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Una sure say South African betting syndicate no place bet on Nwabali to fumble our world cup campaign since he plays and gets paid from their league? cause the "mistakes" he made today- especially for that Lesotho goal was very suspicious. I can't trust that guy.

See as the BBL comment trigger am sotey she begin explain stories that touch, Aunty you do BBL abi you no do?

Dem carry Northerners pack for team, when we raised our voices about this lopsided preponderance of players from a certain section of the country in the U20 squad list, the "politically correct" apologists came for our necks- now see the result...same nepotism we saw with the CHAN and U17 team. A perfect sample size would have to be the previous successful U17-U20 teams and the regions of the players, the Siasia teams that gave us some fantastic achievements and players at U20 levels easily prove this point.

The uncomfortable truth many Nigerians will have to accept is that the best pool of Nigeria's football talents (going by the precedence of history) have always come from the old Bendel areas (current day Edo and Delta), the South East, some from the the Middle belt Christian areas and then the South West. The core Muslim North have never been known to produce top level athletes for Nigeria, and maybe that has more to do with poor scouting or perhaps the culturally laid-back attitude of the North towards sports.

obinna58:
For a 300-400million people, this is the best under20 eleven we can get

Corruption is too deep

I thought we were 200 million, when did we add more millions?

Maigana
Sani Suleiman
Okoro
Ayuma

The distance between these players and the SE isn't far, the future looks really bright for them.

Can I watch shows on gotv or Africa magic if I'm based in the USA? I understand those apps are geo-restricted to users based outside of Africa.

Danielnino00:
I can easily predict our starting eleven from this squad list.. it's likely going to be 4-4-2 with Iwobi paired with Ndidi in midfield, hence limiting him.
SMH.

Chelle is clearly desperate and out of his depth, it appears the small glimmer of lifeline FIFA gave us from those points deduction from SA has made him decide to go all out and play attacking football with a predictable 442 formation, it will be route one football. The only problem is that asking Ndidi to play as a lone #6 will come back to bite us (as it has proven to be the case time and time again), Ndidi’s legs are gone and Lesotho and especially Benin republic will capitalize on our lean midfield to cause problems. Iwobi won't provide creativity from that midfield as he's best suited as a winger where he excels for Fulham.

Based on this squad, I'll just go with a 433 formation, Onyeka/Alhassan and Chukwueze would have to anchor that midfied, play Onyeka and Onyeka to protect the back 4 while Chukwueze can be deployed as a CAM and given a creative role with his dribbling abilities and ability to run at the opps defense...Iwobi will either be benched or played from the wing.

Did Chelle smoke something before releasing that squad? Why invite only 4 midfielders with no bone of creativity between them outside of Iwobi (who isn't consistent anymore?), omo i give up abeg

The real problem of this team is purely down to tactical issues; once again an evidence of very poor coaching). The sort of goal scoring chances Ariehi missed would make you wonder if this lad is supposed to be the next heir to Osimhen as touted? very poor, the defending was so school-boy level and comical, surely Bameyi must have a football godfather in the NFF...football isn't hard, stick to the basics and fundamentals and you will be largely fine.

But the current state of Nigerian football isnt anything to inspire confidence right now, we need an urgent administrative overhaul. The likes of Morocco, South Africa, Senegal etc look to be on an upward trajectory in their football development, Morocco in particular are really on a high wave right now, all their best foreign born talents are proudly representing them at all levels; while ours are avoiding us...truly sad state. If this current Super Eagles fail to qualify for the world cup even with the little glimmer of hope FIFA gave us, then we should ban football in Nigeria for some years and use the time off to do some thorough introspection and clean house from top to bottom.

Pidginwhisper:
Osimhen injured

The Osimhen curse strikes again

This una u17 team na proper yeye, Manu Garba clearly goofed on this selection of players, really poor.

M7even:
Having a natural midfielder whose first lens of European football is in the Italian league is quite impressive. The boy is in his peak. And his MOTM performance is a testament of how much knowledge he embedded over time.

Wish there's an individual compilation highlight we can see of his performance

Bendeco02:
East can't be next bro

We don't welcome them

Yoruba allowed Fulani to penetrate them and the result is showing.

If East can be next then they would have entered through Benue and Kogi. Anambra and Enugu share boundary with Kogi while Enugu and Ebonyi share boundary with Benue.

If East is soft target, they would have entered through Benue because they have not done half of what they did in Benue at Kwara state.

They've tried to penetrate the East especially through those volatile and remote areas in Enugu and Ebonyi that share boundaries with bandit ravaged states like Benue and Kogi...which explains why places like Uzo-Uwani and Eha amufu were constantly attacked by herdsmen and people killed for years. But a new leadership has taken over the security of those places and the local government leaders have made sure to properly equip their vigilantes and forest guards who have flushed out the fulani bandits, peace has been restored in those areas.

Happened in Oke-Ode, Kwara South and a yoruba community...over 12 men killed and more missing to bandit attacks.

Yorubas won't talk about this one, Kwara and Yorubas there are under serious conquest, many have been killed and communities displaced...they are more concerned about "Owambe" and forcing online beef with Igbos who are minding their own business.

