₦airaland Forum

Napoleon55:
Predator energy drink dey intoxicate person?
The guy is clearly on something stronger.

Thank you. So because i point out the rot and decay in Nigerian football i am on "something"? Gaslight much? You have issues my friend. Seek help.

Napoleon55:
Chukwueze once terrorized both Barcelona and Real Madrid's defense on multiple occasions,so he was once as exciting as it goes.

Only that now,Diamande players in the biggest club in the world.
But they still need to give Diomande 3 to 4 years,if he continues to improve and eclipse all Osimhen and Lookman have achieved, only then it can be allowed to be used to rubbish and make mockery of all present Nigerian players.

Man you are so myopic and clueless. Diomande is like 10 years younger than Osimhen and Lookman. Of course he is yet to accompish what Osimhen and lookman accomplished but its only a matter of time. At 19 he is already playing for RealMadrid. Name 1 Nigerian player that is the same age as Diomande that is Baling at his level? Your corrupt NFF have destroyed the Nigerian age grade system and now we are at the point when we cant even beat the likes of South Sudan, Gambia and Pakistan at U15. Keep deceiving your self.

Napoleon55:
We've had exciting players winning African footballer of the year awards recently but Dimande is yet to win none.

Iheanacho's performances were being reported not hyped.

You are the one guilty of hyping someone now,
Chelle that you now regards or seen as the only light in our football's obliquity,
what major achievements has he recorded for us compared to his predecessors?
Whenever Chelle chooses to leave, even a better coach might even replace him.

It baffles me that some of you are just realizing the precariousness of our football and NFF's incompetence,whereas we have known this for decades,some of us went even far as calling NFF,then NFA the worst organization as far back as late 90s and 2000s.
yet somehow,Nigeria as a nation sometimes manages to make some good out of some bad situations,winning trophies a country as organized as South Africa could only dream of.
All of these is to object that Nigeria is finished,no we are not finished.

Man you are delusional. What has Eric Chelle achieved? Has he been given the time to build his team?? Has he been given the support he needs after winning bronze in Morocco last year? Ordinary contract your corrupt useless NFF dont want to give him because they want Eguavoen to be interim manager for the 1000th time. It took Westerhof 5 years to build the 94 set. If people like you were around back them we would not have gotten to that level. Make some good? Look at our football today. U17 DNQ, U20 DNQ, Super Falcons DNQ, Super Eagles very likely DNQ. Things are far worse now that they were back then. Instead of you to acknowledge the rot in our football, you keep making dumb silly excuses. People like you are part of the problem.

SymphonyRad:
Honestly...when are we going to ever have a player as exciting as Diomande in the SE? watching Diomande today against Barcelona just made me jealous with admiration at how blessed Ivory Coast are, we are far off in quality compared to teams like Morocco, CIV, and Senegal right now. Even teams like DRC with their all-out recruitment of their dual nationals are soon going to overtake us.

We need to get it right with our football direction in 2027 by all means necessary.

How are we going to get players like Diomande when U17 and U20 coaches DEMAND bribes just to make their squads, When hungry corrupt Journalists continue to hype over the hill players like Kelechi Ihenacho because he plays in Turkish 2nd division. Just wait until Chele is finally pushed out. That when your eye will clear. Nigeria is finished.

TheSuperNerd:
The U23 Afcon Qualifiers prep kick off with 31 home based lads.

A lot will be cut from these lots as the foreigns pros will dominate the main list.

Coach Éric Chelle has invited 31 players to the camp of the U23 National Team for next month’s U23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This is a waste of time. 98% of these guys are not good enough.

lbrichman2:
Bro!!

Where are all the shameless agberos and touts that terrorize law abiding citizens in Lagos? They could not travel to abeokuta to keep these Arabs in line. Rubbish.

oloriooko:
POLAND IS A BIG WOMEN FOOTBALLING NATION
THEY HAVE EXPOSED OUR FAILINGS

Not true at all, Yall just like looking for excuses instead of admitting the fct that Nigerian football is a hot mess.

AndSunGorilla:
Interesting that whenever we are winning, we no dey see analysis but let us be struggling, dem go bring out their daggers and bazookas.

