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Icon4s:
Bros Daniel Akpeyi is first choice to mount goal against Cameroon. That is the reality.

You want to throw in a debutant NPFL goalie in a do or die game and you feel the keeper will command more confidence than Akpeyi. Bros... OK o.

And your comparison of Osaze in this case tells a lot.
You feel selection of a goalie is as light weighted as selection of a striker? That you'll just go and bring one new goalkeeper and field him against Cameroon.

As for Alampasu, in your words: 'because he is inexperienced', I just shake my head.

there is no need for you shake your head sir....
let the best in camp man the post....it is as simple as that.....
the best in camp should be allowed man the post.....
Cameroon is not Germany. ...neither are they Brazil or Belgium

Petrobros:
Haha haha you make me laugh.
From that little discussion I can easily point out the religion and political affiliations of each of you that got engaged in that argument.

I no be kid o.

hehehehehe!


I challenge you to point out my religious/political affiliations based on my side of the argument.

Icon4s:
Sincerely, it is not fair. But what can we do as individuals?

Hope and pray things get back to how it was and we can reclaim our country.

I think there is also a financial angle.. Even though, there is a lot of support from Nigeria, How much do these clubs make from merchandize sale in Nigeria? Compared to say, China or US?

In Nigeria, How many people buy original Jerseys compared to fake Jerseys?

Hull city beat Benfica... Ola Aina played left back and was so comfortable.

tbaba1234:
Hull city beat Benfica... Ola Aina played left back and was so comfortable.

licking my lips.....hope his paper issues have been sorted...? Will love see him in camp against Cameroon

Humility017:
licking my lips.....hope his paper issues have been sorted...? Will love see him in camp against Cameroon

According to the news we've heard.

FIFA has finally cleared him to play for us.

Red Hot Ex Watford Striker Odion Ighalo Scores Twice Again For Chinese Side Changchung Yatai

Wow, this guy might just be making a really big statement to rohr o.

I won't be surprised if he's called up, match fitness should be considered.

Super Eagles forward Odion Ighalo maintained his fine form in front of goal for Chinese side Changchung Yatai by scoring his second brace in as many games despite his team losing 2-3 to Shandong Luneng.
Last week Ighalo powered his side to a 3-2 win over Guangzhou R&F with a brace, and he followed it up with another in today’s game by netting in the 48th and 81st minute of play.
Although his goals were insufficient for his team to pick at least a point, the brace increased his tally for the season to 8 goals in 16 games, after a run of six goals in four games.
Ighalo has found the back of the net in Changchung Yatai’s last four games since ending his goal drought on the 1st of July against Beijing Guaon.
His form will no doubt put him in contention to lead the line for Nigeria when they take on Cameroon in back to back World Cup 2018 Qualifiers tie in August and September.

Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/07/22/red-hot-ex-watford-striker-odion-ighalo-scores-twice-again-for-chinese-side-changchung-yatai/

goldfish80:
Bringing the gulf countries in will increase the number of countries who can actually host the thing. Apart from South Africa, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia, no other African country can conviently host the tournament. We are talking about a 2 year interval between two tournaments.
There's no shame in accepting the reality on ground. Cameroun are toiling already just to host the next one.

Football have gone beyond kick and follow. We are talking about various aspects of the game African countries have not even started developing.

Talk about sports science, technology and what have you. China have already invested billions to this. The project in China is already attracting the best across the globe. Just take a lost at all the coaches working in China. We are talking about 2 World Cup winners and dozens of championship winning managers.
The Chinese players don't need to go to Europe, Europe is coming to them. After looking at how far their project have come in just a few years, one wonder what could be in the offing in the future. I haven't even talked about Chinese buisness men buying top European clubs, the implications is that you may see Chinese teams play in the Champions league in the future. This can easily happen since they are gradually gaining the voting power by acquiring those clubs

You may say this is just about league football, but it is not. Everything is heading towards winning the World Cup. Every world cup winning country have a good league at home.
There is a method to their madness. If Africa cannot explore options on the table to inject more money into the game here, no prayers or juju can make us win the World Cup. Not with events unfolding across the globe.

China are building capacity to go one better than South Korea. What is the African project if I should ask? Prayers?

People don't just tune in to watch top leagues because the players are good. The atmosphere has a lot to do with the selling of the product. No company no matter how rich would invest one naira into the premier league if there were no passionate fans in the stands. Where will the passion for the AFCON come from when u want to host it miles and miles away? Who are we expecting to be in the stands? We can exhaust the ready countries and then move on to cohosting.

