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Super Falcons vs Benin Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPao7AgaPU?si=FWDT4ERkJCy-75S_

Ademola Lookman MOTM vs AC Milan. In his elements.

This Guasau presidency is perhaps the worst NFF tenure in recent memory. Constant, repeated failures and poor performances.

lloydtruth:
It's quite unfortunate what is happening to this country's football and sports in general. We use to go far in youth football but not anymore, criminals and tribal bigots are now at the helm of affairs and they only care about their pockets. Too shameful.

I am even surprised they went this far
That coaching team did a poor job in player scouting and selection. You can't pick players from few selected states and academics and expect to make much progress.

We need a holistic scouting system deviod of sentiments of any form until then the labour in vain who labour for Nigeria football progress

jihday:
fulltime: 4:0

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So with all d mouth wey olowookere mala, na wiping dem give our u17 girls!

Akor had an assist as Sevilla win away in their copa del Rey game

villagereporter:
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So with all d mouth wey olowookere mala, na wiping dem give our u17 girls!

Coach wey don use tribalism finish the team.

TheSuperNerd:
Some Euro Leagues' Naija Performers (Tuesday, 28th October)


Ademola Lookman bagged his 1st goal of the 2025/26 season in Atalanta's 2-1 win vs Juventus in Serie A. A Super Goal.

Samuel Kalu bagged a goal to help Botev Plovdiv to a 4-0 away win vs Spartak Pleven in the Bulgarian Cup Round of 32.

19 y/o Wonderkid CF, Hafiz Ibrahim scores a brace and bagged an assist🅰️ in Reims' 6-2 win away at Boulogne to sit 5th in Ligue 2. Played 58mins.

Peter Kareem, RB played all 90mins for Bohemians Praha 1905 in their 2-1 away loss at League leaders, Sparta Prague in the Czech Chance Liga.
Emmanuel Uchenna, CB played 7 mins of added time off the bench for Sparta.
Nelson Okeke, MF on loan from Sparta prague to Bohemians was serving a red card suspension.

Emmanuel Ayaosi and Lucky Ezeh featured in MFK Karvina's 1-0 win vs Slovacko in the Czech MOL Cup Round of 16.

Emmanuel Michael, LWB featured for all 90mins in LASK's 2-0 win away at SV Stripfing in the Austrian Cup Round 3.
Midfielder, Adetunji Adeshina came in on 79mins for LASK while Moses Usor featured for 22mins+ off the bench.

Victor Orakpo, 19 comes off the bench on 68mins in Montpellier's 1-1 away draw at Clermont foot. They are 6th on the table.


Jordan Attah Kadiri, CF scores a Brace⚽️⚽️ for FCV Dender EH in their 4-2 Extra time win vs Olympic de Charleroi in the Belgian Cup Round of 32. Came off the bench on 79mins, scored the equaliser on 90mins to take the game into extra time before bagging the 4th goal on 101mins to secure the win.
Benjamin Frederick, CB played all 120mins including extra time as FCV Dender EH won 4-2.

Frank Onyeka, CM plays 68mins and made the most tackles (3) in Brentford's 5-0 win away at Grimsby in the EFL Carabao Cup Round 4.
Michael Kayode came in on 71mins for Brentford.


Alex Iwobi came in on 65mins and scored in the P.S.O to help Fulham to a 5-4 penalty win over Wycombe after a 1-1 stalemate at the end of regulation in the EFL Carabao Cup Round 4.

Akor Adams and Chidera Ejuke featured from the start in Sevilla's 4-1 away win at Toledo in the Spanish Copa Del Rey.

Elijah Odede came in on 90+1 and played 7mins of added time in Troyes' 3-1 win over Amiens in Ligue 2 to stay top of the league.

18 y/o Wonderson Babas Yakubu scored the winner for Hapoel Raanana in their 1-0 win away at Maccabi Bnei Jadeidi in the Israeli Cup.

Umar Sadiq started as Real Sociedad won 3-0 away at Negreira in the Copa Del Rey Round 1.

Italian-Nigerian CB, Nosa Edward Obaretin played all 90 as Empoli drew 1-1 vs Sampdoria in Serie B.
Tyronne Ebuehi came in on 61mins for Empoli.


Samuel Isife, RB/RWB featured from the start for all 90s in Dukla Praha's 1-2 loss vs FK Jablonec in the Czech MOL Cup Round of 16.
Samson Tijani on the bench.

it was a 1-1 draw against ac milan.

