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BascoVanVeli:
It was probably one of the worst exhibition of football Nigeria has had to offer in a long long time. Agege was a bad idea, the turf made the ball too bouncy and no team ever looked like playing good football.

tbaba1234:
Umar Sadiq starts for Torino... Interesting day for young players..

komekn:
With regards to Tosin he has played zero games in the premiership for City. He has essentially only played youth football.

I have seen Tosin play I am not impressed the only thing he has on his CV is that I'm a a city player, that's all. By now he should be on loan.

Tomori has been on loan at Brighton and now Hull he has been far from impressive. He is not a first choice CB unlike Aina who is the first on the team sheet. However, his team mate Michael Hector is first choice CB and he also is on loan from Chelsea.

Compare both of them to Dominic Iorfa and he is so far ahead of them it's like they are still in primary school, while he is in university.


I really can not comment on the German players simply haven't watched them long enough to form an opinion.

soetanoreoluwa:
Watford Ace Success In Rohr’s Plans For World Cup – He’s Different From Other Strikers

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Isaac Success has been handed a lifeline by coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr who still has the player in his Russia World Cup 2018 plans despite his poor form for Watford.

Success made his senior international debut for Nigeria ‎in the 1-1 friendly draw against Senegal in London, but since then injuries and poor form means he hasn’t been called up to the team.

However Rohr still rates him highly and will consider the forward once he sort out his poor form at Watford, where he has been warned by manager Marco Silva about his career after news broke out that he had a row with four commercial sex workers.

” Success still has a chance of going to the World Cup. For now he is the only player we have in the attack of the team who loves to use his body and strength ‎, that distinct quality is what could earn him a spot in the team to Russia “, a member of the backroom staff of the Super Eagles told Owngoalnigeria.com.

” Rohr is a big fan of Success, and just like everybody he is disappointed in the way things have turned out at Watford this season, but if he starts playing games then no doubt he will be called up to prove himself “, he concluded.

Osas Mahawi

http://owngoalnigeria.com/2017/10/14/watford-ace-success-in-rohrs-plans-for-world-cup-hes-different-from-other-strikers/

elyte89:
Oh,ikechukwu uche should b in the team going to world cup o

Humility017:
Football
Stop begging Nigeria-born foreign players to play for Eagles, Onigbinde tells NFF
By Alex Monye
16 October 2017 | 4:10 am

Former Super Eagles coach, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has called on the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) to stop pleading with Nigerian -born foreign players across Europe to play for the national team , saying such trend could hamper the nation’s football development efforts.
Onigbinde described as a big shame the recent trend in which a nation that has produced former winners of the prestigious African footballer of the Year award like late Rashidi Yekini, Victor Ikpeba, Emmanuel Amuneke and Kanu Nwankwo are wooing foreign players of Nigerian descent to play for the Super Eagles .
The FIFA technical adviser advised the NFF to create a programme to discover talents from the Nigerian league system and the grassroots, saying if a technical team was constituted to watch every league game in all centers every season, national team coaches would have a pool of talents to choose from while preparing their teams .
The former member of the NFF technical committee advised Nigerian coaches to update their knowledge of the game to meet the current standard of their counterparts in Europe, adding that if Nigeria did not produce good coaches, there is no way they would churn out quality talents.
“I find it embarrassing that Nigeria is begging Europe-born players to play for the Super Eagles. If in the past the country produced quality players, I see no reason it cannot happen now. The problem is that the NFF doesn’ t have a developmental plan. This is why they focus on getting other players.
“If a technical team were sent to all league venues to watch players and pick the best and send it to a particular data base in their Abuja office , such players will be monitored from time to time and Nigerian coaches at the end of the day would have a pool of players to pick from .
“Anybody that says Nigeria no longer has talented footballers is not being fair. There are quality players everywhere in the league, under the bridge and the grassroots, but there is no adequate mechanism put in place to search for them.
“It took me some minutes to pick Vincent Enyeama as my number one goalkeeper for Super Eagles after watching him in a game. I had never met him before I made that decision,” he said.
Onigbinde also advised the NFF to ensure the Super Eagles prepare well to make an appreciable impact in Russia.

https://m.guardian.ng/sport/stop-begging-nigeria-born-foreign-players-to-play-for-eagles-onigbinde-tells-nff/

Joebie:
Good job! I like how you are taking good advantage of that horizontal rule.

