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Papi85:
Even prior to France 98 Jonathan Akpoborie was the best Nigerian striker base on form but Yekini then playing in Switzerland for Zurich Abi grasshoppers and injured Amokachi made the team instead

All the same the Godfather of player racketing and export was Clemens Westahof and Keshi was a good student of his

I think it's settled now that no be only local coaches

Kog45:
Oga Sun,tell me who was having better football career during that period between Kaita and Seyi?I meant 2009/2010 season prior to World Cup cuz there was no justification to pick Kaita over Seyi?Yes Ayila and Etuhu accepted but not Kaita.

Personally sir, at that time I would have picked Keita too. He had a great 2008 Olympics and had some good matches with the SE, aside the red card against Greece, he was playing well for the SE.

Sugarboyy:
Russian football just as Lynn Oslo was a household name in Norway 🤣🤣

U be Gen Z cus it’s obvious u no knw club wey be locomotive Moscow

Kog45:
I think it's settled now that no be only local coaches

local coaches make theirs too obvious and questionable

Papi85:
U be Gen Z cus it’s obvious u no knw club wey be locomotive Moscow

Next time make it double ZZ
I might be atleast 5 years older than you 😁

Papi85:
the same Keshi that invited an unattached player from the local scene for the qualifiers against Chad Abi Niger and handed the player the reverend number 10 shirt in kaduna 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think that was his last game as coach of the super eagles

Have you asked yourself how Uche Nwafor who was struggling to get game time at vv venlo then and featured mostly for the clubs U21 side made the World Cup team ahead of Martins who was flying with levante in Spain then, Imoh Ezekiel who was banging in goals for fun at Belgium in the colors of standard liege and Ikechukwu Uche who also was doing well in laliga

Same goes to Uchebo (flavor na abania) who didn’t get to 8 goals that season for lowly rated Cecile Brugge in the Belgian league but made the World Cup team. The same league a young imoh Ezekiel was destroying in the colors of standard liege but wasn’t deemed good enough



Oshaniwa made it to the World Cup ahead of Taiwo who was doing pretty well with dynamo kiev

Ruben Gabriel made it to the same World Cup ahead of Haruna Lukman who was doing well for dynamo kieve and Ajagun who was a regular with Greek giants panathiniakos

Do you know that if not for top men in Nigerian football house Keshi almost dropped Yobo and odemwingie for that World Cup?


To cap it all after that World Cup all the undeserving players he smuggled to the super eagles their career got stalled and were not heard about till date 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bros leave matter abeg

Flavor Na Abania.

You are only bringing up all the ones you believed to be the wrong calls,
but what if he had succeeded and reached semi finals with those players he took to the WC like he did during AFCON by dropping Taiwo,Osaze,Nsofo and Martins.

What I'm saying is that,the quality and type of players he selected does not prove that he was guilty of bribery,maybe those types of players are his choice.

Uche Nwofor and Flavor made the team simply because they were youth internationals,the same thing he tried at the AFCON with the likes of Omeruo,Echiejile,Onazi,Ideye and Efe,but it backfired with the two Uches at the WC.

Keshi may have collected bribe from players, but you cannot prove it by using the type and quantity of his selected players.

Sugarboyy:
Russian football just as Lynn Oslo was a household name in Norway 🤣🤣

Go and watch Locomotive Moscow vs Real Madrid UCL who turned to Obiorah vs Real Madrid,walai no be player like Obiorah should have just three caps for eagles, against Jamaica Yekini was shock seeing what the guy was doing with ball..... Obiorah in eagles camp with Okocha,walai Okocha for know say real competitor dey bench... Obiorah was a Zidane type come add purposeful dribbling....pls Locomotive Moscow vs Real Madrid UCL.

Kog45:
Oga I be real Mikel fan but talent wise Obiorah was better than Mikel, though the comparison might looks stupid but talking balling sir,James Obiorah I watched live for years sincerely na player wey I rate only Okocha higher,though my opinion

Mbanu,talent wise ,Mikel was ahead.
Where do we begin, youth football,Super Eagles, club football.
I like Obiora very much that I was so angry that Onigbinde kept him on the bench at the world cup where he would have helped Okocha on that Midfield, but Mikel was better.

Kog45:
Go and watch Locomotive Moscow vs Real Madrid UCL who turned to Obiorah vs Real Madrid,walai no be player like Obiorah should have just three caps for eagles, against Jamaica Yekini was shock seeing what the guy was doing with ball..... Obiorah in eagles camp with Okocha,walai Okocha for know say real competitor dey bench... Obiorah was a Zidane type come add purposeful dribbling....pls Locomotive Moscow vs Real Madrid UCL.

I have rewatched his highlights
How come we can't produce such talented players anymore? Okocha, Oruma, Obiorah?

