chrisooblog:
I won't speak evil of the dead but taking an inactive player like Gabriel Rueben, who even his own club coach was shocked to the WC is the height of irresponsibility.

Don't even get me started on taking Babatunde and "Flavour" to Brazil and excluding Sone Aluko (who was in form) and Ike Uche (our best striker in Europe then)

Nobody should bring any yenyenyen talk that Ike was indisciplined and not in the good books of Keshi. If they could resolve their differences later for a common AFCON qualifier why the hell not for a bloody WC?

Kog45:
My question was it proper to drop a player with 101 caps as captain without proper briefing and who just buried his mother….Oliseh is wicked.

chrisooblog:
I won't speak evil of the dead but taking an inactive player like Gabriel Rueben, who even his own club coach was shocked to the WC is the height of irresponsibility.

Don't even get me started on taking Babatunde and "Flavour" to Brazil and excluding Sone Aluko (who was in form) and Ike Uche (our best striker in Europe then)

Nobody should bring any yenyenyen talk that Ike was indisciplined and not in the good books of Keshi. If they could resolve their differences later for a common AFCON qualifier why the hell not for a bloody WC?

Kog45:
Check out US 94 team and tell me what were Keshi,Uche Okafor,Emeka Ezeugo,Thompson Oliha and Mike Emenalo doing in that team based on their clubs,in fact Ezeugo,Okafor and Emenalo were playing what I will call semi pro league…fine Keshi as a captain and his contribution to the team made Westerhoff to repay him…..Oliha too was struggling.


Yes on IKechucwu Uche…I will never take a player who was not ready to play to my instruction and went as far telling my employer that tactically am not ready and at the end my poor tactics won the cup…pls if you are in Keshi’s shoe what will you do?

chrisooblog:
Egbon 4 out of the 5 names you mentioned had already been part of the team for years and we all know how Keshi influenced the invitation of Emenalo in place of Ugbade.

So egbon are you saying that because Westerhof did it that makes it right?

On Ike Uche issue I would have found a way to reconcile with the team's best striker before the WC. The fact that they were able to put aside their differences for the AFCON qualifiers shows it wasn't impossible.

Keshi was a patriot, a great player and coach for the SE but he wasn't a saint and we shouldn't stop people from also pointing his own flaws.

mank1234:
Is it true the team that started against CIV had 7 home based players? If true, that's the power of a good coach. Believing in your players, psychin them up. Other coaches would have said if they are not in Europe, they are not good enough.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/lets-go-back-to-starting-point-ahmed-musa-super-eagles-captain/

Odunayaw:
Wikipedia shows there were only 6 home based in the squad for the tournament and only 2 featured in that game. There's no need for sensationalism.

Cecco90:
To Sack Jose Peseiro, Or Not! –Odegbami

Meanwhile, the present Super Eagles are not strong in two major areas of the field – the midfield and goalkeeping.

There is little that can be done about the team’s strength without the influence of a few players with exceptional skills and abilities in certain areas of the team. Presently, there is a dearth of creative and attacking midfield players who can hold and distribute the balls well.

Goalkeeping has become a problem only because Peseiro refuses to see the difference between an efficient goalkeeper and one whose only qualification is his physical frame.

The last goal against Zimbabwe, scored directly from a free kick 30 metres from his goal clearly exposed Uzoho’s weakness. It is an elementary goalkeeping error.


Source : completesport

TheGoodJoe:


How Taiye Taiwo launched mutiny, rebellion against Stephen Keshi – Sylvanus Okpala

A band of Super Eagles players led by Taye Taiwo during the AFCON 2013/14 qualifier staged a discreet rebellion against their coach, Stephen Keshi, less than 24 hours after the Eagles played Rwanda.

Former Green Eagle and Super Eagles assistant coach, Sylvanus Okpala in an interview with Nneka Ikem Anibeze, dismissed bribery allegations in the Super Eagles team of 2013/2014.

“I also read about Taye Taiwo’s outburst in the papers. After our experience with him, we never invited him again, Okpala said.

Okpala further stated that Taiye Taiwo created an imaginary bedlam in the squad vowing to get Keshi sacked as Super Eagles coach.

“During our AFCON qualifier against Rwanda, Taiye didn’t play well in that game, continued Okpala. Keshi complained after the match but the players went back to their rooms and started plotting how to remove Keshi. They never knew that Keshi’s room was the next to Taiye’s room.