Humility017:
Football
Stop begging Nigeria-born foreign players to play for Eagles, Onigbinde tells NFF
By Alex Monye
16 October 2017 | 4:10 am

Former Super Eagles coach, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has called on the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) to stop pleading with Nigerian -born foreign players across Europe to play for the national team , saying such trend could hamper the nation’s football development efforts.
Onigbinde described as a big shame the recent trend in which a nation that has produced former winners of the prestigious African footballer of the Year award like late Rashidi Yekini, Victor Ikpeba, Emmanuel Amuneke and Kanu Nwankwo are wooing foreign players of Nigerian descent to play for the Super Eagles .
The FIFA technical adviser advised the NFF to create a programme to discover talents from the Nigerian league system and the grassroots, saying if a technical team was constituted to watch every league game in all centers every season, national team coaches would have a pool of talents to choose from while preparing their teams .
The former member of the NFF technical committee advised Nigerian coaches to update their knowledge of the game to meet the current standard of their counterparts in Europe, adding that if Nigeria did not produce good coaches, there is no way they would churn out quality talents.
“I find it embarrassing that Nigeria is begging Europe-born players to play for the Super Eagles. If in the past the country produced quality players, I see no reason it cannot happen now. The problem is that the NFF doesn’ t have a developmental plan. This is why they focus on getting other players.
“If a technical team were sent to all league venues to watch players and pick the best and send it to a particular data base in their Abuja office , such players will be monitored from time to time and Nigerian coaches at the end of the day would have a pool of players to pick from .
“Anybody that says Nigeria no longer has talented footballers is not being fair. There are quality players everywhere in the league, under the bridge and the grassroots, but there is no adequate mechanism put in place to search for them.
“It took me some minutes to pick Vincent Enyeama as my number one goalkeeper for Super Eagles after watching him in a game. I had never met him before I made that decision,” he said.
Onigbinde also advised the NFF to ensure the Super Eagles prepare well to make an appreciable impact in Russia.

https://m.guardian.ng/sport/stop-begging-nigeria-born-foreign-players-to-play-for-eagles-onigbinde-tells-nff/

Joebie:
Backroom staff without name.. Me sef can write anything and quote backroom staff..

Humility017:
I don't understand you guys...so because he scored a brace..he should be heading to the world cup...

you guys think the world cup is a wild party....I understand if some of us were in rohr shoes....we don't mind take not less than 45 players to the world cup.....

Humility017:
Football
Stop begging Nigeria-born foreign players to play for Eagles, Onigbinde tells NFF
By Alex Monye
16 October 2017 | 4:10 am

Former Super Eagles coach, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has called on the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) to stop pleading with Nigerian -born foreign players across Europe to play for the national team , saying such trend could hamper the nation’s football development efforts.
Onigbinde described as a big shame the recent trend in which a nation that has produced former winners of the prestigious African footballer of the Year award like late Rashidi Yekini, Victor Ikpeba, Emmanuel Amuneke and Kanu Nwankwo are wooing foreign players of Nigerian descent to play for the Super Eagles .
The FIFA technical adviser advised the NFF to create a programme to discover talents from the Nigerian league system and the grassroots, saying if a technical team was constituted to watch every league game in all centers every season, national team coaches would have a pool of talents to choose from while preparing their teams .
The former member of the NFF technical committee advised Nigerian coaches to update their knowledge of the game to meet the current standard of their counterparts in Europe, adding that if Nigeria did not produce good coaches, there is no way they would churn out quality talents.
“I find it embarrassing that Nigeria is begging Europe-born players to play for the Super Eagles. If in the past the country produced quality players, I see no reason it cannot happen now. The problem is that the NFF doesn’ t have a developmental plan. This is why they focus on getting other players.
“If a technical team were sent to all league venues to watch players and pick the best and send it to a particular data base in their Abuja office , such players will be monitored from time to time and Nigerian coaches at the end of the day would have a pool of players to pick from .
“Anybody that says Nigeria no longer has talented footballers is not being fair. There are quality players everywhere in the league, under the bridge and the grassroots, but there is no adequate mechanism put in place to search for them.
“It took me some minutes to pick Vincent Enyeama as my number one goalkeeper for Super Eagles after watching him in a game. I had never met him before I made that decision,” he said.
Onigbinde also advised the NFF to ensure the Super Eagles prepare well to make an appreciable impact in Russia.

