₦airaland Forum

albert2512:
I partially agree with you with the language thing. I am from Ife in Kogi (different from Iffe you mentioned). But note that all you wrote has not validated Okun as yoruba. We definitely have a link with yoruba like many other ethnic group within and outside Kogi but that doesn't make them Yoruba. Note finally that Okun are yet to be formally accepted by Yoruba land as Yoruba. Some group in Okun are agitating for the inclusion.

Please withdraw your statement labelling me as ignorant sir.

albert2512:
I am from Kogi(Okun), this people have their dialect other than yoruba. You know nothing sir.

naptu2:
It's the old argument about who should be involved in the selection process. In other categories the captains, coaches, journalists and experts voted and they voted for Chiamaka Nnadozie as the best keeper in Africa (which she is). The FIFPRO 11 was voted for solely by the players and they voted for Andile Dlamini.

kheny12:
All for clouth. No be only Dj chicken

stuffs2002:
Stop being a hypocrite

Your "real enlightened and sophisticated Yorubas" are only being polite and not aggressively showing it but they never ever accept Kogi as Yorubas. Besides, most yorubas do not belong in your "real enlightened and sophisticated Yorubas" category.

stuffs2002:
I hope you know that real Yorubas do not accept any one from Kogi who claims to be Yorubas

stuffs2002:
Deji Adeyanju is a Northerner from Kogi state

Deji Adeyanju is a Northerner that likes to deceives southerners especially Yorubas that he is one of them

Deji Adeyanju is a Northerner and a proper Aboki man

cr7lomo:
No one is interested in female football....stop forcing it down our throat

chinchum:
i have a deep problem with the coach who instructed wingers not to pass to him, it summarises how many people think.

Why is the coach not giving him all that he needs to see if he will prove him right as to why he can't be a striker or prove him wrong.

I think it is a black man problem. We will intentionally want to sabotage and see the other fail so we can say "we said it". It summarises a section of Nigerian electorates and supporters as well whose candidate did not win an election.

Danisaint112:
Most Yorubas are really annoyingly funny people though. So they can have Obas in the US and UK but frown at anything realted to Eze Ndi Igbo in Lagos a once capital of Nigeria and a cosmopolitan city.

It's this same people (majority) that would still scream racism at the top of their voices but back home they are pro-tribalist which is no different from Racism.

Mehn! The double standard in Nigeria is as clear as the waters of the Maldives.

Seunpapa65:
YouTube link abeg make I connect am to my TV

Ojo34:
Please any live stream link to the match.i will appreciate any assistance.thanks

cjudy:
Yes. They buy gift cards from Nigeria and pay them in Naira.

Themanleshey:
Are you even into crypto , how long have you been trading and how much do you have in there .

This is my 3rd years of trading and I can categorically tell you that Binance is one of our problem , even though it favors me , I can’t but face the truth that they manipulate our currency too bad . Just too bad ! I mean really bad !!!

kettykin:
How come they found peace displaying their cultural heritage in Brazil without respect to their host

Racoon:
Learnt about the high prevalence of twinning here when a friend was @ Baptist facility in the Igbora town some years ago. What a fortunate fest for them. Great bless Mary Scellesor for her persistence towards the eradication of killing twins in Nigeria.

ElSudani:
Lee Kwan Yew would have executed someone like Peter Obi for diverting public funds for private use.

MetaPhysical:
Divide the shitty country and support Akinwunmi Adesina to be president of Yoruba Nation. That's a better option.

Dotunking01:
Please beware of this criminal on nairaland or any other platform claiming to be selling data. He gets your money and blocks you
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pacespot:
When Tyson fury said he masturbated 7 times per day to keep his testosterone pumping just to prepare for this fight, people thought he was joking, now they can see the result

Congrats

zechorieus:
I tell you, I liked his comments. He sounded like an atheist though. I wanna have a solid discussion with you one of these days.

AreaFada2:
Dude, please learn to accept and make the best of things and situations you cannot change.

Many women have very wide pussy. But nobody ever shames them directly for having wide pussy. We all take it as nature. Men should also accept their nature.