“Taiye was telling other players that Keshi was shouting on him on the pitch and that he will do to Keshi what he did to other coaches and ensure that Keshi was sacked.

“Keshi was in his room listening to all their conversations. Now, most of them are now coming to talk about money. It wasn’t about money because I knew about these two issues involving Taiye and Uche. Which coach will like to invite a player who wants him sacked in his team? It’s not possible I am telling you what happened as an insider.

https://persecondnews.com/2020/05/15/how-taiye-taiwo-launched-mutiny-rebellion-against-stephen-keshi-sylvanus-okpala/

Sylvanus Okpala's response. Taiye Taiwo cooked himself. He felt too big.

Taiwo did not know Keshi was monitoring him and stayed in a room where he could listen to his conversations with other players.


WHEN YOU TALK OF SUPER EAGLES, I AM SUPER EAGLES...BIG BOSS STEPHEN KESHI.

TheGoodJoe:


Don't understand the point of the video. It did not address why he left because he was ready to coach after recovering.

I have no doubt of Oliseh's capabilities as a manager. However, I believe Amunike's time has come. After, I believe Siasia needs a healthy run if games. Then Oliseh can come in.

The videos have not changed my belief that it was the NFF that twisted his arm to drop Enyeama from the team.

jihday:
a bloody lie from Okpala

elyte89:


U Dey mind goodjoe …e Dey believe okpala ,e no gree believe Taiye taiwo …😀😀

jihday:
even the Okpala story be like pry 4 children gist

jihday:
a bloody lie from Okpala

elyte89:


Goodjoe no get street O.T ,so e no fit detect 😀

joelsteron:
https://soccernet.ng/2023/11/im-better-than-yesterday-forgotten-super-eagles-star-offers-himself-as-solution-to-jose-peseiros-number-one-problem.html


Aside Mahrez freekick st the nation cup. Would Daniel Akpeyi have let in those cheap goals conceded, Okoye and Uzoho at those critical moments or all these guys 3 are the same?

Kog45:
Even Mahrez free kick can beat any keeper,people just don’t want Akpeyi in goal,reason why they always criticizing him though he too can be annoying

joelsteron:
The same Odegbemi who singlehandedly made Joseph Yobo assistant of SE. I don't rate all these old men.

Philosopher1979:


Daniel Akpeyi is
1. Playing regularlly in the South-African league
2. Has the experience at international level.

Im surprised this clown called Jose Peseiro is not calling him.
He should be first on the list

joelsteron:
The same Odegbemi who singlehandedly made Joseph Yobo assistant of SE. I don't rate all these old men.

Cecco90:
To Sack Jose Peseiro, Or Not! –Odegbami

A friend, a foremost sports journalist, called me up last week from Abuja to inform me that he was racing to the office of the Minister of Sports to inform him of his decision to lead a national campaign to sack Jose Peseiro, the Portuguese coach of the Super Eagles. He wanted my urgent opinion.

Of course, I do not take decisions in a hurry, nor in a panic mode. I also do not swim with the tide of opinion based on emotional or sentimental outbursts, or be part of a mob action baying for the blood of a foreign or local coach, when everything around is skewed against any form of success.

I politely told him I had no opinion yet on the matter and would make it public when I do. That’s what I am doing now.

I have traversed a similar path in the past and got burnt by the power of narrower interests and personalities that have run and ruined Nigerian football for many years.

The core of the matter is that the Super Eagles are not winning their matches. Even easy ones. As far as the people are concerned, these last two drawn matches are ‘failures’ and someone must pay for them.

That person is Jose Peseiro.I won’t completely fall for such sentiments now.

The Super Eagles should win AFCON 2023. They should also qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Let’s look at some of the issues that can truncate these goals.

There is no depth to the country’s domestic football. They were neglected for too long by successive football federation boards. The boards concentrated on the more personally ‘lucrative’ Super Eagles. They feasted on the fruits without properly feeding the roots. The tree eventually and inevitably weakened and withered, having been deprived of nutrients essential for the development of players for a career in the domestic leagues – good nurseries, organisation, integrity, infrastructure, capacity-building programs, adequate funding, great welfare packages, and so on. The only available ingredient has been the endless sea of young uncut diamonds in Nigerian players. Ironically, these players are doing everything to flee the country for greener pastures and better opportunities in other parts of the world, and not to strengthen the domestic leagues.

