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TheGoodJoe:

No more lack of Presidential backing. I have told you, it takes time to build the team. Look at Echiejile. After he injured, Juwon Oshaniwa took over the left back.

When Echiejile returned, Coach Keshi brought Echiejile back. Echiejile flopped and Oshaniwa took back the place. It is not for contract but rebuilding the team slowly.

joseph1013:
Seriously...I no wan dey hear Keshi. The guy did well and messed up the rest if his tenure. The way sentimentality clouded his selections was unreal. I no even wan remember those bad episodes. Which coach takes just a fit first team to the world cup. Look at our bench and you saw nothing. Look at all the scandals with the player selections. Does anyone remember the transfer of Sunday Mba and how Keshi never invited him again after the debacle? Let's banish the memories of Keshi's ugly past abeg.

forgiveness:
Imagine! Juwon Oshaniwa over Taye Taiwo at that time he was in the form his life.

After the guy entered, burkina-faso almost scored. My heart was in my mouth. Thank God we later won.

joseph1013:
My question for this list is: do we need this many players for selections? This is tantamount to creating confusion.

I wish Siasia all the best. I hope this selection does not reflect what will be his hallmark throughout his tenure. How Aminu Umar, Aaron Samuel and Fanendo Adi deserve callups ahead of Success, I don't understand. How all the defenders portrayed in the list deserve a callup ahead of Leon Balogun is beyond me. Just look at the guy's performance against Bayern last night. The defeated Bayern at home.

I will wait for subsequent lists to know what's up.

TheGoodJoe:

Na wa. Oshaniwa was one of the brilliant choices of Coach Keshi. If it is that one, you have no point. That boy did well. How come subsequent coaches never called Taiwo.

TheSuperNerd:
To be honest.... I had to stop at Martins (apart from martins, the others are still relevant to the Eagles). #smiles

Some others like you've mentioned deserved call-ups for this crucial game.


THE BIGGEST SHOCK IS THE ABSENCE OF LEON BALOGUN

Isaac Success and Kinsgley madu are also big absentees.

I think Stanley Amuzie is a left-back also (he's on the list) and maybe explains Madu's absence since there's also Echiejile.

But this team has no dependable right-back on that list. Ambrose could fit in but his best days were at Afcon 2013. He blows hot and cold and is more of a central defender.

forgiveness:
Chai! Tell dem! Tell dem!
Look at the names of the players, they sound same. No be me talk am ooo.

TheGoodJoe:
Are you saying Coach Keshi did nothing good after the AFCON?

That man felt the full weight of everything wrong with the NFF and those guys were always faultless because the axe fell on Coach Keshi's head.

I keep repeating, we were getting there. The last three games of Coach Keshi showed we terminated him and a wrong time.

We scored seven goals in our last three games, conceded three, won two and drew one.

I am not saying he was excellent but only geniuses can navigate through treacherous paths and deliver results.

How many list his sighting of Aaron Samuel. His infusion of Hope Akpan and Aluko, how many hail him for his taking Mikel to a more creative role.

What of the Italians injuring players to win. He was not close to what you guys make him.

Coach Keshi is the best since Westerhoff and it was not only due to the AFCON.

NRIPRIEST:
I have been watching you for a while and now it's safe for to say you are a tribalist....Yea,you are a Yoruba and you have problem with Igbo people. Fix your mind,nigga!

wayodude:
The stats show Amuzie has played 2 competitive games all season on the other hand Madu has hardly missed any game for his table topping team.

Adi plays in the MLS and they are currently off season I think? Where did the coaches see him play to gauge his match fitness? If we were one nil down with 5 mins to go, will Siasia be more confident looking on his bench seeing an inform Ujah eager to get on it or Fanendo Adi from Portland Timbers?

How do you rationalise the selection of Aminu Umar ahead of John Ogu who has been an ever-present and energetic midfield enforcer for the Isreali League Leaders? Even selecting Nosa Igiebor, Hope Akpan, Raheem Lawal would have been fairer.

Balogun doesn't get a place but Okonkwo does??

At the moment Naijas best defence would/should comprise Omeruo RB(yes he's better there!) Oboabona and Balogun CB and Madu LB!

I don tire jare, I'll leave matter...

Barman!! Another star for this table!!

forgiveness:
Yes! I have problems with mediocre players. No be my fault na. Even my tribes men will not be spared. What about you?

NRIPRIEST:
I feel like when it comes to positions that require competence tribal sentiments should be trashed. Moreover,this section is one of the most civil and sanest section on this forum and we all wish it remains so. I respect every contributor including and pray we get over our tribal issues someday in this country.

TheSuperNerd:
I asked the same question(s).

Isn't 22 home-based players too much?? He invited 20 foreign-based. Why not pick the few homebased you wanna work with? How all those homebased will train for 2 weeks-plus and still be replaced by the foreign based one week to the game and eventually on match day shows there's no need for 22 home-based players in camp.


And seriously, BIGGEST SHOCK OF THE DAY IS THE ABSENCE OF LEON BALOGUN, Nigeria's finest/best central Defender in Europe currently.

Isaac Success' omission is another notable mention.

I pray the other "very good players" (not every one on that list is a super class-act) in the list get the results for us.

It's a relatively good list but still got certain big question marks.

TheSuperNerd:
Hahahahaha...... Me sef don tire.... Balogun and Success are the biggest omissions from the list.

Kingsley Madu also. I rate Madu higher than all the left-backs invited (maybe apart from Echiejile).

