₦airaland Forum

Papi85:
U be Gen Z cus it’s obvious u no knw club wey be locomotive Moscow

Papi85:
Locomotive Moscow were household name in Russian football then and played regularly in the UCL

Papi85:
he played for Anderlecht, Grasshoppers, locomotive Moscow and Cadiz

Papi85:
the same Keshi that invited an unattached player from the local scene for the qualifiers against Chad Abi Niger and handed the player the reverend number 10 shirt in kaduna 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think that was his last game as coach of the super eagles

Have you asked yourself how Uche Nwafor who was struggling to get game time at vv venlo then and featured mostly for the clubs U21 side made the World Cup team ahead of Martins who was flying with levante in Spain then, Imoh Ezekiel who was banging in goals for fun at Belgium in the colors of standard liege and Ikechukwu Uche who also was doing well in laliga

Same goes to Uchebo (flavor na abania) who didn’t get to 8 goals that season for lowly rated Cecile Brugge in the Belgian league but made the World Cup team. The same league a young imoh Ezekiel was destroying in the colors of standard liege but wasn’t deemed good enough



Oshaniwa made it to the World Cup ahead of Taiwo who was doing pretty well with dynamo kiev

Ruben Gabriel made it to the same World Cup ahead of Haruna Lukman who was doing well for dynamo kieve and Ajagun who was a regular with Greek giants panathiniakos

Do you know that if not for top men in Nigerian football house Keshi almost dropped Yobo and odemwingie for that World Cup?


To cap it all after that World Cup all the undeserving players he smuggled to the super eagles their career got stalled and were not heard about till date 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bros leave matter abeg

Napoleon55:
This one you are rating only Okocha ahead of Obiora,though I like Obiora,
But what of Mikel? which position did he mainly played for super eagles, if you ask me,it's the same central attacking midfield.
What of other CAM that played in the 80s and 90s,even our Iwobi.

Kog45:
James Obiorah na baller..he was so young when he came to Kwara bomber.He came straight to Ilorin from eaglet camp with Kwara bomber defender Taofeek Babatunde who he met in eaglet camp...his first 15 minutes five aside training convinced the coaches.

He was unofficially blacklisted for eagles call ups due to what happened between him and coach Bitrus Bewarang.....

He was on the bench for Obodo and Nigeria was about to miss Olympic qualification with 10 minutes remaining,after much pressures from fans and assistant coaches on the bench,he was introduced,changed the game instantly,won a free kick and converted it, spectators went wild with jubilations

Yes he was wrong for putting one of his fingers toward the bench symbolizing "that coach you no sabi wetin you dey do for benching me"

ChrisKels:
Chelle is already gathering his men. If he succeeds in getting Iroegbu, Ugo and Ileni on board, you will see something different. I feel he has even had enough of Osimhen's attitude hence he is fighting to have a good backup that can easily stand in once Osimhen misbehaves.

chrisooblog:
This! I was watching an interview by Frank Onyeka and he was asked what he wished he knew earlier in his career and he spoke about how he wish he had intentionally built a team eg accountants, publicist, social media manager etc to manage his overall brand.

Osimhen unfortunately doesn't appreciate the level of his brand and is moving like some young upstart who's making his first millions.

Kog45:
I made my submission you said NO but you are expecting me to accept your own submission....you made an allegations without facts and am replying with my little facts,you know wan gree.

Okay tell us those boys Siasia and Eguavoen collected money from....

Okay,a question,does Nigeria foreign coaches from time immemorial collect bribe from players or agents

Kog45:
Building the team around players like Ndidi,Simon then we should forget world cup again, that's basic truth,missing two world cups is like 6 years in a career of a player

Kog45:
It's a pity that someone like Osimhen at this stage is playing for Gala,well money go dey but nobody would bring Gala players into conversations talking real stars

Kog45:
Onigbinde dropped Oruma and picked James Obiorah, everybody were shouting baba don collect money but did you know that the man didn't collected a dime...am sorry if I said I have old players as friends,am not joking na fact...I boarded the same flight with James Obiorah to Accra in 2015,James is a friend that do come to our house when he was in Ilorin to chill.. James I know will never give bribe,I asked him about Onigbinde and bribery allegations he just smiled,you sabi me Kay.

