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Imagine a player dribbles you, and your whole team is trying to fight the player. I was like what in the world is going on with modern football?

Mujtahida:
Machine football, no flair, no art, just athletes running up and down playing system football all thanks to Gaurdiola. When I curse tiki taka everyday people don't understand how that dreadful philosophy hollowed out football and left us with a pathetic unsatisfying husk.

elyte89:
If Dey do and backdate it, it will even make d case stronger ..dt will be a dumb move if Dey try it cos fifa will look at when d event took place and what d law state as at den

What a solid jurisprudential response. Abi you will branch from coaching and come and study law?

Bossoflife25:
Imagine a player dribbles you, and your whole team is trying to fight the player. I was like what in the world is going on with football this day?

They are not used to it. Dribbling is a crime in modern football

Mujtahida:
If as a country you say you don't operate dual citizenship and then you use a dual citizenship player, what it means is that you have used a player that is not your citizen. The implication is that every country can then use players who are not their own citizens.

Last comment I'll make on this issue sha.

The way you described citizenship is not the way it works. If you are a citizen of a country by descent, you're a citizen from the moment you are born. Whether you have a passport yet or another nationality. it doesn't matter. Eberechi Eze, Olise, Saka, Musiala are all bonafide Nigerian citizens. Citizenship by descent is a citizenship acquired at birth not by applying for anything. So technically all DRC dual nationality players are DRC citizens to start with. FIFA also recognizes citizenship by descent.

Now in a country like DRC, the executive government which enforces the law, is meant to revoke Congolese citizenship for dual citizens that don't voluntarily drop their foreign citizenship after 21. Now, If the DRC federal government does not revoke it, the citizenship is still valid. it is not an automatic loss.

DRC deliberately doesn't revoke citizenship anymore because they don't want to. A moratorium was passed in 2007 to put revocations permanently on hold pending review of their constitution.

Bossoflife25:
Imagine a player dribbles you, and your whole team is trying to fight the player. I was like what in the world is going on with football this day?

In the West, especially in Europe, when you try to show individual extraordinary talent or skill, you'll be accused of not being a good team player or being rude and disrespectful to your colleagues.

If by mistake Naija enter this world cup...dem fit win am...at that point no be ordinary hand ..na destiny.

It is waste of time arguing with people that genuinely believe this top 5 would win AFCON. lol!
Based on what? History or quality?
1. Ivory Coast
2. Nigeria
3. Egypt
4. Senegal
5. Morocco (as per host/CAF/Referee)

semid4lyfe:
My Top 5 countries to win the Nations Cup.

1. Morocco
2. Senegal
3. Algeria
4. Congo DR
5. South Africa

If I expand, it to top 10 teams, the positions will be occupied by

6. Ivory Coast
7. Nigeria
8. Tunisia
9. Cameroun
10. Burkina Faso

Lets have yours

Mujtahida:
Hell or sunshine, naija must go to the world cup. How it will happen, I don't know. In fact it doesn't concern me but you see that world cup, we must go.

Delaw e be like say na you dey run this matter sef on our behalf o

Mujtahida:
Hell or sunshine, naija must go to the world cup. How it will happen, I don't know. In fact it doesn't concern me but you see that world cup, we must go.

D Law no gree for anybody 😂

solonnachi:
If Super Eagles by mistake enter this 2026 world cup, they might perform wonders if NFF does not sabotage the team.

I have to agree here. Our B team drew against Russia. Russia!!

Osimhen and Lookman (in top form o) in that game would have made it 2-1 in our favor for sure.

Bossoflife25:
People like this mumu can't take what they ditch out!
Stay away from my post with your negativity.
These boys have given you a bronze and silver in three AFCONS yet you come here spitting bullocks!
Nonsense!

unless your livelihood is the topic of discussion, there really is no excuse for being uncouth when discussing here. If you were responding to the usual rude foreigners that would have been understandable. Super eagles no be our family property. Na analysis all of us dey do for here all these curses and insults no dey needed ajeh.

JohnBullMySon:
Last comment I'll make on this issue sha.

The way you described citizenship is not the way it works. If you are a citizen of a country by descent, you're a citizen from the moment you are born. Whether you have a passport yet or another nationality. it doesn't matter. Eberechi Eze, Olise, Saka, Musiala are all bonafide Nigerian citizens. Citizenship by descent is a citizenship acquired at birth not by applying for anything. So technically all DRC dual nationality players are DRC citizens to start with. FIFA also recognizes citizenship by descent.

Now in a country like DRC, the executive government which enforces the law, is meant to revoke Congolese citizenship for dual citizens that don't voluntarily drop their foreign citizenship after 21. Now, If the DRC federal government does not revoke it, the citizenship is still valid. it is not an automatic loss.

