lexyman:


If this news is true ? it means Stephen Okey has woken up from his deep sleep . What is wrong with "catch them young ?


But not just ordinary players but bunch of excellent players , he must change his orientation to succeed this time around as the super eagles coach .

tbaba1234:
Success has not played in 3 weeks heading into a competition. At least simon moses and iheanacho are playing.

tbaba1234:
Success has not played in 3 weeks heading into a competition. At least simon moses and iheanacho are playing.

olapluto:

The guy is not a Nigerian! It is shameful that we always have to poach average players born abroad, when the homebred ones are better, much better.

TheGoodJoe:


Kenneth Omeruo was a teenager when Coach Keshi dropped the National Team Captain Joseph Yobo to play Omeruo. I believe these our Flying Eagles players will play a big role in Coach Keshi's squad for the next Nations Cup.

TheGoodJoe:
Success should kill any personal ambition. I prefer this team as the highest scoring team in the history of the competition than a player being the highest scoring player in the history of the competition.

tbaba1234:


Nothing wrong with personal ambition as long as, it is not at the expense of team goals.

joseph1013:
[b][size=14pt]Bulbwa: World Cup Is My Time To Shine[/size]



After making the final list of players to the U20 World Cup, Flying Eagles forward Bernard Bulbwa has said the World Cup will be his stage to shine.

The 18-year-old scored a spectacular goal to help Nigeria beat Senegal 1-0 in the final of the last Africa Youth Championship in March to help Nigeria lift the trophy, and says this is his opportunity to make a bigger statement.

“I thank God for what I did at the Africa Youth Championship but the World Cup is obviously a bigger stage and a bigger opportunity for me to showcase my talent.

“This is my stage to shine and I believe I will not let Nigerians down by the grace of God. My teammates and I have worked really hard to get to this stage and hopefully we will go on to win the World Cup,” he said.

The new Esperance acquisition played at the 2013 CAF U17 championship for Nigeria, but failed to make that year’s FIFA U17 World Cup.

Having been named amongst the 21 players to play at the U20 World Cup, he says he is grateful to the coaches for giving him the opportunity.

“I have to thank the coaches for giving me this opportunity and I am grateful. I will do my best so I won’t disappoint them,” he stated.
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safarigirl:
personal ambition more often than not, can be extremely harmful to team progress. Remembes Sani Emmanuel and Stanley Okoro? Daz why I love Awoniyi my loff, such a humble, selfless somborri *wipes a tear*

joseph1013:
[b][size=14pt]Musa Muhammed: We Are Ready To Take On The World[/size]



As the FIFA U20 World Cup draws ever closer, Flying Eagles skipper Musa Muhammed has commented on their readiness for the competition which kicks off on the 30th of May in New Zealand.

The 18-year-old has made Nigeria’s final 21-man squad for the competition and has been featuring in the team’s friendly games in Germany, where they have scored 10 goals and conceded just two in the two matches played so far.

Captain Muhammed says he and his teammates are ready to take on the world.

“We are ready to take on the world,” he told SL10.ng.

“The friendly matches we have played have really helped us. Starting with the Super 6, and the games we have played here and I will say we now have a compact side.

“This is not about being boastful but I believe we are ready to take on the world because we have had such a good preparation for the competition and we are ready to go,” he stated further.

The Nigerian U20’s have been impressive in the two friendly games they have played in Germany, where they are camped before heading to New Zealand.

They will play their third and final friendly match against the U23’s of Freiburg tomorrow, before leaving for the U20 World Cup.
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arsetalks:
Mate, I don't see any wrong in this write up. In fact, it is a good article. I totally agree with him but for me, I think the NFF having official academies in the 6 political zones is the solution to this.

Establish academies in Lagos, Enugu, Rivers, Kwara, Kebbi and Kaduna and have very good youth coaches in Europe head this academies and ensure there is a law in place that forbids these players to leave the country until they are of a certain age.

Get young lads of 8-12 years in, tutor them right from a tender age and then ensure there is a proper transitional program. Aside that, our youth coaches should be sent on regular refresher courses and be made to learn from the head of the academies as well. For instance, Garba will finish his term with the flying Eagles after the world cup, he has another 1 year before another competition to play ( qualifiers), send him to Barca or Ajax or Aston villa or Southampton to learn from their youth coaches. Let him be there for 6-8 months. Do this with other coaches as well and with the experience gained, they will be able to impact our youth team.

This will have a lot of positive effect on the national teams and our football as a whole. First, the more quality players we produce, the more attractive our football is to would be sponsors and the more money we will have in the long run to catch up with others.

The academy produce can be sold to big clubs too. AT A CERTAIN AGE. Just make sure the players are trained regularly and not forced to play in league matches. Train, train and train. If they must practice what they have learnt, that they can do via friendly matches. Exposing young players to too much competition instead of proper training is what's killing England right now.

LeeCodeman:
How I wish we can get this kind of brilliant assessment and selection from Keshi.

tbaba1234:


The NFF already have an Under 13 and under 15 programme throughout Nigeria.. That is what produced Chidera Ezeh and kelechi Iheanacho.

Germany has some of the best academies but they have never won the under 20 trophy.. So how does Nigeria not winning it call for foreign coach?

There are several reasons why we have not won the cup. The first is the use of overage players. until the introduction of MRI, most of our wins was through cheating and as a result, players do not develop. so by under 20, no progress is made... There are several examples of this.

