yinkeys:

Arsenal fan

Yes o... Make Dem no damage our goods

TheGoodJoe:


After five years, we did not grow an inch under Rohr. We did not build a solid team. We were never a convincing side. If that is how you want us to play for the next 20 - 30 years, you are free to enjoy that.

Even under Keshi where I was still critical, we could meet France and give them a game. France resorted to injuring Ambrose and Onazi to have an edge. We played the Catalonia team and matched them. We lost to Spain but we gave them a match. We played Italy and left them by two goals in the first half. They had to bring in Pirlo to reclaim the midfield.

We ripped Mali by 4 goals at the AFCON. It was not all good but were were a good side. All of a sudden, you guys want us to park bus and grind football.

I wonder why I even bother. People want us to play Rohr way.

Better we lose than the sham football Rohr made us play in his twilight years of coaching us.

minfelix:


Anytime he wins convincingly by playing creative attacking football they will say it's individual brilliance from talented players.... I don't see any negatives in the man...he coached us 5years and he earned some respectable feats for us...he is a type of coach that will surely drag your team to a medal and put your name on history book of tournaments..he can't come back again, but he wasn't a bad coach

But he couldn't do that after 5 years.

mostob:
Yes o... Make Dem no damage our goods

I wanted to follow Senegal’s journey especially after watching their 2002 tournament again.
Turkey knocked them out in the QF.
Sadly Sadio is injured
I don’t know who to support now, can you help me out ?

Tipping Canada to be the surprise team of the tournament while any of England, Belgium and Germany will be flop of the tournament. Best African team should be either Ghana or Morocco, Brazil or Argentina will win the tournament

I disagree with the emboldened...

Nigerian Football's True Glories may have started with the Super Eagles but it surely doesn't end with the Super Eagles.

We have national teams who did exceptionally well this year. We have players who dorned our jerseys and repped with distinction. Are we gonna ignore them just because the Super Eagles lost 5 friendlies in one year?

What about the fact that this same Super Eagles sit top of their Afcon Qualifiers group? We could lean a bit on that.

Now look at this, holistically... in 2022:

- Nigeria's U17 Golden Eaglets won the Wafu B Afcon Qualifiers tournament with distinction. We won all games. We have lads like Emmanuel Michael, Abubakar Abdullahi, Precious Williams, Richard Odoh (GK), Jibril Azeez, Raphael Oyebanjo, Basil Mbata, Ebube Okere, Ozor Okeke, Miracle Ogwor, Yahaya Lawali, Jeremiah Olaleke, Light Eke etc all in that squad of truly talented youngsters.

Are we not gonna recognise them?

- Nigeria's U20 Flying Eagles won the Wafu B Afcon Qualifiers Tournament as well. We won it unbeaten.

The squad includes impressively talented lads like Daniel Daga, Ibrahim Muhammed, Tolulope Ojo, Oluwatosin Adegbite, Nathaniel Nwosu (GK), Ahmed Abdullahi and a few more.

Are we not gonna recognise them?


- Nigeria’s Flamingoes won Bronze at the FIFA U17 WWC becoming the Second African side to bag a medal at that level.
Impressive lasses like Opeyemi Ajakaye, Amina Bello, Edidiong Etim, Miracle Usani, Taiwo Afolabi, Faith Omilana (GK), etc.

Should we ignore them too??


- Our Super Falcons didn't win the Wafcon but we saw Asisat Oshoala earn a Ballon D'or Nomination and ranking this year. When was the last time a Nigerian player man or woman earned that?


I think we should go ahead with the NNFF Awards. We have feats and talents to recognise even in the midst of a bad year in general for the Super Eagles.


Cc Danielnino00, Icon4s.

Hanibal:


I don't think there's any point to the awards this year.