This uncontrolled migration has made nonsense of any attempt to build a serious national team of local players. The failure of the big clubs in the country to win any continental laurels confirms this. That is why all the recent foreign coaches employed don’t take the route of the domestic leagues to seek players for the national teams. The calibre of players is just not there.

So, Peseiro, like the others before him, concentrates on observing Nigerian players in the various leagues in Europe. He assembles the best of them that he finds to form the country’s Super Eagles.He also only has two days before most matches to work with the players before matches, making it impossible to build a team with any level of organised play, pattern and understanding. You do not build solid teams that way. They must have some time to train together, understand each other, be infused with a planned style and philosophy, and be made to play several matches. That’s the only way a good team can emerge.

Under the present circumstances, the Super Eagles do not have such luxury. Coaches have been on this impossible mission for well over a decade.

AFCON and the World Cup are the only championships that provide a little time for the team to train together, play some friendlies, and become a unit. The team uses the earlier group matches of the championship to get better.

That’s what happened during the transition between Gernot Rohr and Austin Eguavoen. A good team started to evolve during the group matches of AFCON 2021, only for the process to be disrupted by a difficult match and a costly error that saw the Eagles exit rather uncharacteristically ‘prematurely’. The baby and the bath water were thereafter thrown into the gully of history. The result is to begin again.

Jose-peseiro-super-eagles-dr-segun-odegbami-afcon-2023-2026-fifa-world-cup

That’s how Jose Peseiro came in to inherit an impossible and unchangeable situation. For as long as the present system is not changed, no coach in the world can change the fortunes of the Super Eagles. The best he can do is what Gernot Rohr and, now, Jose Peseiro have been doing – not wasting time on the local players from the domestic league (they are not good enough for the national team without additional exposure and training in Europe), scanning Europe for players of Nigerian descent, assembling the best of them for the short periods before matches that can NEVER make them a good team with organizational depth, and then going on their knees to pray for undeserved victories. They win some and lose most!

So, Nigerians are disappointed and angry, and bay for the blood of successive coaches.

Yet, deep down, the issues have roots in other issues.
A proper study by proper experts is necessary.

Arm-chair critics masquerading as experts whose noise-making rises above the din of common sense and more careful interrogations blur proper and more meaningful conversations.

Meanwhile, the present Super Eagles are not strong in two major areas of the field – the midfield and goalkeeping.

There is little that can be done about the team’s strength without the influence of a few players with exceptional skills and abilities in certain areas of the team. Presently, there is a dearth of creative and attacking midfield players who can hold and distribute the balls well.

Goalkeeping has become a problem only because Peseiro refuses to see the difference between an efficient goalkeeper and one whose only qualification is his physical frame.

The last goal against Zimbabwe, scored directly from a free kick 30 metres from his goal clearly exposed Uzoho’s weakness. It is an elementary goalkeeping error.

Finally, Nigeria should not panic and make decisions that will not impact anything, will not change the Super Eagles and will not provide guaranteed outcomes.

This is the time to be cool, calm and calculated.

Nigeria is blessed with a lot of good players presently. With a little bit of luck, more patience and the time shortly before AFCON 2023 used properly to build a stronger team, plus the return of one of the deadliest strikers on the planet, Victor Osimhen, in the team, Nigeria shall improve steadily into AFCON 2023.

In January, the team will use the group matches of the championship to get better, and possibly go on to win AFCON 2023. They will then gain the essential confidence to play more consistently and (at the end of AFCON) establish a stronger team that shall be able to go into the World Cup qualifying matches with more strength and purpose and qualify for the World Cup as true champions of African football.

Source : completesport

daveP:



I'm sorry, but this write up is empty and full of excuses that all trace back to those in charge of our football. He is addressing a matter that we all know will not be solved ANYTIME soon. So why harp about it like asif some emergency solution is right outside the door.


I also see excuse made for the cluelessness of Jpes, with style. See, Grammar cannot deflect the obvious, respectfully saying.


We may as well expect another article when jpes messes up and the excuses would be out the window after the home delivery through the door. Why do we continue to do this to ourselves? Smh


Who takes the blame for pes not facing his primary duty? Is that now an excuse?

Kog45:
Peseiro Dey collect kickbacks Abi no be so…if na local coaches we for don Dey shout Uzoho Dey settle nau.

All I know solution to our goalkeeper is in NPFL and am rooting for Christian Nwoke.

Danielnino00:
Osimhen was listed in Napoli's match day squad... Might start from the bench