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Michelle Alozie got injured 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WU-gr78G4Q?si=MpobkLl9PSNiDdLd

Azeez is balling really good.

elyte89:
U think say na everybody go mumu like Nigeria 🇳🇬…next year afcon will be very tough with the countries are snatching top talents ..gone re those days when those countries rely heavily on their home grown talent,now tides have changed, even small countries like eswatini 🇸🇿 are recruiting players from abroad

Others are snatching which top talents and we are not?

When we do recruit our own foreign born, they win African footballer of the year, or AFCON MVP,do you see the difference.

Bassey is arguably Africa's best defender,Lookman is Africa's best wing forward,Iwobi,one of the best midfielders in Africa, they are all foreign recruit.

123jamessmith:
Azeez is balling really good.

the guy crosses dey deadly. With him in the super eagles Osimhen go score well well with nodding

Philosopher1979:
With all the great talent morocco had they needed penalties to beat us. We are also trying to get our own foreign born. First not all of them will play for us. Secondly not all of them are that good or excellent. Some of them are just average. Also our home grown talents are coming up nicely. So I don't get it.

You dey mind dem.

You will never see any serious member of this thread who would join them to score all these cheap points against NFF,or Nigeria leaders in general.

Yes we all know our leaders are incompetent, but for which extent must we insult and complain about them even when it's unnecessary just because it attracts a lot of support, as if though any of them would fare any better when given the chance to lead

minfelix:
switch and snatch all the european talent, if you meet Nigeria sha don’t do ojoro…2025/2026 Super eagles squad and coach go still dey beat all of una one by one, las las na penalty go separate us

You and Philosopher1979 really made my day,and spoke my mind.

Add to this that none of those European recruits is better than our own home grown Victor Osimhen, the monster machine

Eswatini will never be on the level of even Zambia no matter how many foreign-born talents they bring in.

DRC is recruiting good but we still saw how Algeria stopped them at the Afcon. Same Algeria we outplayed for 90mins. DRC has always been a force since the 70s... their resurgence is good for African football but they are still not complete. Their game vs Jamaica showed some of the depth of their deficiencies.

Senegal, CIV, Morocco all recruiting in droves and it is no news coz it is what they have been doing. Now how many are really quality? How many will they play? Dont get me wrong, Senegal, CIV and Morocco are legitly strong sides in African football but none of their foreign born-talents have won the APOTY except Madrid-born Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.

Look at Nigeria, we may not have the Volume of Foreign-born talents recruitment compared to the countries mentioned above (especially as most of our dual nationals prefer England or france or Germany or Denmark or any other euro state) but when we do succeed in recruiting, we are lucky enough to land truly talented lads.

Victor Moses was a fantastic recruitment who eventually won an Afcon.

Ademola Lookman came in 2022 and won the APOTY for 2024. That is a gap of just 2yrs+.

Calvin Bassey came in and arguably is Africa's best and strongest CB today. The last Afcon showed this.

Ola Aina has established himself as one of Africa's best RBs behind Hakimi.

Bright Osayi Samuel showed up huge at the last Afcon at RB in Aina's absence.

Emmanuel Fernandez of Rangers got recruited and just recently debuted and boy! What a talent he is at the back... a lad who will inevitably go on to greater things in the GWG and in his club career.


These are just some of the strong examples showing the quality of our dual-nationals/foreign-born talents recruitments despite the multitudes of NO or disinterest we have encountered from the likes of Olise, Eze, Saka, Musiala, Tammy, Tomori and co. And guess what? We are still pushing recruitment efforts and structurally this time through a diaspora monitoring committe

And I know you will mention World Cup but mind you....
....the major reason we are not at the World Cup was due to administrative indecisions/flop decisions moving us from Jpes to Finidi to Eguavoen before we found Chelle.