Sugarboyy:
I have rewatched his highlights
How come we can't produce such talented players anymore? Okocha, Oruma, Obiorah?

ask yourself

how many of such players did we see at the just concluded world cup?

modern football has fade them away

all we care now is results, nobody wants to be entertained again

you can dribble from earth to moon and nobody will care if you are not scoring or providing assist

Napoleon55:
Mbanu,talent wise ,Mikel was ahead.
Where do we begin, youth football,Super Eagles, club football.
I like Obiora very much that I was so angry that Onigbinde kept him on the bench at the world cup where he would have helped Okocha on that Midfield, but Mikel was better.

Going by Mikel pedigree Obiorah was nowhere but talking balling,abegi Oga Napo I will pick Obiorah over Mikel,mind you Mikel na my number eagles player.

Napoleon55:
Mbanu,talent wise ,Mikel was ahead.
Where do we begin, youth football,Super Eagles, club football.
I like Obiora very much that I was so angry that Onigbinde kept him on the bench at the world cup where he would have helped Okocha on that Midfield, but Mikel was better.

Going by Mikel pedigree Obiorah was nowhere but talking balling,abegi Oga Napo I will pick Obiorah over Mikel,mind you Mikel na my number eagles player.....yes against England Okocha and Obiorah did well in that midfield.

Kog45:
Oga I be real Mikel fan but talent wise Obiorah was better than Mikel, though the comparison might looks stupid but talking balling sir,James Obiorah I watched live for years sincerely na player wey I rate only Okocha higher,though my opinion

Your opinion is respected sir. But Mikel in U17,U20,U23, super eagles was far better..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhBxOpGoUI?is=IOkLGFQ2XXHjuusy

Papi85:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhBxOpGoUI?is=IOkLGFQ2XXHjuusy

Imagine this kind of player had just three caps,walai our old football system dey craze o

List don comot oo👇👇

Mujtahida:
List don comot oo👇👇

The sacrilege of Maradona being placed above Pele!

I will put Zidane ahead of Cruyff and Cristiano

Ronaldinho will always be my Goat because he made me love football with his skills

Mujtahida:
List don comot oo👇👇

Odunayaw:
The sacrilege of Maradona being placed above Pele!

I will put Zidane ahead of Cruyff and Cristiano

pele won the world cup with brazil super team as a matter of fact he did not contribute on his 2nd world cup truimp because of injury but the Brazilian team still went on to demolish teams in that particular world cup tournament without the injured pele, to show you that pele was helped by his brazil super team, now compare pele brazil super team with the argentina team diego maradona took to two finals, winning one

maidaboi:
Ronaldinho will always be my Goat because he made me love football with his skills

My own devotion is to Maradonna. I don't have affinity for Messi, Ronaldo and Pele. Next to Maradonna, I'd pick Zidane, then Ronaldinho, Bergkamp, Okocha.

Odunayaw:
The sacrilege of Maradona being placed above Pele!

I will put Zidane ahead of Cruyff and Cristiano

Well, well. You right on Zidane

Mujtahida:
List don comot oo👇👇

Samuel Eto??

Mujtahida:
List don comot oo👇👇

Rubbish list, no Odegbami, Muda Lawal, Christian Chukwu and Ahmed Musa.

kodded:
pele won the world cup with brazil super team as a matter of fact he did not contribute on his 2nd world cup truimp because of injury but the Brazilian team still went on to demolish teams in that particular world cup tournament without the injured pele, to show you that pele was helped by his brazil super team, now compare pele brazil super team with the argentina team diego maradona took to two finals, winning one

Maradona didn't have 10 carpenters with him either. Yes not as great as Brazil 70 but let's not stretch it.

https://www.quora.com/In-the-1986-World-Cup-was-Argentina-a-good-team-or-did-Maradona-literally-lead-them-to-the-title

https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/articles/ricardo-giusti-argentina-mexico-1986

Even if you take away Pele's effect from 1962, he has two others and more or less, it is better than the tournament to forget that Maradona had in 1990 because of injury.

Ppogbae:
Samuel Eto??

Was disappointed to see Drogba there without Eto'o

Glasgow 2026 Commonweath Games - Team Nigeria Rising

Day 1 and bagged 3 Gold Medals and 3 Silvers from the Para-Power Lifting Events.

World Records in tow as well. Did 1-2 (Gold-Silver) wins in 2 Para PL events.

Lol... A list that is merely a futile attempt to rewrite history. Rubbish list just like any other western/northwestern or mainstream European media-littered list agendarizing Messi as #1 so much in an attempt to brainwash football fanbases. Lol

The fact that Samuel Eto'o fils is missing from a list of 100 further shows the absolute clownery of this entire list.

Pele unbiasedly and undisputably remains The GOAT of GOATs.
Eto'o is undeniably the African GOAT.
Failed history rewrite attempt. They should go back to football history classes.

Mujtahida:
List don comot oo👇👇

TheSuperNerd:
Flying Eagles list by positions

Since all reports of the U20 Flying Eagles list did not do justice to the positions/roles of the players on the list... I decided to help out based on my info regarding each player (note that a few like Manneh listed in attack could also play in midfield as a #10)

Here we are below....