Also, even when a player is genuinely young. They end up with slave contracts abroad that does not help their career growth. It is very difficult for African players to get decent deal abroad. Agent greed and the unwillingness of top European clubs to gamble on young africans is part of the issue.

samwind1508:

The question is what is the value of so called youth coaches?
Teaching a 10- 13 years old soccer is different to teaching a teenager / young adult aged 18-21 what football entails.
we have heard of so many next Ronaldo and next messi and yet the original still does not yet have a clone.
Different players learn differently and coaches must understand what it takes to bring out that talent of tactical awareness and technical input out of a player.
Mouriho finds working with teenagers a headache but Guardola and van gaal would always go to the academy for full or emergency input.
When you watch NPL you would fully understand how technically inadequate our players are. when you play in an academy, a player package is total and complete from the academic point of view to all aspects of football and more importantly the player way of life point in case Morrison of westham or etim esin

arsetalks:
Mate, I don't see any wrong in this write up. In fact, it is a good article. I totally agree with him but for me, I think the NFF having official academies in the 6 political zones is the solution to this.

Establish academies in Lagos, Enugu, Rivers, Kwara, Kebbi and Kaduna and have very good youth coaches in Europe head this academies and ensure there is a law in place that forbids these players to leave the country until they are of a certain age.

Get young lads of 8-12 years in, tutor them right from a tender age and then ensure there is a proper transitional program. Aside that, our youth coaches should be sent on regular refresher courses and be made to learn from the head of the academies as well. For instance, Garba will finish his term with the flying Eagles after the world cup, he has another 1 year before another competition to play ( qualifiers), send him to Barca or Ajax or Aston villa or Southampton to learn from their youth coaches. Let him be there for 6-8 months. Do this with other coaches as well and with the experience gained, they will be able to impact our youth team.

This will have a lot of positive effect on the national teams and our football as a whole. First, the more quality players we produce, the more attractive our football is to would be sponsors and the more money we will have in the long run to catch up with others.

The academy produce can be sold to big clubs too. AT A CERTAIN AGE. Just make sure the players are trained regularly and not forced to play in league matches. Train, train and train. If they must practice what they have learnt, that they can do via friendly matches. Exposing young players to too much competition instead of proper training is what's killing England right now.

samwind1508:

When I started reading ths article, a little groan escaped me and I said internally another arm chair but as I read on, his point became clearer.
Truthfully how well have we played at u20 level only to lose to teams not as gifted as half our teams in previous competitions.
Winning u17 agreed isn't easy but we have done it four times and yet not a single title at u20 level.
The most painful of this was the 2005 team where a tactically and later technical Argentina team defeated Nigeria against all odds with a future date maestro called messi.
And to prove that's its no fluke they did it again at the Olympic.
Before we allow emotions to carry us off and destroy our rational mind let's view it objectively. Nigeria was not defeated by a better team, we were defeated by a better tactical and technical team who knew they had a budding genius and they knew how to unleash him and ever since he has been our natural menace.
My point is I personally admire this coach called manu in so many levels and my personal wish is if we can have 4 of him why?
1 he learn his trade well under coach tella God bless his soul.
2 he has taken his time to sturdy it better by playing total football - mass defense mass attack, each player with multiple roles
3 he thinks on his feet and he encourages his players to do so likewise.
4 at u17 he lost to cote d'iviore because the team was tactical and technical, when he met Sweden he saw the same concept so he changed it round the next time he met this same opponents.
5 at the super six tournament he knew the games will be physical so he played his physical boys as against his technical ones. Hour repeated the same concept at Africa u20 because in Africa its all about strength. At the world cup it would be a mixed of his twin techniques
6 he is a natural talent spotter and immediately he knows where to use the player..
7. He learns fast and reads the game faster and as far as I have seen he has no room for sentiments he is all about success.
This are my points about him but the writer has a point also. Our players gets out there and they disappear and become irrelevant why?
Majority lacks the technical aspect of the game case in point Manchester united team inherited by van gaal, case in point how many Nigeria players are out there playing for top clubs and mikel doesn't count.
Footballers need to be well grounded in the basics of football and that is only done in academies not on playing field case in point Lampard at 17 was useless but at 24 he became the best of his English era.
Football foundation is imortant and all you have to look to confirm it us our local champions of NPL whom the u20 massacred at super six.
If and God forbids manu should fail, I think his suggestion is worth giving a try.

EagleScribes:




2) How many players from a country's U-20 are up to 5 playing top flight football today?

EagleScribes:



Bros, your point of view is subjective.

1) How many players from club academies if top clubs have become a hit like Messi since he graduated? What happened to them?

2) How many players from a country's U-20 are up to 5 playing top flight football today?

3) Iheanacho was the second highest goal scorer behind one guy from sweden. Pls where is the guy now?

4) How many stars from previous under-17 competitions are still top today?

5) Chelsea has the best U18 academy in Europe as we speak. How many of the players there will player first team football in the next 4 years? Will they be up to 5?

I can ask so many other questions.

Before you think of foreign coach,

How many standard youth set ups do you have. Or you think oyinbo man will come with his kits and simulation materials?

What is your local league doing about the development of these youngsters or will they be with oyinbo always?

How many of the youngsters play for development. Take it or leave it, they go for the money! No time

Please let's commend Manu Garba and hope for the best.

I rest my case

safarigirl:
the guy's name is Be risha....supposed to be the next Zlatan, we dunno where he's at now

What about our good friend Mosquito? Or those Uvorian players sef, where they at?

ypeace:
Any news about yesterday's friendly match?