DRC deliberately doesn't revoke citizenship anymore because they don't want to. A moratorium was passed in 2007 to put revocations permanently on hold pending review of their constitution.

Guy nawa for u o …who u be sef …u be Congolese or South African 🇿🇦..any small petition from us like dis …u go turn prof wole Soyinka 🤣🤣

SymphonyRad:
Another long epistle of more gaslighting, I like how you're trying so hard to tilt this whole conversation into another Northern players stigmatization agenda while still overlooking (perhaps intentionally) the MAIN ISSUES being addressed here. You're the one with a wicked agenda but I'll not play ball to your ethnic baiting cause it's just going to be a cul-de-sac of pointless arguments and rhetorics that will be another dead end.

Ok lets even agree for the sake of conceding to your stats that Usman Mohammed plays regular minutes at his club, what exactly are his best qualities? I'll assume you know this particular player so well to vouch for him, what are the key attributes and qualities of Usman Mohammed in his club in recent years that makes his call up justified? please tell us a notable growth index per his player development trajectory since his U23 Olympics stint? or are you still mesmerized by his solo goal against Atlético de Madrid years ago in that friendly? Pls tell us one good reason (devoid of your ethnic gaslighting and angling) why Usman deserved to be selected ahead of a Sani Suleiman who is younger, more exciting and has a far promising trajectory? I don't want to mention the baffling selection conundrum of a 31 year old player at the tail-end of his career who is stuck in the lower rungs of Isreal over younger prospects who should be displacing the older players?

The Tochukwu Nnadi you keep bringing up isn't my favorite player and I doubt anybody would have cared or noticed much if he was dropped or not, but at least he's very young - still 22 and playing at a far better league with more learning curves for growth as a player, so your comparison is rather baseless even if it was for ethnic ramblings.

Bros, you can choose to live in whatever bubble you create for yourself, but the indelible and incontrovertible truth will always be said. There's no gainsaying in calling out the obvious footprints of NFF corruption, and that has continued to destroy the fabric of our football...Chelle from reliable evidence didn't pick most of the players in that list and that's a very dangerous precedence- when a coach can't pick his own team because some higher-ups have to call the shot for reasons best known to them.

I wish all and sundry the best, hope Usman proves me wrong and serves me humble pies.

Press his neck!!

Nigeria media needs to hashtag a campaign titled #saynotofifaineligibility. The entire social media space needs to broadcast such information

QueenJazz:
D Law no gree for anybody 😂

if you wan chop dlaw money just tell am say you don see option wey nigeria fit use enter USA 2026 world cup he go believe you sharp.

elyte89:
Guy nawa for u o …who u be sef …u be Congolese or South African 🇿🇦..any small petition from use like dis …u go turn prof wole Soyinka 🤣🤣

😂 He must be from the African Union (AU)

Na so e Dey argue on behalf of Libya after the rubbish they did to our team in their country during the Afcon qualifiers

Bossoflife25:
lol! If you have posted this only a mad man will argue with you. I will rest my case here. You are simply a dishonest fellow! Ciao!

Enjoy your evening man

JohnBullMySon:
Last comment I'll make on this issue sha.

The way you described citizenship is not the way it works. If you are a citizen of a country by descent, you're a citizen from the moment you are born. Whether you have a passport yet or another nationality. it doesn't matter. Eberechi Eze, Olise, Saka, Musiala are all bonafide Nigerian citizens. Citizenship by descent is a citizenship acquired at birth not by applying for anything. So technically all DRC dual nationality players are DRC citizens to start with. FIFA also recognizes citizenship by descent.

Now in a country like DRC, the executive government which enforces the law, is meant to revoke Congolese citizenship for dual citizens that don't voluntarily drop their foreign citizenship after 21. Now, If the DRC federal government does not revoke it, the citizenship is still valid. it is not an automatic loss.

DRC deliberately doesn't revoke citizenship anymore because they don't want to. A moratorium was passed in 2007 to put revocations permanently on hold pending review of their constitution.

Naija must go world cup. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Amedino99:
if you wan chop dlaw money just tell am say you don see option wey nigeria fit use enter USA 2026 world cup he go believe you sharp.

I never recover. I be like woman wey still never believe say her boyfriend don ditch her. Once she see him, call, she go get hope again.

Hope dey kill. But let it kill me again oo.

QueenJazz:
D Law no gree for anybody 😂

Gidigba.

Mujtahida:
Since naija crash out, I've not heard from my client.

Your client is still pained

Ij

SymphonyRad:
Another long epistle of more gaslighting, I like how you're trying so hard to tilt this whole conversation into another Northern players stigmatization agenda while still overlooking (perhaps intentionally) the MAIN ISSUES being addressed here. You're the one with a wicked agenda but I'll not play ball to your ethnic baiting cause it's just going to be a cul-de-sac of pointless arguments and rhetorics that will be another dead end.

