tbaba1234:


If the recent report is believed, Moses might be axed to accomodate Godwin... Moses has not been a part of the team, Iheanacho and Success have.

tbaba1234:


If the recent report is believed, Moses might be axed to accomodate Godwin... Moses has not been a part of the team, Iheanacho and Success have.

TheGoodJoe:
I will feel disappointed if Chidera Ezeh or Godwin Saviour gets axed and Success arrives late in campand makes the team.

Fingers crossed. My disappointment will not mean I do not trust the judgement of the Coaching crew.

tbaba1234:


If the recent report is believed, Moses might be axed to accomodate Godwin... Moses has not been a part of the team, Iheanacho and Success have.

safarigirl:
I swear that Olorunleke resemble who dey drag age with Enyeama and Ejide. He should go to U-23. Manu better not axe Chidera my lil cute munchkin . That boy is so adorable and I do beleive he's found the net more times than Bulbwa recently. Just axe Mu'azam abeg

ypeace:
joseph1013
Please do you have any news on Nwakali's progress in camp? What about Alhassan?

[b]Well those in the know say that as at this morning, names to be axed from Flying Eagles WYC team are Alfa, Leke, Jimoh, Sale, Pyagbara, AlHassan and Success. From this, we can assume that Nwakali is safe while Muaázam is not.

[size=14pt]NFF promises regular courses for Eagles Coaches, Others[/size]



The Nigeria Football Federation has affirmed that it will make necessary efforts to ensure that coaching courses are much more regular in the country, in order for the country to boast of enough trained coaches within the next couple of years.

NFF 1st Vice President, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi made this pledge on behalf of the NFF President, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, at the opening ceremony of the CAF –C License Coaching Course in Abuja on Tuesday.

“This NFF administration is committed to fostering rapid development of all areas of the Nigeria game, be it refereeing, coaching or administration. We have taken a number of steps to enhance the capacity of referees, and we have also taken a number of coaches to capacity –building programmes in the United Kingdom.

“Let me make it clear that we are committed to ensuring that our country has thousands of trained coaches within the next couple of years. We will make coaching courses more regular and of course, the training can be doned simultaneously, in such a way that as we are here having one in Abuja, we can be having similar courses in Kaduna, Lagos, Enugu and wherever.”

Also at the opening ceremony were vice chairman of the NFF Technical and Development Committee, Alhaji Yusuf Ahmed Fresh, NFF Executive Committee member Ahmad Muazu Kawu and NFF Deputy General Secretary Emmanuel Ikpeme.

Over 80 coaches are attending the two –week course, holding at the FIFA Technical Centre, Package B of the National Stadium, Abuja. Former Super Eagles’ Coach and ex-FIFA Technical Advisor Adegboye Onigbinde, one-time NFF Technical Director Kashimawo Laloko, former Eagles’ Coach James Peters and in-coming NFF Technical Director Shuaibu Amodu are among instructors at the programme.

FIFA Technical Advisor (Refereeing) Linus Mba, former NFF General Secretary and CAF instructor Bolaji Ojo-Oba, Director of Sports Medicine at the National Sports Commission Abdulkadir Muazu and NFF Deputy General Secretary Emmanuel Ikpeme will speak on refereeing, administration, sports medicine and psychology respectively.

All participants will undertake practical and theory examinations at the close of the course. The NFF held a first-ever CAF C-License coaching course between September and October 2011, and followed up with a second one in April 2014. The Federation also organized two CAF B-License programmes in March 2012 and September 2012.

Former international players Bright Omokaro, Ishaya Jatau, Mike Onyemachara, Hussein Alabi, Haruna Hadi, Edith Agoye, Jimoh ‘Tyson’ Balogun and Akin Olowookere are among those taking the course.[/b]

tbaba1234:
If Alfa does not make the team, this will probably be the last that is heard of him.. Muazam has been signed by Westerlo, That is a good place to start a career.

After the tournament, Siasia would inherit many of the boys (Keshi is not serious) and Manu would start looking at the Amuneke boys coming up...

joseph1013:


[b]Well those in the know say that as at this morning, names to be axed from Flying Eagles WYC team are Alfa, Leke, Jimoh, Sale, Pyagbara, AlHassan and Success. From this, we can assume that Nwakali is safe while Muaázam is not.

[size=14pt]NFF promises regular courses for Eagles Coaches, Others[/size]



The Nigeria Football Federation has affirmed that it will make necessary efforts to ensure that coaching courses are much more regular in the country, in order for the country to boast of enough trained coaches within the next couple of years.

NFF 1st Vice President, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi made this pledge on behalf of the NFF President, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, at the opening ceremony of the CAF –C License Coaching Course in Abuja on Tuesday.

“This NFF administration is committed to fostering rapid development of all areas of the Nigeria game, be it refereeing, coaching or administration. We have taken a number of steps to enhance the capacity of referees, and we have also taken a number of coaches to capacity –building programmes in the United Kingdom.

“Let me make it clear that we are committed to ensuring that our country has thousands of trained coaches within the next couple of years. We will make coaching courses more regular and of course, the training can be doned simultaneously, in such a way that as we are here having one in Abuja, we can be having similar courses in Kaduna, Lagos, Enugu and wherever.”