Let China qualify for a world cup first. Africa does not need anything drastic. The problem is laziness, football in Africa is so used to government hand outs or intervention that there is no room to be innovative. Nigeria for example should be cashing in on all our young stars in the making that the whole world wants to see. The NFF should sell exclusive rights to all their friendlies and heighten their visibility. Countries can't depend so much on CAF. If our federations learn how to plan ahead and adhere then I don't see any reason why one of us can't lift the cup.

Which comment claimed the north is safer?
Did EPL team tell you they were asked to choose between Nigeria and Tanzania? I don't get!

Icon4s:
I was only reacting to a comment that the North is safer than the South I terms of hosting such games/tours.

As I said before the world is a global village. They see things and they here things.

An average English man does not know the distance between Maiduguri and Uyo. So don't blame any EPL team that chooses to play in Tanzania instead of Nigeria.

No I don't and your points are disappointing.

Icon4s:
Bros...i am sure you know what I am talking about.

I have made my points.

After how many months of not scoring? He needs to be consistent.

junnyjake:
Red Hot Ex Watford Striker Odion Ighalo Scores Twice Again For Chinese Side Changchung Yatai

Wow, this guy might just be making a really big statement to rohr o.

I won't be surprised if he's called up, match fitness should be considered.





Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/07/22/red-hot-ex-watford-striker-odion-ighalo-scores-twice-again-for-chinese-side-changchung-yatai/

Thankfully, CAF rejected the idea of hosting the AFCON outside Africa. It was a ridiculous suggestion in the first place.
If Ghanaians feel that they can't host it alone, they could partner with Nigeria in co-hosting the event. Simple.

somehow:
Which comment claimed the north is safer?
Did EPL team tell you they were asked to choose between Nigeria and Tanzania? I don't get!

Go back and read up and you'll see the comment.

somehow:
No I don't and your points are disappointing.

Something we are very aware of.

modified:
And you don't need to take this issue personal. we all know what the security situation in certain parts of the country is.

But if you feel any part of the country is safe, well then. No need for a fight here.

I didn't see such.

Any foreign club can tour Nigeria if they want. If foreigners troop into Nigeria daily, then I see no reason why a tour for clubs can't take place here.

The league is on and every part of the country is being used for league matches including borno!

Icon4s:
Go back and read up and you'll see the comment.

somehow:
I didn't see such.

Any foreign club can tour Nigeria if they want. If foreigners troop into Nigeria daily, then I see no reason why a tour for clubs can't take place here.

The league is on and every part of the country is being used for league matches including borno!

If that is your opinion. Good.
You are entitled to it.

junnyjake:
hehehehehe!


I challenge you to point out my religious/political affiliations based on my side of the argument.

You are daring me o.

You did not make much comment on the topic. But from the little you made I know you are not a Muslim.

Icon4s is obviously a Christian and from that part of the country where they "fear North" a lot. He sounds like a PDP sympathiser.

Tbaba1234 obviously sounds like a Muslim and also an APC sympathiser. He doesn't sound like a Northerner. He could be from Kwara though.

Somehow is obviously a Northern Muslim and a strong APC supporter.

Guys don't fire rockets at me o. This is just my observation. My point is we cannot completely eliminate sectional, political and Religious reasoning from sports even though we try not to. It creeps in once in a while.

I gat to correct something.

The Man united vs portmouth game was played in Abuja and not Kano. Portmouth also played kano pillars in the same abuja stadium, Utaka, babayaro played that match can't really remember the score line, should be 6-0 or 7-0

I remember ManU left the country immediately after the match for south Africa and later news started flying that Rooney fell sick caught the malaria virus from Nigeria

Work more on your objectivity, both assertions you made about my mention are 1OO% wrong, the closest to north I can say for me is Kwara and I also have no love for any political party.

I also don't do religion(at least not the type of religions in Nigeria), another epic fail.

My comments are more on Nigeria and not a region, I guess you skipped my comments that supported tours in Uyo or any other parts of Nigeria.

Anyways work more on your ability to judge from distance.

Petrobros:
You are daring me o.

You did not make much comment on the topic. But from the little you made I know you are not a Muslim.

Icon4s is obviously a Christian and from that part of the country where they "fear North" a lot. He sounds like a PDP sympathiser.

Tbaba1234 obviously sounds like a Muslim and also an APC sympathiser. He doesn't sound like a Northerner. He could be from Kwara though.

Somehow is obviously a Northern Muslim and a strong APC supporter.

Guys don't fire rockets at me o. This is just my observation. My point is we cannot completely eliminate sectional, political and Religious reasoning from sports even though we try not to. It creeps in once in a while.

I was thinking Abuja too but wanted to let him know even Kano is not bad for tour either.

zicky:
I gat to correct something.

The Man united vs portmouth game was played in Abuja and not Kano. Portmouth also played kano pillars in the same abuja stadium, Utaka, babayaro played that match can't really remember the score line, should be 6-0 or 7-0

Same as yours which lacks objectivity.

