BascoVanVeli:

Why do you like comparing apples and oranges?

Barryseal:


Finidi and Amokachi had the benefit of national team exposure which aided their transition to Europe. If Odeh and Lokosa came into limelight during Finidi's era, you bet they would have got a look in by Westerhoff and probably get signed by the likes of Ajax from Mfm and pillars.
I speak with confidence because they scored about 17 goals apiece, I'm sure neither Finidi nor Amokachi scored as many times.

TheGoodJoe:
To improve our local leagues need investment in the pitches and training of young coaches in a large number to boost creative play. This in turn will allow teams play better and give quality talents the room to shine.

Thus, helping the National team handlers the ability to pick gems.

On another front, it takes hard work and effort to sieve out gems in our local league currently, something Rohr and his crew are not ready to go through.

tbaba1234:


How many NPFL players are making similar progression though? very few.

The academy guys are also securing the bigger moves but it is much harder to make the first team of big teams.

Ipalibo has been in Villarreal youth sides for a few years now. We have a few boys who have played for Porto with no chance at first team football. How many NPFL players get signed to such teams??

The point is that the players rising to the top for the most part are not NPFL players. They are players picked from academies. Odey is the only NPFL player on a positive trajectory at the moment.

soetanoreoluwa:
Format of the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Agenda: CAF General Assembly / Assemblée Générale
The African qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will held in three rounds; preliminary round, group stage and playoffs.

1[b]. Preliminary Round [/b]

The 26 highest ranked teams, according to the official FIFA ranking will be exempted from the preliminary round leaving 28 participating teams. Of these 28 teams, the 14 highest ranked teams according to the FIFA ranking (released on 25 July 2019) will play against the 14 least ranked teams (the 1st leg will be played at home of the lower ranked teams).

The 28 teams are Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros, Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mauritius, Gambia, South Sudan, Chad, Sao Tomé e Principe, Seychelles, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea.

The draw for the preliminary round will take place on Monday, 29 July 2019, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt at 10H00 GMT.

Schedule: 2-10 September 2019 (both legs)

2. Group Stage

The 14 winning teams from the Preliminary Round will join the 26 exempted teams for the Group Stage, which will have 10 groups of 4 teams each. The draw for the groups will be based on the seeding of the 40 teams into 4 Pots according to the official ranking of FIFA. Each group will contain a team from each of the pot.

The details for draw will communicated later. However, the schedule are as follows;

Day 1: 23-31 March 2020

Day 2: 1-9 June 2020

Day 3 & 4: 22-30 March 2021

Day 5: 30 August – 7 September 2021

Day 6: 4-12 October 2021

3. Playoff

The winners of the 10 groups will be divided into 2 Pots based on the official ranking of FIFA. The five (5) highest ranked teams according to the official FIFA ranking will play against the 5 least ranked teams (the 1st leg will be played at home of the lower ranked teams).

Schedule: 8-16 November 2021 (both legs)

The five winners will qualify to represent Africa at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

tbaba1234:


Someone attributed Finidi George joining Ajax to just National team boost but the player needs to be quality first. We have seen local players with national team boosts who went nowhere.

tbaba1234:


Where are these gems??

We should have seen them in the super 6 or the Aeito cup final.

tbaba1234:


Where are these gems??

We should have seen them in the super 6 or the Aeito cup final.

Truidstar:


To compare odey and lokosa to Finidi and Amokachi is an INSULT. Finidi strolled from the sharks of port harcourt into Ajax first team without trials same as Amokachi into club brugge. Nigeria was dripping with quality back then. We don't have that now. Let's face the facts, our league is dead.

Icon4s:


Creating and visiting a separate thread for the Olympics team may not be so convenient. You saw how the Last Flying Eagles thread just died. People prefered discussing their matches here. Same goes for the Eaglets and even Falcons thread.

For me the Olympics team is a mini-Super Eagles team and so we should discuss Tokyo 2020 qualifiers here.

And finally I think the current title by terzurum5 is ok.

Barryseal:


Is Ozornwafor not on a positive trajectory? How about Philip Azango at Gent. Jnr Lokosa is doing well at Esperance playing in the Caf finals. Etebor is on to something at Stoke City.

For what it's worth, the league have been serviceable. None of the national teams with a make up of NPFL players have been disgraced out of a competition, rather they have delivered Afcon gold and Olympic Bronze.
Only God knows what we can achieve if there was real investment in our league.

soetanoreoluwa:
Format of the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Agenda: CAF General Assembly / Assemblée Générale
The African qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will held in three rounds; preliminary round, group stage and playoffs.

1[b]. Preliminary Round [/b]

The 26 highest ranked teams, according to the official FIFA ranking will be exempted from the preliminary round leaving 28 participating teams. Of these 28 teams, the 14 highest ranked teams according to the FIFA ranking (released on 25 July 2019) will play against the 14 least ranked teams (the 1st leg will be played at home of the lower ranked teams).

The 28 teams are Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros, Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mauritius, Gambia, South Sudan, Chad, Sao Tomé e Principe, Seychelles, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea.

The draw for the preliminary round will take place on Monday, 29 July 2019, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt at 10H00 GMT.

