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mank1234:
Their keeper is levels above so many keeper in Europe You're saying all this because they lost.

They are only lacking strikers. Dot. Forget this same team stopped Nigeria from qualifying. No disrespect.

If you watched the South African team this tournament and you think their only issue was lack of a number 9, I don't really know whether you actually understand football. Their decision-making in the final third, technical ability of their players in dangerous positions, and inability of their wingers to beat an opponent in one-on-one scenarios were glaring to see. Should I continue? What about their off-the-ball movements and ball control in dangerous areas of the pitch? Their players in the final third were often miscontrolling the ball, taking too many touches to control the ball, and constantly making bad decisions. Most of their attacking players were lightweight, and the way they were easily being bullied and shrugged off the ball was glaring for all to see.

Sithole and Mokoena in the midfield are just not good enough at this level, and I'm not sure either of these two players can make a match-day squad of any championship team in England.

With regard to their goalkeeper. I agree with you that he is good enough to go to some of the non-top-5 leagues in Europe, and he is also on a decent salary for Sundowns, which is probably better than he will earn playing for mid-table teams outside of the elite European leagues. He is not better than any starting goalkeeper in Serie A or any of the top 5 leagues because if he were, he would not be in the South African league. Football is not like a music or movie career, where you can be active in it for 50-plus years. In football, an average career is less than 10 years long, so every player wants to maximize profits before Father Time comes, and until you can give me a substantial and data-driven reason why Williams would turn down earning millions of dollars more playing in the top 5 leagues in the world as opposed to playing in South Africa, I am not buying any of your argument.

If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan

EElopa:
Football is not rocket science, and when somebody tries to convince me that a player playing in South Africa is better than a player playing in Serie A, I just laugh at how ridiculous that sounds. This might have been the case 30 years ago, but football is now a global sport and a business for that matter. A lot of European clubs have extensive scouting departments, so if you are good, you will be discovered.

A classmate of mine in high school who was very good immediately left for a Croatian team called HNK Gorica that discovered him through scouting in Abuja. When a player is playing in the South African league, he is not there because he was unlucky or has a bad agent; he is there because he has been extensively scouted and there are so many deficiencies in his game.

South African players at this level just can not score or create chances. We can play another 24 hours; I don't think South Africa would have scored in this game. I don't even think they registered a shot on target against a very mediocre Canadian team.

When you watch them, you will see why they are in South Africa, and that is because there are deficiencies to their game. Their best player on the pitch, Mbokazi, plays for Chicago Fire, and you can see he was levels above his teammates, and with his performance today, he will probably be heading to Europe. The guy that scored the only open-play goal that they had in this tournament, Maseko, plays in Europe and not the South African league.

There are levels to this game, and this is why there is a strong correlation between the league a player plays in and his quality. A player playing in South Africa can never under any circumstance be better in any position than a Serie A player.

where a player plays doesn’t matter what matter is his skill set

charlesemeka85:
where a player plays doesn’t matter what matter is his skill set

There are levels to football. If you play in the championship, you will never make an English national team. If you play in the championship, you will never make a Brazilian, Spanish, French, or Argentinian national team. We need to stop this nonsense that where a player plays does not matter. I agree that some players developed into proper international-level footballers later on in their careers, and yes, I have seen some players that have come from the Championship and developed into elite-level Premier League players. The thing about it is that as you develop in the later years of your career, the growth in your game will be noticed, and you will be rescued from the championship. Femi Azeez is a case study; he showed his quality in the championship, and he is essentially on his way to the Premier League.

The notion that you have this quality player in this backwater league who for years has demonstrated his qualities but was just so unfortunate to be noticed just does not sit well with me because it is just a fallacy.

I was watching the Nigeria U20 tournament, and it took me 15 mins to totally identify Benjamin Fredericks. I turned around and I told my friend that this boy is going places and will be in the Super Eagles in less than 2 years. I watched Chubuike Nwaiwu for the first time in his first game with Trabzonspor, and I knew he had a high ceiling and was supereargles ready. Trapzenspour just rejected a 30 million pound bid from West Ham. Bayer Leverkusen and Fulham are all coming for him.

You are really intelligent if this is what u can make up from my take.

FiveFootNinja:
Okay. You've made your point.

Therefore the AFCON qualifiers is useless.

There's no need for us to prosecute them. We can forfeit all our matches and lose our spot to either Guinea-Bissau or Madagascar.

We don't need the AFCON. No more AFCON competitions. You're right. Wow. Such an intelligent suggestion. Why didn't I think of this before?

You're very intelligent.

Home advantage don commot who home advantage help

If u want to love/hate america, live in it.