https://m.guardian.ng/sport/stop-begging-nigeria-born-foreign-players-to-play-for-eagles-onigbinde-tells-nff/

Kog45:
The man said it all, our developmental plans have been d issue,truly talents abound in Nigeria but who to discover them.

The secondary schools game is dead,Principal cup gone,YSFON collapsed, NIPOGA game no more attention, NUGA game d same thing, these are d games that produced players for our various national teams.

How can we revive all these is left for various sporting federation to put their house in order and put a great mechanism in place to salvage d situations coz it has reached a stage we just have to do something about it.

Apart from football or may be basketball that are still trying to put smiles on d faces of sports fans,other games brings nothing,d worst of it all is d athletics.

This is a game that has produced great athletes like Dele Udoh,Ahmed Adio,Chidi Imoh,Innocent Egbunike,Mary Onyali,Falilat Ogunkoya,Olapade Adenikan,Ezenwa brothers,Chioma Ajunwa but can we say now,mediocre running for Nigeria.

Football still a force to reckon with coz d talents are abound not that we get it right through fundamentals plans and we should thanks d individuals football academies that spring up to fill d gap created by non functional football federation grassroots plans.

Onigbinde said do we need to beg any foreign born players to play for us?definitely NO but in d absence of good foundation what do we do?we just need to beg.I know d man was referring to Tammy Abraham situation.

The man said just few minutes he was able to discover Enyeama.I remember i had a lengthy discussion with my former university coach in person of Amusa Adisa who happened to be goalkeeper trainer to 2002 WC.

I asked him what gave u that confidence to pick Enyeama ahead of Shorunmu against England, he said when u see a talent irrespective of experience u don't care,he said prior to WC Enyeama had only one cap in a grade b friendly.

I asked why can't we discovered more Enyeama and he said most of our grassroots games are no longer functioning and it w take a miracle to see a special players for national team.

Honestly there are a lot of talents wasting away coz nobody to see them,those saddle with d responsibilities are not doing enough.

i remember i how i try to convince Ex polish international Emma Olisadebe after our VC cup in d university,I went to him and told him point blank that did u know u are better than KANU Nwankwo,he looked at me and said u are not serious,again during Governor Cup that my school participated,during this match we beat a very solid team 6-1 and 5 goals.The fans in d stadium were surprised to see such talent in d university.The two local league club try to sign him he refused.

Luckily for him he made world university game team and put shooting star Edith Agoye permanently on d bench.It was Fanny Amu that later told him point blank that u are wasting your talent.The rest is history d same Olisadebe later represent Poland in d WC after Nigeria refused to call him.He single handedly took Poland to 2002 WC,had a goal against USA.

To buttress Onigbinde points, talents abound in sec sch,polytechnics, universities and there is need we revive our youth games like Principal cup,YSFON,focus on NIPOGA,NUGA,these are d only way we can save our sports.

I remember my secondary school represent Nigeria in Sweden in handball game,same thing we represent Nigeria in Canada,this was in 80s,so why can we do d same thing now.

