₦airaland Forum

lovewins:
She was the one that trended months ago about being a bus driver in the UK. Surprised she's 35 (according to Wikipedia). She always sounded like she was mates with Akide and Omagbemi.

Also, you're almost tempted to think she wanted Nigeria to lose sometimes. Lol

TheSuperNerd:
Rachael Ayegba, I think. Former Falcons player.

Danielnino00:
Okobi is the super falcons version of Etebo.. Holds on to the ball too much, poor decision making, poor at set pieces.. But she has a lot of stamina... It's not surprising she wasn't initially in the list of invited players ..

ceejayMAX:
she gats dey neutral nah

sanpipita:
NFF is always getting their coaching arrangements wrong, Randy should have his own assistants 100% and apparently he favours diaspora players more, I never liked our obsession with foreign born players, trying to find players naturalize is never a good way to build a national team.

https://twitter.com/ColinUdoh/status/1550894359905714176?t=pxk4unlcQjuZEiGa2KPHsw&s=19[/quote]NFF should stop appointing assistant coaches for coaches. Most local Nigerians I've seen are always insecure around foriegners, before you know it, they begin to feel like they're being intimidated. But, most of the time, they're wrong. Something similar has started brewing in the SE with Peseiro and finindi I heard.

Secondly, no one is obsessed with foriegn born players. Only Plumptre, Onumonu and Payne where starters, and they had a decent performance. The remaining eight players were born in Nigeria mostly.

I'm not in favor of pursuing players who aren't intrested in playing for Nigeria, but let's stop the fixation on where somebody was born over twenty years ago or how she speaks or acts. None of these matter in football. As long as they want to play and they've got a passport, that's all. All foreign based players are the same. No matter where they're born. Any other demarcation inside that is def coming from inferiority complex.

mostob:
How can she compete in her natural role when she is being played at RB? Alozie could have performed better than Ordega and Vivian yesterday.

JohnBullMySon:
NFF should stop appointing assistant coaches for coaches. Most local Nigerians I've seen are always insecure around foriegners, before you know it, they begin to feel like they're being intimidated. But, most of the time, they're wrong. Something similar has started brewing in the SE with Peseiro and finindi I heard.

Secondly, no one is obsessed with foriegn born players. Only Plumptre, Onumonu and Payne where starters, and they had a decent performance. The remaining eight players were born in Nigeria mostly.

I'm not in favor of pursuing players who aren't intrested in playing for Nigeria, but let's stop the fixation on where somebody was born over twenty years ago or how she speaks or acts. None of these matter in football. As long as they want to play and they've got a passport, that's all. All foreign based players are the same. No matter where they're born. Any other demarcation inside that is def coming from inferiority complex.

codemaniacs:
All of it matters in everything not just football....

Its about preventing the sidelining or obstruction of home born Nigerians from opportunities within their own country...

In most African countries, the richest people are foreigners or foreigners who have citizenship of that country..

It is attitude you call "insecure" , "feeling intimidated" , "Any other demarcation inside that is def coming from inferiority complex" that has prevented such from happening in Nigeria..

Assistants are there to learn from them and to remind them that its NFF that's in control...

codemaniacs:
All of it matters in everything not just football....

Its about preventing the sidelining or obstruction of home born Nigerians from opportunities within their own country...

In most African countries, the richest people are foreigners or foreigners who have citizenship of that country..

It is attitude you call "insecure" , "feeling intimidated" , "Any other demarcation inside that is def coming from inferiority complex" that has prevented such from happening in Nigeria..

Assistants are there to learn from them and to remind them that its NFF that's in control...

isan:
What john is saying is every player should be getting equal chance whether you are born in Nigeria or elsewhere the best player should play

isan:
What john is saying is every player should be getting equal chance whether you are born in Nigeria or elsewhere the best player should play

codemaniacs:
Stop putting words in his mouth

He is talking about insecure, intimidation and inferiority complex. He is not talking about the players.

The best homegrown and home born players should play with few ( 4 - 6) foreign born players.

England Holland Belgium e.t.c. have black people born there but you won't see black women in their national teams like you'll see in the French team because they put their own people first.

It is pure foolishness for somr Nigerians to attack other Nigerians who want to see the best home born Nigerians in the national team.

There is nothing like equal chance anywhere.

isan:
I guess you're not a Nigerian if you are not born in Nigeria

codemaniacs:
Nigeria is a mere geographic location named by the bri:Tish.

In reality, there are no Nigerians.

There different African ethnic nations...

Samueltemi337:
cause he has scored only one doesn't mean he is poor


many FK etebo has taken for the SE are actually fantastic


From the present SE players how many has scored directly from freekicks

lovewins:
So what exactly is your argument?

I don't think anybody will have a contrary opinion with you if you're arguing for merit based selection. That is, only the best players get to wear the green jersey. But to clamour for the inclusion of players primarily because of where they were born/grew up is rather archaic. No one is more Nigerian than the other. As long as they have the passport and have shown willingness to represent the country, then the only thing that should count is if they are good enough.

If you other argument is that players born outside Nigeria are better advantaged, then that's another conversation on its own. A player born out of Nigeria will likely get better visibility than the ones here and that isn't any fault of theirs. There are structures already in place to mitigate this. If we take our age group teams seriously and invest in and develop our league, then we are giving players plying their trade in Nigeria a platform to announce their selves. But for considerations to be about where a player is born is a slippery slope, you can start it but cannot finish it. If we start making decisions like that, then others can argue that the team should be representative of all the tribes in Nigeria. We then go into a ditch we can't come out for.

Selection should simply be merit based. QED

lovewins:
So what exactly is your argument?

I don't think anybody will have a contrary opinion with you if you're arguing for merit based selection. That is, only the best players get to wear the green jersey. But to clamour for the inclusion of players primarily because of where they were born/grew up is rather archaic. No one is more Nigerian than the other. As long as they have the passport and have shown willingness to represent the country, then the only thing that should count is if they are good enough.

If you other argument is that players born outside Nigeria are better advantaged, then that's another conversation on its own. A player born out of Nigeria will likely get better visibility than the ones here and that isn't any fault of theirs. There are structures already in place to mitigate this. If we take our age group teams seriously and invest in and develop our league, then we are giving players plying their trade in Nigeria a platform to announce their selves. But for considerations to be about where a player is born is a slippery slope, you can start it but cannot finish it. If we start making decisions like that, then others can argue that the team should be representative of all the tribes in Nigeria. We then go into a ditch we can't come out for.

Selection should simply be merit based. QED

codemaniacs:
Selection should be the best Nigerian born and grown players first before picking best foreign born players.

The best foreign born players will get capped by their countries. So most times, Nigeria doesn't get the best foreign players, Nigeria gets average foreign born Nigerians.

It is not archaic..

daveP:
South Africa takes the lead. Superb counter attack. The first from them involving just three passes.


The Moroccans are fatigued right now.

Danielnino00:
Abeg, how's the green laser beams thing going?

codemaniacs:
Selection should be the best Nigerian born and grown players first before picking best foreign born players.

The best foreign born players will get capped by their countries. So most times, Nigeria doesn't get the best foreign players, Nigeria gets average foreign born Nigerians.

It is not archaic..