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Rohr Recalls Success For Libya’s Double-head Clash
By Abubakar Yunusa , Abuja


Coach Gernot Rohr has handed Isaac Success a recall to the Super Eagles squad for the forthcoming back to back AFCON 2019 Qualifying matches against Libya, according to report.


Success last played for Nigeria in 2017 in a friendly game against Senegal and despite an impressive outing after coming on as a second half substitute, injuries, fitness and poor form has kept him out of the Nigerian team.


Since the start of the season, the 21 year old has turned a corner in terms of his fitness and performance as he has been involved with Watford, although mostly as a substitute in the league but in the Carabao Cup he scored twice for them before their exit in the hands of Tottenham Hotspurs on Wednesday.


Rohr is a big fan of the forward due to his physical attributes and ability to play on the flanks and as a top striker, a chance to stake a claim for a spot in the senior national team of Nigeria has now been handed to the forward.


He will be in the list of players which will be released on Tuesday against group leaders Libya in Uyo and later in Tunisia.


Meanwhile, Confederation of African Football (CAF) have finally approved NFF to have the Africa Cup of Nations’ first leg qualifier against Libya shifted to a new date and venue.


The confirmation from CAF came in a formal notification to Libyan Football Federation (LFF) that the first leg of their double-qualifier against Nigeria will now hold at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo on Saturday, October 13.


The formal notification from CAF to LFF in effect confirms that it will no longer hold at Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on October 12, while the reverse fixture in the Group E tussle between both countries for 2019 AFCON tickets will now be on October 16 in Tunisia.


This is a major victory for Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, who repeatedly expressed concerns about the small size of Ahmadu Bello Stadium pitch.


Rohr buttressed his worries when he met top shots of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) during The Best FIFA Football Awards 2018 in London on September 24.


Incidentally, while the Franco-German feared that the ABS pitch is not up to standard and his players would not be comfortable playing on the turf, NFF top shots had already expressed worries about possible overcrowding by fans at the stadium in Kaduna.

It would be recalled that CAF slammed Nigeria with a $5,000 fine for allowing excess spectators at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium for an AFCON qualifier against Egypt in March 2016.


https://leadership.ng/2018/10/01/rohr-recalls-success-for-libyas-double-head-clash/amp/

Joebie:
U just be like my landlord. I’ve never seen him. In fact he doesn’t even know what his house looks like.

It has never been this worse, since I started following these threads.

My tight schedules aren't helping either.

Worst of it all, I lost my e-gadgets.

Now I am back. I hope to be more engaged with what goes on here.

I won't allow it happen this time around. I must follow this thread page by page and ensure I am not left behind.

I must confess I missed a lot.

Good afternoon friends.

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TheSuperNerd:
Sir Terzurum5.... I can see that the title of the thread has been altered. Now it just reads "Afcon 2019".....

One question: After Afcon 2019 is done and dusted, will you again alter the thread title to Afcon 2021 or even Olympics 2020?

This thread was originally set out to cover all the events and stories and discussions surrounding our build up to Russia 2018 and Afcon 2019 so altering the thread name will only act to confuse folks the more. This thread is meant to end with Afcon 2019 no matter how big it has gotten just like how the previous thread ended with Afcon 2017 failed qualification. The threads we open are like Chronicles and archives of information that document our football stories and more and thus must be properly defined by specificity of threads created for a period.

And also, I wanna ask why you bowed to the pressure from Dad Icon4s to remove the phrase, "Dawn of a new era"... Or is it because we lost out in Russia??

Look, before the brightest Dawn is always the Dark nights... The darkness of the night is always thickest before the brightest Dawn... Our experience in Russia is a seed sown for this young team. I always said it was gonna be our BAPTISM of fire on the international stage. We have a team on the rise and more quality young talents are sprouting up in our football. Just take a look at Kalu's move for instance... You cannot deny the fact that a new dawn is coming. Even a goal.com article lists K.Nwakali as one of the young players of today's game to watch out for in Qatar 2022 (if we get there... But I know we will qualify). A new era is coming and Russia 2018 should not blind us to that fact... Maturity takes time and four years is more than enough. Afcon 2019 will show how much this team have truly grown post-Russia so please buckle up and get ready... A new era in Nigerian football is indeed close.