ChrisKels:
I came here to read about summer transfers but everywhere looks dry. Charles what's the problem, na say barber no sabi barb again abi the razor blade no dey sharp? Sammer us with some news wey dey sweet bele nah.

What's up with these expected moves;
Fernandez?
Femi Azeez?
Osimhen?
Etc 🙄

NasirIbnLaAhad:
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‎If you ask me, Edafe actually said some things that needed saying. You see, Nigerians just don't like to hear the truth. Especially when it's presented so plainly as a matter of fact without polishing and soft landings. The only problem here is that he actually mixed up a lot of his claims with so much factual errors that it's now easy for everybody to just wave the whole thing off. Which is annoying, because a) he's mostly correct with his arguments but b) making blatant factual errors also makes him a part of the problem as well, because we should be educating people on the FACTS, not making up nonsense.
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‎Okay, for instance, Edafe said FIFA rankings started in 1994 and that the top five spots back then belonged to the five regional champions -- which is hilariously wrong. FIFA rankings actually kicked off in December 1992. And yes, Nigeria did hit 5th in April 1994 after winning AFCON, but the other four teams in that top five were Brazil, Germany, Norway and Switzerland. First, Argentina were the 1993 Copa America defending champions and not Brazil. Secondly, Norway and Switzerland had never won any regional trophy in their lives. They were just in form at the time. I'm surprised no one in that room thought to fact check him on this and it showed that none of them bothered to do their due diligence and make proper research before recording the video.
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‎It's these kind of schoolboy gaffes that make people stop listening no matter how strong the spine of your argument is. Once someone catches you fumbling something this easy to check, they start wondering what else you got wrong.
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‎Also our 2013 AFCON win was anything but luck. Calling that win luck isn't just wrong, it's disrespectful to Stephen Keshi's memory and to every player who fought for that trophy. I recall nobody gave Nigeria a chance in hell going into that tournament. Keshi built a squad around home-based boys. Home based! Let that sink in. Meanwhile Ivory Coast rolled in with their "golden generation" and were clear favourites, having reached the final just last year in Equatorial Guinea-Gabon. And yet Nigeria beat them 2-1 in the quarters. Keshi himself said the boys showed character, that when he played for Nigeria he had to fight for everything and that's exactly what they did that day. Even Enyeama admitted they weren't the "golden generation" type of talent, but they had a bond most teams would kill for. How is that luck? Edafe is the same person talking about how the biggest teams in the World had a culture during their moments of dominance so how did he miss the fact that Nigeria at the 2013 AFCON had a culture defined by cocunut head, iron teeth, physical, never say die football?

‎These are the blunders that make him sound ridiculous, but like I said earlier, the man wasn't entirely talking nonsense.
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‎Point one: Nigerians are arrogant, easily satisfied, and terrible at long-term planning. That's a cold brutal fact and anyone that disagrees is too far up his own arse not to see it. One AFCON win, one decent friendly result against a European side, and suddenly we're acting like world beaters. We have no plan, no building, no structure, nothing at all except vibes. 2026 World Cup qualifiers, we were drawn with Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Benin and South Africa, with nine African slots up for grabs, and we still couldn't secure automatic qualification. A country that made three straight World Cups between '94 and '98 couldn't get through a group with minnows and a war-torn nation in it. We had all the time in the World to get a new coach and draw up a blueprint to not just qualify but compete at the actual tournament and yet we didn't do jack.
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‎Point two: our current players are indeed overhyped. I wouldn't go as far as calling them "shit" as Edafe did, that's too harsh. Osimhen, Lookman, Iwobi are genuinely gifted footballers. But we as fans rate them 8s and 9s when on the pitch they're really just 5s and 6s. There's a real gap between how good we think they are and what they actually produce. And the bigger issue in my own opinion, which I will add to Edafe's argument there is: work ethic and mentality.
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‎Remember the training boycott right before the World Cup playoff, over unpaid allowances, days before a must-win match? The DR Congo collapse? Nigeria up early, Osimhen goes off injured, and the whole team falls apart and loses on penalties. Once Osimhen left the pitch, that was that. Then there's Troost-Ekong hosting a charity match back home while qualifiers were still live. Lol. And then some people will get their knickers in a twist when these players are rightly called out for their poor decision making?
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‎Come on.
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‎Anyway, long story short, Edafe might have spewed a few nonsensical statements here and there, but overall, he's not wrong. It's just sad that both him and his staff can't bother to do some actual research so they don't actually come across sounding like they don't know what they're saying.