Ok lets even agree for the sake of conceding to your stats that Usman Mohammed plays regular minutes at his club, what exactly are his best qualities? I'll assume you know this particular player so well to vouch for him, what are the key attributes and qualities of Usman Mohammed in his club in recent years that makes his call up justified? please tell us a notable growth index per his player development trajectory since his U23 Olympics stint? or are you still mesmerized by his solo goal against Atlético de Madrid years ago in that friendly? Pls tell us one good reason (devoid of your ethnic gaslighting and angling) why Usman deserved to be selected ahead of a Sani Suleiman who is younger, more exciting and has a far promising trajectory? I don't want to mention the baffling selection conundrum of a 31 year old player at the tail-end of his career who is stuck in the lower rungs of Isreal over younger prospects who should be displacing the older players?

The Tochukwu Nnadi you keep bringing up isn't my favorite player and I doubt anybody would have cared or noticed much if he was dropped or not, but at least he's very young - still 22 and playing at a far better league with more learning curves for growth as a player, so your comparison is rather baseless even if it was for ethnic ramblings.

Bros, you can choose to live in whatever bubble you create for yourself, but the indelible and incontrovertible truth will always be said. There's no gainsaying in calling out the obvious footprints of NFF corruption, and that has continued to destroy the fabric of our football...Chelle from reliable evidence didn't pick most of the players in that list and that's a very dangerous precedence- when a coach can't pick his own team because some higher-ups have to call the shot for reasons best known to them.

I wish all and sundry the best, hope Usman proves me wrong and serves me humble pies.

Your deflection tacticts is legendary i swear, you surreptiously tried every thing you could to ignore the evidences i showed you just from few days ago, I have seen worst on this thread if you search backwards. Where people are Calling northerners names on several occasion blaming them for national teams failures. You chose to ignore that. Baba you are a big hypocrite and i will die on this hill.
First can you first admit that you gave a false info by saying he is in div 2 and rarely plays? And You are not agreeing with me that he plays regularly for the sake of conceeding. Its 100 FACT. ADMIT YOUR ERRORS.

Again, I have not justified the inclusion of Usman anywhere, I am just curious that of the 28 man list, only the northerners are singled out for condemnation, backed up by the call to divide Nigeria and the federal character rubbish, and this has been a regular pattern here. shey you no see that one abi? Nonsense.
I am not a northerner and I love the inclusion of Tochukwu Nnadi and other new faces, there are 28 players there, in previus AFCONs its 23. Addition of 5 other players to give them the chance is commendable. Emmanuel Emenike was 27 during the AFCON that he helped us won, he was moving accross the backwaters of Europe before Keshi gave him the chance. Likewise Sunday Mba who was about the same age playing in NPFL before Keshi picked him. Marcos Senna made his debut for spain at 29 and won the Euros the only tournament he played for spain at 32. So spare me the age card, emotional blackmail, its trash.

At least this arguement will sensor the quick urge of people here to stop profiling players based on their tribe or region, but clearly on merit. Every Nigerian player deserve a chance, its not the exclusive right of anyone. Udo

Where are the curses and insults in my post? "Being Mumu" na curse? lol!
A faceless forum doesn't give you the room to castigate players who haven't lost in open play since a year ago. If you want to criticize do so with common sense not with mumuish sense. Simple!

Amedino99:
unless your livelihood is the topic of discussion, there really is no excuse for being uncouth when discussing here. If you were responding to the usual rude foreigners that would have been understandable. Super eagles no be our family property. Na analysis all of us dey do for here all these curses and insults no dey needed ajeh.

Bossoflife25:
Imagine a player dribbles you, and your whole team is trying to fight the player. I was like what in the world is going on with modern football?

@charlesemeka85
Ejuke made Sevilla fans enjoy the money paid for tickets
It was worth the live experience
Highlight reel
And I thought Ejuke is getting older & has lost pace when we faced Gabon & DRC

Baba leave those guys to their hat.... They are on the list and nothing anyone can do about it.
When Keshi was calling up Agbo, Mba etc no one talked about Federal character then!
When Finidi sabotaged us by calling up Sadiq, Tiamiyu etc nobody remember federal character or what about Amas playing in Ethiopia.
It is only when the name is Musa or Usman dem dey remember federal character. Such dishonest group of humans!

CapitalCee:
Ij

Your deflection tacticts is legendary i swear, you surreptiously tried every thing you could to ignore the evidences i showed you just from few days ago, I have seen worst on this thread if you search backwards. Where people are Calling northerners names on several occasion blaming them for national teams failures. You chose to ignore that. Baba you are a big hypocrite and i will die on this hill.
First can you first admit that you gave a false info by saying he is in div 2 and rarely plays? And You are not agreeing with me that he plays regularly for the sake of conceeding. Its 100 FACT. ADMIT YOUR ERRORS.

