₦airaland Forum

Olulong:
Fair point, what I meant is that unlike the west African teams where majority of their stars are based in Europe, for a lot of the Egyptian players u barely know them. But one thing I can attest to is thier Technicality and they know how to frustrate thier opponents

Aboutrika is an example. Till today i wonder why he never played in Europe

Omanambala:
We still don't have a platform in Nigeria where these players will carefully and gradually developed to their full potentials, assumed the overseas deal didn't work out.

The platforms are

1. The national private investors league. It is an alternate league that will start before December this year. It will be by privately owned clubs and it will be televised.
2. Vandrezer fc which is a new club run like a modern European club. It will change the narrative of nigerian football
3. Bafcelona has a football academy licated in lagos. The owners are serious about developing talent in the la masia model.
4. A few football academies now only sell to developmental clubs in Europe and not just any big club.

Besides Akinkunmi Amoo and olakunle olusegun will make it because they are in small teams that are focussed on developing young playees.
Also the MRI machine is helping as these boys are still young and time is on their side. Players like Musa Muhammed and Alhassan muazum Ibrahim are still under 25

Omanambala:
We still don't have a platform in Nigeria where these players will carefully and gradually developed to their full potentials, assumed the overseas deal didn't work out.

tbaba1234:
I have little hope in the 2019 under 17.

Tijani and Jinadu are probably the two that might come out

The platforms are

1. The national private investors league. It is an alternate league that will start before December this year. It will be by privately owned clubs and it will be televised.
2. Vandrezer fc which is a new club run like a modern European club. It will change the narrative of nigerian football
3. Bafcelona has a football academy licated in lagos. The owners are serious about developing talent in the la masia model.
4. A few football academies now only sell to developmental clubs in Europe and not just any big club.

Besides Akinkunmi Amoo and olakunle olusegun will make it because they are in small teams that are focussed on developing young playees.
Also the MRI machine is helping as these boys are still young and time is on their side. Players like Musa Muhammed and Alhassan muazum Ibrahim are still under 25

tbaba1234:
I have little hope in the 2019 under 17.

Tijani and Jinadu are probably the two that might come out

The platforms are

1. The national private investors league. It is an alternate league that will start before December this year. It will be by privately owned clubs and it will be televised.
2. Vandrezer fc which is a new club run like a modern European club. It will change the narrative of nigerian football
3. Bafcelona has a football academy licated in lagos. The owners are serious about developing talent in the la masia model.
4. A few football academies now only sell to developmental clubs in Europe and not just any big club.

Besides Akinkunmi Amoo and olakunle olusegun will make it because they are in small teams that are focussed on developing young playees.
Also the MRI machine is helping as these boys are still young and time is on their side. Players like Musa Muhammed and Alhassan muazum Ibrahim are still under 25
2.

Danielnino00:
Amd all those bunch of players from Mexico..

IMO, our lack of good football infrastructure is one of the major reasons why a lot of our u-17s waste away...

After every u-17 tournament,greedy agents will be lining up to snatch the players to get them deals in Europe that would mostly end up benefiting them and not the players..

Things are changing. I believe that the 2019 under17 set will make it. Allready olakunle olusegun is scoring goals in denmark. I think some reforms are being made in the area of agents. Samson Tijani was caught up in Agent problems but he overcame it and went to red bull in a fantastic deal. Things are definately improving

Bolowolowo:
Onuachu scores a penalty

We dont rate onachu (including me) but he is benching dessers who we rate higher. Football can be funny

Tolulopefinest:
Ejuke Scores

Nice one

Kelechi Nwakali subbed in. He is welcome to la liga

Huesca is playing well. They have sergio gomez from Borusia Dortmund and other good players. I checked their team. They are not bad at all

Subzero047:
West Brom don't have any money, they spent all their money in signing permanently their loan signing

They don't have any striker near to the premier league quality

Make dem buy boys from Africa. They can buy some boys from a football academy in Africa. They will be cheao under 1 million pounds. It might work. Some of our U17 Boys could be of help. It sounds crazy but it is a veritable option since they dont have money

Omanambala:
Music to my ears. This is the same little fella from U17, right ?

Yes

Akinkunmi amoo gets his debut in Europe at last. He has been subbed in just now for hammarby. His European career starts at last

Omanambala:
Most times when you have Ndidi and Etebe playing together there is always confusion in the middle because Etebo is a forward player who has been restricted to DM duties while Ndidi is a defender converted to DM. There is no natural instincts when they are placed there(DM roles). This is mostly the reason why our biggest weakness is the midfield. For a very long time we haven't got creativity in the midfield. We need to play good midfielders who can create play and bring fun back to SE....our style is like the samba but we have been playing without style and stability. We need ball players

The player we have that can do that are Samson Tijani and Lesley Igochukwu but they are still teenagers but maybe we should give them a chance. Kelechi nwakali is also getting back into form. Let us see what he will do today. Joe aribo and Ramon Azeez are also natural midfielders

Iheanacho will play 30 matches this season but out of the 30 matches 25 will be for 30 minutes. He will score 8 goals with 5 assists and pundits will say he is mediocre which is basically unfair.
He should leave leicester to where he will be given game time. They are not giving him a fair chance. The Spanish league will be good for his style of play. Iheanach will score 20 goals a seasin if he is given a chance

TheSuperNerd:
Lad is still balling in Portugal. For CD Nacional. We will see him in the Portuguese topflight again with his side. They gained promotion at the end of last season.

I recall he also featured in that friendly game vs Atletico Madrid alongside Nwakali and others.

What if he does a Zaidu Sanusi and ends up in Benfica. I learnt he plays like Kanu

mostob:
God bless you bro for the constant updates. Weldone bro.
BTW where are all those kids popping up? Ha ha naija players just full everywhere.

Grassroots football is working in Nigeria. Academies youth competitions etc. It is a silent revolution nobody is noticing

Stephen Odey subbed in for the second half for amiens in france. He is welcome to French football

charlesemeka85:
Tijani balling for hartberg against altach

Are you watching the match. How well is he playing

Olakunle Olusegun (the u17 kid) scored twice for Fremad Amager

Samson Tijani starts for tsv hartberg. Match starts at 4

Any foreign born player should join the Nigerian team now or it may be too late. In the next 2 to 5 years even foreign borns will find it difficult for 2 reasons

1. Our grassroot football is working and players from our youth team and academies are getting better. Who knows where samdon tijani, olakunle olusegun, hillary gong, akinkunmi amoo e.t.c will be a few years from now.

2. The number of foreign born pkayers are many and so they may be down the pecking order even among their foreign born.

Emmanuel Dessers is lucky he took his chance. The idea that foreign borns are better is overrated and maybe a thing of the past. Barcelona has an academy in lagos there is nff futures u15 and so one great player can emerge at anytime.

Are you interested

sheyishemba:
Because osihmen no score no mean say make thread dry nah
Zaidu also put a 5 star performance against farense he almost scored sef he played 75 minutes
Also a Nigerian has been promoted to Porto first team.

Who is the person promoted by porto

maidaboi:
Samual kalu start against Lyon

According to owngoalnigeria, he has changed his mind and decided to stay at boardeax. I beleive he will make it. He is a good player with a lot to offer