Ppogbae:
This Guasau presidency is perhaps the worst NFF tenure in recent memory. Constant, repeated failures and poor performances.

Pinnick was worse

Might Osimhen be heading to Juventus next?
Spalleti helped develop him to his current level

lbrichman2:
Might Osimhen be heading to Juventus next?
Spalleti helped develop him to his current level

Napoli and Italy have given me PTSD abeg.

If Osimhen is to leave Galatasaray to any league, it should be Spain, Germany or England.

My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

There are other methods than one can use, but all boils down to political will.

lovewins:
My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

There are other methods than one can use, but all boils down to political will.

Very difficult to sail through.

lovewins:
My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

There are other methods than one can use, but all boils down to political will.

then maybe after Afcon and a possible 2026 worldcup appearance, let’s everyone(the fans/government) go against the FIFA rules that restricts govt interference on soccer and radically interfere into our football and sport matters…
lets sacrifice being ban by FIFA to regain our football/sport sanity.

Thats even if the useless govt even care sef

lbrichman2:
Might Osimhen be heading to Juventus next?
Spalleti helped develop him to his current level

There’s a clause In osimhen agreement not to sell him to any Italian clubs for the next two seasons…maybe bankygee can clarify

lbrichman2:
Might Osimhen be heading to Juventus next?
Spalleti helped develop him to his current level

Remember his clause in the contract

minfelix:
then maybe after Afcon and a possible 2026 worldcup appearance, let’s everyone(the fans/government) go against the FIFA rules that restricts govt interference on soccer and radically interfere into our football and sport matters…
lets sacrifice being ban by FIFA to regain our football/sport sanity.

Thats even if the useless govt even care sef

This won't work. You sadly can't strong harm a corrupt organisation like FIFA. If you say "damn the consequences" and then we decide to do something that gets us FIFA ban, when we decide to return, we would still have to go back to status quo before FIFA even admits us back. Let me explain a lot clearer.

President Jonathan tried this in 2012 or so. He had announced Nigeria's withdrawal from all international football for a 2 year period for us to rebuild from the ground up. He had to walk it back after they explained it would have all been for nothing. This is what will happen had he gone ahead. After the 2 year period, whatever we build (new board, new NFF chairman, new constitution etc) will not be admitted by FIFA. FIFA will first place their own ban on us, then when we come back they will only recognise the NFF board that was there before we decided to opt out.

The only way you can do anything that FIFA will recognise is doing it by their own rules which is what I tried to do with the steps suggested.

From CAF Media: CAF WC Playoffs info confirmed

The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) and Hosts Morocco have confirmed the match venues for the African Qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Inter-Continental Play-off tournament.

The mini-tournament, to be staged between 13-16 November 2025 in Rabat, Morocco will feature: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Nigeria.

The semi-finals will be played on Thursday, 13 November at El Barid Stadium and Prince Moulay El Hassan Sports Complex. A draw will be held on Thursday, 30 October 2025 to determine the venue for each match.

The opening match will feature Nigeria against Gabon at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

The second semi-final will be between Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT)

The Final will be played on Sunday, 16 November 2025 at Prince Héritier Moulay El Hassan at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT)

The Fixtures

Match 1 : Nigeria vs Gabon: 17:00

Match 2 : Cameroon vs Democratic Republic of Congo: 20:00

The winner will advance to the FIFA Play-Off Inter-Continental Tournament in March 2026 for a chance to secure Africa’s 10th and final place at the FIFA World Cup 2026.

lovewins:
My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

There are other methods than one can use, but all boils down to political will.

Given the present state of the country, this one na mission impossible.

elyte89:
There’s a clause In osimhen agreement not to sell him to any Italian clubs for the next two seasons…maybe bankygee can clarify

That's true coachee, Osimhen cannot be sold to any Italian club for next two years. That's the clause in his contract. So @Ibrichman, e no possible.

I don't even want him near Italy again seff, but make we jam them for World Cup when we qualify.

Thank you sir for this information. Are there extra time involved in this playoff series?

TheSuperNerd:
From CAF Media: CAF WC Playoffs info confirmed

The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) and Hosts Morocco have confirmed the match venues for the African Qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Inter-Continental Play-off tournament.

The mini-tournament, to be staged between 13-16 November 2025 in Rabat, Morocco will feature: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Nigeria.

The semi-finals will be played on Thursday, 13 November at El Barid Stadium and Prince Moulay El Hassan Sports Complex. A draw will be held on Thursday, 30 October 2025 to determine the venue for each match.

