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Flangelo12:

owobokiri:
Get over it..
My cousin have tried to be recruited by Rangers for years but they never signed him. He is at Enugu as we speak, and he is a full blooded igbo btw. ..

That you became a good player later in life, doesn't mean you were good at the time you were with them. Rangers as a club has helped lots of non igbo players to the top.. As at today, a lot of their players and recent managers are not even igbos.

Taribo West is not igbo, he played for Rangers and became a Super Eagles player. The list is endless. Yall should get off the igbo mans dikc..
And to Moses and his cat legs..,Make we hear word ahbegi..

1Alex:
Daft statement. How can someone say this in public?

Ai has replied you

Rangers International FC of Enugu has never been an exclusively Igbo team, although it has traditionally had a strong Igbo identity. Over the decades, the club has signed players from many parts of Nigeria.

Current non-Igbo players (2025/26–2026 squad)

Based on the current squad, identifiable non-Igbo players include:

Lucky Jimoh – Goalkeeper (Yoruba, Kwara State)

Abdullateef Ishola – Goalkeeper (Yoruba)

Godwin Asiriuwa – Midfielder (Edo)

There are also a few players whose names do not clearly indicate Igbo origin, but their ethnic backgrounds are not publicly documented, so it would be speculative to classify them.


Notable non-Igbo players who have played for Rangers

Some well-known examples include:

Christian Pyagbara – Bayelsa (Ijaw) – Striker

Godwin Obaje – Benue (Idoma) – Striker and league top scorer

Tope Olusesi – Ogun (Yoruba) – Midfielder

Osas Okoro – Edo – Winger

Ayo Saka – Ogun (Yoruba) – Defender

Bashir Usman – Northern Nigeria – Midfielder

Kabiru Balogun – Northern Nigeria – Defender

Ismaila Gata – Plateau (Berom) – Forward.


Rangers has also had players from Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Benue, Plateau, Bayelsa, and Yoruba-speaking states at various times, especially since the professional league era began in the 1990s.

Historically, while Rangers was founded as a symbol of post-civil-war Igbo resilience, the club has recruited on merit and has featured successful non-Igbo players for decades.

owobokiri:
Get over it..
My cousin have tried to be recruited by Rangers for years but they never signed him. He is at Enugu as we speak, and he is a full blooded igbo btw. ..

That you became a good player later in life, doesn't mean you were good at the time you were with them. Rangers as a club has helped lots of non igbo players to the top.. As at today, a lot of their players and recent managers are not even igbos.

Taribo West is not igbo, he played for Rangers and became a Super Eagles player. The list is endless. Yall should get off the igbo mans dikc..
And to Moses and his cat legs..,Make we hear word ahbegi..

1Alex:
Daft statement. How can someone say this in public?

Ai has replied you

Rangers International FC of Enugu has never been an exclusively Igbo team, although it has traditionally had a strong Igbo identity. Over the decades, the club has signed players from many parts of Nigeria.

Current non-Igbo players (2025/26–2026 squad)

Based on the current squad, identifiable non-Igbo players include:

Lucky Jimoh – Goalkeeper (Yoruba, Kwara State)

Abdullateef Ishola – Goalkeeper (Yoruba)

Godwin Asiriuwa – Midfielder (Edo)

There are also a few players whose names do not clearly indicate Igbo origin, but their ethnic backgrounds are not publicly documented, so it would be speculative to classify them.


Notable non-Igbo players who have played for Rangers

Some well-known examples include:

Christian Pyagbara – Bayelsa (Ijaw) – Striker

Godwin Obaje – Benue (Idoma) – Striker and league top scorer

Tope Olusesi – Ogun (Yoruba) – Midfielder

Osas Okoro – Edo – Winger

Ayo Saka – Ogun (Yoruba) – Defender

Bashir Usman – Northern Nigeria – Midfielder

Kabiru Balogun – Northern Nigeria – Defender

Ismaila Gata – Plateau (Berom) – Forward.


Rangers has also had players from Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Benue, Plateau, Bayelsa, and Yoruba-speaking states at various times, especially since the professional league era began in the 1990s.

Historically, while Rangers was founded as a symbol of post-civil-war Igbo resilience, the club has recruited on merit and has featured successful non-Igbo players for decades.

Idaytesj29:
He told us everything they said to him and the circumstances that surrounded the even. The fact that other non Igbo player succeeded there does not erase the fact that he experienced tribalism at Rangers.

TEYA:
So Kabiru Balogun is a northerner too?

owobokiri:
Get over it..
My cousin have tried to be recruited by Rangers for years but they never signed him. He is at Enugu as we speak, and he is a full blooded igbo btw. ..

That you became a good player later in life, doesn't mean you were good at the time you were with them. Rangers as a club has helped lots of non igbo players to the top.. As at today, a lot of their players and recent managers are not even igbos.

Taribo West is not igbo, he played for Rangers and became a Super Eagles player. The list is endless. Yall should get off the igbo mans dikc..
And to Moses and his cat legs..,Make we hear word ahbegi..

Mrchippychappy:
That's the community he grew up in, not where he is from. Check his wiki and his public profile

1Alex:
he is not Igbo that's the point.

owobokiri:
Get over it..
My cousin have tried to be recruited by Rangers for years but they never signed him. He is at Enugu as we speak, and he is a full blooded igbo btw. ..

That you became a good player later in life, doesn't mean you were good at the time you were with them. Rangers as a club has helped lots of non igbo players to the top.. As at today, a lot of their players and recent managers are not even igbos.