Good day Boss. It's been a while. On the matter you raised, let the whole house decide. It is what the whole house wants that we shall implement. Happy to have you back Doc.

Also, sorry for the late reply. My e-gadgets were stolen. I started coming on line recently.

tbaba1234:
Alhassan Yusuf in the NNPC/Shell cup in 2015 for secondary schools



CC:Elyte89, andrew444

Thank you tbaba....

Believe me if you had not posted these pictures, many would have gone ahead to entertain doubts about the player's age.

tbaba1234:
Azango's goal


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrCwhyDyrk

Aiyegbeni and Ighalo every where you go.

Azango what an intelligent left foot finish.

terzurum5:
Check your mail please.

Mujtahida.

Mujtahida:

I replied your mail and sent you my alternative email.

Check your mail please.

Mujtahida:

I've responded

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You have to follow back first.

Mujtahida:

Okay. Hit me up through my mail. Or phone number if you still in NFSP

I am no longer in NFSP. I was removed from the group.
I will communicate with you through your mail.

Sir Mujtahida. I did love to speak with you privately.

Icon4s:
Dear terzurum5, I feel it is still early to include Qatar 2022 to the title. We can include that when the WCQ begins.

We also need to do away with "the dawn of a new era".

"The Super Eagles Thread: AFCON 2019 and The Way Forward" Sir how do you look at this title?

Icon4s:
Dear terzurum5, Now that Russia 2018 is over can we modify the title of this thread?

What do we think house?

What title do you suggest?

elyte89:



So chairman, na you create dis thread, make us fight,argue, abuse,deceive each oda ontop one yeye team from page 0-4400+pages

Boss,give us ur address, make boiz arrange beaten for u

Any time you are in Makurdi. Just hala me. I will direct you to the location to come beat me.

AIG07:
I was but now healed.

Beautiful football from the French and the Croats were the balm that brought healing to the wound caused by the SEs. Modric and Mbappe have been the physicians.

Can't wait to hear the commentator say- Modric Modric, Rakitic, Perisic, Modric, Rebic , Modric, Mandzukic.... Those names sweet baba. It brings both the game and the commentary to the same wavelength. Beautiful football, I must confess.

I even loqt appetite after the game. I hope to get healed soon.

Who else is wounded like me

goldfish80:

My dream finals will be France vs Croatia, then France to win it all.

Please so remember that......

I closed late from my place of work. I rushed to the nearest viewing center to watch the match. Left the viewing hall to catch up with Taxi going towards my residence, after the match had ended. I arrived home to discover that I DID NOT UNPLUG MY PHONE. I will keep you guys posted. Goodnight.

Funny pictures down there.

TheSuperNerd:
Welcome back Big Sir Terzurum5.... Missed you, we have....

A big thank you to everyone who has kept faith with this dream.

I am relatively new here.

Almost everyone character seems new to me.

I had been away for long. But as I promised, I have come back before the real game will kick off.

I have high expectations from these Super Eagles because we have invested a lot into this project.

I do not expect a very beautiful display from the Eagles.
However, I did love to see a firm display and character of a champion from the lads.

Eagles are not always known to play well in the opening games in most tournaments of this magnitude.
Nevertheless, I expect a win, at least a draw. But even if we loose, which I pray not to, I did still be hopeful of something positive from the ever ready and hungry Super Eagles.

Go Eagles, we are behind thee.

Good to be home again after a long while.

Before Rohr ruins our World Cup

by Cosmas Odoemena

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It happened again, the Super Eagles lost their match against the Czechs. Has luck deserted the Super Eagles? What is it that has changed in a team that had a good qualifying campaign?
After several warnings from some quarters against the use of Francis Uzoho as the first-choice goalkeeper of the Super Eagles the manager Gernot Rohr seems hell-bent on using him. To Rohr perhaps, it is Uzoho at all cost.


Our game against England could have easily been a draw if not for the young lad who made a schoolboy error which can happen at his age but which is unforgivable for a goalkeeper going to the World Cup. A ball that should have been punched out for a throwing Uzoho’s first instinct was to punch out for a corner. And that resultant corner kick was capitalized on to give England the lead. The second goal too was cheap.