The NFF General Secretary admitted it already that "...if Chelle had began the WCQs, we would easily be in USCAMEX 2026..." So lesson learnt.

elyte89:
U think say na everybody go mumu like Nigeria 🇳🇬…next year afcon will be very tough with the countries are snatching top talents ..gone re those days when those countries rely heavily on their home grown talent,now tides have changed, even small countries like eswatini 🇸🇿 are recruiting players from abroad

Millwall 0-1 Hull City 75mins

As it stands, Semi Ajayi is heading to the Promotion Playoff final. Femi Azeez and Millwall have 15mins + added time to respond.

This is pure cope. Eze and Saka were right there but we fumbled it because of our incompetent FA. Those 2 alone would have easily improved our NT 5 fold. We had the likes of Edna Imade who wanted to play for Nigeria but your useless NFF and incompetent coach of the falcons still managed to fumble that too. Yes DRC is not an elite African team now but they will soon be. Give them another 4 years. Remember they were the big dog in the 70s. The have the heritage. Where was Senegal and Morocco 10 years ago? Where was Senegal and Morocco in 1994? Today they are the best 2 teams in Africa while the likes of Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana of yesteryears are sliding into irrelevance. We have seen time without # if you invest in your football, you will reap the rewards later on. That means investing in grassroots, Infrastructure development and now in the diaspora as well. Nigerians in general are not interested in any of that. We only want wuru wuru to the answer and that will take us nowhere. Keep coping while the likes of Morocco, Senegal, Cape Verde etc forge ahead.

Millwall 0-2 Hull City 79mins.

TheSuperNerd:
Millwall 0-1 Hull City 75mins

As it stands, Semi Ajayi is heading to the Promotion Playoff final. Femi Azeez and Millwall have 15mins + added time to respond.

Been monitoring this kid since last year, 20 y/o Stanley Iheanacho now at Mafra in Portugal's 3rd tier and formerly at FC Midtjlland's youth.
because it was 3rd tier, I did not want to drop his reports but I said I would do so summaratively towards season's end.

14 goals in 28 games for Mafra in Liga Portugal 3.

He recently bagged a brace vs League deputy leaders, Academica who will be promoted automatically to Liga 2. Mafra is in 4th place with a game to go in the division and no chance of promotion.

I expect the lad to get noticed within Portugal or outside and make an upward move after impressing strongly in the 3rd tier. His second season with Mafra after joining them in 24/25 from FCM U19s.

Semi Ajayi and Hull City will play the EFL/EPL Promotion Playoff Final.

They beat Femi Azeez and Millwall 2-0 on aggregate.

TheSuperNerd:
Millwall 0-2 Hull City 79mins.

TheSuperNerd:
Eswatini will never be on the level of even Zambia no matter how many foreign-born talents they bring in.

DRC is recruiting good but we still saw how Algeria stopped them at the Afcon. Same Algeria we outplayed for 90mins. DRC has always been a force since the 70s... their resurgence is good for African football but they are still not complete. Their game vs Jamaica showed some of the depth of their deficiencies.

Senegal, CIV, Morocco all recruiting in droves and it is no news coz it is what they have been doing. Now how many are really quality? How many will they play? Dont get me wrong, Senegal, CIV and Morocco are legitly strong sides in African football but none of their foreign born-talents have won the APOTY except Madrid-born Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.

Look at Nigeria, we may not have the Volume of Foreign-born talents recruitment compared to the countries mentioned above (especially as most of our dual nationals prefer England or france or Germany or Denmark or any other euro state) but when we do succeed in recruiting, we are lucky enough to land truly talented lads.

Victor Moses was a fantastic recruitment who eventually won an Afcon.

Ademola Lookman came in 2022 and won the APOTY for 2024. That is a gap of just 2yrs+.

Calvin Bassey came in and arguably is Africa's best and strongest CB today. The last Afcon showed this.

Ola Aina has established himself as one of Africa's best RBs behind Hakimi.

Bright Osayi Samuel showed up huge at the last Afcon at RB in Aina's absence.

