₦airaland Forum

joseph1013:
Only an ignorant person will not accept the age of Rooney. Only a blind patriot will accept the claims of Ifeanyi.

Can you see how you missed my point?

goldfish80:
I believe the world have gone way past the level where illiterates (sorry to use the word) go on to have a successful careers. If Musa Yahaya cannot read, how does he manage to sign contracts? Abi he doesn't read what he signs?
We must structure our football round education. That's just the way to go.

Humility017:
I think this is same problem befalling musa...because I really think any literate young player will not go pitch tenth in the Turkish league...a league acclaimed for tired legs.

He erred big time...he has a greedy agent

Humility017:
I think this is same problem befalling musa...because I really think any literate young player will not go pitch tenth in the Turkish league...a league acclaimed for tired legs.

He erred big time...he has a greedy agent

TheGoodJoe:
LOLS. You are still missing it. Rooney shows that a player like Ifeanyi Ifeanyi can be young. Looks deceive.

Such a simple thing you have decided not to understand.

A Rooney is not a cause for concern. An Ifeanyi is a cause for concern. Simple something!

TheGoodJoe:
LOLS. You are still missing it. Rooney shows that a player like Ifeanyi Ifeanyi can be young. Looks deceive.

TheGoodJoe:
The World may have gone way beyond that level. Not Nigeria. You can not blame a genius for being poor in a terrible environment.

We have children who are talented, trapped in warring regions like Sambisa. We have geniuses who resorted to trade to help their families have foods in their bellies.

We can not expect a country where majority live in poverty to have sufficient money to train their kids. Does it mean we should punish these geniuses from having better lives? Does it mean if a kid in the IDP.camp, who has never heard a word of English before but has the skills of Okocha does not deserve a chance to make it with his talent?

I think the best football has to offer should go to kids with the most talent and discipline. No other factor should stop that.

TheGoodJoe:
Even book smart, well schooled players fall for bad agents.

TheGoodJoe:
Turkey was the window of opportunity for Virgil Van Dyk of Southampton.

Humility017:
I really think this age cheating is something that should be looked into....
for goodness sake...everyone knows a 16-17 years old boy in Nigeria is still in school...
of a truth...
that's why I pray the LMC go ahead to introduce the proposed under 15 league

TheGoodJoe:
Do you believe every 16-17 years old are in school? I doubt half are in school.

Humility017:
of all the young lads breaking through from the Dutch, Belgian, German , French league...
u could make reference to just one from the Turkish league...

u should agree that the lad made the wrong move...Turkish league was never a league renowned for emerging talents

Humility017:
I once had a conversation with a guy who was 24 but could not pass the under 17 trials...
his international passport says he is 16 but he opened to me his true age and told me deep things from his experience during camp

joseph1013:
The government is notoriously bad in keeping such records. We know it. Even crucial documents like records of the Nigerian Stock Exchange were being lost to rainfall, fire outbreak, and pure old age until they migrated to electronic record keeping.

joseph1013:
So what are the odds compared to an uneducated footballer? There is something called risk management.

TheGoodJoe:
by IamJ.ix

That moment when the scoreline is a complete sentence :p FT CHE 1-2 CRY (chelsea want to cry) lemme come and be going

TheGoodJoe:
Do you believe every 16-17 years old are in school? I doubt half are in school.

goldfish80:
Of course there are special cases and such special cases deserve a different treatment. Hoedown, it doesn't stop us from operating with a laid down standard.

The point you raised is one of the reasons I believe we have no football academies in Nigeria. What we have are youth training clubs. Take for instance the template set by France. The clairfoentain French academy blueprint is to have talented youngsters admitted into their academy. The academy is run like a boarding school. These youngsters attend school in the morning and train in the evening. All the great French players like Anelka, Henry, Trazeguet, Greizman, etc and even lately Mbappe graduated from this set up.
Football and education cannot be divorced from each other. Because we live in a country where everything goes doesn't mean we must not follow a laid down standard. I expect a player in the national U17 team to be a senior high school student or a fresh high school graduate.

Humility017:
the truth is even some of these coaches know this things....but they cover it up...

there are lot of things I just can't reveal here....

u see why I prefer this foreign born players...

few years from now...they won't suffer depreciation resulting from old age...reason because they're using their true age play football

TheGoodJoe:
That does not mean that we do not have young boys fighting for their chances. We have seen lots of real young kids shipped out of the country recently.

joseph1013:
Such a simple thing you have decided not to understand.

A Rooney is not a cause for concern. An Ifeanyi is a cause for concern. Simple something!

Humility017:
yeah...you're right
u see we live in country where everything comes late....all because of bad structures.

TheGoodJoe:
With the large number of Nigerians in abject poverty, adapting such solutions will help, but it will not nullify the problem. However, it will turn out catastrophic if we use book smart to screen out football geniuses. Football should guide financially challenged geniuses out of the claws of poverty.

TheGoodJoe:
You missed the fact that Rohr has made his dissatisfaction of his current full back situation public. Also information of Rohr wanting Aina's Nationality sorted out before the next qualifiers indicates Rohr's interest and belief in the Young man.

He is training every day with one of the best right backs in World Football, Victor Moses. There is no guarantee he might start the game but it seems he is a big candidate. Omeruo never looked the ideal choice.

Kog45:
D boy is good,likely between Onazi or Etebor one need to be on bench coz Rohr cannot do without Mikel or how do u see it Icon4s

TheGoodJoe:
Jamb Question. As I said, the best opportunity should go to the kids with the best talent and Discipline. Book Smart is not a guarantee.

joseph1013:
There is nowhere in the world you will get that. Even right now, you don't get it.

What we need to do is to build systems. Systems that will come as close to it as possible. And the best system that will ensure the best balance is the one of education. Football does not last forever anyway. The average career is 10 years. If a player lives to be 70 years and he starts his career at 16, he has more than 40 years to live. So why not start on a foundation of education?

Dedebanky85:
Sure Aina seems a necessity, but to assume he'd displace Omeruo on the basis of training with Chelsea is a far cry from the truth. I'm one of the pro-agitators for d foreign burn Nigerians. But I can't do that at the detriment of the existing players. I see people update teams on a daily basis once a new name pops up. Now it's the Era of Tonarugari of Berta Berlin, tomorrow it may be another Academy break out player. I want to access these players in a game before I can start allocating national positions to them. Unfortunately only Rohr can access them in our trainings.

TheGoodJoe:
Until we have the systems in place, we can not start screening out kids from humble beginnings because their parents could not educate them. Football is another way to empower kids out of poverty. Look at Musa Yahaya. Imagine screening him out because he is not book smart and wasting such talent.

goldfish80:
Nobody is suggesting using booksmart to select players. You must not be a straight A student to play football. The criteria should be you must be in school. Let's not kid ourselves education from primary to Junior high is almost free in all the states acrostic country.