Amedino99:
wdym first time. This set is not the first to use MRI nah. Are you suggesting that the former batches faked their results??

COOL10:




I'm not suggesting. I'm simply stating the obvious that's hard for a lot of people to accept but deep down we all know the truth.

The good thing is that there was massive improvement this year. Long may it continue.

TheSuperNerd:
Mtcheewww... You don't know how to properly profile a midfield player. It is obvious.

You only see the shots but you play blind to his intelligent passing and recovery plays.

Abeg shift.

TheSuperNerd:





As for your ignorant line here, the emboldened above addresses it keenly. Some of you will just pick up your phones and make off-tangent and absolutely irrelevant comments.

codemaniacs:




You're the ignorant one..

How many goals did Mikel score in his club career

Mikel never ever blasts the ball or take long range shots from midfield or even from the front of the box where the semi-circle is even with fans screaming SHOOT he will never shoot..

Mikel is the most successful midfielder Nigeria has produced in terms of European trophies.

If Linus was playing intelligent passing he would have instructed his teammates to use the wings by always passing it to the wings.

arsenal96:
I don't understand why people are so pain about the outcome, as Nigerian we are all disappointed, but the team is not bad as most people portrayed them to be. Under 17 competition is for talent discovery, not necessarily win. Now, we have discovered some raw amazing players in this tournament. Next step is to move the talents here to under 20, and probably Ogor,Mbata, Ozor and Okeke(the guys dropped because of MRI) will be added to the squad. Our under 20 might be lovely to watch if these talented squad are properly managed.
I'm not overly disappointed because I saw raw talents that when polish will definitely flourish. Gone are those days that we paraded grandpa's as under 17 and few years later after winning the under 17 world cup, they are no where to be found. None of the players from little messi set, Stanley Okoro made it to the lime light. So, we should take this under 17 as it should be, developmental and talents discovery program.

Ugbade should not be totally discarded, he is good for talent hunting, he can still help at this level.

Kwashiman:
Look at how Senegal and Mali play football, and you wonder what went wrong with Nigerian football? Mali and Senegal combined don't even have the population of Lagos alone, yet they consistently produce very intelligent and sublime footballers...honestly Nigerian football makes me want to vomit, APC have seriously destroyed our football and Sunday Dare (our worst sports minister ever) needs to answer questions.

I don't expect the U20 team to do anu better, no U23 Olympic football as well...the SW and the North have finished this country with mediocrity.

arsenal96:
I don't understand why people are so pain about the outcome, as Nigerian we are all disappointed, but the team is not bad as most people portrayed them to be. Under 17 competition is for talent discovery, not necessarily win. Now, we have discovered some raw amazing players in this tournament. Next step is to move the talents here to under 20, and probably Ogor,Mbata, Ozor and Okeke(the guys dropped because of MRI) will be added to the squad. Our under 20 might be lovely to watch if these talented squad are properly managed.
I'm not overly disappointed because I saw raw talents that when polish will definitely flourish. Gone are those days that we paraded grandpa's as under 17 and few years later after winning the under 17 world cup, they are no where to be found. None of the players from little messi set, Stanley Okoro made it to the lime light. So, we should take this under 17 as it should be, developmental and talents discovery program.

Ugbade should not be totally discarded, he is good for talent hunting, he can still help at this level.

skallion7:
You're an idiot

TheSuperNerd:
Someone has kindly helped to put you out of your ignorant misery by telling you Linus shot only on the instructions of Ugbade.

I said same thing too after that SA game because Linus didn't shoot in the first two games so the sudden "shoot on sight" was definitely an instruction from the coach.

Obviously you don't pay attention. Keep wallowing in your ignorance. I don't have your time this night.

codemaniacs:


He is playing football because he intends to play football in Europe and Europe doesn't play midfielders that shoot long shots..

And if the coach ever instructed him to take shots from the middle of the field then he should have told the coach no.. that when his watching UCL and UEL he doesn't see players taking shots from the middle of the field often and those are teams with coaches with a better CV than him because if Ugbade himself watches UCL matches then he will never ever give such instructions unless Ugbade is completely incompetent.