Also at the opening ceremony were vice chairman of the NFF Technical and Development Committee, Alhaji Yusuf Ahmed Fresh, NFF Executive Committee member Ahmad Muazu Kawu and NFF Deputy General Secretary Emmanuel Ikpeme.

Over 80 coaches are attending the two –week course, holding at the FIFA Technical Centre, Package B of the National Stadium, Abuja. Former Super Eagles’ Coach and ex-FIFA Technical Advisor Adegboye Onigbinde, one-time NFF Technical Director Kashimawo Laloko, former Eagles’ Coach James Peters and in-coming NFF Technical Director Shuaibu Amodu are among instructors at the programme.

FIFA Technical Advisor (Refereeing) Linus Mba, former NFF General Secretary and CAF instructor Bolaji Ojo-Oba, Director of Sports Medicine at the National Sports Commission Abdulkadir Muazu and NFF Deputy General Secretary Emmanuel Ikpeme will speak on refereeing, administration, sports medicine and psychology respectively.

All participants will undertake practical and theory examinations at the close of the course. The NFF held a first-ever CAF C-License coaching course between September and October 2011, and followed up with a second one in April 2014. The Federation also organized two CAF B-License programmes in March 2012 and September 2012.

Former international players Bright Omokaro, Ishaya Jatau, Mike Onyemachara, Hussein Alabi, Haruna Hadi, Edith Agoye, Jimoh ‘Tyson’ Balogun and Akin Olowookere are among those taking the course.[/b]

tbaba1234:
If Alfa does not make the team, this will probably be the last that is heard of him.. Muazam has been signed by Westerlo, That is a good place to start a career.

After the tournament, Siasia would inherit many of the boys (Keshi is not serious) and Manu would start looking at the Amuneke boys coming up...

lexyman:


Don't forget that Manu is picking the best from the best .sokari has been tested @ all levels and he's good .


They call him the new Jayjay .

joseph1013:
[b]Flying Eagles 70% against Hoffenheim says Manu



Coach Manu Garba has scored his Flying Eagles 70% after they got off to a winning start on a training tour of Germany ahead of the 2015 FIFA U20 World Cup in New Zealand.

The African champions brushed past Hoffenheim U23 5-2 on Tuesday as part of the build-up to the U20 World Cup, which starts on May 30.

“It was a good outing overall and I will score us about 70%,” said Manu after the thrilling encounter.

“We started the game slowly, but we later picked up to play our normal game.

“But again we need to work on our defence by taking on more defensive responsibilities and our finishing has to be better as we lost several chances.

“All the same, we should also praise the Hoffenheim team, they are a team of professional players and they took the game to us very early on.”

The Flying Eagles next game will be on Friday afternoon in Nurnberg against the Nurnberg U23s, before they play their final warm-up match against Freiburg U23 team on May 19. [/b]

chrisooblog:
nice picture most of them looking young and fresh faced but those two guys on the right plus sokari sef hmmm I no talk anything o like the jersey though has a nice retro look to it

chrisooblog:
nice picture most of them looking young and fresh faced but those two guys on the right plus sokari sef hmmm I no talk anything o like the jersey though has a nice retro look to it

tbaba1234:


I think for the most part, we have decent confidence in the ages. Most of the players are from U17 and had passed many tests.

The problem will be from new entrants like Sokari, Enaholo, Monsur (who would be dropped), Leke (would be dropped), pygbara (would be dropped) and perhaps Ifeanyi Ifeanyi...

The rest are within the bracket. That is the best we have managed in a long time.

tbaba1234:


I think for the most part, we have decent confidence in the ages. Most of the players are from U17 and had passed many tests.

The problem will be from new entrants like Sokari, Enaholo, Monsur (who would be dropped), Leke (would be dropped), pygbara (would be dropped) and perhaps Ifeanyi Ifeanyi...

The rest are within the bracket. That is the best we have managed in a long time.

naijanoni:
Pls What are d names of the two guys on the extreme right,front row of that photo ?. Dem bi papas. I'm guessing one of them is Savior Godwin.

tbaba1234:


Godwin Saviour is a very small boy, He is second from left, first row.

The extreme right is Sokari and Mustapha... Mustapha is also young..

That said, it is difficult to tell age from how they look..

naijanoni:

Sorry, i meant 'left' not 'right'

tbaba1234:


This is a pic of Godwin with the U23s from his facebook page..

safarigirl:
Finally! That spambot banned me since so I couldn't celebrate with Awoniyi my loff on his hat-trick ....anyway, now that I'm free....

I'm highly impressed with the striking force. We have to remember that this team has never really had a strong defence, we menntioned this during the U-17 world cup. They thrive onn early goals to psychologically weaken their opponents.

Apparently, that hasn't changed. I do agree that we need to tighten the defence, hopefully we can do that before the tournament. I doubt the Brazilians will pity a weak defence.


That being said, this Saviour dude may just be the wildcard to replace Isaac on the bench....if we have Moses, Awoniyi and even Kelechi (as a false 9) we may not really need him

linked:
This is bad news for alfa.... I seriously prefer him to the so called sokari guy...but hope ezeh will make it oo

jobsat34:


simply because yu ve not seen sokari in action... even super eagle cant boast of a better player in his position.. not even mikel slowby..