Meanwhile, uhmm.... Aminu Umar is a forward not a midfielder. John Ogu is a midfielder just like Raheem lawal, Hope Akpan and Igiebor.

So Aminu wasn't picked ahead of Ogu.

#smiles

Meanwhile, how many bottles have you had before I came in? #smiles

AIG07:
I just check tru d list!
I'm as amazed as every other person here is.
Good list but are these men d best d country has?
Siasia's needs to justify d reason he excluded d likes of Isaac Success, established n in form Leon Balogun(our current captain of defence)...
We all hope those invited do us proud.
But the fact still remains that Nigeria soccer is synonymous to Nigeria politics where godfatherism is been played out.
I don't want to criticise sia1 now-'patience'. Who knows may be that team list is nff influenced.
That is why a foreign grade A coach will still remain d best. cos de can't be easily manipulated like d indigenous ones!

forgiveness:
Those two players you mentioned were brought in after Keshi perceived that his defender and protector was already a gunner before the election hence the need to start bringing other players from other part he conspicuouly ignored for a very long long time.

However, selection should be based on current form and and sentiment. As at time, can you boldly say those players were the most informed on ground?

TheGoodJoe:
The funny thing about this talk of foreign coaches is that a lot of them failed us. There are times local coaches qualified us for the World Cup and Nations Cup, only for the so called Foreign Coaches to mess it up.

My mind goes to Philippe Trousierre getting sacked, Coach Monday Sinclair Changing the losing team into a performing team and qualified us for the World Cup. Bora took over and Denmark lashed us home.

Orkpekyandega:

@ the bolded.
Seriously you mean Stephen Keshi invited these guys; Aaron Samuel and Michael Babatunde because he perceived his protector was a gunner? Very funny indeed.

Who was his protector then?

forgiveness:
Haba! You know na.

Orkpekyandega:
Forgiveness how many years did it take Stephen Keshi to win us AFCON with very harsh working conditions from his employers.

How many did it take his foreign counterparts to do same with better working conditions from the same employers?

Orkpekyandega:

May be you want me to guess; Goodluck Jonathan?
See as of the time Keshi invited the duo, no body ever believed he was going to loose his election so don't go there.

The truth of the matter is that, Keshi managed to get the best out of the little we had at the time.

If he had relied on the so called foreign stars or NFF list eh, we would have had to wait for another century to win the AFCON.

Keshi was one man that knew how to get the results with his formula untill NFF interfered.
Bros we never had the stars to win AFCON, but Keshi made it with them.

TheGoodJoe:
The funny thing about this talk of foreign coaches is that a lot of them failed us. There are times local coaches qualified us for the World Cup and Nations Cup, only for the so called Foreign Coaches to mess it up.

My mind goes to Philippe Trousierre getting sacked, Coach Monday Sinclair Changing the losing team into a performing team and qualified us for the World Cup. Bora took over and Denmark lashed us home.

forgiveness:
Hmm! There is different btw winning with class and winning with wuruwuru. You can ask Barcelona, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Brazil. They will tell you.

Can you cross your heart and swear you didn't complained or hissed when you watched Eagles played the first 3 matches in the last Nations Cup. Maybe you have forgotten because of the trophy.

If collecting 5 million at the end of every month is harsh working condition, i wonder wetin hawker go come talk.

Orkpekyandega:
[color=#006600][b]We were not blessed with the stars the former(foreign) Coach had na.


Remember with this same Wuruwuru he led us to the round of 16 which Lars Lagerback could not, despite the huge sums he collected from the NFF.

wayodude:
Hahahaha my guy are you sure you know what you're talking about here? Monday who??!

Philippe Troussier aka the White witch doctor qualified Nigeria for the 1998 World Cup after taking over from Shuaibu Amodu. We qualified for France 98 with a game to spare!

Na Wa for u o.

I think we should all give abit of background about ourselves and football history supporting naija.

I'm 35. My first game Watching Nigeria was in the Algiers 90 AFCON when we lost 5 - 1 against the host. From that point on I watched the super eagles go full cycle from rubbish to world beaters back to rubbish...

I have lived outside Nigeria since I was a teenager but Nigeria is still my team. It's in my blood!

TheGoodJoe:
It is sad I can not do a full research on this due to lack of Internet details. Maybe I am missing some things but look at this list of Nigerian coaches.



Clemens Westerhof (1989–94)
Shaibu Amodu (1994–95)
Johannes Bonfrere (1995–96)
Shaibu Amodu (1996–97)
Phillipe Troussier (1997)
Monday Sinclair (1997)
Bora Milutinović (1997–98)

http://www.gongnews.net/amodu-makes-world-mark-never-lost-a-world-cup-qualifier-game/

Sinclair took over from Trousierre and our team improved. Mind you, I lived in the same building with Coach Monday Sinclair. Our flats were side by side.

wayodude:
Hahahaha my guy are you sure you know what you're talking about here? Monday who??!

Philippe Troussier aka the White witch doctor qualified Nigeria for the 1998 World Cup after taking over from Shuaibu Amodu. We qualified for France 98 with a game to spare!

Na Wa for u o.

I think we should all give abit of background about ourselves and football history supporting naija.

I'm 35. My first game Watching Nigeria was in the Algiers 90 AFCON when we lost 5 - 1 against the host. From that point on I watched the super eagles go full cycle from rubbish to world beaters back to rubbish...

I have lived outside Nigeria since I was a teenager but Nigeria is still my team. It's in my blood!