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Kelechi Nwakali subbed in in the 71st minute in huescas match right now. At Last!. Hope he performs well today. God is answering my prayer

TheSuperNerd:
Jordan Kadiri Attah scores for Ostersunds to give them the lead away at Falkenberg in the Swedish Allsvenskan. 70 mins played.

How good is this guy. Give me stats videis anything. I have heard stuff about him. Man city is even interested

Good for you

Can victor Osimhen suceed at rb leipzig. There is no offer i just wonder if going there will not be better for him. Its open for discussion

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tglobal:
@Danielnino00

Please bookmark this post right here, especially the bolded

When iheanacho proves him wrong in future we will show him this quotation. See how he condemned him.

Eizzy003:
Sorry to deviate but this Red Bull guys are in for business
I know Liverpool fans in the house can relate

I dont know why anyone has not noticed. Red bull is FULLY FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING YOUNG PLAYERS FROM LESSER KNOWN COUNTRIES. some zambian players are there. In fact our youngsters should go there as such teams have time for them. The issue of our youngsters not making it in Europe will end if they go there. Samson tijani is the only nigerian player there but i pray that more should come

Lower your blood pressur

Edopesin:
Victor Osimhen gives greenlight To £50m Man Utd Deal

Nigeria Sensational Striker, Victor Osimhen, has opted to join Manchester United after rejecting Napoli’s lofty offer.

The Lille striker scored 18 goals and provided six assists in 38 appearances this season. That form has brought him to the attention of Liverpool, Barcelona and Real Madrid.

But it was Napoli who moved first for the 21-year-old; the Serie A side striking a deal worth £50m this summer.

Osimhen flew to Naples to hold meetings with Coach Gennaro Gattuso and president Aurelio De Laurentiis.

“Victor went to Naples with his representatives,” his agent Osita Okolo told Calcio Napoli 24. “We talked and exchanged views on the city: the impressions were good, to tell you the truth.

“Victor isn’t always shy, although he would’ve preferred to make an important decision with less media exposure.

“After meeting De Laurentiis, Giuntoli and Gattuso, he told me he needed some time to make a decision, without any pressure.

“Later this week he was quoted not ‘interested’ to accept Napoli’s offer.”

However, Osimhen is yet to sign on the dotted line and is thought to be keen to see who else comes in for him.

According to report, citing Football Italia, the striker feels pressured into joining Napoli and could yet steer clear. Furthermore, they claim he wants to move to the Premier League with Manchester United in his sights.

United recently struck a deal to extend Odion Ighalo’s loan until January 2021, but his return to China will leave an opening in their squad.

The Red Devils have relied on Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood this season. Pundit Owen Hargreaves is now expecting big things.

https://news.laveronicamagazine.com/2020/07/09/victor-osimhen-gives-greenlight-to-50m-man-utd-deal/

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I hope this isn't true

Ighalos orescence in manu might convince him. Ighalo is someone he knows and respects and he might just make it there. Time will tell. I read an article like that yesterday

TheSuperNerd:
In Latvia, the lad Tolu Arokodare scored again. He just won't stop. Four goals scored now in four consecutive games. One goal per game.

His side Valmierra won 1-0 away at FK Liepaja that has about two Nigerians in their squad.

Later today, we will likely see Dele Alampasu in action again for FK Ventspils.

He and other good nigerian players need to move to a better league. It is a good place to start though (At least they are given playing time) but by next year they should try and mive to holland belgium france or somewhere respectable. Spending too much time in a league like this makes them less credible. If they continue to do well i beleuve they will go somewhere better. Terem moffi started in Finland

Lower your blood pressure now

PRAYER FOR KELECHI NWAKALI

In Jesus name you will play today.
In Jesus name you shall rise above mediocrity and obscurity.
All the enemies of your progress will be destroyed
I don start 30 day fast

komekn:
Then why are we not seeing them in the top teams of Europe.

I have probably been to every EPL academy at one time or the other as well as to many Championship and lower team football academies.

I have been to quite a few "academy" in Lagos, Benin, PH and quite a few other places. To b e honest there is HUGE GAP in the quality of training and facilities.

European teams can not cap all the Nigerian origin players. With regards to English football there is no EPL academy thar doesn't have Nigerian origin players in it.

There are many more Saka's you just haven't seen them yet.