You do know we Nigeria 10x Champions did not quialify for the World Cup right? Have you for gotten that for the 1st time in the history of the women's world cup Nigeria will not be at the Mundial. Take your mediocre mentality and shove it where the sun dont shine. By now we should be rubbing shoulders with the likes of USA and Spain and winning Women world cups. Instead you are here twerking for Egu and Danjuma because we beat Comoros. Rubbish. People like you make me sick.

darkelf:
No need for that bolded. It is my opinion

I was referring to his form before joining bologna
If you don't like wat i sad, don't quote me ever again please

Well your opinion is absolute trash. Jay Emem was playing in Serbia and wasnt exacty tearing it up there while Ilehekhana at 17 was scoring in the UCL and in Begium. There is no conceivable objective way Jay Emem is better than George Ilehekahana. I will also quote you if i see fit. Someone has to do the dirty job of checking some of the rubbish being typed here by the likes of you.

darkelf:
After Osimhen and illenikhena, if we can bag th8s guy, then im sure of having a stable striker option
In fact, I rate him over Illenikhena

Based on what exactly? Dude has just 1 goal in Seria A and he is better than Ilehekana that was scoring in the UCL vs Barca at 17 years. Mehn some of you people here have serious issues

TheSuperNerd:
In CECAFA's East African Zone U17 Afcon Qualifiers tournament today, Scots-Ugandan, Sebastian Fisher Quinn (16) scored a hattrick in Uganda's 8-0 win vs Burundi.

His elder bro, 18y/o Olly Quinn also features for the Ugandan U20s.

So yeah, dont feel too shocked when Uganda parades some "white boys" in their senior NT in a couple years. Lol

Uganda is basically getting mercenaries to play for them. This boy, Kingdom Osayi and Akpan Udoh are not Ugandans. I hope Fifa steps in and punishes them. These African countries like Uganda and DRC field ineligible players like its nothing but when Nigeria tries to cap Gift Orban and other eligible Nigerians, it's a problem for everybody.

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SolaFide:
🚨🇳🇬 A remarkable chapter has been added to Nigerian football history! Umar Abubakar and Umar Abdullahi have become the first set of biological brothers to make their senior Super Eagles debuts in the same match and on the same day. 👏🔥

Both brothers came off the bench in Nigeria’s thrilling 3-3 draw against Russia:

🔹 Umar Abubakar of FC Famalicão came on for Moses Simon.

🔹 Umar Abdullahi of FC Hradec Králové also entered in the second half and made an instant impact, delivering the assist for Akor Adams’ dramatic stoppage-time equaliser. ⚽️🔥

Their historic achievement places the Umar brothers in an exclusive group of siblings who have represented Nigeria at senior international level, alongside legendary brother combinations such as the Okochas, Olisehs, Kanus and Uches.

A debut to remember. A family moment for the history books. 🇳🇬❤️

@highlight

They are not brothers.

Schemerkhiz:
🆕 Chelsea Women appoints Lola Ogunbote as Head of Football Operations and Player Services.

She’s previously worked at Burnley as Head of Women’s Football.

— @FootieBlackList

NFF is not interested in people like her because she will block the Nasarawa Amazons to Super Falcons Pipeline

What a joke of a camp. Nigerian coaches and their 419 callups. Never ends never fails. smh

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Napoleon55:
If what you are saying is true,if he still eligible,let him be tried with the U23 team first,if he comes good,fine,but eventually he must move to Europe if he hope to continue with super eagles.
We wouldn't want to witness another Tanimu episode

Ogbelu is over the age of 23 and so cannot play U23 anymore.

Why do they keep excluding Chioma Okafor??

CAF is fast becoming the laughing stock of international football. If you win a tournament you better wait at least 1 year just to be sure you actully won it.

Friday Etim and Stanley Ihenacho deserved a look in this window. Better them than Uncle Kelechi

Blueelf:
Ebenezer isn't as good as you guys are touting him

He is an Nwakali 2.0

At least Nwakali had good passing and vision, just wasn't hardworking or serious enough

Ebenezer hardly has one good quality as a midfielder. Has been overrated from day 1

lies

TheSuperNerd:
3 Anglo-Nigerian talents called up to the Latest England U19s Squad.

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 CM, Ife David Ibrahim (Arsenal U21s)

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬 FW, Chizaram Ezenwata (Chelsea U21s)

18y/o 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇬🇺🇲 RB, Wesley Okoduwa (Wolves U21s)


FootNote: Getting Ife Ibrahim just got more difficult but he remains on the radar.

Its not difficult. Lookman played for England all the way to U21s and we still got him.

