₦airaland Forum

Ppogbae:
Imagine not having the likes of Lookman and Osimhen at the World Cup? Make that two straight world cups in fact!

The NFF should rot in hell-fiery perdition.

That's what makes this feat by Lookman even painful, it makes no sense.

FiveFootNinja:
Gbam. Don't we have Olympic qualifiers around the corner? Unity Cup would be good platform to prepare the squad.

Hopefully the dumb NFF will see the wisdom in this arrangement.

TheSuperNerd:
Meanwhile the Bredas appoint Carlos Quieroz as Coach for the World Cup.

https://x.com/i/status/2043760785961140307

They pretty much appointed Peseiro's twin.

That Umar Sadiq's miss is the highlight of his career, a very odd and ungainly player.

elyte89:
Chelle go don Dey rethink him decision now say wetin be dis 😃😃

🤣🤣🤣

Damioduso1:
please is on the fifa site you check it

Yes boss

Arthur Okonkwo is officially Nigerian. His change is up on the FIFA hange platform.

Done deal.

TheSuperNerd:
Abduljaleel Abdulateef, 19 started for Odds BK in their 3-0 win vs Sogndal in the Norwegian Obos Ligaen (2nd tier).

Mukhtar Adamu, 19 (CDM) came off the bench for Odds on 82mins

Jamiu Musbaudeen, 21 (CM) played all 90 as his side, Moss FK won 3-2 away at Åsane in the Norwegian Obos Ligaen.

I've been seeing lots of young talented Northern players popping up across Europe lately, really encouraging to see cause we need more opportunities for them in the national teams.

TheSuperNerd:
A closeup of the Wonder Goal by ⚡️adok

⚡ADOK pic.twitter.com/vbofnhwhxu

— AIK Fotboll (@AIKfotboll) April 5, 2026

NFF and their useless scouts (if they even have any) won't see this type of players to call up and rebuild around. We currently don't even have a functioning U17-U23 team, yet we have the talented young players scattered across Europe with an existing database of them...yet the Zamfara dunce who calls himself NFF president has shown no initiative in organizing friendly matches for all this talent pool of young players to build cohesion and chemistry.

Bunch of idiots

yinkeys:
Who won the last Ar.ab cup with team B ?
There’s your answer

No wahala, we shall see how Portugal with handle a full Nigerian A squad under King Chelle!

TheSuperNerd:
All these Onyedika slanders will not age well. I leave it to time to prove me right.

Now same Alhassan Yusuf that was constantly castigated here yet rated by me is being mentioned in fine light just to talk down on Nwadike. Lol... Time is a beautiful thing.

Maybe Chelle hasn't figured out how to use him and has played him out of position? Maybe Onyedika should be tried in a more advanced midfield role?

yinkeys:
Talk is cheap
Did you watch the Iran & Jordan games
I hope you know Osimhen would not be available
I will remind you on that day
This coach didn’t impress me
He would have tried out good replacements for Osimhen
Why play Lookman for long hours
The friendlies should’ve been used to try out a solid team B but it was below par to me
Not a great window for our football
Portugal 3 - 0 Nigeria

Well it's your opinion, but your first mistake (perhaps due to your entitlement as a Nigerian who thinks we're too good for Iran and Jordan) is to feel those two teams are bad teams by any stretch, they're among the better/ improved teams in their continent...and they are world cup bound while you're not; so maybe they deserve some respect? We beat Iran and largely outplayed them (Iran are no pushovers these days, they demolished Costa Rica 5-0), we played out a fair draw against Jordan who are Asian champions and if you follow their football rise, they've been very competitive.

Secondly the whole goal of the friendly just like every international friendly was to try out new players and see which of them are good enough to transition to the main team, and I think that mission was somewhat achieved with the emergence of Fernandez and Otele...we experimented with a new defence lacking our key players and goal keeper cause Uzoho and Adeleye are just not it- and we at least know our indispensable defence will always consist of Bassey, Benjamin Fredrick, Ajayi, Fernandez and Nwaiwu.

So I genuinely don't know what makes you think a complete Nigerian team under a manager that has yet to lose a game in regular time, whose team knows how to score goals, and has played very good football for majority of his stint will suddenly lose badly to Portugal because of some low profile friendly where we didn't even have a single Nigerian fan to cheer the team. Portugal will most likely beat us, but it won't be an embarrassing outing by us and I'm willing to bet any amount on that (put your money on the bet).u

minfelix:
can never be Africa(esp Nigeria)

You beat me to it lol, was just about to post this...see how the FA from serious nations take responsibility by doing the needful, but in Nigeria our administrators and leaders will rather die there with all their heaps of garbage and mediocrity.

yinkeys:
Nigeria to play Portugal in June
Another 4 nil beating loading
I hope they don’t embarrass Nigeria
Especially with what I saw against Jordan

With our full and healthy squad under Chelle? Common man don't be a wimp lol

PDPGuy:
You can bet your top $$ that there would immense pressure from UEFA and/or FIFA World Cup sponsors to have Italy as the replacement team

Another Asian team is supposed to replace Iran in the event of them pulling out, but we know FIFA politics will probably give the slot to Italy...isn't that bald headed crook Gianni Infantino of Italian descent?

solonnachi:
BIG FOOTBALLING NATIONS THAT WILL MISS THIS WORLD CUP 2026.
1. ITALY
2. DENMARK
3. NIGERIA
4. CAMEROON
5. BOLIVIA
6. WALES
7. RUSSIA
8. UKRAINE
9. JAMAICA
10. SWEDEN
11. POLAND
12. ROMANIA
13. IRELAND
14. CHINA

Make una add to the list. I don tire

Hope say you dey joke sha, only Italy, Denmark, Russia, Nigeria and Cameroon are the big teams here.

