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Philosopher1979:
With all the insecurity in the country. Are we sure we can keep separatists, terrorists, criminals etc at bay.

ThanosKilla:
Looks like Eberechi Eze has seen the light.

elyte89:
Wc light?


Him torchlight lost b4

ThanosKilla:
Ready to play for the eagles.

Danielnino00:
Nigeria and Benin republic have officially submitted a joint bid to host 2025 AFCON..
Algeria and Morocco also submitted a bid

mostob:
You say? Kome wey go write 3-paged thesis to defend Fred Onyedima #10 performance.

benji93:
You missed the entire point. I did acknowledge what he did in 1958 in the knockout stages, but I then went further to say that the star-studdedness of that team was confirmed in 1962, because he was injured for most of it but they won. I never said he was overrated. What i said was his three world cups were overrated. The narrative is that they couldn't have won without him, but there's at least one in which they won without him.

Thanks for the information, but it's not useful here. The question is who contributed the most to those championships. Did he single-handedly do it, did he play alongside other stars who at least equally contributed in each of those championships?

I don't disagree. He was very impressive in 1958. But he didn't win the golden ball. I suppose others many others at the time thought there was a more important player.

He didn't in 1962. Even in 1958, there were players who were just as important. Fifa says he wasn't the best player in that tournament.

I don't understand how this anecdote is relevant to the conversation. Whatever your dad provided to you when you were a child is on the internet today. I guarantee that every piece of relevant information is floating around somewhere. Unless your dad was in Brazil in the 50s, in which perhaps he could get access to information firsthand that may not be on the news(very unlikely), the information your dad passed down to you is secondhand at best.

Although not the subject of the conversation, he was certainly incredible for Santos. No argument here.


What is this? Did they win without him or not? It's in the past, so a more fruitful argument should focus on what actually happened. He could have been the best player in the entire universe for all I care. Unfortunately, he got injured, and they cruised through without him. That is the point. They replaced him with another player in the midfield-forward combo and they still won.

Did he play in the last game or not? They roughed him up blablabla. That one na shalaye. . As the researcher extraordinaire, did you not know that Garrincha was injured in 1966 too? He did not play the last game, and they lost. Pele missed the second, they lost, and Garrincha missed the last and they lost.

Also as the senior researcher look at the squads in 1958, 1962 and 1966. 1966 was quite different from the previous 2. 1966 had Lima, Denilson, Pele, Garrincha, Jairzinho and Alcindo. Pele and Garrincha were the only players from the previous 8 years still in this squad. Besides apart from his injury Garrincha was old, overweight e.t.c.
Nothing here. You cannot objectively compare 1966 to the previous 8 years. Many of the players from their golden generation were old and tired, so it's not strange 1966 was underwhelming.

Can you tell us who assisted Pele's goals in 1958? . Do you know that even in the 1958 world cup, Didi was the best player over Pele and Garrincha?

Ok, he won the golden ball for his contribution.

ThanosKilla:
Ready to play for the eagles.

charlesemeka85:
are you sure?

solonnachi:
Source please?
Hope Eze is not whinnying us again?

andrewbaba44:
You are spot on ,but I no go gree

BronzeTiger:
All what you are saying won't really matter if messi finally gets his hand on the trophy. That singular missing achievement would propel him to the best player in football history even above Pele that hardly anyone here watched. Research can't beat eye witness in this case.

Philosopher1979:
Young man, you will be a very brilliant person. Are you working in academia or something.
I beleive you should be a lecturer or a research scientist of some sort.
Your analysis are allways intelligent and on spot
So where are working now.
I hope it is in academia or research

TheSuperNerd:
I am sorry but what you have said is untrue. VERY UNTRUE.

BronzeTiger:
Did you watch Pele play?
So much talk about how heavy the ball is, how players were clattered, how there was no social media to boost players profiles but nothing about how loose the offside rules were in those stone ages, food science for players to take better care of themselves see modric playing till 37 now, better academies to churn out players, advanced tactics, VAR, goal line technology and also social media and the mainstream media always there to criticize you to suicidal thoughts once a known player has a bad game.

BronzeTiger:
I know you are one of the most intelligent posters in this thread and I can believe you when you bring several factual details because you take your time to get to the tunnels of it instead of impromptuly but don't you think with what messi has achieved outside the world cup him winning on Sunday will just crown everything all and end it. I mean he has even broken some of Pele 's records. I'm not saying Messi is a complete player like O Rei that could use both feet, was great in the air and was very creative while having a supreme eye for goal like you also noted in your post. I'm talking about their achievements and impact in the game.

andrewbaba44:
There is no debate with Messi or anyone

The earlier you know the better

charlesemeka85:
the ones you and ur likes hv written to defend nwakali reach like 20 pages still em no gree improve

komekn:
Can you tell me the last time l talked about Fred Onyedinma ❓

Of course you cannot thats why you are jumping on this facetious train with prejudice.

I will tell you more than 4 seasons ago.

However, he has not been relegated to playing youth football, or had his contract prematurely terminated, and or playing for bankruptcy relegation facing club and is not begging for a contract.

mostob:
The bottom line is you also wrote long Epistles on this thread. That's the point.

Philosopher1979:
Young man, you will be a very brilliant person. Are you working in academia or something.
I beleive you should be a lecturer or a research scientist of some sort.
Your analysis are allways intelligent and on spot
So where are working now.
I hope it is in academia or research

Philosopher1979:
Young man, you will be a very brilliant person. Are you working in academia or something.
I beleive you should be a lecturer or a research scientist of some sort.
Your analysis are allways intelligent and on spot
So where are working now.
I hope it is in academia or research

komekn:
Your analytical objectivity and in depth led appraisals give you such contextual projection you highlight your outstanding intelligence. As can be seen in this post of yours albeit quite some time ago.

And so your comments are a great value,

ThanosKilla:
Yeah. Looks like Doherty played a role in convincing him. Doherty says he will officially announce very soon.

andrewbaba44:
Let me drop this here before the final day

Golden ball winner : Lionel Messi
Silver ball winner :Kylian mbappe
Bronze ball winner :Griezman

Best young player of the tournament: Julian Alvarez

ChrisKels:
That belongs to Azzedine Ounahi