₦airaland Forum

andrew444:
Please remind me when the u20 World Cup has shared the same year with copa America

Thanks

gamaliel9:
U20 is for young professionals...Messi was already signed and playing for Barcelona yet beat us in the final....Chukwueze is playing for a smaller club compared to Barcelona...ARGENTINA s Correa,Aguero,Columbia s Rodriguez,Quintero,etc were already first team players sef yet played in u20...


We need to win this u20 willy nilly...

Chukwueze is not the first to be shifted like that...i remember Kanu Nwankwo...after 1993 u17 triumph..Westerhof invited him to Super Eagles...then he went sent to u20...at a time Ajax blocked him from going to Mauritius 93...i think so..another player sent to u20 was Celestine Babayaro but Anderlect blocked him..If Samu can help us win the cup...why not? It is not an insult...look at the current german u20...they are all first team players in their Bundesliga clubs...playing for two to three season now while Samu just started playing la Liga this season...Samu has just played one friendly match for us..not even competitive game...HE MUST WIN U20 FOR US BEFORE WE CAN CALL HIM GREAT...

Maradona played u20
Messi played u20
Raul played u20
Mbappe played u20
why not Samu?
Even Rodriguez of Columbia played u20...

Earthquake2:
'Left footed offensive players' as if that is in the Fifa rules

Chukweze is not an upgrade on Onyekuru, Musa, Kalu so where is the neededness

Orangina:
that dude of ethiopian airway boeing max flight that crashed on a sunday has 5,000 and you with 1000. and people still dey enter plain.

pejuakinab:
Very impressive!
First fct of the year!
I dedicate this to every industrious Nigerian youths.

win3k:
Is casava, pig and cat fish the only things to farm in that yeye country

They all buys camry cars, plant eba, go church...and make juju - The rest of the world plants spices, mushrooms, Flowers, Ginseng, Herbs and many others for export and local consumption - Naija na lie....must be the same thing their ancestors did 200 years ago.

Mickael2:
Bright Dike was injured, or he would have been there.

Anthony Ujah was at the Confed cup, and killed his career. The rest of the players you called are not out and out strikers so I wonder how they got into the conversation.

Now let's talk about Eneramo and Ideye. Please show me their stats for that year

Mickael2:
Let me make the Ameobi part simple for you. Ameobi was a monster against France in that 2-2 friendly game, he went to the world cup because of that showing.

Now how many players went to the WC just because of good performances against Argentina in that friendly But Rohr is not biased and Keshi is? Double standards Mate, double standards

iSlayer2:
Between Rohr, Oliseh and Keshi's teams, which team played the best football?


Remove their number of wins, qualification for tourneys etc

Taliban:
You have your points no doubt. Can you remind me of those several players dropped? And it was Congo that qualified instead of us not Sudan. By the way even with those crappy players and a player strike he made it to the 2nd round of the WC. And note we didnt cower before any team even with the carpenters and mechos we took. The person who took better players, no player strike, no injuries to a key midfield player what did they achieve?

gamaliel9:
keshi took us to the second round of world cup...Rohr did not
Keshi won AFCON...AFCON is in June this year...let us wait for Rohr...

edi287:
To be fair to Keshi - Gambo was probably the most inform(or one of )in the NPFL as of that time.

Taliban:
Thanks for the respect, he's a legend. Maybe if he were still alive, who knows what else he would have achieved? But talking about his only WC where we exceeded expectations I recall only three players really deserving of going to the WC who were dropped at that time, Ideye, Sone and Gari master Uche. Kalu uche was doing solidarity with his brother, we didn't have that many guys playing top flight football. His major failing was not qualifying for the next AFCON, but he had issues with the NFF and that NFF was one known for owing players money, terrible atmosphere to work.

Taliban:
I respect that man Keshi. An incurable optimist who qualified a lowly Togo for their first ever WC, a feat only God knows when and if they will ever repeat. This man took a Nigerian team we had all written off to win the AFCON with less than 2 years on the job. Even at the WC in spite of the drama we put up regarding allowances etc, the team stood up to France and eventual finalists Argentina at their prime and feared no foe. Yes he had his fallibles but history will remember his succeses as a coach. Not grade A matches but who remembers the miracle with the CHAN eagles, 4 goals down but went ahead to win the game.
RIP Big Boss!!!!

Taliban:
What about Keshi starting Stephen MBA againot CIV at the Afcon, a young omeruo in place of Yobo, that defender that went to Turkey from Sunshine star's as well. Some of the gambles paid off and some didn't.

Earthquake2:
I pity Solanke and Jordan Ibe

andrew444:
Onouha no gree play for naija and the worst part be say dem born am for warri o

Danielnino00:
Yea. Siasia is better tactically than Rohr until he starts calling his boys...

Our local coaches aren't that tactically poor...their players selection is their biggest undoing! that was how Keshi took Gabriel Reuben to the world cup!!

terzurum5:
Top: Taribo West, Mutiu Adepoju, Ike Shorunmu, Joseph Yobo, Isaac Okoronkwo & Kanu Nwankwo.

Low: Austin Jay Jay Okocha, Bathelomew Ogbeche, Celestine Babayaro, Garba Lawal & Julius Aghahowa??

cc: Sir Icon4s, tbaba1234, forgiveness, ........

Earthquake2:
Agbolanhor has retired from football at 32 years

Joebie:
Why can’t they thrive? No be attitude difference?

Icon4s:
I don't see anything wrong with the "Dream Team" tag.
It is a dream team: an avenue to assess and select players we dream of being in the Super Eagles.

We aim to select our Dream Super Eagles team from the U23 crop.

Starboytwo:
I'm particularly angry about the issue of stadia in the country....it irks me always when we host matches on "cattle ranchs and call it stadium... Many countries in Africa have a few standard stadiums, big capacities etc we don't even have a 80 or 70 cap in the country, I think Abuja should be 60 or so while Lagos is about 45,uyo 30 I guess and others, way below. Can't say the same for southie or North Africa...


I still ask when are we gonna host the nation's cup, funny how we have never bidded or be in reckoning as a potential Hosting countries of late, simple. We currently lack the infrastructure, which is quite shameful, our two biggest stadiums don't even work...

Sometimes or many times self I just Tire for naija... Didn't watch the match, but everyone is complaining bout the pitch, some even questioning why a football match should be played there... A must win u23 match is also billed to be played on the farm... I hail us for this country..... A football mad nation without stadiums...

Edopesin:
Dream team indeed

edi287:
That's not true. We were ranked 9th on the Fifa ranking sometime around 06-09. We were in the top 20 before 08 Afcon. Berti Vogts was just a clown.
Our 06 team was even better. We still had JJ, better defenders and strikers. We had the luxury of choosing from Ike Uche, Osaze, Yakubu and Martins. Compare that to our current striking options.

gamaliel9:
Personally i think that the quality of players we have now are of lower class than early 90s to early 2000s

Earthquake2:
What does his former clubs have to do with it?

Maybe players are born into clubs

You no well

Starboytwo:
so you are telling me this guy who plays for the almighty CIV midfield is not playing regular club football?... And a lowly etebo is playing for stoke wow.... There must be some mistake somewhere, maybe he abuse coach or the coach system no favor him great national team pattern.... Awon wahrah

Earthquake2:
Will the guy walk into the SE first eleven or not? your postulations are useless

Remember your midfielders are playing in Israel, Stoke and Rotherham, Middlesborough, Victoria Setubbrriaa

Earthquake2:
Ivory Coast has 6 midfielders that will walk into our first team

Follow my conversation from the beginning