to play anywhere Belle face kind of style and we will continue to struggle I prefer we stick to 4-2-3-1 formation with maestro in iwobi and a driver in aribo that will still be a lil bit fair...but this shit is iwobi is not even in form we are actually in a deep mess.

This is where the problem is. Nwakali, nwobodo and alhassan yusuf have not been tried before. Your antecedent
that we dont have a midfield controller is suspect and may even be false as long as Rohr REFUSES TO TRY THESE OpTIONS.
In logic, you dont certify the truth of an hyothesis until it is tested.
This hypotheses that we dont have a midfield controller will remain undecided until these players are tried in midfield.
They are available for selection. Let Rohr try them in one of our matches and see that they can do.
The problem is that Rohr refuses to experiment with out midfield and makes false assumptions that have not been verified.
This type of thinking is funny.
HOW DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS TRUE IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED IT BEFORE

TheGoodJoe:

What do you think Amunike, Manu Garba, and Siasia did all these years? We built a free-flowing possessive generation. Unfortunately, Pinnick lacks the vision of Maigari and opted for a coach that will not toe the line.

Watch the build-up and possessive play in our 2013 U17 first game against Mexico which Chidebere Nwakali scored and see how advanced our play was.

This is why I believe our youth teams should be integrated into the senior team immediately. There is this lack of continuity between our youth teams and our main team.
Even now players like Samson tijani, akinkunmi amoo etc should be integrated.

Sportilitica:
I used to defend Rohr but I have had my reservations about our pattern of play. No crosses or purposeful passing. No synergy in this team and it has been 5 years. I have been watching other African teams and I believe we have decent players but are so disjointed that they are a pain to watch a times. Even if we can not play attractive football at least play the basics.
I am not pissed we lost which can happen to any team but the fact that we have no identity and pattern is really disturbing. I believe it is time for Rohr to bow out.
People using salary as an excuse do have a point but the coaching is so poor that there is not much to be desired.
I wonder if Bruno Metsu is still available to coach. That would be a better replacement.
For Rohr, I do expect anything better afrom the SE anymore.
If we take this attitude to any major tournament the I am sorry to say we will be beaten black and blue.
No aspect of the team is working presently and that should worry true SE fans.
I rest my case

We can get some major Rich men like otedola or our former footballer s like femi Martin's to pay him off and then sack him. Some if our former stars are millionaires.

Mickael2:
Chief Sir

Aren't you guys guys tired of watching Rohr's Super Eagles? I've seen people calling Oshimen, Awoniyi etc average players simply because the coach is messing up the team and it is affecting their own ratings, if I was a player, I wouldn't wouldn't accept any national team invitation from Rohr to be very honest, it is almost painful what I watched today, almost painful sha because, well, I expected it, no be Rohr again? But he has qualified us for a WC in the same group with Cameroon, Algeria and Zambia plus he beat Argentina in a friendly, so give the man a lifelong contract.

We simply have a coaching problem. Good coaching is important in football.
Rohr is too tactically limited and predictable. We have good players but a bad coach. That's all.

charlesemeka85:
oga forget this names you just mentioned. Amoo is still learning and shouldn’t be rushed to the national team while nwakali still needs to do more

Even with the current team facing the CAR aribo can he deployed as a AM which I believe he will perform then shehu as a CM

You are not sure of something until you try it. They might click and there is no harm in trying

charlesemeka85:
we will qualify. The problem in this team facing CAR is the absence of an attacking midfielder who can drive the ball to the forwards

I must confess that iheanacho in that role is more or less like hff should aving no one because he hardly comes in deep to pick the ball as well as make him self available for passes in the middle

Somebody needs to force an attacking midfielder or central midfielder on rohr. I mean nwakali, amoo anybody. Rohr needs to address this issue now. Somebody in nff should force it o him. He is a very blind man

humility33:
Who does not know that this NFF led by pinnick is corrupt to the bone probably except the guy asking me where do i expect Pinnick to get money from to pay Rohr his salary