After the first-choice goalkeeper Carl Ikeme was diagnosed with leukemia, Ikechukwu Ezenwa took Ikeme’s place and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup. But instead of keeping faith with Ezenwa, or looking for more matured goalkeepers he went for a young lad who is third-choice goalkeeper at the La Liga club Deportivo La Coruña, a club that has now been relegated.


I like Uzoho, but he should wait for his turn. He can’t be given a responsibility his young shoulders or rather hands can’t carry. Making him first-choice at the World Cup is just a crazy gamble. Up till now he can’t command his defence. How can he do that when his defenders are well older than him? It’s only natural for him to respect the older players to the team’s detriment. He should still be playing for the U-21.


The senior World Cup is for men, not for boys. Experience usually trumps youth. Even being the youngest team there is a disadvantage.


Well, I don’t know the magic Uzoho performs during trainings but it has yet to reflect during matches. As we say it here “na who pass na him know book.” Besides, we need a goalkeeper who keeps regularly for his club not a bench warmer.


Uzoho has not shown us why he should be ahead of Ezenwa. So much for Uzoho’s height advantage over Ezenwa. Of what good is height when it can’t be used to your advantage? What some goalkeepers lack in height they make up for in good instinct, good vision and good reaction time, positioning and good leadership to help organize their defence.


Uzoho is 19, Ezenwa is 29. I repeat, if Uzoho goes to be number one at the World Cup it means we are placing our fate on a young lad who has not kept in a competitive match, and who is third choice in his club!

Does it mean in a nation of more than 180 million people there aren’t good goalkeepers?
As I once said in a piece on the same issue “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. Ikechukwu Ezenwa helped qualify us for the World Cup. He seems lucky and often trusts his luck in his rosary which he brandishes when we win. Successful teams do need luck too. The Super Eagles will surely need any kind of luck.”


Yes, there is an element of luck in life, football is not an exception. I prefer an “average” goalkeeper who keep regularly for his club and is so lucky that when he is on duty for some reason he is virtually on holiday, to a so-called “good” goalkeeper who when he is on duty he is kept busy all through. And at the end of the match you hear “Ah, if not for him the opponents would have scored 10 goals.”


But Ezenwa did creditably well against Cameroon at home and away. And also showed class against Algeria and Zambia. These are top-rated teams in Africa and moreover competitive matches.
Rohr is fixated on foreign-based players to the detriment of home-based players and our league.


If Ezenwa were playing abroad perhaps he would have been favoured. But remember that Vincent Enyeama was playing at home with Enyimba while he was our number one goal tender. This is the same club Ezenwa is playing for now. Rohr by his action is really affecting the psyche of the home-based players. Enyimba is the most successful club in Nigeria today.



We should believe it can produce at least one first-team player if not more in the Super Eagles as obtains in other great footballing nations.


Almost all the players going to the World Cup for Nigeria are foreign-based. This does not speak well of our league. Come to think of it, how many domestic league matches has Rohr watched? Rohr was nowhere for the CHAN Eagles. In the past it was suggested that any foreign manager that Nigeria contracts must help in developing our league. Those responsible should please advise Rohr before he ruins our World Cup.

Rohr has kept saying he will stick to the team that qualified us for the World Cup yet leaves out Ezenwa. But Ezenwa is the Super Eagles missing link.


Foreign managers have always worked against our league and this is hampering our progress. They use the home-based players for practice and discard them when the real thing comes for the foreign-based players who may be overrated. And we think karma can’t explain our present and past disastrous outings.

Dr Odoemena wrote this piece from Lagos.

www.dailytrust.com.ng

Moses Simon out of World Cup?

That demon must be a Bastard.....

AIG07:
Sir. Terzurum5 I sight you o. E don tey you drop comment here.

Thanks for the mention Sir.
Hopefully I should be more actively involved before the World Cup begins.

Moses has been outstanding so far.
His crosses have been so timely.
Very good defending and going forward.
Above all, gave assist.

terzurum5:
Moses Moses Mosess

Iwobi
Iwobi
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Moses Moses Mosess

technokid:
Matthew 18:3 And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

I weep for this generation.
Going through some of the posts on this thread has greatly revealed what tithe and prosperity doctrine centered ''men of God'' have done to most ignorant Christians.

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Yes Yes Yes
We won
The victory is sweet