Goalkeepers (GKs)

#1 Clinton Lawani
#16 Rufai Abubakar
#23 Aminu Yusuf


Defenders (DFs)

#2 Olayemi Ayinla
#3 Wahab Musa
#5 Odinaka Alfred
#12 Saifullahi Yusuf
#13 Israel Joseph Samuel
#22 Gift Subi Ebitimi


Midfielders (MFs)

#10 Habila Simeon
#6 Somto Nnoli
#14 Sani Ibrahim Shuaibu
#15 Oraro Apini Lucky
#17 Auwal Muhammad
#7 Samson Joshua


Forwards (FWs)

#9 Abdoulaye Agbeloye (Agbejoye)
#20 Abdulmuiz Adeleke
#11 Imrana Mohammed
#18 Jamilu Yusuf
#19 Adamu Hussaini
#21 Abdullahi Ele
#4 Agbonjimi Timilehin
#8 Ebrima Manneh


NB: The list has has 3 Foreign Pros listed. But I would count 4 bcoz Ebrima Manneh (Gambo-Nigerian) recently got signed by Czech side, SK Ceske Budejovice.

Some Flying Eagles lads to watch @2026WafuBU20

#20 Abdulmuiz Adeleke, CF (Sporting Supreme FC) - 4️⃣

Adeleke is a leftfooted striker who is also just as comfortable with his right foot. Tagging him as an Ambipedal attacker is more apt.
Technically astute and a very smart finisher.

He was Top scorer at the 2024 Wafu B U17 Qualifiers with 4 goals (2 vs Ghana, 2 vs Togo) with Nigeria finishing 3rd after a 3-2 win vs Ghana.

He also bagged 8 goals from 7 games (391mins) at the U19 2025/26 National Youth League's North Central Conference standing (9 teams) and added 5 more goals including a brace⚽️⚽️ in the NY-League Super 8 final vs Grassrunners FC which saw Muiz Adeleke square up against Angelo Agbejoye (now at Djurgardens in Sweden) and Abdoulaye Agbejoye (his striking competition in the Flying Eagles Final List).

His other 3 goals in the National Youth League Super 8 came against Kwara Football academy (1) and Supreme Kings FA (2).

Some Muiz Adeleke Highlights:⤵️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AoWRQKzbI?si=th1KoV9aqapvsqgG


The 2025/26 NY-League Super 8 final in full:⤵️
(Sporting Supreme FC vs Grassrunners FC) - Muiz Brace in final for 2-0 win.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Gt6x46pGsDI?si=u8xvUuRZg-DHqkuC
YT Channel: Nigeria Youth League Cup

Vozinha's World Cup Performances earns him a move from Liga Portugal 2 side Chaves to Chilean Liga Primera Giants, Colo Colo.

2022 WafuB U17 Class member, Ebube Wisdom Okere, CM played all 90mins for his side, GFK Tikves in their 5-1 win over KF Arsimi in the North Macedonian Topflight Liga (MFL).

20y/o Forward, Toheeb Lawal bagged a brace for Tikves and played all 90mins as well.

26y/o midfielder, Ibrahim Olaosebikan played all 90 for Arsimi bagging a yellow on 60mins.


Lesley Ugochukwu played 62mins in Galatasaray's 2-0 loss vs Newly promoted Serie A Side, Monza in a preseason friendly.

Victor Osimhen subbed in on 62mins for his first taste of preseason prep action replacing 17y/o Turk forward, Ada Yuzgec.

19y/o Swiss-Nigerian CB, Marvin Akahomen played off the bench for 25mins in SC Kriens 3-2 away loss to Xamax in the Swiss Challenger Pro League (2nd tier). He is on loan from Swiss Super League side, FC Basel.

30y/o CB, Michael Ogungbaro played all 90mins for FF Jaro in their 2-1 win over SJK in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. He was booked on 28mins.

17y/o Finnish-Nigerian midfielder, Eze Onuoha started and played all 90mins for SJK.

Africa's most valuable player on the market today, Yan Diomande, who shone for Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) at the 2026 World Cup is being seriously chased by the biggest and #1 elite club in the world, Real Madrid.

Now that is a massive. If PSG or Liverpool do not get this lad, then Real Madrid possibly will especially since Bayern wont agree to sell Michael Olise.

Time will tell when Yan ends up but one thing is nearly certain: He is leaving RB Leipzig and this would really open up gametime opportunities for Sani Suleiman at Leipzig (who is already impressing in Preseason).

The Super Falcons are reporting theft at their hotel base in Casablanca, Morocco.

The Moroccans at it again? Or not....

Super Falcons players reportedly complain of theft at team hotel in Casablanca.

Several players have alleged that money was stolen from their wallets while they were away from their rooms at the Marriott Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco.

Reported amounts include:
* Esther Okoronkwo… pic.twitter.com/rWJEBYkPtM

— Dr. Victor Ademola (@AdemolaVictorTv) July 24, 2026