UncleHaba22:
CLUB STATEMENT
Haruna Aliyu Departs for FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile

Wikki Tourists Football Club wishes to officially announce the departure of our central defender, Haruna Aliyu, as he joins the Nigeria U-20 national team the Flying Eagles ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup commencing on Saturday, 27th of September 2025 in Chile.

Wow 20 years what a player

So this egbon is 20 years old like this...

Make I no talk sha

solonnachi:
Seems Ekong has been included in preliminary list for October games. Semi Ajayi too is back

As long as Ekong doesn't start any of the remaining games, otherwise Chelle is a fool who deserves anything that comes to him including a sack if we lose those games.

That was a sweet finish from Tolu, if Wolves weren't so inconsistent and actually played to his strengths more, he will do so well.

elyte89:
Dessers not performing against South Africa 🇿🇦 was due to d midfield …no service whatsoever, Too poor

Exactly, I'm not even a fan of Dessers as I still believe he's just not the quality of striker we need, but that midfield was so flat and uncreative that any striker would have badly struggled.

PigTormentor:
You already know. They will still defend him and blame Tinubu and Fulanis.

There are Yoruba communities in Kwara that have been sacked by fulani bandits as we speak now, how safe is your community as we speak right now?

TheSuperNerd:
It is official on the NFF site. No changes expected. The 21 man squad is officially confirmed.

24th FIFA U20 World Cup Finals: Flying Eagles head for 12-day camping in Chile

Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, have departed the country for Chile, as they countenance a 12-day final phase camping in the South American nation ahead of their participation in this year’s FIFA U20 World Cup finals.

Seven-time African champions Nigeria will play all their Group F matches at the Estadio Fiscal in Talca, a city 250 kilometres from the Chilean capital, Santiago. They will first confront Norway on Monday, 29th September, before clashes with Saudi Arabia (2nd October) and Colombia (5th October).

A team of 20 players and 11 officials (midfielder Daniel Daga will join the team in Chile from his base in Norway) departed from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday evening, aboard a Turkish Airline flight to Istanbul, where the contingent will connect to Santiago – venue of their final phase camping.

The seven-time African champions had training sessions in Abuja for some weeks, before Sunday’s departure.

The 24th FIFA U20 World Cup finals will be played across the cities of Santiago, Rancagua, Valparaiso and Talca. The competition, which started as the FIFA World Youth Tournament, was launched in 1977 and was first hosted by Tunisia.

Nigeria were narrowly edged by Korea Republic after extra time in the semi finals at the last championship hosted by Argentina. The country finished as runners-up in 1989 in Saudi Arabia and in 2005 in The Netherlands.

Group A is headed by hosts Chile, and also has New Zealand, Japan and Egypt, while Group B entertains South Korea, Ukraine, Paraguay and Panama.

Brazil heads Group C that also has Mexico, Morocco and Spain, while Group D includes Italy, Australia, Cuba and multiple winners Argentina. USA, New Caledonia, France and South Africa make up Group E.


FLYING EAGLES FOR 2025 FIFA U20 WORLD CUP FINALS

Goalkeepers: Ebenezer Harcourt (Sporting Lagos); Clinton Ezekiel (Bayelsa United); Rufa’i Abubakar (Mavlon FC)

Defenders: Ocheche Amos Onyejefu (Stade de Reims, France); Odinaka Okoro (Sporting Lagos); Daniel Bameyi (Bayelsa United); Marvelous Avberosou (Ikorodu City); Alatan Azuka (36 Lions); Akinyele Ahmed Olamide (Remo Stars)

Midfielders: Israel Ayuma (NK Istra, Croatia); Emmanuel Ekowoicho (FC Montana, Bulgaria); Mustapha Kamaldeen (Kwara Football Academy); Daniel Daga (Molde FC, Norway); Auwal Ibrahim (Akwa United); Nasiru Salihu (Qabala FC, Azerbaijan)

Forwards: Achichi Oseer (Royal Antwerp FC, Belgium); Sani Suleman (AS Trencin, Slovakia); Tahir Maigana (Wireless FC); Kparobo Arierhi (Lillestrom SK, Norway); Charles Agaba (NK Istra, Croatia); Abdullahi Shitu Ele (Manchester City FC, England)



Source: thenff

Which players from this core would you tip to be future Super Eagles players?

Now that international break is temporarily over, I hope NFF and Eric Chelle have rolled up their sleeves and gotten to the serious business of scouting for outstanding Nigerian talents across Europe...a new Nigerian kid just got signed by Monaco and got announced by Fabrizio (I bet NFF don't even know about him). That midfield in particular requires serious attention, fresh legs and ideas are needed now...it's not when the last fixture of WCQ starts next month that we will see the same boring Ndidi, Ekong, Simon Moses and Iwobi etc roll-out again. Majority of these players need to be retired already.

