tejpot: After watching the last of the 2 legged qualification match between Nigeria and Ethiopia, are they stunning enough to win the world cup? Whats your take?

dat is in d land f myth oo

nutty_hnic: With the likes of spain, brazil, argentina, england, netherland, germany.....L fu...cking OL

guy england is out as well as naija

Yes with the help of officials. If we promise them oil money

I think this Nigerian team has what it takes to win the world cup despite the fact that they're not the best team in the world or even one of the top ten teams but football is not won by records but by current form and the Nigerian team have been consistent in recent times and i don't see them being embarrassed in Brazil.

that would b d 8 wanders of d world

We need to win at home first, Corruption is now an order in governance, ASUU strike seems almost endless, Conflicts,kidnapping & shedding of innocent blood masterminded by ambitious politicians. May God heal our Nation. Amen!
Up Eagles!

As an ardent follower of the beautiful game, it takes more than just luck to win world cup. World cup is neither champions' league nor nations cup where luck assisted Chelsea (2012), Liverpool (2005), Greece (Euro 2004) Zambia (AFCON2012) prevailed. Every winner of the world cup is always the best team. Nigeria still has much work to do to attain that status.

Can Nigeria win the World Cup?

IMO, Yes, but the difficulties ahead are high. Here are the reasons:

1. They have to play many friendlies to understand the strengths of top-quality teams. This will enable the players to understand what they are up against.
2. Keshi has a lot of understudying, and strategising to do, regarding potential opponents he will meet in the World Cup.
Big teams like Spain, Argentina,Germany, Brazil, Holland, Italy, and England will not fall by the way side just like that.
You have to study their playing pattern, understand their biggest and most dangerous players, understand their weaknesses
which may not be easily discernible, understand the type of game you have to play to accentuate their weaknesses so as to beat them.
3. Can the NFF remain faithfully supportive to the team concerning regular bonuses?
This is a big issue because money issues are serious among men.
4. Can our attackers capitalise on small mistakes to score goals? Beyond the group stages of the World Cup, only GOALS matter. So the SE has to sharpen skills concerning taking set-pieces(freekicks, throw-ins, corner kicks and penalties), taking advantage of slippery defending to score goals.
5. The SE have to rely on Divine Providence to push events in their favour. That can push them as far as the WC final if they do their homework VERY well.

However, I repeat : THE STAKES ARE HIGH! I know what the Black Stars went through in SA 2010 to get to the q-final. Even then it was thwarted by a corrupt,show-stopping foul from Suarez. Unfortunately the Black Stars could not capitalise on it.

UNLEASHED:

I don't edit teams, I don't play in beginner mode, I'm not extra ordinarily good and my FIFA14 is straight from Tesco

Alright man. Whatever floats your boat.

olasawji: do wat? So God won't do it for d rest ryt? Nigeria carry world cup...where spain, portugal, italy, brazil, holland, england, france dey! Oga pak well

Na you qualify France for world cup?

How many head this una brazil,argentina,england,spain dem get? it's Possible,believe me God de 4 our side this time.....so na Triple hope we get oh!

canalily: imagine spain never won it for years in foothball! But one day in that year they conquer the world and made history! YES ! If our boys are determined with one heart, we can over make the same history! ! ! Up Eagles!!

Chai, see comparison! Spain don suffer, 2008 - 2010 Spanish players played for the 2 best teams in the world then and played like a team. Don't compare them to these benchwarmers in their various clubs.

Goziemiguel: If I hear!!! Abeg try click like if u bliv say we no fit beat spain ,brazil ,germany or argentina .

Same way someone said: "other rappers be like Naija. Dem no dey reach final."
What then happened?

@pazienza, gotcha. What makes the Spanish or German teams good? Their local leagues. These guys play at home, they know each other, 50% of the Spanish team play for Real Madrid, 45% for Barcelona and few others play outside of Spain. 90% of the German team play in the Bundesliga and the remaining 10% outside of Germany, same goes for a country like Brazil. How many African teams can boast of having 90% home based teams? Africans don't support their leagues and Egypt and Tunisia that have some of the best leagues are going through hard times. Egypt hasn't been the same since the Arab Spring. We need to focus on our leagues

Chomzy19: Lolz... But AVEC DIEU TOUT EST POSSIBLE

God won't intervene without the super eagles putting real effort in winning the world cup!

You People should stop putting unnecessary pressure on Keshi! This is one Indigenous coach that has made Nigerians believe in the super eagles again! We are not helping him and the team by thinking we would win the world cup! We have to be realistic! All the coaches that have taken us to the world cup(both foreign and local) have not surpassed the second round so why are we even thinking of winning it? What we need now is set realistic goals like making it to the second round after a very long time(France '98) and if we do we try to surpass that hurdle with determination and a little bit of luck! I believe Stephen Keshi should remain the coach for a long time regardless of the outcome of next year's world cup! I believe in him but we shouldn't get carried away!

Not with these present squad of ego centric and over confident players. The Ethiopians got the better of us in that department even though we won the game.