Visitor and dweller perspective is never the same

9JAMac10:
If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan

EElopa:
Football is not rocket science, and when somebody tries to convince me that a player playing in South Africa is better than a player playing in Serie A, I just laugh at how ridiculous that sounds. This might have been the case 30 years ago, but football is now a global sport and a business for that matter. A lot of European clubs have extensive scouting departments, so if you are good, you will be discovered.

A classmate of mine in high school who was very good immediately left for a Croatian team called HNK Gorica that discovered him through scouting in Abuja. When a player is playing in the South African league, he is not there because he was unlucky or has a bad agent; he is there because he has been extensively scouted and there are so many deficiencies in his game.

South African players at this level just can not score or create chances. We can play another 24 hours; I don't think South Africa would have scored in this game. I don't even think they registered a shot on target against a very mediocre Canadian team.

When you watch them, you will see why they are in South Africa, and that is because there are deficiencies to their game. Their best player on the pitch, Mbokazi, plays for Chicago Fire, and you can see he was levels above his teammates, and with his performance today, he will probably be heading to Europe. The guy that scored the only open-play goal that they had in this tournament, Maseko, plays in Europe and not the South African league.

There are levels to this game, and this is why there is a strong correlation between the league a player plays in and his quality. A player playing in South Africa can never under any circumstance be better in any position than a Serie A player.

JHmm,Okoye is better than Nwabali?cuz he is in Seria A😄Oga Rowen William would be number one in some clubs in seria A

EElopa:
There are levels to football. If you play in the championship, you will never make an English national team. If you play in the championship, you will never make a Brazilian, Spanish, French, or Argentinian national team. We need to stop this nonsense that where a player plays does not matter. I agree that some players developed into proper international-level footballers later on in their careers, and yes, I have seen some players that have come from the Championship and developed into elite-level Premier League players. The thing about it is that as you develop in the later years of your career, the growth in your game will be noticed, and you will be rescued from the championship. Femi Azeez is a case study; he showed his quality in the championship, and he is essentially on his way to the Premier League.

The notion that you have this quality player in this backwater league who for years has demonstrated his qualities but was just so unfortunate to be noticed just does not sit well with me because it is just a fallacy.

I was watching the Nigeria U20 tournament, and it took me 15 mins to totally identify Benjamin Fredericks. I turned around and I told my friend that this boy is going places and will be in the Super Eagles in less than 2 years. I watched Chubuike Nwaiwu for the first time in his first game with Trabzonspor, and I knew he had a high ceiling and was supereargles ready. Trapzenspour just rejected a 30 million pound bid from West Ham. Bayer Leverkusen and Fulham are all coming for him.

Pls how many second tier players are playing for us

EElopa:
There are levels to football. If you play in the championship, you will never make an English national team. If you play in the championship, you will never make a Brazilian, Spanish, French, or Argentinian national team. We need to stop this nonsense that where a player plays does not matter. I agree that some players developed into proper international-level footballers later on in their careers, and yes, I have seen some players that have come from the Championship and developed into elite-level Premier League players. The thing about it is that as you develop in the later years of your career, the growth in your game will be noticed, and you will be rescued from the championship. Femi Azeez is a case study; he showed his quality in the championship, and he is essentially on his way to the Premier League.

The notion that you have this quality player in this backwater league who for years has demonstrated his qualities but was just so unfortunate to be noticed just does not sit well with me because it is just a fallacy.

I was watching the Nigeria U20 tournament, and it took me 15 mins to totally identify Benjamin Fredericks. I turned around and I told my friend that this boy is going places and will be in the Super Eagles in less than 2 years. I watched Chubuike Nwaiwu for the first time in his first game with Trabzonspor, and I knew he had a high ceiling and was supereargles ready. Trapzenspour just rejected a 30 million pound bid from West Ham. Bayer Leverkusen and Fulham are all coming for him.

Juniho Paulista and Joan Pedro made Brazil team as England Chamoionship player

Amedino99:
think no more learned man. The xeno babies are bek to their country to collect their jobs back.

I slept off. So I couldn't complete the match. Woke up with fear that SA had won. Just saw now that they didn't. The kind of joy I experienced cannot be explained.

Bad belly has it's own kind of sweetness. Damn!

FiveFootNinja:
Wheres D'Law? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

cc: Mujtahida

They couldn't even get past Canada. I'm dead. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bro! Bro!! Mzanzi are coming home.

FiveFootNinja:
Calm down D'Law. Not in a million years. These bums I'm watching right now aren't beating Morocco or Netherlands. Except there's a miraculous upgrade from the nonsense they're playing today. 😂😂

Those guys really play an impotent kind of football. It's not tiki taka but they like passing and dancing on the ball flattering themselves. I imagine they think themselves to be Brazilians of some sort

soetanoreoluwa:
Lmao... This SA can't do jark what is going for them is the cohesion of the players. If you think Morocco I can fancy them or DR congo .