Omo, Mbokazi really bullied Osayi-Samuel here sha, chei

Mbokazi!! pic.twitter.com/Mir8H6eeGW

— Bafana Bafana (@BafanaBafana) September 9, 2025

oloriooko:
Eric will be kicking himself for dropping Benjamin for Ekong
Our defence trouble has been solved
Thank you Eric for being bold to trust this young man

The fool sabotaged the game with that line-up, I winced in anger and knew we were in for a really bad one when I saw Ekong AND Moses Simon starting that game, I don't know why Chelle didn't learn from the Rwanda game and other previous games that Simon Moses is a very limited player who is past his usefulness.

The team that started the second half should have started the first half. A midfield of Onyedika, Dele-Bashiru and Uche/Onyeka would have been solid while Iwobi played from the LW where he does well for Fulham (at a point Iwobi had to play the DM role when Ndidi was subbed out, Iwobi was supposed to be our only creative outlet for goodness sake), and maybe Lookman in the RW. We had absolutely no width! Chukwueze should also have gotten in early...

At the end all we are left with is "should have, would have", cause nothing is ever guaranteed when it comes to these players.

I'm just over it, let's just press the reset button and start afresh with a new generation of players with Bassey and Frederick as the spine of the new players, give me the most exciting prospects we can get from the U20 team going to the world cup (that's if NFF don't mess that one up again with their rubbish and 419 selection). We have to get it right with this U20 world cup coming up by scouting and assembling the best known and unknown Nigerian talents both home and abroad), so that we can start rebuilding and preparing for 2030 with the AFCON and subsequent games next year.

9JAMac10:
After the Afcon in December a lot of this current players need to be honorable and retire from the team. Ekong. Chukwueze. Iwobi. Ndidi, Moses Simon and a host of others. Ademola lookman too selfish at the detriment of the team

They should retire before the AFCON, we are not winning anything with those players at the AFCON anyway so we might as well clean house now and use 80% of new younger players led by Osimhen as captain and then Bassey and Benjamin Frederick as the defensive core.

robosky02:
For where
Genot Rohr wants to be at the world cup again
This time with Bennin Republic

If we beat Lesotho and Benin republic with maximum points next month, and South Africa lose to either Zimbabwe or Rwanda + hopefully FIFA 3 pts deduction before that final fixture + the results from other groups vying for that best 4 losers...then we might have the slightest of chances to squeeze our way to the play-offs.

mrwilliams9:
That’s the thing for me. The miss out on WCQ against a Morocco or Egypt, no yawa.

But Ghana and SA, two of our big Anglophone rivals? Haba!

Something that would never have happened under previous generations of Nigerian players, imagine a team with hot-heads like Sunday Oliseh, Jayjay, Ikpeba, Amunike etc bending over to Ghana and SA and worst of all Lesotho and Zimbabwe? Even the Mikel Obi/Osaze set wouldn't have gotten bullied like this to Ghana and SA. We really fell off honestly, surely we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh, I'm prepared to succeed and fail with a new and younger generation of players who will fight for every blade of grass just for that Nigerian badge and pride. I'm done with this current players, absolutely done.

Damiana5248:
When I said, I would rather play Fredrick Benjamin at CB, some opined that it was a crucial world cup qualifiers blah blah blah.
Is Rwanda or South Africa better than the Jamaican team we play at the unity cup?.

Hello, if a player at 15 is good enough then he is old enough to play for the Super Eagles.

It's time to bring in Vince OSUJI, Chetam Ezewanta to add more steel to our defence.
It's time to also convince young players like Ethan Nwaneri to kit up for the SE.
It's time to see what Daniel Daga can do in midfield for the SE.

There are a lot of young players who can add depth and quality to the SE.

Let's look at top performers at the U20 world cup and integrate them into the SE
No more delay, bring them to the fold...

I laughed at Ethan Nwaneri, good luck with that. But i agree with the rest of what you submitted

robosky02:
This NFF has finished Nigerian football

3 coaches to prosecute our Qualifiers nothing to show

Even Benin republic has overtaken us

They won 4-0 over Lesotho

South Africa 17 points
Benin republic 14 points
Nigeria 11 points

Ironically Benin republic just gave us a life-line

Ekong needs to go
Simon Moses needs to Bleep off
Eguavoen needs to resign NOW, like right now
70% of these players should never be called up ever again.
Time to build the team around Tolu, Benjamin Frederick, Bassey, Felix Agu and others like Onyedika, Dele-Bashiru; then keep only Osimhen, Nwabali and Aina...na one eye we go use dey look Lookman but he was match rusty due to club inactivity.

We can see more of Uche Christiantus cause he hasn't really had enough time to show his quality.

Time to rebuild around the best core of players we can unearth and use the AFCON and start afresh.

Osebanjo:
Bandits roaming free in Kwara now. Honestly speaking we need to be prepared across SW especially Oyo state. It’s just a matter of time before they start crossing over. I wonder why OPC is no longer active. Pretty sure they’d do whatever it takes to drive out this folks no matter what. This is really terrible.

You have to wonder why the bandits are mostly attacking the yoruba communities in Kwara South, it seems the Fulani agenda to permanently wipe out every trace of Yoruba footprint in Kwara is back on track, if the yorubas in the SW don't act now...then you will only embolden the enemies to encroach closer