David okereke club brugge
Victor osimhen lille
Jordan kadiri attah in fact man city is interested in him
Alhassan yusuf this boy may be world class in a few years
Samuel chukwueze villareal
And MANY OTHERS
Are competent young players from nigerian football academies. They are at least average or above average and in a few years time might be in big teams and be world class in future. Most of them are under 25. Righy niw they are in average teams and are doing well. If nigerian football academues can produce decent playets like these then they are not as horrible as you say.
Efforts to develop our grassroot football are yielding positive dividends and should be appreciated. I am not against foreing born players i am just pointing out a fact to you

Edopesin:
mtcheew

we will always have replacements but are they good enough?
Zaidu and Saka should not even be in the same sentence considering the leagues and team they currently play for

And if the locals are not good why won't we go for foreign borns?
Abi you think say na golden generation era we dey?

Begging or whatever you call it doesn't change the fact that there are better players in Europe

It's better you down it with Guinness

Why build your house on sand. So if they refuse to play for us what is next. Im not saying we should not go for them but we need backup or plan b. If we dont have a plan we will be in trouble if things go wrong

Edopesin:
It matters o

Our football academies are producing competent players. It will be nice if he played for us but if he doesnt we have replacements.
Our football will not develop if we rely 100% on foreign born players.
We will turn to beggars and wgen they dissapoint us we will be in trouble.
Zaidu sanusu is there. Stop this slavish attitude of yours

Good for you

humility33:
all because he is waiting for epl offer...

this boys will never learn..

go where you'll be celebrated and offer playtime with less pressure he wanna play for England and does not mind being a bench warmer

same foolish move made Success ran to EPL and where is he today?

ideye was doing quite well in Ukraine not until he went to England thank God he rejuvenate himself by later moving to Greece and then made another bad move to China

well playing in Lille for another season gonna reduce his market value and hype round him this is the best time for him to make this move and launch his career

Nigerian home grown players need serious education on choosing the right club. It needs ti start frim when they are 13.
I bekeive nigerian players should go to red bull salzburg as it is a club focussed on youth development. Samson tijani may go far because of his decision

andrewbaba44:
That should not even be a question ,many teams will pay 40 for Tammy

So Hudson odoi is earning 130k weekly ?

What isvhudsin playing to be earning do much. It sounds ridiculous to me

Kalapizim:
I watched Amokachi on tv before Afcon 2006 leaning his opinions that he would love to have Mikel play a a deep laying playmaker and not 10 as people where wanting him to fill into to Jay Jay's position the.

Da bull and Jose surely saw something we fans weren't seeing.

A deep lying play maker is different from a purely defensive midfielder. At chelsea his creative instincts were obliterated and destroyed. Maurinho is an exteemist. Jorginhi us different fron makelele

https://www.football.co.uk/news/kelechi-iheanacho-could-hold-key-to-ending-leicesters-attacking-woes/717162/

Iheanacho has good link up play and links attack to midfield as a second striker. Read the articlr above

Lower your blood pressure

Good

jihday:
Guyyyyyyy

This mikel issue has been overflogged. He was scary as a teenager. I dont know how maurinho entered his brain but he was more than he himself realized. Maybe inferiority complex but fegusson saw paul scholes while maurinho saw makelele.
This is why i dislike maurinho tilk date. We africans allow white people to underrate us and mikel us an example of this.

Neobulletzz:
You said players that refused club that are really interested in them for more appealing club regret their decision and you gave Mikel Obi as an example

My question na say how Mikel take regret because Mikel won everything in Chelsea so how did he regret that?

Mikel could have won african footballer of the year and be on course for world player of the year. You may not beleive me but he was as a teenager better than paul scholes and at zidane level.
The young man allowed maurinho to underate him. It was very painful

Danielnino00:
In Africa,racism is in form of tribalism.

As for north Africans,they are more or less like Arabs... A lot of Arabs don't like blacks..

Im sorry to say but Arabs are more racist than Europeans.
They are highly intolerant and regard black people as slaves.
The trans sahara slave trade only stopped in 1960 (which is very recent) and lasted over a thousand years.
The arabic word for slave is black or black man.
The Arabs don't regard us as anything and this is worse because ideas like human rights, freedom and democracy are not
necessarily acceptable in the Arab world.

Joebie:
LONG INTERESTING READ ALERT!

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Achara: How Nigeria legend Jay-Jay Okocha sparked the Toronto FC rookie's career
May 29, 2020
Tom Bogert | Contributor
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Like all soccer-playing kids his age in Nigeria, Ifunanyachi Achara spent his days trying to emulate Nigerian (and Bolton Wanderers) legend Jay-Jay Okocha.