I dey think an Africa winning the world cup too. It is getting closer now. Africa will soon win it. Just a matter of time

Whenever that time comes, it must be Nigeria to win it!

Odunayaw:
Satan is the father of lies. Cast that thought in the dustbin where it belongs ser

Na once I run go sleep. That how I cast it out of my mind

Mujtahida:
I slept off. So I couldn't complete the match. Woke up with fear that SA had won. Just saw now that they didn't. The kind of joy I experienced cannot be explained.

Bad belly has it's own kind of sweetness. Damn!

Omo, this is Bad Belle that has gone to Cambridge. Habamana!

😂😂

Technically though, Canada played in LA but fun point is still valid.

Joebie:
Home advantage don commot who home advantage help

EElopa:
If you watched the South African team this tournament and you think their only issue was lack of a number 9, I don't really know whether you actually understand football. Their decision-making in the final third, technical ability of their players in dangerous positions, and inability of their wingers to beat an opponent in one-on-one scenarios were glaring to see. Should I continue? What about their off-the-ball movements and ball control in dangerous areas of the pitch? Their players in the final third were often miscontrolling the ball, taking too many touches to control the ball, and constantly making bad decisions. Most of their attacking players were lightweight, and the way they were easily being bullied and shrugged off the ball was glaring for all to see.

Sithole and Mokoena in the midfield are just not good enough at this level, and I'm not sure either of these two players can make a match-day squad of any championship team in England.

With regard to their goalkeeper. I agree with you that he is good enough to go to some of the non-top-5 leagues in Europe, and he is also on a decent salary for Sundowns, which is probably better than he will earn playing for mid-table teams outside of the elite European leagues. He is not better than any starting goalkeeper in Serie A or any of the top 5 leagues because if he were, he would not be in the South African league. Football is not like a music or movie career, where you can be active in it for 50-plus years. In football, an average career is less than 10 years long, so every player wants to maximize profits before Father Time comes, and until you can give me a substantial and data-driven reason why Williams would turn down earning millions of dollars more playing in the top 5 leagues in the world as opposed to playing in South Africa, I am not buying any of your argument.

they were smuggled to the World cup .... had all the advantages ...played so many home and away games on their soil .... the real test came , and here they are back to where they belong ... they should continue their Xenophobia ... everything will catch up with them ...

This many hours without a game, I have World Cup withdrawal. Please advise. Putting just ONE game from the World Cup today, and that game being South Africa vs. Canada, is like a tactic for weaning off controlled medications.

Tomorrow:

Morocco-Netherlands
Brazil-Japan
Germany-Paraguay. We’re going to be blessed tomorrow especially after what we went through with Canada - South Africa. We deserve it

Joebie:
You are really intelligent if this is what u can make up from my take.

Thank you sir. I'm very intelligent, yes.

Mujtahida:
Those guys really play an impotent kind of football. It's not tiki taka but they like passing and dancing on the ball flattering themselves. I imagine they think themselves to be Brazilians of some sort

Aswear, very impotent football. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kog45:
JHmm,Okoye is better than Nwabali?cuz he is in Seria A😄Oga Rowen William would be number one in some clubs in seria A

Gbam

Dear Sadafrikans,

Go bek to your kentri and pretet yeh jebs

Gibson Yah's first interview as a Bristol City Player ahead of the 2026/27 Championship season.

He is coming home soon🇳🇬


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiCZhAaiqvY?si=EaBrOIRogGEz3kDm

Ronaldo against Uzbekistan: “I’m back..I’m back”

Ronaldo against Colombia: “My back..My back”😂

Last time Brazil played against Japan in World Cup was in 2006 which ended 4-1 in favor of Brazil.

This was full of bullying and humiliation for the Japanese team, looking forward for a revenge later on today

TheSuperNerd:
Omo, this is Bad Belle that has gone to Cambridge. Habamana!

We need to investigate Delaw or ask the Nigerian Bar Association to investigate him be like say Delaw chop breakfast from am SA babe o 😂

mostob:
Hello bro.. You have no right to drag us just because we're protecting what is ours. Do you know Magoluku Mbenambe Oshodi Ikorodu Mzanzina Abuleegba.
So be careful

Go beck I say go beck 😂

Goke7:
Go beck I say go beck 😂

😂😂😂😂

TheSuperNerd:
Omo, this is Bad Belle that has gone to Cambridge. Habamana!

It felt like Nigeria won an important match.

Goke7:
We need to investigate Delaw or ask the Nigerian Bar Association to investigate him be like say Delaw chop breakfast from am SA babe o 😂

You no go understand. My bad belly is especially for Congo, SA and Ghana. Once these three flop, the rest have their fate in their hands whether to advance or not. But those three must come back home.