Odunayaw:
Obvious or you are making shii up as a coping mechanism

arsenal96:
I don't understand why people are so pain about the outcome, as Nigerian we are all disappointed, but the team is not bad as most people portrayed them to be. Under 17 competition is for talent discovery, not necessarily win. Now, we have discovered some raw amazing players in this tournament. Next step is to move the talents here to under 20, and probably Ogor,Mbata, Ozor and Okeke(the guys dropped because of MRI) will be added to the squad. Our under 20 might be lovely to watch if these talented squad are properly managed.
I'm not overly disappointed because I saw raw talents that when polish will definitely flourish. Gone are those days that we paraded grandpa's as under 17 and few years later after winning the under 17 world cup, they are no where to be found. None of the players from little messi set, Stanley Okoro made it to the lime light. So, we should take this under 17 as it should be, developmental and talents discovery program.

Ugbade should not be totally discarded, he is good for talent hunting, he can still help at this level.

arsenal96:
Funnily enough, you might be surprised that Ladan Bosso Under 20 team might play better football and go far in the tourney. I'm being hopeful for fully fit Daniel Daga and Eletu to make our midfield tick. Our first match against Domician republic should ease us to the tournament mood, winning them convincingly will serve as morale boosting for us, and get us ready for Italy and Brazil under 20 teams
.

Kwashiman:
We have to hold on to the Osimhen generation and hope some of the British-Nigerian kids like Eze, Oliseh etc decide to play for Nigeria.. cause as it stands now I see a generational talent drought in Nigerian football that might take years to fix, we just can't produce talented players anymore from our youth systems. Senegal will dominate African football for a very very very long time.

Kwashiman:
Look at how Senegal and Mali play football, and you wonder what went wrong with Nigerian football? Mali and Senegal combined don't even have the population of Lagos alone, yet they consistently produce very intelligent and sublime footballers...honestly Nigerian football makes me want to vomit, APC have seriously destroyed our football and Sunday Dare (our worst sports minister ever) needs to answer questions.

I don't expect the U20 team to do anu better, no U23 Olympic football as well...the SW and the North have finished this country with mediocrity.

Joebie:
That last paragraph go cause tsunami for here o

Kwashiman:

Bros me I no send, if dem like make dem ban me but the truth has to be said. Since APC came into power our football at all levels simultaneously collapsed, e dey even hard us to qualify for tournaments...not even a PDP fan but at least we won major trophies under that party administration. The Sunday Dare guy who is our honorable minister of sports is a Tinubu man, same vision of mediocrity and failure as we can see in our sports.

arsenal96:
Funnily enough, you might be surprised that Ladan Bosso Under 20 team might play better football and go far in the tourney. I'm being hopeful for fully fit Daniel Daga and Eletu to make our midfield tick. Our first match against Domician republic should ease us to the tournament mood, winning them convincingly will serve as morale boosting for us, and get us ready for Italy and Brazil under 20 teams
.

codemaniacs:


Ugbade should be completely discarded, him and the u23 coach shouldn't be anywhere near the coaching staff.

Ugbade had talented players but he chose to bench them...

If Ugbade or any of the Nigerian coaches had a 16 years old Messi in their team they will bench him and defend it by saying he is too small his time will come, his stature is not good for African football..

Kwashiman:
We have to hold on to the Osimhen generation and hope some of the British-Nigerian kids like Eze, Oliseh etc decide to play for Nigeria.. cause as it stands now I see a generational talent drought in Nigerian football that might take years to fix, we just can't produce talented players anymore from our youth systems. Senegal will dominate African football for a very very very long time.

COOL10:
We've won the U17 World Cup about 5 times but this is the first time that we decided to field a team that has over 90% of its players being TRULY U17 and what happened next? We failed to qualify for the World Cup.

I don't know about y'all but to me, this speaks volumes about the credibility of our trophy collection.

Odunayaw:
Only here to read comments

arsenal96:
I don't understand why people are so pain about the outcome, as Nigerian we are all disappointed, but the team is not bad as most people portrayed them to be. Under 17 competition is for talent discovery, not necessarily win. Now, we have discovered some raw amazing players in this tournament. Next step is to move the talents here to under 20, and probably Ogor,Mbata, Ozor and Okeke(the guys dropped because of MRI) will be added to the squad. Our under 20 might be lovely to watch if these talented squad are properly managed.
I'm not overly disappointed because I saw raw talents that when polish will definitely flourish. Gone are those days that we paraded grandpa's as under 17 and few years later after winning the under 17 world cup, they are no where to be found. None of the players from little messi set, Stanley Okoro made it to the lime light. So, we should take this under 17 as it should be, developmental and talents discovery program.

Ugbade should not be totally discarded, he is good for talent hunting, he can still help at this level.

do4luv14:



Wait you are trying to say from late Yemi Talle to Emma Amunike, they were not truly U17 up to 90+%