Taribo West is not igbo, he played for Rangers and became a Super Eagles player. The list is endless. Yall should get off the igbo mans dikc..
And to Moses and his cat legs..,Make we hear word ahbegi..

owobokiri:
Get over it..
My cousin have tried to be recruited by Rangers for years but they never signed him. He is at Enugu as we speak, and he is a full blooded igbo btw. ..

That you became a good player later in life, doesn't mean you were good at the time you were with them. Rangers as a club has helped lots of non igbo players to the top.. As at today, a lot of their players and recent managers are not even igbos.

Taribo West is not igbo, he played for Rangers and became a Super Eagles player. The list is endless. Yall should get off the igbo mans dikc..
And to Moses and his cat legs..,Make we hear word ahbegi..

owobokiri:
Get over it..
My cousin have tried to be recruited by Rangers for years but they never signed him. He is at Enugu as we speak, and he is a full blooded igbo btw. ..

That you became a good player later in life, doesn't mean you were good at the time you were with them. Rangers as a club has helped lots of non igbo players to the top.. As at today, a lot of their players and recent managers are not even igbos.

Taribo West is not igbo, he played for Rangers and became a Super Eagles player. The list is endless. Yall should get off the igbo mans dikc..
And to Moses and his cat legs..,Make we hear word ahbegi..

1Alex:
Daft statement. How can someone say this in public?

Ai has replied you

Rangers International FC of Enugu has never been an exclusively Igbo team, although it has traditionally had a strong Igbo identity. Over the decades, the club has signed players from many parts of Nigeria.

Current non-Igbo players (2025/26–2026 squad)

Based on the current squad, identifiable non-Igbo players include:

Lucky Jimoh – Goalkeeper (Yoruba, Kwara State)

Abdullateef Ishola – Goalkeeper (Yoruba)

Godwin Asiriuwa – Midfielder (Edo)

There are also a few players whose names do not clearly indicate Igbo origin, but their ethnic backgrounds are not publicly documented, so it would be speculative to classify them.


Notable non-Igbo players who have played for Rangers

Some well-known examples include:

Christian Pyagbara – Bayelsa (Ijaw) – Striker

Godwin Obaje – Benue (Idoma) – Striker and league top scorer

Tope Olusesi – Ogun (Yoruba) – Midfielder

Osas Okoro – Edo – Winger

Ayo Saka – Ogun (Yoruba) – Defender

Bashir Usman – Northern Nigeria – Midfielder

Kabiru Balogun – Northern Nigeria – Defender

Ismaila Gata – Plateau (Berom) – Forward.


Rangers has also had players from Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Benue, Plateau, Bayelsa, and Yoruba-speaking states at various times, especially since the professional league era began in the 1990s.

Historically, while Rangers was founded as a symbol of post-civil-war Igbo resilience, the club has recruited on merit and has featured successful non-Igbo players for decades.

ScarletBrace:
Most of you guys, whenever your tribe is mentioned, blood stop’s flowing to your brain and pumps to parts of the body that never helps in vivid reasoning.

That guy is from Benue state, what gain does an average Benue man derive from tribalism?
A people with good reputation for hospitality and treating strangers even more importantly than themselves

In as much as there could be few exceptions based on individual differences, the average Benue man by statistics, has an open arms to other tribes than an average Igbo man.

Refuting this guy’s claim like he’s out of his mind is what makes you stink. You weren’t there with him when it happened..,and yes Taribo played for Rangers, so what? does that make it impossible for management to employ new hands with different dispositions or perceptions


Even if a new president from the East shows up today and develops Nigeria infrastructure-wise to the level of Japan these kind of tribalistic mindsets will never make the system work. Many of you guys accuse the Yorubas of what you equally are.

If you like finish one bag of kola nuts 🌰 and spit wise proverbs like the ancestors. That kind of wisdom would never develop your community into a modern day sophisticated hub like America, Japan, Korea or China. It only keep you tied to your roots and blind to the realities beyond your physical and mental boundaries.


I know you would come up to start mentioning igbos who are doing well in diaspora. That’s bullshit.
Tell them to go home and build a working system. That’s the true wisdom and smartness we’re talking about.

You guys should learn to keep an open mind whenever your tribe is mentioned, so you can think clearly and objectively.

Flangelo12:

E pain am.
Moses Simon has said of his experience.
Many people are aware such things happen.
It is not peculiar to igbos.
People would appreciate it if you own up sometimes.

Flangelo12:
Had it been he said Remo FC or shooting stars, or Nasarawa united dem for believe.

See them doing damage control up there.

1Alex:
No one can dismiss a person's personal experience if that's what happened to him. But one individual's account is not enough to conclude that Rangers as a club is institutionally tribalistic.

The club has had many non-Igbo players who not only played there but became key players, captains, fan favourites, and won trophies. That doesn't prove tribalism never occurred, but it does show that ethnicity alone has not prevented non-Igbo players from succeeding at Rangers.

The fair position is to judge each allegation on its evidence, not to generalize an entire club based on a single testimony.

ObaOfYorubaLand:
See these hediot... Every useless entity trying to cashout with Igbo.... Imagine the scaliwag....

Foolish, why rush to the media to make your empty noise?

Igbos experience these things in different Yoruba states, Akwaibom, Rivers and others... What's the noise from this dirty thing for?

ZombieTERROR:
Pain who?. I'm i a footballer? contesting with Moses?

He wasn't successful in Rangers and he's blaming it on Tribalism, in his words. he didn't make it rangers because he wasn't Igbo.

I just proved his point to you,
the names up there were all Igbos that played for Rangers..

Olise, Salah and KDB didn't make it in Chelsea because they're not English..

Have a good day

UkoAnnang:


Na normal thing from them

PDPdestroyer:
Dem go blame Tinubu laslas

edogu:
But there're non Igbo players currently playing Rangers.