Emmanuel Fernandez of Rangers got recruited and just recently debuted and boy! What a talent he is at the back... a lad who will inevitably go on to greater things in the GWG and in his club career.


These are just some of the strong examples showing the quality of our dual-nationals/foreign-born talents recruitments despite the multitudes of NO or disinterest we have encountered from the likes of Olise, Eze, Saka, Musiala, Tammy, Tomori and co. And guess what? We are still pushing recruitment efforts and structurally this time through a diaspora monitoring committe

And I know you will mention World Cup but mind you....
....the major reason we are not at the World Cup was due to administrative indecisions/flop decisions moving us from Jpes to Finidi to Eguavoen before we found Chelle.

The NFF General Secretary admitted it already that "...if Chelle had began the WCQs, we would easily be in USCAMEX 2026..." So lesson learnt.

Concerning d World Cup failures, It goes beyond coaching, i can bet it with u that lessons have not been learnt; because by now if truly it has been learnt, we shld be seeing serious signs of nff engaging private sectors or govt to ensure we have 2 standard stadiums 🏟️ ready in country for the next series of qualifiers..several times the players most especially iwobi has criticised nff of not providing the best playing surface Dey re used to in Europe(bad pitches, playing under bad conditions)..it’s like we re playing “away” from home , infact in our last two World Cup qualifying campaigns shows dt we have lost/drawn more home World Cup games ;due to the issues highlighted earlier ….yet we want to qualify,how do we qualify for the World Cup when we hardly win our home games. In 2022, we almost lost to Cape Verde 🇨🇻 at home if not for ndidi defensive block around 89 mins or so, we almost missed d playoffs

We thought we av learnt from dt, yet our mumu administrators failed to spot the issues of not winning our home games effectively. We all know aw the 2026 wcq turned out .. we drew most of our home games.


I can say it authoritatively that if this issue is not addressed b4 next wcq campaign for Morocco 🇲🇦 Spain 🇪🇸 Portugal 🇵🇹 2030, we would not qualify.

TheSuperNerd:
Eswatini will never be on the level of even Zambia no matter how many foreign-born talents they bring in.

DRC is recruiting good but we still saw how Algeria stopped them at the Afcon. Same Algeria we outplayed for 90mins. DRC has always been a force since the 70s... their resurgence is good for African football but they are still not complete. Their game vs Jamaica showed some of the depth of their deficiencies.

Senegal, CIV, Morocco all recruiting in droves and it is no news coz it is what they have been doing. Now how many are really quality? How many will they play? Dont get me wrong, Senegal, CIV and Morocco are legitly strong sides in African football but none of their foreign born-talents have won the APOTY except Madrid-born Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.

Look at Nigeria, we may not have the Volume of Foreign-born talents recruitment compared to the countries mentioned above (especially as most of our dual nationals prefer England or france or Germany or Denmark or any other euro state) but when we do succeed in recruiting, we are lucky enough to land truly talented lads.

Victor Moses was a fantastic recruitment who eventually won an Afcon.

Ademola Lookman came in 2022 and won the APOTY for 2024. That is a gap of just 2yrs+.

Calvin Bassey came in and arguably is Africa's best and strongest CB today. The last Afcon showed this.

Ola Aina has established himself as one of Africa's best RBs behind Hakimi.

Bright Osayi Samuel showed up huge at the last Afcon at RB in Aina's absence.

Emmanuel Fernandez of Rangers got recruited and just recently debuted and boy! What a talent he is at the back... a lad who will inevitably go on to greater things in the GWG and in his club career.


These are just some of the strong examples showing the quality of our dual-nationals/foreign-born talents recruitments despite the multitudes of NO or disinterest we have encountered from the likes of Olise, Eze, Saka, Musiala, Tammy, Tomori and co. And guess what? We are still pushing recruitment efforts and structurally this time through a diaspora monitoring committe

And I know you will mention World Cup but mind you....
....the major reason we are not at the World Cup was due to administrative indecisions/flop decisions moving us from Jpes to Finidi to Eguavoen before we found Chelle.