Again, I have not justified the inclusion of Usman anywhere, I am just curious that of the 28 man list, only the northerners are singled out for condemnation, backed up by the call to divide Nigeria and the federal character rubbish, and this has been a regular pattern here. shey you no see that one abi? Nonsense.
I am not a northerner and I love the inclusion of Tochukwu Nnadi and other new faces, there are 28 players there, in previus AFCONs its 23. Addition of 5 other players to give them the chance is commendable. Emmanuel Emenike was 27 during the AFCON that he helped us won, he was moving accross the backwaters of Europe before Keshi gave him the chance. Likewise Sunday Mba who was about the same age playing in NPFL before Keshi picked him. Marcos Senna made his debut for spain at 29 and won the Euros the only tournament he played for spain at 32. So spare me the age card, emotional blackmail, its trash.

At least this arguement will sensor the quick urge of people here to stop profiling players based on their tribe or region, but clearly on merit. Every Nigerian player deserve a chance, its not the exclusive right of anyone. Udo

To those of you ignoring DR Congo obvious breach of their Constitutional law pertaining FIFA clearance. Ask yourself how come FIFA an organization that usually take over 1 year to clear west African players were able to clear 6 Congolese players in few Months. It happened simply because there was a breach of their own Constitutional law. A player like Victor moses and Ademola lookman weren’t cleared to play for Nigeria in over 2 years and Nigeria has a Dual-citizenship Law in effect. I do not care whether NFF is an inept organization or super eagles aren’t in form. The law is the law and anyone that breaks the law should be penalized for it. Otherwise, it fails to become the law

Bossoflife25:
Baba leave those guys to their hat.... They are on the list and nothing anyone can do about it.
When Keshi was calling up Agbo, Mba etc no one talked about Federal character then!
When Finidi sabotaged us by calling up Sadiq, Tiamiyu etc nobody remember federal character or what about Amas playing in Ethiopia.
It is only when the name is Musa or Usman dem dey remember federal character. Such dishonest group of humans!

Late keshi had d worst list ever in Nigeria 🇳🇬 to rep us in a tournament..baba carry uchebo, Gabriel , and oda names wey we Neva hear go World Cup

Super Eagles Leadership

Captain: Wilfred Ndidi

Assistants: Simon, Iwobi, Osimhen.

Bannedlargejr:
To those of you ignoring DR Congo obvious breach of their Constitutional law pertaining FIFA clearance. Ask yourself how come FIFA an organization that usually take over 1 year to clear west African players were able to clear 6 Congolese players in few Months. It happened simply because there was a breach of their own Constitutional law. A player like Victor moses and Ademola lookman weren’t cleared to play for Nigeria in over 2 years and Nigeria has a Dual-citizenship Law in effect. I do not care whether NFF is an inept organization or super eagles aren’t in form. The law is the law and anyone that breaks the law should be penalized for it. Otherwise, it fails to become the law

Thank you for this🙏. You are a real Super Eagles fan💯

JohnBullMySon:
Last comment I'll make on this issue sha.

The way you described citizenship is not the way it works. If you are a citizen of a country by descent, you're a citizen from the moment you are born. Whether you have a passport yet or another nationality. it doesn't matter. Eberechi Eze, Olise, Saka, Musiala are all bonafide Nigerian citizens. Citizenship by descent is a citizenship acquired at birth not by applying for anything. So technically all DRC dual nationality players are DRC citizens to start with. FIFA also recognizes citizenship by descent.

Now in a country like DRC, the executive government which enforces the law, is meant to revoke Congolese citizenship for dual citizens that don't voluntarily drop their foreign citizenship after 21. Now, If the DRC federal government does not revoke it, the citizenship is still valid. it is not an automatic loss.

DRC deliberately doesn't revoke citizenship anymore because they don't want to. A moratorium was passed in 2007 to put revocations permanently on hold pending review of their constitution.

If this thing later comes out positive for Nigeria, I don’t want to see you in this thread again o cos Wetin I go use your eyes see ehn…

Goke7:
😂 He must be from the African Union (AU)

Na so e Dey argue on behalf of Libya after the rubbish they did to our team in their country during the Afcon qualifiers

Ah so he was part of that crew with Joe? Hian!

Libya, SA, then this.

Bossoflife25:
It is waste of time arguing with people that genuinely believe this top 5 would win AFCON. lol!
Based on what? History or quality?
1. Ivory Coast
2. Nigeria
3. Egypt
4. Senegal
5. Morocco (as per host/CAF/Referee)

No be na wa, na real wa. Was it really necessary to put me down to make your opinion?

No worry, na you sabi ball pass. Collect your medal 🥉