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Sarsaparilla524:
VO9 will be out for about 5-6 weeks.
AFCON is in 40 days.
Ekong might have quit international football.

Goke7:
Shebi mumu people dem say Osihmen fake injury

Arizoner:
Minfelix, DRC are through to the final. You can see we have a bunch of careless players who play for Nigeria

yinkeys:
Thé entire federation & structure need to go
Else forget about 2030 World Cup
This is not even a joke
Serious surgical intervention
You’d see in this Afcon, teams will no longer be scared of Nigeria & Cameroon
Old giants di ee off & give way to new ones

Sarsaparilla524:
VO9 will be out for about 5-6 weeks.
AFCON is in 40 days.
Ekong might have quit international football.

BankyGee:
🇳🇬📈 The Super Eagles of Nigeria have moved up 3 spots in the latest FIFA rankings and are now 37th in the world and still 5th in Africa! 🌍

Top 10 African Ranking with FIFA coefficients:
1. 🇲🇦 Morocco (11th 📈) – 1713.12
2. 🇸🇳 Senegal (19th 📉) – 1648.07
3. 🇪🇬 Egypt (34th 📉) – 1520.68
4. 🇩🇿 Algeria (35th 🟰) – 1516.37
5. 🇳🇬 Nigeria (38th 📈) – 1502.46
6. 🇹🇳 Tunisia (40th 📈) – 1497.13
7. 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire (42nd 🟰) – 1489.59
8. 🇲🇱 Mali (54th 📉) – 1455.03
9. 🇨🇩 DR Congo (56th 📈) – 1442.50
10. 🇨🇲 Cameroon (57th 📉) – 1440.43

DR Congo breaks into top 10 in Africa, displacing South Africa 😳

Éric Chelle has done a great job, he is still unbeaten in regulation time 11 games as Super Eagles manager.

Finidi George & Eguavoen took our team, ranked 28th in the world after AFCON, plunged them to 45th in the world.

Éric Chelle has moved us 7 spots up since he took charge. Gradually, with new players integrated, we'll get there.

Na only big hypocrite or zero ball knowledge-d person go say Chelle no do any good thing with the Super Eagles... Shalom.

QueenJazz:
Lol. How is this even possible?

BankyGee:
🇳🇬📈 The Super Eagles of Nigeria have moved up 3 spots in the latest FIFA rankings and are now 37th in the world and still 5th in Africa! 🌍

Top 10 African Ranking with FIFA coefficients:
1. 🇲🇦 Morocco (11th 📈) – 1713.12
2. 🇸🇳 Senegal (19th 📉) – 1648.07
3. 🇪🇬 Egypt (34th 📉) – 1520.68
4. 🇩🇿 Algeria (35th 🟰) – 1516.37
5. 🇳🇬 Nigeria (38th 📈) – 1502.46
6. 🇹🇳 Tunisia (40th 📈) – 1497.13
7. 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire (42nd 🟰) – 1489.59
8. 🇲🇱 Mali (54th 📉) – 1455.03
9. 🇨🇩 DR Congo (56th 📈) – 1442.50
10. 🇨🇲 Cameroon (57th 📉) – 1440.43

DR Congo breaks into top 10 in Africa, displacing South Africa 😳

Éric Chelle has done a great job, he is still unbeaten in regulation time 11 games as Super Eagles manager.

Finidi George & Eguavoen took our team, ranked 28th in the world after AFCON, plunged them to 45th in the world.

Éric Chelle has moved us 7 spots up since he took charge. Gradually, with new players integrated, we'll get there.

Na only big hypocrite or zero ball knowledge-d person go say Chelle no do any good thing with the Super Eagles... Shalom.

Sarsaparilla524:
VO9 will be out for about 5-6 weeks.
AFCON is in 40 days.
Ekong might have quit international football.

semid4lyfe:
No offense but the emboldened is nonsense . There are standard rules and guidelines that referees follow for officiating matches and these rules do not vary by location.

A red card offense in Europe is same in Africa or anywhere else.

Moreso, with the introduction of VAR, even if a referee misses a card-able foul, the VAR will see it and draw the attention of the referee. and the offending player go still collect.

I think the reason why European, South American and now Asian countries (Japan, South Korea) outwit African teams is due to superior tactics. They play with structure, discipline, and clear game plans. They utilize fast transitions, exploit space efficiently and anticipate opponents movies. They are also well drilled in their adopted formations and emphasize team work.

African teams,in contrast, often rely more on individual talent and physicality, which can be brilliant but is easier to predict and counter at the highest levels.

Na the reason be that.

QueenJazz:
Where is Ghana tho? 🙃

BankyGee:
Them dey down down o 😂

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CornOak:
Super Falcons wins the Female National Team of the Year.

kennysville:
thanks for the observation, You are very correct...it is nonsense... just only to you.

And I quite understand. So no offense taken

semid4lyfe:
Baba, I withdraw the part of my post you emboldened. I shouldn't have lashed out like that and I sincerely apologize.

I am too emotionally invested in the Super Eagles and I still dey suffer PTSD from our non qualification, and it,'s made me short-tempered and irritable.

You didn't deserve that and once again. I apologize.

