TheLoneCitizen:


Brothers, Lookman has 2G+A in 12 games for Leicester. Both goals came in the Carabao Cup.

Henry also has 2G+A in 13 games, but both came in the Europa League.

You are making it sound like Lookman is having a banner campaign while Onyekuru is an Olympiacos flop.

TheLoneCitizen:


Skills and technique are very different.

De Bryune and Bruno Fernandes have two of the best techniques in England, but they aren't so skillful.

Traore is one of the best dribblers in world football, but he lacks good technique.

Sadio Mane on the other hand has both good dribbling skills and technique.

They are very different attributes, brother.

Danielnino00:


It isn't the responsibility of the senior national team to help in developing players.. That's what football academies and cadet teams are for..
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TheLoneCitizen:


Sir, technique refers to the way a player receives, passes or shoots the ball. As well as the body posture when taking this action. (modified).
It's one of the very few attributes that never leaves a player even as they age.

chrisooblog:
Boss Joe times have changed. Clemens could afford to look inwards because we didn't have too many players doing it in Europe at the time.

Developing local talents takes time a luxury national team coaches don't have. Even Keshi that tried it how many were the back bone of his team? Oboabona (who immediately went to Europe) and Sunday Mba who had an indian summer for us at the 2013 AFCON.

talent development, scouting and training is something that our local teams should handle ordinarily. You don't need super powers of observation to scout local play grounds, street tournaments and the likes to find hidden gems it's the polishing of these gems to such a state to get the attention of national team coaches that's usually the problem.

I dare say the local coaching and scouting of talent during Westerhof's time was way better in comparison to today because the scouts were good at finding such talents plus the coaching was decent so players of natural ability were quite many in the league. So of course Clemens could pick these guys because a lot of Nigerian coaches had already done the hardwork of cleaning up those players a bit.

To solve our issues today the type of mentality our coaches have has to change. Emphasis should be placed on identifying technically skilled youngsters not just power and pace. Grassroots need serious funding to properly nurture talents. Place quota system on NPFL club side to have between 5-7 academy players be part of their squads this will push them to focus on catching and developing young talents in their locality.

Odunayaw:
He knows all this but blue ink Avatar Agidi will not rest

seankafor:
this thing dey pain Me gan

I go dey here to mock una when our teams will start having dressing room troubles and mafia gangs..

I go mock all of una wey pursue Rohr..

I don already wish failure to the next appointee


He will fail woefully and I go dey here to laugh all of una..

seankafor:
this thing dey pain Me gan

I go dey here to mock una when our teams will start having dressing room troubles and mafia gangs..

I go mock all of una wey pursue Rohr..

I don already wish failure to the next appointee


He will fail woefully and I go dey here to laugh all of una..

TheLoneCitizen:


I don't know why we are so obsessed with the AM role in Nigeria.
The primary attribute of an attacking midfielder is technique which is why strikers like Lacazette, Muller, Firmino, Kane and Iheanacho can perfectly slot in there. But Lukaku, Osimhen, Aubameyang cannot survive there.
Dennis is a star play, but even in his wonder performance yesterday, you could see he lacks technique. Same thing with Ejuke.
Why turn a top player who can excel anywhere across the frontline (LWF, CF, RWF), into a poor attacking midfielder?

TheGoodJoe:


The question, before all these, what should we do? Fold arms and wait for the local teams and coaches to get it right?

That will be wasting precious time.

I pointed out how Siasia did it. He opened his camp two weeks earlier than normal and held a camping session for the home-based lads for two weeks before the arrival of foreign pros.

In that camping session, Siasia pointed out how much these players lack basic tactical knowledge. He even explained that when they got into the training game and many of them had forgotten a lot he taught them.

Running these kind of sessions for some years will benefit the players and the league for a while.

An idea hit me when I saw Amunike training local coaches in modern football practices and strategies. I thought of our Super Eagles coach developing a working scouting frame work for coaches from the local leagues to academies. A kind of train the trainer program to help them spot gems.

What I am saying is that there are steps to take than saying the National team coach should fold arms during breaks, watching European games and drafting lists.