The opening match will feature Nigeria against Gabon at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

The second semi-final will be between Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT)

The Final will be played on Sunday, 16 November 2025 at Prince Héritier Moulay El Hassan at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT)

The Fixtures

Match 1 : Nigeria vs Gabon: 17:00

Match 2 : Cameroon vs Democratic Republic of Congo: 20:00

The winner will advance to the FIFA Play-Off Inter-Continental Tournament in March 2026 for a chance to secure Africa’s 10th and final place at the FIFA World Cup 2026.

Amedino99:
you people want to be using our fifa ranking to play bet.

Ajeh 😂

That ranking means a lot to me o 😂 I no like that forty something wey we dey always dey 😂

AndSunGorilla:
But but ororo and Pepe played for Portugal till old age now. Even this Brazilian prisoner too.

Who be the prisoner abeg?

lovewins:
My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

I just want to state here that you actually don't need any government intervention to hit the NFF hard. Government interference in anyway will always lead to ban.

If you have strong evidence of corruption in NFF, not just hear say. Report it to FIFA and they'll open an investigation. If FIFA doesn't act on it, open a lawsuit in Switzerland. Swiss courts will enforce FIFA's anti corruption by-laws. But usually, FIFA will act if the case is strong. That's how Siasia collected a life ban (although CAS later reduced it).

So nobody here listens to Godwin Enakhena. I'm disappointed. He is the only nigerian journalist that spits facts but Gen Zs here will rather watch tiktok and claim they know Nigerian football

Arizoner:
So nobody here listens to Godwin Enakhena. I'm disappointed. He is the only nigerian journalist that spits facts but Gen Zs here will rather watch tiktok and claim they know Nigerian football

What exactly did he say ?

BankyGee:
No, I got the notification that he scored and went to watch the goal on Twitter.

so when are you going to have time to hop on E-football

JohnBullMySon:
I just want to state here that you actually don't need any government intervention to hit the NFF hard. Government interference in anyway will always lead to ban.

If you have strong evidence of corruption in NFF, not just hear say. Report it to FIFA and they'll open an investigation. If FIFA doesn't act on it, open a lawsuit in Switzerland. Swiss courts will enforce FIFA's anti corruption by-laws. But usually, FIFA will act if the case is strong. That's how Siasia collected a life ban (although CAS later reduced it).

The suggested steps won't elicit any FIFA ban as they are well within the constitution of the NFF. Also, the primary goal as outlined is to overhaul the entire system which sadly can't be achieved with your suggestion. Proving a corruption case against the NFF is almost impossible a task. You're very unlikely to get the necessary paper trail needed for a conviction, and even if you do, proving a fraud case beyond reasonable doubt is a tough ask.

Then, should you succeed in getting a conviction, you'll at best succeed in removing maybe the NFF president and the general secretary, a replacement will them be selected amongst the current board who make up the cesspool of incompetence we are trying to get away from. Back to square one.

If you read my steps carefully, you'll see the goal really is to play within what the current structure allows, get enough voting power to effect change then change said constitution to something more contemporary while not violating FIFA's interference clause.

lbrichman2:
Might Osimhen be heading to Juventus next?
Spalleti helped develop him to his current level

There’s a clause In osimhen agreement not to sell him to any Italian clubs for the next two seasons

Arizoner:
So nobody here listens to Godwin Enakhena. I'm disappointed. He is the only nigerian journalist that spits facts but Gen Zs here will rather watch tiktok and claim they know Nigerian football

Try not to speak in absolutes. How did you reach the conclusion that nobody listens to Godwin and how is he the only one that "spits facts? Have you listened to the tens of thousand of journalists all over the nation to arrive at that conclusion?

BTW, some of us started listening to Godwin some 2 decades ago, I'm pretty sure there are many like that here. Followed his journey from radio with his then partner Charles Anazodo then to LTV 8 with Emeka Nwanni, Leye Dada, Oma Akatugba etc then to Sport Splash. He tries to be fair but he's also not 100% objective as he has friends in the glass house too and may sometimes shy away from saying what needs to be said.

9JAMac10:
Thank you sir for this information. Are there extra time involved in this playoff series?

According to Wikipedia, extra time and penalty is playable.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_%E2%80%93_CAF_second_round[/url]

9JAMac10:
Thank you sir for this information. Are there extra time involved in this playoff series?

None of the matches will go into extras ..na outright win go determine everything