E jo ma binu. 🙏

semid4lyfe:
No offense but the emboldened is nonsense. There are standard rules and guidelines that referees follow for officiating matches and these rules do not vary by location.

A red card offense in Europe is same in Africa or anywhere else.

Moreso, with the introduction of VAR, even if a referee misses a card-able foul, the VAR will see it and draw the attention of the referee. and the offending player go still collect.

I think the reason why European, South American and now Asian countries (Japan, South Korea) outwit African teams is due to superior tactics. They play with structure, discipline, and clear game plans. They utilize fast transitions, exploit space efficiently and anticipate opponents movies. They are also well drilled in their adopted formations and emphasize team work.

African teams,in contrast, often rely more on individual talent and physicality, which can be brilliant but is easier to predict and counter at the highest levels.

Na the reason be that.

QueenJazz:
Good. Pot 4 tinz. I hope they meet Spain in their first game and Argentina in their second. 😂

Even better. 🫠

UncleHaba22:
OFFICIAL: Women's Player of the Year - Ghizlane Chebak 🇲🇦

what was her achievement last year?
Morocco people just robbed this for their player wtf is this

Trophies?
Goals?

In an Awcon Year lol

semid4lyfe:
I did not absolve the NFF of blame but your arguement still leans too heavily on the NFF as if they tied the players legs on the pitch.

Also, you're rewriting history. Jose Peseiro was employed on a 70k USD/month contract but after some mixed results and difficulty paying his salary, the NFF offered him a reduced 50k USD salary to stay on and take the team to the AFCON which he accepted.

He refused to renew the 50K USD/month contract when it expired at the end of AFCON, and demanded an increased salary to stay on as coach stating he had offers from other places.

After failing to reach an agreement with the NFF, JP announced his departure and the NFF moved on to appoint his deputy Finidi George as the substantive coach which I hailed and supported at that time because Finidi had the highest coaching badge, and some experience working in Europe, deputizing JP and coaching in the NPFL.

Your assertion that lots of Nigerians wanted JP gone after the AFCON is not entirely true. Reactions to JP continuing as coach was mixed. I wanted him to continue because he showed his tactical acumen and flexibility after the qualifiers and first AFCON game by deployed a 3-5-1-1 formation that fixed our goals leaking issue, and got us to the FINAL. I mean, from 4-3-3, JP switched to a 3-5-1-1 that made us defensively disciplined, solid and dispatched teams playing some prime catenaccio ball akin to Italy of 2006 world cup.

I also think you overestimate the Super Eagles brand with your quality of coaches statement, and we have to be realistic with the kinda coaches we can appoint.. There's no way we can attract first class coaches like Ancelotti, Guardiola. Mourinho and the likes. They're way above our league. Even the first class Africans/African experienced coaches like Pitso Motsimane, Hugo Broos, Herve Rennard are above our league. I think the right profile of coaches for the Super Eagles are young African, European, South American coaches who are within the age bracket of 40-55. and are eager to make a name for themselves. They also are moderate with their salary expectations. Think coaches like Pedro Goncalves, Djamel Belmadi, Aliou Cisse etc So by my assessment, Eric Chelle is a perfect fit for the job.

As for Finidi, with the benefit of hindsight, I agree he wasn’t ready. But even if Pep Guardiola was coach, the same players that struggled to beat Lesotho would still be the same players. National team coaches don’t perform magic. They work with what is available.

This NFF is the biggest culprit angle ignores the biggest elephant in the room, the players, who did not perform at the level required. You mentioned those early qualifiers. Exactly!. That is where we lost the plot. Even with all the NFF wahala, you don’t drop points at home to Lesotho. You don’t lose against Benin on a neutral ground. That one is not bonus issue or NFF delay. That’s players lacking hunger and performing poorly.

NFF didn't ask Ndidi to play the ball wide one-on-one with the Zimbabwe goalie in Uyo. NFF didn't instruct Troost Ekong not to tackle the Zimbabwean player that scored the 89th minute equalizer against us in Uyo. NFF didn't ask Troost Ekong to score an own goal from a non-threatening square ball in SA. NFF didn't ask Ndidi to get in the way of Chukwueze to possibly score our second goal against DR Congo. NFF didn't ask Ndidi not to clear the ball that led to DR Congo's equalizer. NFF didn't ask Bassey, Simon and Ajayi to play poor penalties. I could go on and on.

NFF has blame. Nobody is arguing that. Their administrative ineptitude is embarrassing. But to pin everything on them while giving the players and coaches a lighter share of the blame is inaccurate

NFF failed in organization (10%). Coaches failed in tactics (20%) Players failed in mentality and execution (70%).

Again, all the laurels we have won in football have been in spite of the NFF. If the players had the spine. mentality, and fortitude, the Super Eagles would have qualified in spite of the NFF.

I rest my fingers.

CornOak:
HAKIMI wins the AFRICAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR.

UncleHaba22:
OFFICIAL: Women's Player of the Year - Ghizlane Chebak 🇲🇦

what was her achievement last year?
Morocco people just robbed this for their player wtf is this

Trophies?
Goals?

In an Awcon Year lol

UncleHaba22:
She had 8 goals and 4 assist in 38games 0 trophies won