daveP: This Randy Disaster Waldrum is just a mere handler and not a coach, manager, or Tactician.
See if all you see as his addition and reason for keeping this job is the calibre of friendlies and addition of new yankee players,then he should park all of them and getat. Yeah!!!
What's this
He can't even play players in natural position outside a competition mode
Hehehehe
Maybe you guys are ready for Onyenezide to play as DM, na den you that support him go know
Let me Laugh and go back to my Sleep....
God knows i was fighting for the right thing, I had to cut my ties with Randy immediately after the WAFCON set back.. I spoke up they tagged me the bad one.. Some where even writing me privately to not talk again.
Because of this Superfalcons team, I had a serious quarrel with Falcons Media Officer, She Blocked me on WhatsApp, removed me from our General WhatsApp group because I was the only one to stand my ground that Randy isn't good enough for the girls...
I will hardly contribute here again until they do the needful..
isan: Yeah go ahead and blame the NFF for Nigeria passport being weak maybe you don't know US visa is very difficult to process right now
COVID and Laws add up too but Do you know that this Player's are Professional footballers and some of them have played in the US ( Fransisca Ordega, Halimatu Ayinde, Ngozi Okobi) before...
Playing this defense against NWSL top scorer Alex Morgan, good strikers like Sophia Smith, Mallory Pugh, World best ball Crossers Megan Rapineo and Midfielder like Lindsey Horan.
This is tough, Ohale, Demehin and Co will be facing one of the toughest task as Defenders even though it's a Friendly game...
Deltamani: Camp updates as Waldrum drafts in five U20 players to Nigeria squad for United States doubleheader test
Nigeria senior women’s coach Randy Waldrum has invited five members of the Costa Rica 2022 U20 Women’s World Cup team for next month’s two-legged international friendly against United States.
Waldrum has included the Falconets’ stars on his no fewer than 26-woman roster set to seek an upset against the reigning world champions for the first time since last meeting at the Summer Series last June.
The five players include centre back and captain Blessing Oluwatosin Demehin, right back Jumoke Alani, left back Rofiat Imuran, and midfielder Deborah Abiodun and forward Esther Onyenezide.
All invited Falconets’ ladies will be dreaming of an impactful debut at the senior level except for Demehin, who made her debut in the 1-0 defeat to Jamaica at the Summer Series last year on June 10.
The inclusion of the Falconets’ quartet is coming on the heels of the unavailability of some key players due to varying reasons, ranging from visa hitches and club switch.
SavidNews understand that visa hitches had seen Sweden based duo of Halimatu Ayinde and Ngozi Okobi-Okeoghene as well Russia based duo of Francisca Ordega and Macleans Chinonyerem ruled out.
As expected, star striker Asisat Oshoala, who won a record fifth African Women’s Footballer of the Year in July, will also not make the trip as she continues to recover from the injury picked during the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
In a related development, the Super Falcons camp has since opened in Abuja with Nigeria based players, including those from the U20 side at Serob Hotel on Monday.
Besides the five U20 stars, goalkeeper Christy Ohiaeriaku from Edo Queens, Robo Queens forward Monday Gift and Esther Ogbonna Akudo from Rivers Angels complete the list of eight local players.
With visas secured, the eight home based players and officials are scheduled to depart Nigeria for the United States on Tuesday night to unite with foreign professionals ahead of Saturday’s first match in Kansas City.
The nine-time African champions will battle the reigning World champions in their preparation for the 2023 FIFA World Cup, with first clash at the Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas on 3rd September and then have a go at each other’s jugular once more at the Audi Field in Washington, D. C. on 6th September.
This four players are out •• Halimatu Ayinde •• Ngozi Okobi-Okeoghene •• Francisca Ordega •• Macleans Chinonyerem
JohnBullMySon: Patricia may also be due to new club settling. As for Okobi, she better pray that Randy gets fired before the World Cup because as things stand, I believe nothing is ever going to make Randy invite her again and nobody will push for her like that.
The Story isn't Clear yet,. But I will certainly get back to you guys
Osinachi Ohale, Christy Ucheibe, Halimatu Ayinde, Tony Payne, Rasheedat Ajibade are some of the Players names in the list.... Ngozi Okobi, Patricia George surprise exclusion...
BascoVanVeli: She should be giving u ur share of the transfer money 30 minutes or 30 seconds she had good chances and fluffed them all but I am sure u went blind at those moments.
Ur point about Toni and Ashleigh makes no sense because Nicole Payne is also a natural fullback who was kept on the bench by them. Why don't u also shout that she doesn't belong on the team because those 2 kept her on the bench?
Why is Patricia George in the same league as low budget Glory Ogbonna
Such a ridiculous question. They're playing in the same League doesn't mean they're at same level in term of players quality...
Tunisian best player plays in the Turkish League Namibia best player Zenatha Coleman plays in the Turkish League for Fenerbahce Ivory Coast best defender plays for Fenerbahce.. Kenya best player plays in Turkey Ghana best player and Captain Elizabeth Addo plays in Turkey.. Does this mean Glory Ogbonna is in same level with them based on Player quality??
There's no need Schooling him about how bad Glory Ogbonna is as a Left Back...
Patricia George Nicole Payne Ramat Imuran are better full back than the so called Ogbonna..
This is Nigeria, I know the in and out of this team and I have my reason not Spilling out something.. Let's just keep those stories and enjoy the thread..
