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All said, Rabiu Ibrahim deserved a look in instead of all the DM's Lagerback picked.

stop comparing the two. Taye is the next R.carlos and you compare him with someone struggling to feature for his 2nd tier clubside

Sporting Life claim its their usual impeccable source at the Glass House. Can't find anything online to verify that sha. But Sporting Life usually gets it right.

Source is sporting life front page today. Still need a confirmation on the report though quite a reputable source. The list includes enyeama,ejide,ayenuba,yobo,shittu,odiah,echeijiule,taiwo,apam,adeleye,olubayo,sodje,afolabi,etuhu,ajilore,mikel,kaita, k.uche,haruna,ibrahim,p.utaka,odems,yak,anichebe,nsofor,v.moses,ekpo,akpala,eneramo,r.azeez,ojabu,musa, i.thankgod,s.emma,salami,ajoboh,c.okonkwo,osas,f.chukudi,i.uche,yusuf

I just learnt from sporting life that scoops reveal a 42 man list submitted from the initial 45 by lagerback to NFF. It includes the usual suspects excluding the three above, also with some interesting new faces. Anyone know about verifying this report?

deb:
Second, football is beyond kicking the ball its also a psychological game so you always do your part deliberately to affect
the psyche of the refree no matter how strong he might want to prove to be. That way the next decision he makes about you
or your team will be done with caution. Such psychological work could make a refree who just gave a player red card to over look
another red card offense if your team commits another one. It all depends, you play the game kicking the ball and you also play the psychological part
to your own advantage.

I wish Nigerian footballers understood this because you will see them at the world cup just accepting everything thrown at them while
Argentina, Brazil, Italy, England and the rest will deliberately 'work' the refree on his decisions to their over all advantage on the field of play.
Even Tunisia, Algeria and Egypy understood that basic psychological principle.

Something Amodu couldn't work on. Hopefully Lagerback would show them the way.

montelik:

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Correction
Did Sweden finish 3rd at USA 94? True. Sweden finished third defeating Bulgaria in the 3rd place play-off.

Was Lars Lagerback the coach of the Swedish team that came 3rd at USA 94? NO. He didn't even go to USA 94. The coach of Sweden's USA 94 squad was Tommy Svensson.

Get your facts straight. Because you no like Amodu does not mean you should begin to inflate Lagerback's CV. He already has a better record than Amodu without exaggeration.

He assisted the 94 coach. confirm on wikipedia.

honeric01:
What achievements does your king of kings have that supersedes what Amodu has?

Being an assistant to a 3rd place winning coach is better than Amodu can dream of.

no be okonkwo hold am for olympics he's magnifique for Barcelona, not so Argentina.

el messias

honeric01:
This list is kinda not consistent and i don't believe the list one bit.

which list again

Kaita is sluggish, drab and so unentertaining. But he somehow managed both sia1 silver winning teams and put up a disciplined display at the ANC. He did better than Etuhu and the lot in D4. Kanu is still a match winner, the reason he continues to feature as match winner for an EPL side. THe Yak remains the EPL '2nd best foreigner' Yak.I am sure Lagerback would trim down his team to 23 after the colombia friendly,so the final 23 out of 45 would know their status after, not before, the game. Lagerback is an astute gaffer who i feel would be fair in his judgement. My list would most probably be final barring any unforseen circumstances (injuries e.t.c). Ibrahim may not cut it.

