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Car321:
Did South Africa field an ineligible player vs Lesotho?

Teboho Mokoena (Yellow Card 54 mins ) vs Benin- Match Day 1

Teboho Mokoena ( Yellow Card 52nd minute ) vs Zimbabwe -Match day 4

He should have been suspended for their game vs Lesotho, but he played. If confirmed, South Africa will be deducted 3 points.

Please let NFF, CAF, and FIFA know.

Car321... You are a hero of Naija Football. Wherever you are, God Bless you. Your info started this.

March 25, 2025

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Car321:
Did South Africa field an ineligible player vs Lesotho?

Teboho Mokoena (Yellow Card 54 mins ) vs Benin- Match Day 1

Teboho Mokoena ( Yellow Card 52nd minute ) vs Zimbabwe -Match day 4

He should have been suspended for their game vs Lesotho, but he played. If confirmed, South Africa will be deducted 3 points.

Please let NFF, CAF, and FIFA know.

I can only imagine the momentarily joy on the streets of port novo and the country of Benin right now. Although they're yet to qualify but this feeling will trigger positive ripples for our dear neighboring country. No be only South Africa get neighbouring country. We sef get Benin currently topping the group. I'd rather Benin have a taste of the world cup than south Africa. So we can say all Togo, Benin as well as the big boys on the coast of west Africa have participated at the world cup.

TheSuperNerd:
Daga will shine at this U20 World Cup. He is more mature, more tactically sound and aware and he hit belters now. At 18, he is already a midfield general. I expect him to break into the Super Eagles fold as from next year. But it could come earlier.


As for Akinsanmiro, he should be Afcon-bound. For Goodness sake, the kid is already a starter material. Eric Chelle should not overthink it.

Current Midfield has names like:
Iwobi - not needed in MF. Needed on the wings.
Ndidi - Past his best
Onyeka - Limited technically
FDB - Decent but can hardly define his own natural role
Alhassan - Solid player but we have enough CDMs
C. Uche - a solid addition but we are yet to play him in his strongest role as he showed at Getafe.
Onyedika - The best CDM profile in the team but hardly utilised.

Akinsanmiro solves a ball carrying/ball retention problem in the middle and offers more too on the ball and off it. He is a mezzala MF profile. And if Inter dont want to lose a pearl, he should be taken seriously as Barella's replacement or another team would see it and pick him up.
He should be on the plane to Morocco.

If we are absolutely serious... our Afcon midfield will not have Iwobi in that list. Iwobi should be listed among the forwards.

So the question or the song goes thus.... What's he really good for...?

For the better part of the last decade, we practically gave away our middle of the park to almost all our opponents. We ceded possession and relied solely on huffing balls to the points men. And just as soon as we do, we also lose possession. We got some goals from the said tactic but the truth is we didn't care about how we play. Of course you are not the person I should be lecturing in football, knowing your position on our midfield as well documented as can be. This is for those who say we should win anyhow. When a coach selects his starting 11, he must have roles for each person on the pitch. But what we have seen is we play anyhow and you really cant see even the imprint of the coach in what we do. And that is what really annoys me. All we see is assemblage of super stars and hope they will do magic on the pitch.

For instance something as basic as passing has been reduced to aimless sideways movement when the sole aim is to put the ball in the back of the net. Intentionality is also missing. When we do finally move the balls forward, either passes are overcooked or poorly read. All because we have been used to huffing balls into the air.

The aim of this response is to show how we can be sentimental in the choice of our players without actually defining how they fit into our purpose. This lies with whatever setup we have as NFF, technical committee of saboteurs and the incompetent coaching crew.

As a parting shot, just because glue dey join something no mean say make we use am in place of cement take build house

Ihenzy:
I like as wuna dey analyze like say Benin no go play to win against us cos they also stand a chance

I no understand this talk;
Football is there for any team to win
And as Fans of Super Eagles you expect mk we dey analyze in the opposition's Favour?🤔

Elock1:
I no understand this talk;
Football is there for any team to win
And as Fans of Super Eagles you expect mk we dey analyze in the opposition's Favour?🤔

He is from Benin

Samueltemi337:
He is from Benin

Oh I see

5 goals were removed. They beat lesotho 2-0 on March 21. So that 2 goals is removed and ofcos the 3goals for forfeiting to Lesotho. 2 + 3 = 5

8 - 5 = +3 (SA's current GD)

solonnachi:
Nerdie. I thought South Africa are still topping with +5?

Damiana5248:
If only our lazy boys had gotten victories in Uyo against the Zimbabwean national team and the South Africans in the last match.
Self-destructive team

I knew that draw against Zimbabwe was the real arrow to the heart of our quest to qualify for the world cup. Never stopped calling it a loss even though it was a draw. If we had won that match we'd have been on 13 points just behind the group leaders

Mujtahida:
I knew that draw against Zimbabwe was the real arrow to the heart of our quest to qualify for the world cup. Never stopped calling it a draw. If we had won that match we'd have been on 13 points just behind the group leaders

Even dt win wouldn’t have amounted to nothing if SA WINS BOTH GAMES .we can only hope Rwanda 🇷🇼 do d magic for us and win …

U c dt Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 match …SA WILL WIN BY ANY MARGIN(COSAFA POLITICS)

Car321:
Did South Africa field an ineligible player vs Lesotho?