All the funds accrued by NFF both from FIFA, CAF,Corporate bodies and FG budgetary allocation are not been accounted for. Still owning players match bonus after several matches played and coaches salaries are owned

It is such a pity

In the last 7 years 25 billion naira has been unaccounted for it stolen by amaju punick and his cronies in nff.
This is the real problem of Nigerian football and not making some home based players face Mexico.
Corruption, bad leadership and mismanagement is the root of the problem and I'm glad at least they are been exposed

Rohr and his midfield issues

It seems Rohr is paying attention to our midfield issues. Rohr is actually monitoring alhassan yusufs progress for a call up but then he got injured. At least according to scorenigeria.

https://scorenigeria.com.ng/alhassan-yusuf-on-super-eagles-radar-as-he-undergoes-another-scan/

ChrisKels:
Lol tears dun full everywhere

Told you all no reasonable play would wanna associate with this dirty system, but you all kept hold of your empty dreams. Olise has made the right choice, he is still young and too good to mess up his blossoming career with Nigeria, it hurts to say this but that is just the truth. The earlier you all understand that nothing is attractive about Nigeria, the better for you all. We can only get the players deemed surplus to requirements, the players that have no other options than to pitch their tents with us. No quality player confident in his abilities would trade illustrious systems for ours. Would be really fun to face him and his Algerian side in the AFCON.

Algeria is not as big as Nigeria in football. We have reached the semi finals of afcon 15 times with 3 afcon wins and we have dominated the Olympics and for an African country we have a better world cup record than Algeria.
Algeria is nothing compared to Nigeria in global football.
Something must be wrong somewhere for him to choose Algeria. What is Algeria in football compared to Nigeria. I mean before the last afcon they had won it onle once and how many times have they reached afcon semi finals. We did not market ourselves well that's all. I mean we are even better in youth football

Aribo and onyeka.
Supernerd and everybody in the house how will a midfield combination of aribo and onyeka look like.
Also, I suspect rohr wants to try Samuel kalu as an attacking midfielder
So I foresee aribo, onyeka and Samuel kalu in midfield.
I want a thorough analysis with advantages and disadvantages

Truidstar:
He was brilliant 2 weeks ago. Those of us who criticize him do so out of frustration. This was a player that a commentator said was a hybrid of lampard and Viera at U17 level. He should be by now playing for a top 6 club in one of the top leagues based on his initial promise.

In another 2 to 3 years he will. Leeds and some other teams have noticed. It's a question of time.

IDENNAA:
Nwakali and Amoo can play that role , especially when we are short of options in that area. And, please don't come with the usual stale argument you guys pull when you have not point to make, because Nwakali and Amoo are currently playing for their respective clubs. If you can invite inactive players and players in lowly rated leagues then you have no reason to ignore Nwakali and Amoo.

By the way I have a funny feeling akinkunmi amoo might end up in Barca.
Reason is they are in debt and will buy him as he is a cheap option they can easily develop

12large1:
Victor Moses will walk into Nigeria 11 easily. In fact, the only winger in Nigeria history that’s better than him is finidi George and George wasn’t consistent

In another 3 years Paul mukairu will be better than him. Mind u amunike was better. In fact our 2019 under 17 set has better wingers. In fact tijsni babangida was better. Our football stars in the 80 and 90s were better than him. No one really cared about playing in Europe as Nigeria s economy was good.
In fact we have a teenager in Viborg that is better. Akinkunmi amoo is on the way and so many more. This pride of foreign born players is enough. Abeg go siddon. Victor Moses best winger in our history. Arrant nonsense. I don't blame u Rohr is a blind man that does not know our players

daveP:
Crazy lots. To Onuachu's advantage anyway.

I do hope its not true. This Afcon blockings though. Can't something be done?