The NFF General Secretary admitted it already that "...if Chelle had began the WCQs, we would easily be in USCAMEX 2026..." So lesson learnt.

I thought I was the only one who noticed. Our players just gifted the DRC this so-called resurgence they had, yes, they were awesome in the 2024 Afcon, but they have dipped in performance in recent times as shown in the 2025 Afcon and in the just concluded pay-offs

“As a federation, we are spending so much on hotel bills, especially for our youth teams. Imagine camping players for several months and hotels giving us a bill of N15,000 for a single meal, per player! By the time we complete the 68-room complex, all these bills will end. We can then spend the money we give to hotels on actual youth football development.” - @IbrahimMusaGus1, @thenff President, speaking to Osasu Obayiuwana last Wednesday (May 6)


This is the project, which is just opposite @thenff HQs. The picture in the second frame is the ongoing construction of the artificial training turf. A natural grass pitch is also being constructed nearby.

Source: Osasu Obayiuwana

https://x.com/i/status/2052626000559641025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3-r3OjyHBo?si=8ihY4Ck-2GcFNZy7

Instability in coaching is a big factor for any team. Executing the WCQs alongside the AfconQs with 3 different coaches before Eric Chelle did not do the team good in terms of stability.

Administrative ineptitude is also there as already cited.

elyte89:
Concerning d World Cup failures, It goes beyond coaching, i can bet it with u that lessons have not been learnt; because by now if truly it has been learnt, we shld be seeing serious signs of nff engaging private sectors or govt to ensure we have 2 standard stadiums 🏟️ ready in country for the next series of qualifiers..several times the players most especially iwobi has criticised nff of not providing the best playing surface Dey re used to in Europe(bad pitches, playing under bad conditions)..it’s like we re playing “away” from home , infact in our last two World Cup qualifying campaigns shows dt we have lost/drawn more home World Cup games ;due to the issues highlighted earlier ….yet we want to qualify,how do we qualify for the World Cup when we hardly win our home games. In 2022, we almost lost to Cape Verde 🇨🇻 at home if not for ndidi defensive block around 89 mins or so, we almost missed d playoffs

We thought we av learnt from dt, yet our mumu administrators failed to spot the issues of not winning our home games effectively. We all know aw the 2026 wcq turned out .. we drew most of our home games.


I can say it authoritatively that if this issue is not addressed b4 next wcq campaign for Morocco 🇲🇦 Spain 🇪🇸 Portugal 🇵🇹 2030, we would not qualify.

TheSuperNerd:
Eswatini will never be on the level of even Zambia no matter how many foreign-born talents they bring in.

DRC is recruiting good but we still saw how Algeria stopped them at the Afcon. Same Algeria we outplayed for 90mins. DRC has always been a force since the 70s... their resurgence is good for African football but they are still not complete. Their game vs Jamaica showed some of the depth of their deficiencies.

Senegal, CIV, Morocco all recruiting in droves and it is no news coz it is what they have been doing. Now how many are really quality? How many will they play? Dont get me wrong, Senegal, CIV and Morocco are legitly strong sides in African football but none of their foreign born-talents have won the APOTY except Madrid-born Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.

Look at Nigeria, we may not have the Volume of Foreign-born talents recruitment compared to the countries mentioned above (especially as most of our dual nationals prefer England or france or Germany or Denmark or any other euro state) but when we do succeed in recruiting, we are lucky enough to land truly talented lads.

Victor Moses was a fantastic recruitment who eventually won an Afcon.

Ademola Lookman came in 2022 and won the APOTY for 2024. That is a gap of just 2yrs+.

Calvin Bassey came in and arguably is Africa's best and strongest CB today. The last Afcon showed this.

Ola Aina has established himself as one of Africa's best RBs behind Hakimi.