AndSunGorilla:
Really appreciate this post. I had initially painted you with a wrong brush that only foreign borns or foreign based impress you. Now I know better.

Stop gaslighting people here. Its not about liking foregin born more. Its about giving them equal opportunities to represent Nigeria like their home-grown counterparts. They are also Nigerians. The likes of Iwobi, Aina, Bassey, Lookman, Alozie, Plumtrie, Okoronkwo etc were born abroad and have brought pride and joy to Nigerians. What is your beef with them? Some of us just want the best players to represent Nigeria regardless of tribe or where they were born without politics and quota system. Is that too much to ask?

Napoleon55:
Guy take your mediocrity somewhere else if you can't be logical in your thoughts.
If the mediocrity of qualifying to the world cup and make up the number is all you desire, take it up with DR Congo.
As for us Nigerians, we are known to compete for the title not just be part of the competitions,Naija no dey carry last.

Nigeria is in precarious state of affairs right now,we are down,that does not mean we are out,
Nigeria will bounce back and reclaim her glory in sports at least,in due time.
Your deep rooted pessimism is noted,but that's it,folks like you are many,but there is nothing your negativity can do to stop us from rising when the time comes.

None of your DR Congo's players are in the class of Oliseh,Amokachi and Ikpeba that you mentioned,these are top level players that DR Congo can only dream of,
yes,these are the types of players we need now, these players took Nigeria from the level where they were to greater heights,we need the players that could surpass what those USA '94 achieved,you would agree if only you could see beyond your nose.

If they ask you a simple question now "like what's wrong with Nigeria football and a way forward",all u would do is dance in circles and dribble your yourself then torrents of tirades and vituperations.

If you think you can profer a solution,present it in a logical and respectful manner, your continuous stream of insults,blame and complaints is rather seem feeble and can do nothing.

Italy and Nigeria have failed to qualify for back to back world cup,Nigeria,due to NFF's incompetence which is currently being addressed,but they are still a force to be reckon with in football.

Nigeria still have the highest number of football titles in Africa thus the biggest football nation in Africa, let that sink.

The way forward is the rid Nigerian football of people like you who are content with mediocrity and celebrating successes from 30+ years ago. USA94 was 32 years ago. By now a country as big as Nigeria should be creating new memories for the new generation instead we are still celebrating USA94 accomplishments like it was yesterday. Why? because of our recent failures. You mentality is so pathetic. So because Italy didint qualify for 3 world cups we should join them and be content with missing world cups abi? Morocco has reached a Word Cup semis while the so called giant of Africa is DNQing. How did they do it? By ensuring only the best of the best wears their jersies. It dont matter if they were born in Rabat, Marrackesh, Brussels, Madrid, Paris etc. They call up their best legs. People like you OTOH dont want to make the effort to attract the best Nigerian players wherever they may be born at. You are content with being lazy and inviting the same mediocre players and content with DNQing. Unfortunately those in the NFF share your myopic way of thinking hence why we are rock bottom.

Napoleon55:
DR Congo manage qualify to the world cup ahead us person no go hear word again because of foreign born.
South Africa wey no even get foreign born dey go world cup also.

The foreign borns we really need are those that have what it takes to take us to the next level like the world cup finals or AFCON trophy.

We missed out on back 2 back qualifications yet you minimize such failures and downplay DrC recent accomplishments. Yeah people like you are whats wrong with Nigerian football and Nigeria in general. Keep on wallowing in mediocrity. Also what do you mean by "the ones that will take us to the World cup finals" did the likes of Oliseh, Amocahi, Ikpeba etc even come close to that level? The best Nigerian players now are those born overseas while your local champions are balling in Turkish 2nd division at 40 years old.

Amedino99:
The player is following the coach on instagram? Oh wow, that eases my mind. Its not as if Tosin has posted his picture wearing our jersey on instagram while he is still waiting for an england call up at the age of 28. You better wake up to reality. DR Congo are recruiting players? Of course they will. Who else is fighting them for their players?. Switch the nationalities of those player and we will have equal chances of bagging them. DRC decided to pivot from fighting for players that have a fighting chance of playing for european countries and their rates improved. We are still stuck in fighting england for players of course we wont have much success rate. Look at their recent list and pick out players you are sure are very sure will have been capped by their european country if DR did not call them up.