Sweden qualified.

MetalJigsaw:
I didn't watch the match, but the fact that his performance is being debated here suggests that his game was not far from below-par.

Onyedika, the confidenc I used to have in him reduced by 50% after that Morocco match. Maybe that dude has confidence issues.

By the way I hope you're not comparing him to Ndidi and Iwobi, those guys have proved themselves long ago. But Onyedika still has much to prove, lets be honest.

He's quality no doubt, but under pressure he seems to go AWOL.

I'm watching the full match now and I must say Onyedika just doesn't cut it for me, he struggled to keep possession and most of his passes were back or stray passes, Onyeka worked double by cleaning up most of his mistakes. Ndidi and Iwobi came on and significantly improved our midfield play...I'm not saying he's a bad player by any stretch, but Chelle needs to know what he's doing and have a comprehensive scouting for the players that can improve that midfield. The likes of Ugochukwu, Gibson Yah, Nnadi, Akinsamiro, Dennis and Femi Azeez must be permanently integrated into that aging midfield already

So like play like play, we've allowed the crimes of the NFF to just slide like that without anyone of them being held accountable? I thought the height of it would come from the rubbish petition of lies they claimed to have filed to CAS...Eguavoen still has a job, the donkey who calls himself NFF president has not even issued a statement explaining to Nigeria how a simple petition was botched?

No wahala sha.

Predator87:
Oga we need balance. I dont mind having 90 year old Osimhen as long as we have 18,19,20,21 year olds YNs doing the heavy lifting for him. Right now our Super Eagles are are basically in the same generation. They will all start aging at the same time. By 2030 Most of them will be either 30 or pushing 30 and that will be a time bomb waiting to explode. That's why i keep saying this cycle of Youth football is crucial for Nigeria. The next U17s, U20s, and Olympics will determine our fate. If we mess up like we have been doing since Pinnic and Gausau took over we may not qualify for another World Cup in 20 years.

Someone finally said it best.

TheSuperNerd:
18 y/o and 21 y/o youngsters for Bosnia sent Donarumma to Market during the Penalties shoot out. Ice cold young ballers. One at PSV (21 y_o Bajraktarevic) and another at RB Salzburg (18 y_o Alajbegovic). They handled the pressure with immense composure.

If you are good enough, you are old enough.

We have an aging team and no plans by the utterly worthless NFF donkeys to start grooming our youth talent pool, I hate our garbage we are on getting basic things done right.

MetalJigsaw:
Ordinary Jordan we no fit beat. Same reason why we no qualify for World Cup. Conceding late goals against inferior teams.

I been think say this rubbish don end self.

And Iwobi succumbing to the arabs trap. Nonsense

To be fair we were significantly the better team and conceded 2 silly goals (Ogbu and Fernandez were okay but it's clear they haven't formed a defensive chemistry yet), with a largely experimental backline and nothing to play for, the players clearly played easy to avoid injuries (club football will resume soon before the world cup starts).

UncleHaba22:
I feel like DR is better than Jamaica

One African team people are sleeping on is Cape Verde
Those people have convinced their Portuguese players to switch allegiance to cape Verde
Good players that plays week in week out in Europe

I'll be supporting Cape Verde at the tournament, they are the only African team my spirit resonates with right now. I always fancy a Cinderella story for smaller nations doing big things.

ChrisKels:
DRC has to make it to the world cup. Of all the African sides going to the world cup, DRC has the best squad after Senegal and Morocco. I love that team and they play their hearts out. I want them to decimate Jamaica today.

Story...Jamaica will beat them and I'll celebrate our Reggae brothers.

Today I'll be Jamaican, after the reggae the blues must play for DR Congo.

Otto Addo don chop sack, chei poor guy.

Napoleon55:
Until you meet them on a serious match, dey go waya u 5-0,6-0.
One thing I know,Germany will advance higher than all the African representatives including Senegal.

Senegal probably won't be able to score Germany not to talk of winning them in a world cup game.

Dey play

lexyman:
Ghana always score against Germany ... even with their last breath , they will always want to play Germans as if its a do or die encounter

Remember how they gave Germany scares during that 2014 world cup when they drew 2-2 with a stacked German team, Ghana play with crazy motivation when they face us or Germany.

Any of the top 5 teams in Africa will beat this German team, they look lethargic in defence.

ThunderFireAgba:
Camp Update: Okoye is injured.

Uzoho is capable

TheSuperNerd:
Ghana has not threatened Germany all half. They seem content just ensuring Germany does not hurt them. Is this how Otto Addo hope to hurt teams at the WC??

Is this the Football the Ghana FA Boss was referring to? Haram ball?

Germany isn't that good these days, maybe it's a coaching issue but they aren't a world cup winning team...a team like Senegal will easily beat this German team.

TheSuperNerd:
Famous Umole is an academy player who featured for Nigeria at the last Wafu B U17 qualifiers. He scored against Burkina faso and I dont know how he made it to Turkey.

Hmmn is he good?

Most of you might not know this, but there was a young kid named Famous Umole (I believe he is 17 yrs old) on the bench today vs Iran, he must have been called up as a late replacement (not sure if he was an NFF or Chelle call up) but he's supposed to be an exciting prospect from our youth system. Does anyone know anything about this kid?