To be honest with u onuachu does not fit into our style of play. He should naturalize and play for Belgium. He is a square peg in a round hole with us. We don't understand his style of play. Let moffi, desserts, Sadiq Umar etc take over.

TheGoodJoe:
On another note, I believe despite the growth of our players in Europe, I feel we are missing a gold mine because the current people running our football are lazy. They are just in the business to harness what they want.

I will give you an instance.

When Christian Chukwu was appointed coach of the Super Eagles, at a certain period he was on break, he carried out a screening camp for players in feeders of our local clubs.

He went about watching matches of feeder teams and collecting phone numbers of players he saw with potentials.

Then after drafted a list of players from them and invited them to a camp in Ogun State, at Otta to be exact.

One of the players from Sharks FC feeders then made the cut. He said the first thing Coach Christian Chukwu taught them was endurance.

He said he brought axes, machetes, shovels, rakes and other farm tools. Measured a large piece of land in something that looked like a forest and told them to carry out a bush clearing work. (It is football they came to play)

He said they worked all day for days, clearing bush, raking, with not much food to eat. He said after about a week plus, they were done. Well raked pitches, wide and fresh.

He said, they rested, and keep in mind, feeding was not easy. They were supporting themselves and the coach was doing his best too.

Then he gave them a thorough lesson in total-football. He said for days, they did more of theory than field work. They only did intense jogging every morning and then lessons.

By the time they were ready for the field, he says it was nothing like he had ever seen. He said, he learnt things he did not know about football like breaking defences with triangular passes, etc. He said you will pass ball until it became second nature of you. Pass and move.

He said, unfortunately, Christian Chukwu got sacked during their program and he believed if the coach had finished with them, they would have done wonders. The coach wanted to use them for one of the friendly games.

What I am pointing out is that, there is so much work to do in Nigerian football, but this current set have showed extreme laziness. No grassroot work, no grooming of future players. We just wait for players to break through in clubs or some foreign player to do well and pledge allegiance to us.

I hope we pick up from where we are and shoot for our potentials.

You see that is the the problem. This kind of thing should be done again. It does not take more than 3 months to do this.
I think westerhoof noticed something similar.
You see if bukayo saka was born in Nigeria he will be limited by bad coaching.
The nff must be very lazy and confused.

solonnachi:
Dear IDENNA! I am a big fan of Kelechi Nwakali. I am thinking he really needs strong political connection to get himself into Rohr's list. There is something he isn't doing right to earn a call up or to Rohr, he has passed his prime. If ssomeone in the NFF would take up his matter, he would be called up.

My thoughts though!

He can try kanu nwankwo connection. I mean kanu facilitated his move to arsenal and so he has a good relationship with kanu. Kanu can advocate for him. At least Kingsley micheal and bonke are not at his level. In the meantime he should continue to work on his club form. His performance s since February have been encouraging

IDENNAA:
Its the Nigerian league phenomena. These players arent well groomed due to greed and impatience on the part of the club owners. They pick the players up and without much preparations the players are introduced into the amateurish and mediocre Nigerian league where their talent stagnate. At the end , what you have is a players with potentials that never developed fully. They continue playing in the league until the usual invite to national team where they often show those flashes of brilliance but at this time they are probably in their 30s and in another two to three years the party is over.

This happened to Ahmed Musa (yes Musa plays rubbish 70% of the time), Uzoenyi , Kolanut boy , Jude Aneke , Sunday Mba etc. Iwuala might still go that route. Nigerian league is shhit.