TheGoodJoe:


That is why the national team can be used as an opportunity to help in the search and development of hidden special talents. Westerhof went as far as watching amature tournaments in different areas of Nigeria.

Remember a 16 years old Amokachi called up to the National team and became a gem to Nigerian football.

Because Westerhoff understood the challenges of the local scene but had a sincere belief in the potential of Nigerian football, he was able to keep searching for talents.

As long as things are so bad in local football, the footballers need all the help they can get. In the long run, it will benefit us massively.

TheLoneCitizen:


I don't know why we are so obsessed with the AM role in Nigeria.
The primary attribute of an attacking midfielder is technique which is why strikers like Lacazette, Muller, Firmino, Kane and Iheanacho can perfectly slot in there. But Lukaku, Osimhen, Aubameyang cannot survive there.
Dennis is a star play, but even in his wonder performance yesterday, you could see he lacks technique. Same thing with Ejuke.
Why turn a top player who can excel anywhere across the frontline (LWF, CF, RWF), into a poor attacking midfielder?

TheLoneCitizen:
Emmanuel Dennis showings in the Premier league is just proof that players can plateau at lower leagues because they lose motivation to perform there.

Labelled egoistic and lazy in Germany and Belgium, yet I've seen very few forwards with his work rate or desire.

Subzero047:


Are you pregnant, cus you're spitting

mkrest:


Bars

Meliforme:


Do you agree that technique also includes ball control skills, the ability to track and defend and high pressing (for forwards,

Do you also believe that the ability to create goalscoring opportunities (creativity), and goalscoring itself are excluded from the definition of technique.

Please be patient with me, i really want to get your stand with the definition.

Mujtahida:

Tell me what is technique so I can recognize it anywhere not players who have technique cos I hear that word so often and it was not in the football lingo ten years ago.

Meliforme:


If we are to play 4-4-2, Osimhen should play the SS, while the Iheanacho the CF.

But the fact on ground is that we don't have the midfield that a 4-4-2 requires.
Only Aribo can fit in on the right and maybe Ejuke on the left.

Consider the image below.

Subzero047:


Are you pregnant, cus you're spitting

Subzero047:
Was Sierra Leone the country that gave a fake covid report on Iwobi?

Blueelf:
You guys shouldn't forget that Maduka was not even on the bench for watford and he is SE starting GK

That is worrisome!!!

Danielnino00:


Strikers

Osimhen
Iheanacho
Awoniyi
Onuachu


Wingers

Chukwueze
Ejuke
Dennis
Lookman


That should normally be our 8 attacking option to the AFCON...

nelszx:

Benin

nelszx:

I have not been sold on Onuachu. Onuachu hasn't really really been convincing in the GWG, he's a great forward no doubt but he's always lost playing for us.

At Genk he's a machine, but at home he's just a puppet. I really want him to improve and I feel he will

nairalandankrah:
Reports out of France currently has it that The Victor Osimhen transfer from LOSC to Napoli was actually worth just €36m...and not 81m€

Napoli can lie sha

TheLoneCitizen:



The ability to track and defend is not technique, I have read some articles that have wrongly labelled this.

Creativity and goalscoring are skills, not technique. But there's no creative player on earth who doesn't have good technique, never.

As I said before, how you receive, pass and shoot the ball, as well as your body posture while performing this action is called your technique

Defending, tracking, positioning or movement are what you do without the ball, technique is generally what you do with the ball.

There are passing techniques, shooting techniques, and even dribbling technique. Goalkeepers also have catching technique, but reflexes and shot stopping are skills, not technique.

But the thing is, if you have good shooting technique, you automatically have good passing technique and vice versa.

For example, for shooting technique:

Do you shoot with the vamp, or inside of the boot, or outside of the boot?

Do you apply a curl or knuckleball effect?

How do you control the ball?

But most importantly, what is your body posture before, during and after shooting?

This determines your shooting technique.

Ndidi has the decent shooting power, but Etebo has the better shooting technique.

Osimhen has decent shooting power, Iheanacho has the better shooting technique.

Lukaku has more shooting power, Suarez has better shooting technique.

Examples of players that possess good passing and shooting techniques in every aspects are Ziyech and Thiago. These are the basic requirements of an AM.