ChrisKels:
I was in Bendel Insurance and Uromi United

ChrisKels:
Number one striker

ChrisKels:
Not surprised you don't know what a decade means, after all you be olodo otherwise you would have known that 2018 is part of the last decade.

Na just say if I decide to enter a friendly banter here, it will end up going the tribal way but since an SE striker left the scene we have not won the AFCON and neither have we gone past the group stage of the world cup (2018 Ighalo). As you said, our strike chief that was supposed to deliver opps make we chop glory in 2022 and now this 2026 matters na Osimhen oo.

The last glories(2013/14) wey we test na when the butcher was from SE so no go there oo

EElopa:
Continue deceiving yourself. Go and look at Nigerian youth teams that actually performed at the world stage and tell me where the vast majority of the players came from. They were mostly from the SS and SE. Whenever i see a nigerian youth teams with edo sounding names. Delta sounding names and igbo sounding names i usually feel good abouth that team.Before you accuse me of coming from the southeast I am from Akwa Ibom state. We need to start telling ourselves the truth in Nigetia.

PlasmaTV:
How do Nigerian politicians lack shame?

How does one REJOIN a political party?

chrisooblog:
This should be music to the ears of Charlesemeka.

EElopa:
I am not trying to be tribal here but the truth must be told. The best Nigerian football players are usually from the South South Southeast and to lesser extent SW. Delta State, Edo State, Lagos State Enugu and Imo State tend to produce alot of talent. Whenever I see a Nigerian team list filled up with Northern sounding names I tend to lower my expectations.

TheGoodJoe:
I was a Manchester United fan from 1996 to 2010. Like die hard United fan. I left Manchester United because I got tired of how things were being run in the club.

In the end of that window, CR7 was the king of Manchester United. So that is why I was a fan of him.

As of Messi, the 2005 WYC decision to give Messi the best player over Mikel made it difficult to assimilate him as someone to fan.

So I like Messi but can't ever like him more than CR7.

@Sugarboyy

Napoleon55:
How do you come to be a Ronaldo fan instead of Messi? I mean you are a strong Guardiola fan who achieved his breakout greatness through Messi with their strong possessive play at Barcelona,logically, naturally it should be Messi.

I don't believe that you truly like Ronaldo more than Messi, unless you want to be like TheSuperNerd who is only interested in winning an arguments than the truth.

TheGoodJoe:
Before we continue, I am a CR7 fan, a strong one. My younger brother is a strong Messi fan. At the time CR7 had the international titles and Messi didn't, I used to tell him, Messi does not need an international trophy to be regarded as among the greatest.

So it is a misconception to think all CR7 fans mocked Messi. It is simply not true.

I deal with facts. The fact is, they are both unbelievable. No matter the banter. There can be issues, like disagreement in awards and titles. It does not change their greatness.

Shellsploit:
I own about 12 Daihatsu hijet (Kei van) which is commonly known as korope or shuttle bus produced in china (2007 model), barely 3 months of purchase, about 4 of them started smoking heavily I just instructed the drivers to start pouring condemned oil inside the engine since it shorts 1litre daily. Millions just waisted on this investment.


Mehn I don taya

Starboytwo:
If Messi wins this world cup, no more debate.

Amedino99:
Get away with that teletubies imagination my friend
Embrace as how?

Mujtahida:
Against Mexico with a man down, going defensive is justified. The true measure of the game against Argentina was before the goal was scored. After the goal England's possession was 12%. Not even Ghana registered that low level of possession and you say that is not self sabotage but due to Argentina's fight?

We will see how much they can fight today. They will suffer. They will lose. They will cryyy.

Mujtahida:
Argentina did not out muscle the English. Taaa.

Tuchel gave that game away with his ridiculous ultra defensive approach after England scored. Argentina was there for the taking.

Let them come out gun blazing against Spain and see if this will not be Spain's easiest match in this final

Napoleon55:
The little edge they have over Argentina is their midfield led by Rodri.
The only way they can win is if they score late above 80 minutes.

FiveFootNinja:
The way people are hyping up this Spanish team online. Lol. I hope we won't be in for a rude awakening tonight.