Teboho Mokoena (Yellow Card 54 mins ) vs Benin- Match Day 1

Teboho Mokoena ( Yellow Card 52nd minute ) vs Zimbabwe -Match day 4

He should have been suspended for their game vs Lesotho, but he played. If confirmed, South Africa will be deducted 3 points.

Please let NFF, CAF, and FIFA know.

take a bow

Mujtahida:
I knew that the draw against Zimbabwe was the real arrow to the heart of our quest to qualify for the World Cup. Never stopped calling it a draw. If we had won that match, we'd have been on 13 points just behind the group leaders

No vision, no mission.
They don't play with the same tenacity as players who want to play in the World Cup.
If they fail in their quest to qualify for the World Cup, they should blame themselves.
They don't even play like professionals.

I recall that in the qualification series for the 2006 World Cup, our players turned up after the 1-0 loss to Angola and went on to defeat Algeria in Algiers and Zimbabwe at home. Still, it was not enough, as the head-to-head rule gave Angola the edge over us.
However, this group of boys has not shown the resilience and determination to achieve results against countries we have no business struggling against.

I don't trust them to get favourable results in their last two games in October.
I wish them all the luck, though.

The South African Football Association [SAFA] has apologized after #BafanaBafana were docked 3 points by FIFA.

"We apologise to the nation for this administrative oversight and will reflect on the steps to take at the conclusion of our qualifying campaign."

SAFA, however, will appeal FIFA's decision.

"The Association confirms that we have requested written reasons for the judgment and intend to lodge a formal appeal with the FIFA Appeals Committee within the prescribed 10-day period under FIFA's disciplinary rules."
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Everybody is busy calculating, proposing, predicting while forgetting that SA can appeal the dexion and win

oloriooko:
Everybody is busy calculating, proposing, predicting while forgetting that SA can appeal the dexion and win

They can't win.

I thought our u20 team dey play today?

oloriooko:
Everybody is busy calculating, proposing, predicting while forgetting that SA can appeal the dexion and win

That will in effect put FIFA in a precarious situation as they will need to reverse decisions taken in the past... more recently against Emile Nsue of Equatorial Guinea.

That said, they can however protest the match against eagles as the goal scored against them was a handball. Although I am not sure if there has been precedents before now.

More importantly, the chances of FIFA reversing the decision is an astronomical 1 to infinity

charlesemeka85:
I thought our u20 team dey play today?

Yebo yes.....

kennysville:
Yebo yes.....

what time?

Car321:
Did South Africa field an ineligible player vs Lesotho?

Teboho Mokoena (Yellow Card 54 mins ) vs Benin- Match Day 1

Teboho Mokoena ( Yellow Card 52nd minute ) vs Zimbabwe -Match day 4

He should have been suspended for their game vs Lesotho, but he played. If confirmed, South Africa will be deducted 3 points.

Please let NFF, CAF, and FIFA know.

The butterfly effect from this particular comment is crazy. 😍

It's things like this that make me go easy on Nairaland sometimes.

charlesemeka85:
what time?

i hear 9pm naija time

kennysville:
i hear 9pm naija time

ookay Tnks

If Nigeria inexplicably qualifies for WC the NFF should consider sponsoring this brother to at least watch one group game if we make it to the tournament.

TheSuperNerd:
Car321... You are a hero of Naija Football. Wherever you are, God Bless you. Your info started this.

SA last 3matches i predicted were
1draw
1win
1lose
it started with the draw against us…the remaining two must happen

oloriooko:
Everybody is busy calculating, proposing, predicting while forgetting that SA can appeal the dexion and win

Yes and they will also be granted automatic qualifications as apology to the football giants

Our WC group is some sticky place.

Four teams relying on each other for qualification.

The last round of qualifying matches will be extremely nervy.

Benin fit shame bookie's favorites (NGA/SA) enter world cup.

Car321,you deserve NPOTY award

oloriooko:
Everybody is busy calculating, proposing, predicting while forgetting that SA can appeal the dexion and win

SA is just forming activity with the appeal. It can never be in their favour.

Recent precedence is Equatorial Guinea. EG pursued the Emile Nsue case all the way to the Court of Arbitration in sports, and they still lost.

FIFA rules are black and white so It'd be the same for SA with Teboho Mokoena. E go better make dem forgo the case.

So our group is the only group having 1team eliminated and the remaining 5still have a mathematical chance of qualifying directly to the WC🙆🏼😂

Someone asked grok of the possible outcome after 10 games.