Icon4s:
If that is your opinion. Good.
You are entitled to it.

BascoVanVeli:
People don't just tune in to watch top leagues because the players are good. The atmosphere has a lot to do with the selling of the product. No company no matter how rich would invest one naira into the premier league if there were no passionate fans in the stands. Where will the passion for the AFCON come from when u want to host it miles and miles away? Who are we expecting to be in the stands? We can exhaust the ready countries and then move on to cohosting.

Let China qualify for a world cup first. Africa does not need anything drastic. The problem is laziness, football in Africa is so used to government hand outs or intervention that there is no room to be innovative. Nigeria for example should be cashing in on all our young stars in the making that the whole world wants to see. The NFF should sell exclusive rights to all their friendlies and heighten their visibility. Countries can't depend so much on CAF. If our federations learn how to plan ahead and adhere then I don't see any reason why one of us can't lift the cup.

You know what you're saying is far from what is on ground.
The reality is that African countries apart from the North Africans and maybe SA do not attract good corporate sponsorship,this is very clear.
Even kit sponsorship deals between Africa and major brands like Nike and addidas are nothing to write home about. You cannot blame the kit makers because they want to make money and Africa don't have such market to patronise them. We prefer made in Aba Jersey than the real ones, so why will they put in top dollar to sponsor us? Will a white man in Germany buy Nigerian Jersey?

How much do you think can be generated for image rights from African friendly games? If a company acquires image rights to broadcast Nigeria vs Senegal game in London for £10M, do you think they can recoup that amount and make profit from pay per view TV? We overrrate ourselves alot. Do you think Europeans bother if Nigeria is playing Senegal?

The only institution that can generate mega money for Africa football is CAF. Imagine if they can sell their TV right for $3 B for a 5 year period (which is a far cry from what the premiership is getting). We are talking about $50M+ earning for each African country added with what they can generate themselves. That is what we are talking about.
If maybe a Uganda can get this kind of money and invest in youth development and capacity building you can imagine how far they will come.

The practical solution to getting this sort of endorsements is by affiliating with the gulf countries. It is very simple.

On China, they are improving tremendously. They a have qualified for the World Cup before. I think they played in the world cup before Nigeria qualified (I maybe wrong). You're not saying they won't qualify for the World Cup with the current expansion as we have after investing billions? Come on.
This right off attitude was what cost us that South African match. We didn't want to hear the South Africans were improving. We still brag our shoulders that they are our wife, just like we did before Ghana made a mess of us in that famous Craven cottage friendly.

What I'm saying is that China shouldn't be written off. They have a serious project there. Europe and the rest of the world are concerned with the Chinese project, while Afrikans are waving them aside. What a paradox.

somehow:
Work more on your objectivity, both assertions you made about my mention are 1OO% wrong, the closest to north I can say for me is Kwara and I also have no love for any political party.

I also don't do religion(at least not the type of religions in Nigeria), another epic fail.

My comments is more on Nigeria and not a region, I guess you skipped my comments that supported tours in Uyo or any other parts of Nigeria.

Anyways work more on your ability to judge from distance.

You see. I was right. You are Kwara, a Northern state and you are obviously a Muslim. I said Muslim North so I was right. Loz!!

Chai, another failure.. Lolz I said the closest I have ever been to is kwara. Gosh, if you can't comprehend, how then can you understand or make sound judgements?
Not an insult, just some questions..

Anyways enjoy sir

Petrobros:
You see. I was right. You are Kwara, a Northern state and you are obviously a Muslim. I said Muslim North so I was right. Loz!!

somehow:
Same as yours which lacks objectivity.

Please I am done with that discussion.

I have made my points and you have made yours.

We cannot change each other's perception so let's just live with it.

Same mate.

Icon4s:
Please I am done with that discussion.

I have made my points and you have made yours.

We cannot change each other's perception so let's just live with it.

Petrobros:
You see. I was right. You are Kwara, a Northern state and you are obviously a Muslim. I said Muslim North so I was right. Loz!!

Bros, can we please quit this argument already?

And please stay away from my mention.

^^^ pessin cannot play with you again?

tbaba1234:
Sokoto is one of the safest places in Nigeria. No religious crisis or conflicts and less crime. Not even when other parts of the North are boiling. Sokoto has remained fairly stable. Apart from the extreme heat, it will host teams with no issues.

Ofcourse, places like maiduguri are no go because of Boko Haram.

sokoto may be safe but is there a good stadia there?

Very valid question!

enomakos:
sokoto may be safe but is there a good stadia there?

I will prefer Emma Daniel against cameroon.If Ondoa can.He can.If I may ask.How did Ondoa start maning the post for Cameroon?