Do not let women insinuating you have a small Willie get to you. Do a good job with it. You may even meet a girl who will say inside her mind "thank God, this thing is not too big to cause pain".

Some women have boobs like 10, 10 Naira Kpoff Kpoff, some like 5kg bag of rice and that's their nature. Men accept it or leave it.

SaintLucia:
Where was Ayelala when the British invaded Benin Kingdom and sent the Oba on exile? Ayelala should help the Benin people to recover their stolen artefacts from the British museum.

ropostic007:
Coming to America by Eddy Murphy was a bomb
I have tried many times to download it but can't get it from sites anymore.
very very interesting movie

kayusely70:
Makinde the dynamic governor of oyo state- the pacesetter state- setting the pace for clueless ones. Oyo state has blazed the trail with: Speaker 32, Assemblyman 30, Commissioner 27. All in oyo state, worthy of emulation!

yummy001:
How the heck did I miss this robust response despite coming to Nairaland everyday? Welldone sir.

Please I want you to answer my second question. I am really curious.

naptu2:
Sorry it took so long for me to respond. Yesterday was quite a hectic day.


I have always said that the biggest problem with Nigerian football is not the players or the coaches, but the administration. Poor administration is the biggest thing that has held Nigerian football back. There was absolutely no reason to frustrate Florence Omagbemi out of the job.

Florence Omagbemi was not sacked to make way for Thomas Dennerby. Rather, the NFF and the Sports Ministry failed to do their job, which was to take care of the welfare of the team that won the 2016 AWCON in Cameroon. The players consequently staged a protest in Abuja. Some NFF officials blamed her for the protest. They accused her of failing to control the players.

https://www.completesports.com/nff-dilemma-appointment-super-falcons-coach/

It is quite obvious to all sensible people that the NFF and the Sports Ministry were the cause of that protest and it makes no sense to blame Omagbemi for it. The players are adults and they know when they are being maltreated.

https://guardian.ng/sport/omagbemi-celebrated-by-fifa-rejected-by-nff/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/laloko-blasts-nff-omagbemis-sacking/

The NFF subsequently frustrated her out of the job. They had promised to renew her contract if she won the 2016 AWCON, but they allowed the contract to lapse. In fact, they were owing her and her assistants a lot of money in unpaid salaries and allowances. Many months later, they asked her and other coaches to reapply for the job and they used this to frustrate her out of the job.

Contrast Omagbemi's situation with the case of Desiree Ellis. She played for Banyana Banyana at about the same time that Omagbemi played for the Super Falcons. They both met again (this time as coaches) when the Super Falcons beat South Africa in the semi-final of the 2016 AWCON. Since then the NFF has frustrated Omagbemi out of the job, while SAFA and SASOL (Banyana Banyana's sponsor) have given Ellis everything that she needs to succeed and she has become the first coach to qualify Banyana Banyana for the World Cup.

The NFF was divided over whether to appoint Edwin Okon (who was coach of the team at the 2015 World Cup) or to appoint a foreigner as coach after Omagbemi had been forced out of the job.

Like I said earlier, Omagbemi was not sacked to make way for Dennerby. In fact, the NFF announced Randy Waldrum as coach of the Falcons in 2017. However, the poor administration that I spoke about earlier wrecked that deal.

The NFF announced Waldrum as the new coach without reaching any agreement with him. They merely spoke to him on the phone and then they did not contact him for 3 months after that telephone conversation and so Waldrum abandoned the Super Falcons job and took up a position as coach of the University of Pittsburgh.

https://www.thecable.ng/nff-randy-waldrum-super-falcons

The NFF eventually hired Thomas Dennerby, primarily because he had coached Sweden to the 3rd place in the 2011 Women's World Cup.


I believe that the issue with Thomas Dennerby is quite similar to the issues we had with Manfred Horner in 1988 and Philippe Trousier in 1997. You can have a good foreign coach, but the issue is, will the coach understand our style of football? Will the players understand the way that the coach wants them to play?