Bright Osayi Samuel showed up huge at the last Afcon at RB in Aina's absence.

Emmanuel Fernandez of Rangers got recruited and just recently debuted and boy! What a talent he is at the back... a lad who will inevitably go on to greater things in the GWG and in his club career.


These are just some of the strong examples showing the quality of our dual-nationals/foreign-born talents recruitments despite the multitudes of NO or disinterest we have encountered from the likes of Olise, Eze, Saka, Musiala, Tammy, Tomori and co. And guess what? We are still pushing recruitment efforts and structurally this time through a diaspora monitoring committe

And I know you will mention World Cup but mind you....
....the major reason we are not at the World Cup was due to administrative indecisions/flop decisions moving us from Jpes to Finidi to Eguavoen before we found Chelle.

The NFF General Secretary admitted it already that "...if Chelle had began the WCQs, we would easily be in USCAMEX 2026..." So lesson learnt.

After all these details and facts here,many would still come here and lambast as if though no effort has ever been done to recruit the best of our foreign born talents.

The bolded is the big question we should all ask sometimes.
And how many would turn out to be the real force to propel our team like Victor Moses did,
It's not just about recruiting just any young talent, but the very best that take us higher than we are.
For me m,the emphasis for this recruitment thing should be "the very best"

Tariq Lamptey was a bright rising youngster at Brighton in the EPL. Anglo-Ghanaian Foreign born talent touted as one who could break into the English Squad. He later chose Ghana ahead of the 2022 WC and even played in that tournament.

Now he is being terminated by Fiorentina. To be fair, injury has not done him good as well. He is 25 now. Still has some time.


Fabrizio Romano:
🚨👋🏿 Fiorentina terminate Tariq Lamptey’s contract with immediate effect after only 25 mins played at the club.

https://x.com/i/status/2053919655870558320

TheSuperNerd:
“As a federation, we are spending so much on hotel bills, especially for our youth teams. Imagine camping players for several months and hotels giving us a bill of N15,000 for a single meal, per player! By the time we complete the 68-room complex, all these bills will end. We can then spend the money we give to hotels on actual youth football development.” - @IbrahimMusaGus1, @thenff President, speaking to Osasu Obayiuwana last Wednesday (May 6)


This is the project, which is just opposite @thenff HQs. The picture in the second frame is the ongoing construction of the artificial training turf. A natural grass pitch is also being constructed nearby.

Source: Osasu Obayiuwana

https://x.com/i/status/2052626000559641025

Good one from NFF but why should they be spending that much on hotel for youth teams when they can use George Agbazika Inni Stadium Ilorin hostel with enough rooms,Kwara Football Academy are using part of the hostel building for their students....The hostel has two standard football pitch for training.

Thanks bros !!

Tessyy1701:
You're doing well

Good morning bros. Thanks for showing interest in the collation, and l think 1 or 2 monikers have also nominated you for the collation.
Maybe you and 1 other moniker should do the collation.. Voting starts now.. by the 20th of this month ( May), you announce the winners then we proceed.
Thanks.

Samueltemi337:
I would like to be part of the collation officers

lelion:
Good morning bros. Thanks for showing interest in the collation, and l think 1 or 2 monikers have also nominated you for the collation.
Maybe you and 1 other moniker should do the collation.. Voting starts now.. by the 20th of this month ( May), you announce the winners then we proceed.
Thanks.

Alright

For the MVM, l vote the SuperNerd..

Samueltemi337:
Alright

lelion:
For the MVM, l vote the SuperNerd..

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Samueltemi337:
Alright

I vote Opes

DeloitteNG:
I vote Opes

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I vote Kog45

soetanoreoluwa:
I vote Kog45

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Jay-Jay Okocha vs Italy - World Cup 1994
pic.twitter.com/fb5NhPUd9E

— SIR AHMED (@midopido21) May 11, 2026

/video/1?s=46

I vote nerdy

Papi85:
I vote nerdy

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