Joebie:
ENGLAND: Championship - Round 12

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Leeds 0-1 Reading
Ex- Portuguese junior international, Tiago Ilori seems to have finally won the confidence of Reading coach Jaap Stam as the 24 year old center back clocked 90 minutes in Reading's win on the road. However, the England-born center-back did not come tops in any of Whoscored's performance categories.
+Stats: 6.99 Rating
Teammate and out-of-favor Super Eagles forward, Sone Aluko, also got Stam's nod to start. Aluko lasted 72 minutes as one of the forwards in a 4-4-2 formation, and was statistically the best player on the pitch in terms of pass success rate ( 85% ).
+Stats: 6.81 Rating

Sunderland 1-1 QPR
Sunderland fail again to win, after 10 matches. QPR also extend their winless poor run to 6.
While Super Eagles wannabe, Nedum Onuora still remained sidelined by injury, QPR's new Nigerian sensation, Bright Osayi-Samuel featured once again in the Hoops draw at Sunderland. The 19 year old midfielder was a 76th minute sub-in. He was one of three subs-in to achieve a 100% pass success rate for the relatively short duration they spent on the pitch.
+Stats: 6.10 Rating.

Brentford 1-0 Millwall
Millwall lose for the second championship game in a row with Fred Onyedinma putting in a partial shift for the Lions.
+Stats: 6.0 Rating.


Bolton 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Bolton turn things around after losing 8 consecutive games.
Sammy Ameobi opened his goal account for the season when he put Bolton ahead as early as the 10th minute -- playing as RM/RW in a 4-2-3-1 formation. Ameobi's performance earned him a MOTM by virtue of whoscored. He tied 4 other players for the top spot in Total Shots (3). He was the best Bolton player, and joint best in pass success rate (92).
+Stats: 8.56 Rating. (In running to make Whoscored Best XI of the week)
Teammate Derek Osede is still out due to injury.
+Stats: N/A

Norwich 1-1 Hull
Norwich rally late to ensure they stay undefeated for the 7th consecutive round
Super Eagles Wing-Back Ola Aina clocked 90 minutes for Hull in their away draw to Norwich. He was one of the top tacklers of the match with 4 successful attempts. He went on to earn Whoscored's MOTM statistical performance.
+Stats: 7.70 Rating. (In running to make Whoscored Best XI of the week)
Fikayo Tomori came in on the 85th minute as Leonid Slutsky made his third tactical change after playing a man down for about half an hour.
+Stats: 5.92 Rating

Fulham 2-2 Preston
Fulham's Seyi Ojo is out due to shoulder injury
+Stats: N/A

Sheffield Utd 1-0 Ipswich
Dominic Iorfa put up a sterling performance for Ipswich despite falling away with his team. Playing as a Right Wing Back in Ipswich's 3-5-2 formation, the Super Eagles hopeful started and completed the encounter as the third highest rated player on the pitch according to whoscored.
Iorfa Jnr stood out as the best performer with a total of 12 in Aerial Duels won. He made 3 interceptions for the team.
+Stats: 7.90 (Likely to beat Aina in RB for Best XI of the week)
Iorfa's teammate, Tom Adeyemi was unlisted for the encounter

Aston Villa 2-0 Wolves
Villa go undefeated 9 games in a row
Bright Enobakhare remained in Villa's dugout for the entire duration.
+Stats: N/A
However, England U21 international, Josh Onomah tasted action after he was introduced by the visitors in the 73rd minute.
He managed to fire 1 shot and make 1 dribble for the considerable short time he spent on the pitch.
+Stats: 6.14

Bristol 0-0 Burton
Hope Akpan started but spent 68 minutes on the pitch as he helped Burton secure a draw away to Bristol City
+Stats: 6.35 Rating

Humility017:
somebody should please tell this man to mind his business

Humility017:
I don't understand you guys...so because he scored a brace..he should be heading to the world cup...

you guys think the world cup is a wild party....I understand if some of us were in rohr shoes....we don't mind take not less than 45 players to the world cup.....

goldfish80:
Why? Because he wants the Nff to implement a grassroot project to discover talents?
I tire for una sometimes.

Kog45:
The man said it all, our developmental plans have been d issue,truly talents abound in Nigeria but who to discover them.

The secondary schools game is dead,Principal cup gone,YSFON collapsed, NIPOGA game no more attention, NUGA game d same thing, these are d games that produced players for our various national teams.

How can we revive all these is left for various sporting federation to put their house in order and put a great mechanism in place to salvage d situations coz it has reached a stage we just have to do something about it.