I won't take the 2018 AWCON into account because we had a terrible preparation for the tournament. However, for once, the NFF has got it right with the preparation for this World Cup. The Falcons beat Slovakia 4-3, lost to Belgium 0-1, lost to Austria 1-4 and beat Thailand 3-0 at the Cyprus Cup. They lost to China 0-3 and beat Romania 4-1 at the China Invitational Tournament. Then they lost 1-2 to Canada and beat Selfoss (an Icelandic club) 6-1.

They are currently at a two weeks closed camp and they will play more friendlies while in camp. The big question is, will this time together enable the players to understand how the coach wants them to play??


Regarding the situation with the captainship, luckily the two players involved, Onome Ebi and Rita Chikwelu, are very mature players. I don't think that they will create any problems (remember how well they handled the issue of being co-captains). I'm not sure how other players will react to the situation.

Thomas Dennerby strikes me as a logic machine.He has made two decisions that I won't have made, but I can understand why he made them.

Why did he make Desire Oparanozie the captain? He said that he wants a captain that will play always and that Oparanozie gets along very well with the other players.

My interpretation is this. Onome Ebi is the oldest player in the team (she's 36) and she had a long injury lay off 2 years ago. I guess that he believes that she won't have the stamina to play all the time. I don't agree with him, because she was our best player at the 2018 AWCON and I remember how she rolled back the years to mark Thembi Kgatlana (a much younger and very fast player) in the final, but I can understand where he is coming from.

It's quite similar to the issue with Courtney Dike. She's one of my favourite players, but I knew that her position in the team was shaky way back in October/November 2018. She played for Nigeria at the 2014 Under 20 World Cup and at the 2015 senior World Cup, then it seemed like she disappeared. She didn't play for Nigeria at the 2016 AWCON.

Then she reappeared and played in the friendly against France in mid-2018 and then vanished again. She was invited to the Falcons camp in Epe ahead of the 2018 AWCON, but she didn't show up in camp and no explanation was given for her absence. I had been trying to find out what clubside she was playing for since January 2018, but I couldn't find any link between her and a clubside. That's what led me to investigate her situation and I found this.

https://www.nairaland.com/4875509/courtney-dike-now-certified-public

So, apparently she now plays football part-time. I guessed that Thomas Dennerby, being a logic machine, would pick a full-time player over a part-time player and that's what he did.

Princedapace:
lol, blacks in black countries cant think. All we know how to do is find a way to make money and dash them out to countries with innovative thinking.

I dont know why our governors cant go to these countries, find a way to entice their citizens to come and teach us how they build television. Make we start from there. lol

HabuD:
Question is, did this team ever play a good game, starting with their match against Norway which they could have easily won down to this one. They were abysmal especially against France and Germany. Even before the penalty was awarded did they look like they posed any threat to the Germans? They just came into a knock out match and sat down to defend against a very potent attacking side without any concrete attacking plan. How do u expect to progress to the next stage if u don't score, and how can u score if u don't show any ambition to attack. Point if, if a team adopts a defensive approach, then they must simultaneously perfect their counter attacking mechanism if they want to stand any chance of getting a win. Thats what is done worldwide, as exemplified between inter and barca in 2010 UCL knock out. But all we saw in this disastrous falcons team was one which went totally defensive, and whenever they were LUCKY to get the ball, they just throw it away aimlessly. Even a mumu would tell from the start of the game that such a team can never progress to the next stage. Nigerians are just unnecesarily sentimental. They cant tell themselves the truth, thats why our teams keep going out there and failing to perform, because even when they play nonsense we clap for them, and so they would have the audacity to go out and repeat such nonsense performance. This is a team that has been in this fifa women's world cup since 1999. Thats enough time for us to have made significant progress at this level of the competition, rather than coming to this competition, playing rubbish and having sycophants hail and praise them! This is about the worst falcons team i've ever witnessed! At least other falcons team go out and attack, and when they lose they lose gallantly, and not cowardly like these bunch of unambitious players!

naptu2:
The Steel Roses of China will take on the Super Falcons of Nigeria in their first game of the 4 Nations Invitational Tournament in China.


The 4 teams taking part in the tournament are China, Nigeria, South Korea and Romania and the tournament is meant to help the teams to prepare for the World Cup which will take place in France later this year.