BascoVanVeli: What does that mean Did Nicole start over Toni or Ashleigh? Another meaningless point.
Nobody has heard about the entire Turkish league so stop the cap. We know fenerbache because of the men's team.
Nicole Payne is still Playing College football, I know too well that she has been developing in a better environment, Glory Ogbonna is still below Average. Take it or leave it.
By the way Fenerbahce is a far bigger Club than ALG Spors as far as the Turkish Women Football is concerned..
The Turkish League currently have most of Africa best players in their various Club... Check well you will see at least 3 African Players in their various Club set up.
BascoVanVeli: Wat happened to the striker u hyped for a whole year on this thread
Isn't Patricia George in the same Turkish league as Glory? How did that come about if she doesn't come close.
Penalty against South Africa and a second yellow card against Ghana. Now tell me what else she did wrong? Just tell me the time in the game.
I never said she should start on the team, I said there is no need to bash her
She was in the Squad for the WAFCON and at least played 30 minutes if am not mistaking... And you can't compare that to someone who have over 10 Caps for the Superfalcons...
By the way she recently moved to high spending Russian side Lokomotive Moscow..
Glory Ogbonna is still a low budget Left back, Couldn't even replace Ebere Ngozi who have been off for long now....
If she was that good Coach Randy Waldrum wouldn't have played Plumptre and Payne ahead of her..
Why play a Makeshift Left Back if Glory Ogbonna was good enough...
Patricia George recently signed for Fenerbahce FC and Yes She's Class ahead of Glory Ogbonna...
BascoVanVeli: Given enough chance to do what? Would u people ever admit when she does something good? When Glory made a single mistake this thread would shake but all I saw during the AWCON was excuse making.
Plumptre and Payne were starting no matter wat so bringing them up adds no points to ur talk.
Let's make this clear, I don't care who u or anybody wants to play for the team but when u start throwing dirt on a players name I don't feel that. I have said the same thing about the Oshoala bashing and I will do the same for every player.
Oh Please don't even go there okay.
Go and watch the following few games and come back later. Incase you don't have the game full clips I will gladly send them to you.
Aisha Buhari Cup against South Africa AWCON qualifying game against Ghana Summer Series game against Portugal Summer Series game against USA
Glory Ogbonna is not even qualify to play the Superfalcons Left Back..
Nicole Payne who's naturally a Right Back is far better than her at Left Back.
As for Patricia George, Glory Ogbonna doesn't come close an inches..
Ramat Imuran proved herself at the U20 what she can bring to the table..
Talking about Tony Payne and Ashleigh Plumptre it would definitely be an insult to them pitching Glory Ogbonna with them. Glory Ogbonna doesn't have such brilliance.
lovewins: 10 days to the Super Falcons Friendly with the USA and the NFF is yet to release a team list. I really do hope they are working with players on the background.
There's no point having a friendly game if the players needed for team building can't feature. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of th Canada experience.
The List will be out soon, Trying to sort out those that would be available and those that wouldn't be available for the Friendly games before making it public..
Any team's first and last hope is the goalkeeper, who controls her goal area. She is capable, brave, and fast to make decisions. A goalkeeper is truly unique.
JohnBullMySon: Is Mr Randy waiting for a bottle of Hennessey before he releases the list
Consistent roster choices leads to good team chemistry which the group of Superfalcon really needs to find with the upcoming World cup next year. Hoping they are clicking and running on all cylinders come Aus/NZ in 2023. Go get that first title, ladies!
lovewins: I joined late so can't provide a context for how the conversation started. I'll however make inferences for what I saw.
Okobi basically shared he experience with Randy Waldrum and the impact of that experience on her and her family.
First, she alleges that Randy had a negative bias towards her. He allegedly said sited not seeing her play before as an excuse for her not being in the team.
She talked about injury spell (not sure if it was hers or Halimatu Ayinde) and how they were hopeful of being in Morocco. After she didn't get the call and Ayinde did, she gave up hope though Ayinde was still hopeful of her being included.
She received a call much later from Randy after it was confirmed Oparanozie couldn't make the team and took a flight to Abuja to join them.
She claims Randy already had a core team he intended to work with and this had nothing to do with your showing in training. (This was exclusive of herself, Ayinde and Ucheibe but claims Ayinde was included last minute). She expressed her displeasure to the Falcons losing the South African game and blames the loss to technical deficiency.
She alleges that Randy probably reads comments on social media and that was pretty probably why he reluctantly used her in the second game. She claims Randy apologized to her after that game (and did so 3 other times in Morocco) after he witnessed what she brought to the team.
Addendum:
She said something about almost having issues with Asisat (didn't exactly get what the issue was)
Also talked about the conversation she had with Randy about captaincy when it became obvious Onome couldn't continue. Apparently her teammates suggested that she take up the responsibility.
Also talked about the role of the media and the effect that had on players. She alleges the Nigerian Media hypes just one (a few) players to the detriment of the team. She says they all read this and this ultimately doesn't help team spirit.
Moving forward, she didn't mince words in suggesting the successes recorded by the team so far is primarily as a result of individual brilliance and had nothing to do with what the coach's contribute technically invariably suggesting the necessity for a new coach
Someone need to speak up, Courage Okobi...
There are more unsaid, one day one day... As for Tobex that so called Superfalcon media officer, I'm coming for her and her bad character... She's one major problem in the team too, Woman what nor like truth... She go still cover Randy up with her stupid write ups....