Muiko of Ajax played for Belgium in a qualifier. He is good enough to play for Belgium but chose DrC because their federation unlike ours are serious. Some of the players like Ozoh are not even on England radar yet you assume they don't want to play for Nigeria. Dude plaYs for Derby County. Nigeria is his best option for international football. The problem with some of you is that because a high profile target regects Nigeria like Olise, you guys just assume non of Forien borns want to play for Nigeria which is just dumb. Lamine Yamal rejected Morocco but that did not stop Morocco from recruiting more players. You people need to wake up for real.

Amedino99:
It has always played out the same way. They will claim they need time to sort their future before committing to us but they wont turn down age grade invitations. They know that holding out till like age 27 and declaring for the african country is a tactic that rarely goes bad so far your career is still progressing on a normal level.

You guys are just gossiping like market women. This guy follows Eric Chelle on Instagram. He wants to play for Nigeria. Instead of being aggressive and convincing more players from the diaspora, you just assume that they dont want to play for Nigeria. Very soon Nigeria will slide into minnow territory with Somalia and Sao Tome. See how Dr Congo are recruiting players while you guys are calling for 40 year old Ihenacho to return. You guys here are jokers.

AndSunGorilla:
My opinion is that, he doesn't really want to play for us.

Stop spreading lies here. Ozoh never turned us down. He wanted to sort out his club future before playing for Nigeria. Also he needs a switch of allegencs.

Napoleon55:
It is now our local coaches that hardly last on the job is the reason we fail to convince them?

You failed to to answer any of my questions,and then creates one for me to answer,
anyways,technical backroom staff to privately contact, monitor, and recruit dual-nationality prospects across Europe was created,their names are confidential, just as you don't have the name of the person that help DR Congo recruit their diaspora players.

I dont have to answer any of your questions. You are a waste of time and a distraction to me. We all know what needs to be done to get Nigeria football to be better but people like you play dumb and act like this is harder than brain surgery or rocket science. If the Congolese who have been dysfunctional for decades can figure it out why cant Nigerians in the NFF do the same? Have a nice day.

The girls need to stage a boycott. This is bullshiiit

Napoleon55:
What do you think that the NFF should do in getting top talented players?
and what do you think that NFF would have done in convincing very talented players like Olise and Tammy Abraham even though they have other preferences before they chose other countries?

"Top talented players" according to who? The only time we get diaspora borns is when we have foreign coaches. Our local coaches are too lazy to scout and recruit diaspora born. They are also corrupt. The NFF led by Ibrahim Gausau put a ban on diaspora born playing in the age grade teams and local journalists continue to package below average homebased players. These are the root causes of the problem. Address that and every other issue will solve itself. Stop playing dumb. DRC FA have a go to person that helps them recruit from their diaspora. Who is our "person" Lets start from there.

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elyte89:
When it comes to convincing players easily,I will give it to dr Congo and Morocco 🇲🇦 and to some extent Senegal 🇸🇳

I believe this has to do more of the love for their country cos tell what dr Congo have ,dt we don’t have ..infact brand wise, we re bigger (I don’t want to go into infrastructure;cos both countries don’t have infrastructure) so my question is why do we find it hard to convince our own players ,even if we finally succeed ,it takes years before it materialises.

Oga your NFF is the biggest problem. Congo that is war torn is attracting players. What is our excuse? The NFF, Local coaches and the local journalists keep forcing this homebased agenda while neglecting the diaspora. This is where the problem is. Other countries invites their brightest and best while Nigeria is still trying to call up the likes of Sodiq Bending and a 40 year old Ihenacho.

TheSuperNerd:
Just wanna see Janet Semenya in this U20 team working with Mamudu, Joseph and an Oscar off the bench. I know they wont reach the semis and may not even touch the Quarters (never can tell though), but I need to see that combo and how they fare with her Semenya's addition. Missing Moshood was already enough blow.


Hopefully Oscar takes as much experience from this to add to the U17 team that looks even more exciting with even more talented girls like Adegbuyi, Harmony, Queen Joseph, Kindness Ifeanyi and co.

How many times will Chidi Harmony repeat U17?? She should be with this U20 team. This team struggles to score goals. We all saw that in the qualifiers yet the coaaches left out Harmony that is our best striker because she is still "Young". This is the nonsence that we like doing that is stunting our football. Harmony and Ifeanyi Kindness should have been part of this U20 team. If not that Edo Queens had the WAFUb tournament, i would have thrown in that Kemi girl too.