Goalkeepers:
Enyeama
Ejide
AIyenugba

Defenders:
Odibe
Adeleye
Yobo
Apam
Onuoha
Okonkwo
Taiwo
Echeijile

Midfielders:
Mikel
Haruna
Kaita
Ibrahim
Ajilore
Kalu Uche/Yak


Attackers:
Odems
Obasi
Obagoal
Nsofor
Kanu
Ik Uche

4-2-1-3 or 4-1-2-3 or 4-2-3-1. Mikel always with the 2.
Enyeama

Okonkwo/Onuoha yobo/adeleye Odibe/apam taiwo/echiejile



Mikel/kaita//Ibrahim/Ajilore
Haruna/Kalu Uche Odemwingie/Nsofor

i.uche/Obasi

Kanu/Martins/Yak

Face it, the guy can't be just abt 2 years older than Pato in the same pic. Mind you he's already played for 3 naija clubsides.

who and who is on the list

Try and be objective without premordial sentiment. Olubayo can't start in Boulogne, Odiah is for bench in CKSA. I'd rather have Apam at RB.other than that i think he can battle for the shirt. As for mama-gee, let the lady be. A little humor cant hurt

ik ucke

Iyineda:
I was just about to create a thread dedicated to these 2 players. Ideye Brown is the man who caught my eye. I didn't know he was Nigerian until the commentators mentionned it after he scored Sochaux's 3rd.
Interesting prospect. He is barely 22 and looks like it.

Looks may be decieving especially when it involves a former under-age nigerian player. AS for performance, he's been doing well. It won't hurt to check him out

ayusco:
FATKUBU & LACKLUSTER UTAKA? I LAFF IN SIOUX INDIAN

Yak is the second best foreigner after Henry in EPL. Stop dissing the guy. He's had a season long lay-off and after recuperating i assure you would have a slot in lagerback's team. I dunno abt Utaka but as for Shittu, why do you think he's starved of playing time? Do you think its cos he didn't do well against mediocre opposition in ANC, or that he can't just cope with the pace of EPL? All he's good for is balooning the ball. Work rate or not, you need to be intelligent to survive today's game.
@topic
Lagerback is the man we'v bn waiting for to save our football. kudos to him. you aint seen nothing yet. When i saw the way he analysed what a striker's role is on UEFA.com, i knew there's more to him than meets the eye.

FBS:
That guy na player. Just what the doc prescribed.

He should have already benched all those DM in SE. Though i see a Mikel, Haruna/Ajilore/Obiora, Ibrahim midfield as preferable. Dump all those Etuhu's, Ayila's, Olofinjana's e.t.c

Tommy Smith

We'll see how well he does. Me thinks he can achieve the semis. And he was part of the Technical crew of the bronze winning 94 team.

so Enyimba is the greatest thus far? Need more NPL dominance though.

^^^ yes ooo. Lagerback can solve the problem. check out zanetti at Inter.

Anyone calling for Okocha's reinstatement is hereby banished from NL. slowpoke

yeeeeeeaaaaah search. maybe beg onuoha to play for us

marutimon:
Kaka? I'm sorry, but Kaka is one of the most overrated players in history. Eto'o, Drogba and Essien are all way better players.

the same Kaka that single-handedly won Milan its last CL the one that destroyed Man U
let me quote Tommy Smith of ESPN on Kaka"that boy can play(2003)"

He earned more as swedish coach.as a mecenary, he should earn more here in naija rather than there.taking a pay-cut,thats sacrificing. all of una supporting Onigbinde, after Lagerback analysed the naija-sweden game in 2002, onigbinde finally understood why he lost the game:he left his brains at home.

whether u like am, whether u no like am, Mikel remains a big boy at Stamford bridge

Which team is the giant of NPL? Enyimba

leave all the dimwits on NL. when you see eboue's improvement at Arsenal,you imagine wat Taiwo would do if he has a good defensive trainer. some thing our oyinbo coach should work on.

you mean after George Weah abi
African players don't gat wat it takes to rise above the rest.Unfortunately for them,the era of Drogba's and Eto'o's fell within the era of El messias, kaka's and CR7's/9's.

Kanu is a match winner,yakubu doing well for his club, yobo is crocked but still our captain. olofin, just can't make the cut.
Ajilore as DM, Onuoha is good, anichebe crocked, olubayo is playing (or not playing) for boulogne, Ike and Adeleye thumbs up.