Apart from football or may be basketball that are still trying to put smiles on d faces of sports fans,other games brings nothing,d worst of it all is d athletics.

This is a game that has produced great athletes like Dele Udoh,Ahmed Adio,Chidi Imoh,Innocent Egbunike,Mary Onyali,Falilat Ogunkoya,Olapade Adenikan,Ezenwa brothers,Chioma Ajunwa but can we say now,mediocre running for Nigeria.

Football still a force to reckon with coz d talents are abound not that we get it right through fundamentals plans and we should thanks d individuals football academies that spring up to fill d gap created by non functional football federation grassroots plans.

Onigbinde said do we need to beg any foreign born players to play for us?definitely NO but in d absence of good foundation what do we do?we just need to beg.I know d man was referring to Tammy Abraham situation.

The man said just few minutes he was able to discover Enyeama.I remember i had a lengthy discussion with my former university coach in person of Amusa Adisa who happened to be goalkeeper trainer to 2002 WC.

I asked him what gave u that confidence to pick Enyeama ahead of Shorunmu against England, he said when u see a talent irrespective of experience u don't care,he said prior to WC Enyeama had only one cap in a grade b friendly.

I asked why can't we discovered more Enyeama and he said most of our grassroots games are no longer functioning and it w take a miracle to see a special players for national team and our coaches are not helping d situation.

Honestly there are a lot of talents wasting away coz nobody to see them,those saddle with d responsibilities are not doing enough.Thanks for football academies that came to d rescued.

i remember i how i try to convince Ex polish international Emma Olisadebe after our VC cup in d university,I went to him and told him point blank that did u know u are better than KANU Nwankwo,he looked at me and said u are not serious,again during Governor Cup that my school participated,during this match we beat a very solid team 6-1 and he scored 5 goals.The fans in d stadium were surprised to see such talent in d university.The two local league club try to sign him but refused.

Luckily for him he made world university game team and put shooting star Edith Agoye permanently on d bench.It was Fanny Amu that later told him point blank that u are wasting your talent.The rest is history d same Olisadebe later represent Poland in d WC after Nigeria refused to call him.He single handedly took Poland to 2002 WC,had a goal against USA.

To buttress Onigbinde points, talents abound in sec sch,polytechnics, universities and there is need we revive our youth games like Principal cup,YSFON,focus on NIPOGA,NUGA,these are d only way we can save our sports.

I remember my secondary school represented Nigeria in Sweden in handball game and same thing we represent Nigeria in Canada,this was in 80s,so why are we finding it difficult to do d same thing now.

Humility017:
he keep saying talents abound in the league....same league I watch on tv
he talks wayside sometimes....

I remember how he kicked against the employment of rohr....citing his failures before he even get to start the job...

elyte89:
Boss,am only imitating our unofficial scout here who love to mention any name dey come across, d ajaguns,onomah josh,Aiyenugba and co's
Ever since Mikel Agu messed,I dont take dem serious again,dey shouted Mikel Agu's name b4 his invitation like say no o,d guy na one Ronaldinho,shio,yeye ppu



National team is not a tea party,if u dont av anything extraordinary to give asyde what dis present crop of players are doing,deres no point extending invitation to such players.
I dont mind if rohr retains those called up against Cameroon and Zambia, den maybe give a chance to any new left back,good central back/midfielder, and an out-out striker(dts if any),if not,am only expecting a 27-man pre-lim team list to b pruned down to final 23man list for strong cohesion and maintain b present team brotherhood.

We dont want d usual 60man list 2months b4 worldc cup like what our predecessors av done,dts counter productive.
Like d Yoruba's will say,E ma ko iru mo shapa.

Humility017:
I don't understand you guys...so because he scored a brace..he should be heading to the world cup...

you guys think the world cup is a wild party....I understand if some of us were in rohr shoes....we don't mind take not less than 45 players to the world cup.....

Icon4s:
Emmm High Chief, we are not begging, we are only wooing.

Several countries have done same in the past. Leonel Messi for eg would have been playing for Spain today if Argentina had not made that move.