Okocha is widely considered the best Nigerian player of all-time, an attacking midfielder who dazzled defenders and captured the imagination of fans with his dribbling skills. Okocha was so good that they named him twice, as the famous Bolton serenading chant goes.

He represented the dream for Nigerian kids. He reached the top, he was an inspiration.

“I always do the one trick he does, where he rolls the ball with his right and steps over with his left foot," Achara told MLSsoccer.com. That move is aptly named the Jay-Jay Okocha stepover. "At this point in time it’s not even intentional, it just happens. I love it, it’s great."

Achara isn't proud to admit he cried when Okocha hung up his boots, but he shares an even more personal story with the Nigerian hero.

Playing at a national tournament during his teenage years, Achara caught the eye of Okocha. The legend thought he deserved a chance with Nigeria's youth national team, so he let a few coaches know, and Achara was called up.

“It’s absolutely crazy," Achara said, still almost in disbelief. "If someone like Okocha thinks I’m good, then I should probably think I’m good, right?”

Achara aimed to make Nigeria's squad for the 2015 U-17 World Cup, but was one of the final players trimmed from the Chile-bound roster. He'd watch the tournament from home.

At first, Achara was just happy to be in the conversation as someone who previously wasn't really part of the youth national team set-up. The team included players who would soon jump to Europe, like Samuel Chukwueze (now at Villarreal), Victor Osimhen (Lille) and Montreal Impact winger Orji Okwonkwo.

Nigeria won the tournament, too, beating the likes of Brazil and Mexico en route to lifting the trophy.

“All my friends were going to European clubs," Achara said, "but it was disappointing for me. When they won, that’s when it hit me: It was a really good opportunity that I missed. I kind of saw it as my last opportunity to be a professional soccer player. Thankfully, I got another opportunity.”

That opportunity presented itself through a program that connected prep schools with promising soccer players, helping Achara get a scholarship to attend the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. He'd play with future Toronto FC teammate Jacob Shaffelburg and former NYCFC winger Jack Harrison, interestingly enough.


It wasn't easy at first. Achara hadn't been to America before and he wasn't yet fluent in English, with his schooling taught in Igbo.

“When I got to the US, I couldn’t really communicate," Achara said. "I wasn’t as fluent, plus with my accent, people couldn’t understand. It was really difficult to express myself at first. I was really anti-social.”

Achara expressed himself on the pitch, where he quickly excelled, helping ease his transition. Once he became comfortable with the language, he got to experience his first winter in the Northeast.

“The winter in Massachusetts, man," Achara exhaled.

One day, he says, it was around negative-10 degrees outside. Where he grew up, 55 degrees was the closest thing he experienced to cold. Strapped with multiple layers, he left his dorm to attend class. He promptly turned back around to the warmth of his room. The head of school came to his dorm to see what was going on, to find out why he was skipping class.

“I told him I just can’t go outside, it’s too cold!" Achara said, laughing. "I was wearing four or five jackets!”

Achara's time at Berkshire led him to Georgetown, a solid four seasons that should have been better had injuries not hampered his collegiate career. He only started 11 games during his senior season as he battled injuries, captaining the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 2019.

Given the stop-start nature of his time at Georgetown, Achara thought he might not get drafted. Toronto picked him with one of their two first-round selections (25th overall), giving him a preseason chance to impress.

“I felt like if I wasn’t drafted, it’d be because teams hadn’t seen me enough, not that I wasn’t a good soccer player," Achara said. "So the fact I was drafted and had a chance to go to preseason, I was excited.”

Achara took that chance with both hands, scoring three goals in four appearances to earn his first professional contract.

He didn't make the gameday squad in Toronto's season opener, but an opportunity presented itself in Week 2 with a few injuries. The day before TFC's game against NYCFC, he was taking extra shots after training. A member of the medical staff told him that the coaching staff was debating his place in the squad, so, stop shooting or you might get hurt.

On gameday, head coach Greg Vanney gave him the good news: Not only was he in the squad, Achara was getting his first MLS start.

“I was so happy, I thought my dream was going to come true," Achara said. "I thought I was going to come off the bench. Then a few hours before the game, coach Greg told me I was going to start. I was so happy and I was already mentally ready.”

Achara's preparation paid off. He intercepted a wayward pass to spark an attack that eventually led to him scoring the game-winning goal in his professional debut, a dream.

The goal was a close-range header. Not quite a goal Okocha often scored, but it'll do.

--MLSsoccer

How good is he
Why cant he move to Europe