Musa was lucky as he was a product of the famous gbs academy that also gave us Samuel kalu, moses Simon etc. Also he was very young when he left the npfl and so he had the time to learn.
I strongly believe iwuala will make it as he has already scored a goal and win a trophy in Tunisia. He will be like utaja or amunike who went to Europe after a strong showing in North Africa

charlesemeka85:
Ejike uzoenyi rejoins rangers international

Wasted talent. He was ten times better than Ahmed Musa but could not even do well in south Africa.
One tournament wonder. He was a play making winger like Ribery but then he did not achieve anything at all.
It's sad

12large1:
Let him proov himself at division 1 league before he can displace onuachu

Onuachu is sheer rubish. He is too technically limited for modern football. This is why big teams are not too eager to sign him.
Football is about your style of play sometime s. It might sound some how to you but Sadiq Umar is ten times better. Onuachu cannot even make a simple pass. Forget about him

Kingcalls:
U are one of the most delusional humans beings I hv come across on the Internet.... what was pele known for ?? What was puskas known for?? What was Alfredo di stefano known for?? What was shearer known for??

According to u, Messi has broken all available stats , of course irrelevant stats that u messi minions move about stat padding.... highest assist, highest striking of cross bar , highest key pass, highest man of match award, highest number of thru pass , highest number of back pass ,highest humber of drbbles, highest number of curlers ....nonsense, nonsense stats... major stats , highest number of goals in international football (Ronaldo) highest number of club goals ( Ronaldo) ....I can go on and on... its certain u messi fans are sooooo jealous that Ronaldo has records u wished Messi had , and its making u guys sooo bitter and thats y u guys hv run to irrelevant stats to keep up with Ronaldos stats...

The only stat that Messi has over Ronaldo presently is the balon dor which of course we know awards are always sentimental and dies not actually justify the best cis if we used that as a perimeter, then its also fair to say modric is better than iniesta and xavi and that cannavaro is better than Maldini or gentile ... or ud say VVD is better than ramos ... I can bet u dont even know the person that had the record of valon dor wins b4 messi and Ronaldo, ud hv to Google it now to check... u dont hv to , its Johan cruyff with 3 balon dors ...but no one talks about him like pele and maradona that dint even win one... thats cos people don't care about awards ... only major titles and goals... The people of Brazil sing praises about pele cos he won them 3 world cups smashing in crazy goals ... the people of Argentina sing praises about maradona because of 86 WC ... the people of Portugal sing praises about Ronaldo cis he gave Portugal its first ever international title ... pele and maradona were striking teams like Italy, Spain, England, Belgium, Germany out of world cup and ur midget has only scored mediocre teams in tournaments..... he has never in in career scored a former world champion in a tournament, be it copa or world cup and u call him greatest... out of his 120 champions league goals , about 100 came in the group stage playing minors... Ronaldo has half of his champions league goals coming in knockouts... messi's half international goals come from friendlies ...Ronaldo only has 15% of his 111 goals coming from friendlies

Have you played football before. Creativity is important in football. U can't play with 11 goal scorers. Messi is the most creative player in recorded history. It is very important. Also Messi will also reach 800 goals as it is only a matter of time. Messi is more versatile and difficult to mark

TheLoneCitizen:
Obinna Nwobodo for Goztepe vs Altay

10 tackles

3 interceptions

2 clearances

Nigeria's most consistent midfielder not named Ndidi.

I totally agree. He has been in the team of the week on a number of occasions and is one of the best midfielders in the Turkish league. How Rohr ignores him is what I don't understand

charlesemeka85:
small time Bashiru go be one of the best for championship and return to watford a better player to feature in the epl but we still Dey hype nwakali

Nwakali saved alcorcon from relegation last season and was their best player. In fact Leeds United wanted him but sd huesca placed a 15 million price tag on him. Despite this you are saying he should not be appreciated for his efforts.
Ask supernerd and he will tell you about his performance s since February this year. This is based on fact and not sentiment

Barcelona is not a big club again.
They are now an average team like maybe leicester or Totenham or even below that
They are just there.
The only good thing is that they have gone back to their academy

Blueelf:


With all the money spent on transfer by ManU

Then suppose ask solskjaer to kneel down, raise up hand

I was thinking like that. After sometime, Solksjaer will have to start winning trophies. They are buying too many world classplayers for him

Good