Mind you, we only go for players that will add value in departments that we need fortification and not every di-ck and Harry. We recently acquired Ola Aina and we will attempt at Tammy Abraham. If we don't get him we move on. But let it be known that we made the attempts so future generations will not place curses on the NFF for missing out on him in case he turns out like another Dele Alli.

I don't go for every foreign born, only those that we need. We need Abraham for Russia.

Kog45:
The man said it all, our developmental plans have been d issue,truly talents abound in Nigeria but who to discover them.

The secondary schools game is dead,Principal cup gone,YSFON collapsed, NIPOGA game no more attention, NUGA game d same thing, these are d games that produced players for our various national teams.

How can we revive all these is left for various sporting federation to put their house in order and put a great mechanism in place to salvage d situations coz it has reached a stage we just have to do something about it.

Apart from football or may be basketball that are still trying to put smiles on d faces of sports fans,other games brings nothing,d worst of it all is d athletics.

This is a game that has produced great athletes like Dele Udoh,Ahmed Adio,Chidi Imoh,Innocent Egbunike,Mary Onyali,Falilat Ogunkoya,Olapade Adenikan,Ezenwa brothers,Chioma Ajunwa but can we say now,mediocre running for Nigeria.

Football still a force to reckon with coz d talents are abound not that we get it right through fundamentals plans and we should thanks d individuals football academies that spring up to fill d gap created by non functional football federation grassroots plans.

Onigbinde said do we need to beg any foreign born players to play for us?definitely NO but in d absence of good foundation what do we do?we just need to beg.I know d man was referring to Tammy Abraham situation.

The man said just few minutes he was able to discover Enyeama.I remember i had a lengthy discussion with my former university coach in person of Amusa Adisa who happened to be goalkeeper trainer to 2002 WC.

I asked him what gave u that confidence to pick Enyeama ahead of Shorunmu against England, he said when u see a talent irrespective of experience u don't care,he said prior to WC Enyeama had only one cap in a grade b friendly.

I asked why can't we discovered more Enyeama and he said most of our grassroots games are no longer functioning and it w take a miracle to see a special players for national team and our coaches are not helping d situation.

Honestly there are a lot of talents wasting away coz nobody to see them,those saddle with d responsibilities are not doing enough.Thanks for football academies that came to d rescued.

i remember i how i try to convince Ex polish international Emma Olisadebe after our VC cup in d university,I went to him and told him point blank that did u know u are better than KANU Nwankwo,he looked at me and said u are not serious,again during Governor Cup that my school participated,during this match we beat a very solid team 6-1 and he scored 5 goals.The fans in d stadium were surprised to see such talent in d university.The two local league club try to sign him but refused.

Luckily for him he made world university game team and put shooting star Edith Agoye permanently on d bench.It was Fanny Amu that later told him point blank that u are wasting your talent.The rest is history d same Olisadebe later represent Poland in d WC after Nigeria refused to call him.He single handedly took Poland to 2002 WC,had a goal against USA.

To buttress Onigbinde points, talents abound in sec sch,polytechnics, universities and there is need we revive our youth games like Principal cup,YSFON,focus on NIPOGA,NUGA,these are d only way we can save our sports.

I remember my secondary school represented Nigeria in Sweden in handball game and same thing we represent Nigeria in Canada,this was in 80s,so why are we finding it difficult to do d same thing now.

goldfish80:
He was right to kick against the employment of Rohr. At the time employing Rohr was a huge gamble. His CV doesn't exactly inspire much confidence. He hasn't been particularly successful in any of his previous jobs in Africa and even Europe.
We are talking about a guy who was unceremoniously sacked by Club Africain of Tunisia..

“We’ve gotten to the point where we can’t even have one more training session with him, especially from the standpoint of player discipline and the style of play,” club spokesman Taoufik Gahbiche said in a radio interview.

The man is actually very correct when he talked about discovering home grown talents. Let me ask you, these foreign born talents who have ditched us in the past, who among those players have really developed into world class players apart from Alaba and maybe Dele Alli.
Can you drop some names you can say we have really missed in the Super Eagles apart from those 2.