Schedule: 2-10 September 2019 (both legs)

2. Group Stage

The 14 winning teams from the Preliminary Round will join the 26 exempted teams for the Group Stage, which will have 10 groups of 4 teams each. The draw for the groups will be based on the seeding of the 40 teams into 4 Pots according to the official ranking of FIFA. Each group will contain a team from each of the pot.

The details for draw will communicated later. However, the schedule are as follows;

Day 1: 23-31 March 2020

Day 2: 1-9 June 2020

Day 3 & 4: 22-30 March 2021

Day 5: 30 August – 7 September 2021

Day 6: 4-12 October 2021

3. Playoff

The winners of the 10 groups will be divided into 2 Pots based on the official ranking of FIFA. The five (5) highest ranked teams according to the official FIFA ranking will play against the 5 least ranked teams (the 1st leg will be played at home of the lower ranked teams).

Schedule: 8-16 November 2021 (both legs)

The five winners will qualify to represent Africa at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

tbaba1234:


Ozornwafor has not even played one season but i believe he will do well.

Azango is not doing well at Gent
Lokosa? Tunisia? Let us see his development.

Etebo is one of the few local players in recent times that has risen but there are far too many failures.

How many of these players with AFCON gold are still around?

The league should be producing players that can serve for a few years.

Truidstar:


To compare odey and lokosa to Finidi and Amokachi is an INSULT. Finidi strolled from the sharks of port harcourt into Ajax first team without trials same as Amokachi into club brugge. Nigeria was dripping with quality back then. We don't have that now. Let's face the facts, our league is dead.

soetanoreoluwa:
Desperate Nigerian coaches want NFF to sack Rohr, says Pinnick





President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has revealed that some desperate coaches, who want to take over the Super Eagles’ job, are those engineering some Nigerians to call for the sack of coach Gernot Rohr.

Even before the Super Eagles beat Tunisia in the bronze medal match at the just concluded Egypt 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON), some Nigerians had begun a campaign for the NFF to do away with Rohr, claiming that the coach had lost ideas on how to improve the nation’s football.

Speaking with The Guardian yesterday, Pinnick stated that no amount of campaign and blackmail against Rohr would force the NFF to change its stand about him.

“Does it really make sense for the NFF to sack Rohr now?” Pinnick asked. “What are his offenses? Some Nigerian coaches who are so desperate to take over the Super Eagles are those engineering people to mount pressure on the NFF to sack the coach. But we won’t give them that chance. We know them, and what they are capable of offering the nation as coaches. “Nobody can push us around again on issues concerning appointment of coaches. We gave some of them the chance to prove themselves in the past but failed woefully.”

“Rohr still has existing contract with the NFF and we believe in him. We appointed him in 2016 with the mandate to qualify Nigeria to Russia 2018 World Cup, and he did it. The Super Eagles finished unbeaten from a tough Group B that had Zambia, Cameroun and Algeria. We later extended his contract to 2020 after he qualified the team for the Nations Cup. The fact that the Super Eagles couldn’t win the AFCON title in Egypt is not enough for people to clamour for his sack. So many countries are looking for him (Rohr) as we speak. We should be thinking on how to build the team for future challenges and not how to look for money to pay off the coach and his assistance, and then begin the search for new ones. No, that is not in our agenda.

“I want Nigerians to remember where we are coming from. Before Rohr took over, we could not qualify for two editions of the Nations Cup. He qualified us to Russia 2018 with a game in hand and also booked the ticket to Egypt 2019 with a game in hand. And in Egypt, Rohr qualified us to the round of 16 with a game in hand. So, why should we sack him?,” Pinnick queried.

soetanoreoluwa:
Henry Onyekuru denied work permit set for another loan.

forgiveness:


If he had played in all the matches at the AFCON, he would have been issued work permit.

forgiveness:


If he had played in all the matches at the AFCON, he would have been issued work permit.

Earthquake1:
Messi is definitely going to win the Puskas with that free kick against Liverpool

mostob:
the funny thing is that he scored better goals this season.

gustav25:
Hahahha.... They clowns have changed their title again . Long may your heartbreaks and wailings continue

gustav25:
Onyekuru will bench all Bayern Wingers

Samu is going to Liverpool to bench all their players
Samu is bigger than Villareal

Any Nigerian winger will bench Mahrez at Mancity because he isn't intelligent

Iheanacho Nacho pigmouth is better than mbappe

Iheanacho has Rodgers and will score a gazillion goals

The system at Leceister is making Iheanacho not to Shine

Isaac Success the beast( 3 goals in 10 years)


CLOWNS !!!!

mostob:
the funny thing is that he scored better goals this season.

Barryseal:


Finidi and Amokachi had the benefit of national team exposure which aided their transition to Europe. If Odeh and Lokosa came into limelight during Finidi's era, you bet they would have got a look in by Westerhoff and probably get signed by the likes of Ajax from Mfm and pillars.
I speak with confidence because they scored about 17 goals apiece, I'm sure neither Finidi nor Amokachi scored as many times.

komekn:


Some people ple said he was our best defender in the AFCON.

Should he not be moving upwards as opposed to staying in Turkey with his exceptional talent.

tbaba1234:


Nigerian players love Turkey for pecuniary reasons.