[quote
author=tejpot]After watching the last of the 2 legged qualification
match between Nigeria and Ethiopia, are they stunning enough to win the
world cup? Whats your take?[/quote]which cup again? i thought they hav won it after beatin ethiopia yestdy

Nigeria can definitely win the world cup in Brazil. It all depends on the players and the coach. They got to be believe and ready to fight to the end. But I'll advice Keshi to meet with Prophet T.B Joshua if he really wants to win the world cup.

If Nigeria had a good Goalkeeper Nigeria is more than capable of Wining the World Cup. We're at the stage of early Brazil, brilliant but undermined by rubbish goal-keeping. However, they were so good, they went out with the philosophy of compensating for their Goal-keeping deficiency by out scoring the opposition. We are not capable of doing the same so we need a good goal keeper.

Litmus: If Nigeria had a good Goalkeeper Nigeria is more than capable of Wining the World Cup. We're at the stage of early Brazil, brilliant but undermined by rubbish goal-keeping. However, they were so good, they went out with the philosophy of compensating for their Goal-keeping deficiency by out scoring the opposition. We are not capable of doing the same so we need a good goal keeper.

and what is Enyeama? Even Casillas' sheet isn't as clean as Enyeama's, in fact, the only thing working for the SE is the GOALIE

Lets stop to build castle in d air. Well, diaby also won d ballon d'or in dat dream

safarigirl: @pazienza, gotcha. What makes the Spanish or German teams good? Their local leagues. These guys play at home, they know each other, 50% of the Spanish team play for Real Madrid, 45% for Barcelona and few others play outside of Spain. 90% of the German team play in the Bundesliga and the remaining 10% outside of Germany, same goes for a country like Brazil. How many African teams can boast of having 90% home based teams? Africans don't support their leagues and Egypt and Tunisia that have some of the best leagues are going through hard times. Egypt hasn't been the same since the Arab Spring. We need to focus on our leagues

. M sorry madam,u shud v omitted brazil. Brazillians dnt play @ hme. Dey r lyk we nigerians. Dey travel around d world n mak dere career in futbol

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these no good people for our kontry think everybody is sttupid like dem self

i smell serious and bitter bad belle in here hahha; these are people prayin day and night for oga jona and keshi to fail

these current SE is special for real! and thanks to these thread cuz when the time comes we will come for una bitter tinz in here

Keshi u keeping it strong or wat ride on homie; never worry

can u imagine some of these yeye tinz even booked ticket in the hope ivory coast will roast us

now let me take some of una yeye back in time; SE out played Uruguay but still lost and whyyyyyyyyy? cuz they couldnt bury their clean not half chances created! wat could these yeye and smelly tinz would be saying then; even with Spain self; the score line does tell wat happened in the match BBC commentator quote

wat a country!

Is nt impossible, even though d super eagles lack cutting edge which d golden eaglet had in UAE (different level anyway). By cutting edge, I mean razor sharp attack, 95 % accurate crosses & set pieces, ability to dominate play & frustrate your opponent (possession play & intricate passing without to many inefficient long balls), incisive counter attacking, long range shots ability by most of our strikers (only emenike and nsofor can do this); ideye, musa, moses can't rily shoot 4rm impossible angles. Dis xristics win tourneys, we may just reach d semis whr a defensive blunder or missed chances may halt our progress. D gud tin is dat d confed cup exposed d fact dat spain, uruguay, italy r beatable. We shd av beaten uruguay and spain if we made most of our chances.

why not? ..we can win it but only in the dream..laughing

With what dey played on saturday☹☹NO!!!! except they train even harder than τ̲̅ђε hardest they av done

Nigerians are very unrealistic with teams like brazil spain germany italy france belguim colombia england argentina chile uruguay...ill be elated if we make the second round.

safarigirl: and what is Enyeama? Even Casillas' sheet isn't as clean as Enyeama's, in fact, the only thing working for the SE is the GOALIE

Tonight should be a good test

Yes, I dreamt we won the World cup. I'm down with Malaria though

On a serious note, the question should be CAN WE QUALIFY FROM OUR GROUP? If we can qualify, the next question should be CAN WE GET TO THE QUARTER FINAL THIS TIME? I we can beat our previous records of two 2nd round appearances, then I think anything is possible. The team is filled with average players at the moment and Teams with average players hardly go far except in rare cases (South Korea in 2002, Turkey in 2002, Croatia in 1998 etc).

nationwide1: As an ardent follower of the beautiful game, it takes more than just luck to win world cup. World cup is neither champions' league nor nations cup where luck assisted Chelsea (2012), Liverpool (2005), Greece (Euro 2004) Zambia (AFCON2012) prevailed. Every winner of the world cup is always the best team. Nigeria still has much work to do to attain that status.

i have two reservations here monsieur.first of i dont think you follow the round leather game second to imply liverpool won in 2005 is the most ridiculous thing i ve ever heard,liverpool were losing 4 nil at half time but equalised and you call that luck,pls give me a little of what you are smoking cos you must be high on something...i am going to slate anybody who speaks thrash against lfc from one thread to another let everyone know that lfc has regained her lost glory#TEAM LFC.