No Nigerian footballer deserves any awards this year.
Some may have done well for their clubs but none has done anything worthy of recognition for any of the national sides

BannedLarge:



The same coach that flogged cameroun, Algeria, Zambia beat Argentina, Poland, draw Brazil.. when you play superior team and understand your deficiencies by playing defensive style, it’s smart… oya now, you have players like Aribo, Moses Simon and you want to go toe to toe with Bruno fernandes. It looks like Nigeria football is going back to dead

Rohr's performance for the Super Eagles is sharply divided into two phases. Pre Russia 2018 and Post Russia 2018. First phase was good, second phase went from bad to awful. Look at those matches you listed. They fit into the first phase bar Brazil.

TheGoodJoe:


That is where many people miss it. It is about the philosophy. Selecting a team that fits your philosophy. When Nigeria met Brazil in Atlanta, there was a gulf in class when we compare talents. From attack to defense.

Brazil boasted of the best player in the world Ronaldo De Lima. The next year from there, Roberto Carlos was the second best player in the world. Rivaldo later became the best player in the world. There was a big EPL star in Juninho. Also, I think Dunga and Tafarel.

We knew they were far better than us but we set up in a brave explosive fashion.

Rohr had no formula to build on the team. It was a poor scouting mission and his negative philosophy meant he will keep selecting negative players.

So he might grind result but after five years, the team he left was a dead team. No growth.

Nigerians do not care about philosophy or system. Just win. Meanwhile your position which I agree with is that without a system you might win but eventually you will be found out by teams who have a philosophy underpinning their mode of football

charlesemeka85:
so as they in back water leagues mk wetin happen?

We should go load our team with players from Lobi and Zamfara united.

Nigeria moved away from using home based players circa 1994. But zuchyblink wants to turn back the hands of time.

Peseiro - right man for the Eagles.

TheLoneCitizen:
Peseiro - right man for the Eagles.

Why do you say that ?
I was thinking Herve Renard would do a fantastic job with the quality of players we’ve got but we can’t afford the Saudi Arabia national team coach post World Cup
He definitely doesn’t look like a coach that would tolerate being owed lol

zuchyblink:
Lookman was like a lonely orphan yesterday

And he was like that because he's FB? Omo

AIG07:
THE BEST SUPER EAGLES PLAYER IS AT BEST AN ABOVE-AVERAGE PLAYER.

The supporters/fans needs to bring themselves to terms with this.

This is my own honest opinion. We can be starry eyed about them but our players are not made of star dust quality but mud and clay.

yinkeys:

I wanted to follow Senegal’s journey especially after watching their 2002 tournament again.
Turkey knocked them out in the QF.
Sadly Sadio is injured
I don’t know who to support now, can you help me out ?

Bro.. feel free to support whoever you like ... As for me, I automatically become an Argentine the moment the ref blows the whistle signalling the start of the first match in this tourney.

Emilokan 1 of Super eagles.

I'm pleased super eagles are not in Qatar. We must stop playing predictable football. We must recruit ballers in every positions. Coach's instructions is not enough.
We must develop a formidable patterns with available players both present and incoming players.

Add yours .

mostob:
Emilokan 1 of Super eagles.

he must never ever get call-up letter or invitation again.

mostob:
Emilokan 1 of Super eagles.

And no be say he even sabi play the ball..very below average players..infact we need to change all our squad with few exceptions

joxxy01:
And no be say he even sabi play the ball..very below average players..infact we need to change all our squad with few exceptions

Double digits in the EPL last season is not below average o

In today's Nigeria football Yekini and Amunike no fit see shirt. They will be like why a player in African sports or Portuguese second division and a player in Zamalek playing in low league Africa when there are enough foreign born tomatoes in England to select from.

mostob:
Emilokan 1 of Super eagles.

Make una leave Dennis alone nah

“They didn’t deserve to qualify for the World Cup from the way they played. The Ghanaians showed they wanted it more than our boys. Their attitude was not the best at all and they were nonchalant in their play.

“And this is what you get when you have 99 percent of your players born overseas,” the ‘Bull’ concluded.

Clearly, with the collapse of the talent ecosystem and its engineering at home, the NFF in its desire to cover up its gross inefficiencies has consistently packed the national team with foreign players of average individual brilliance that were literally begged to don the national colours. And that has been the unfortunate trend since the 90s’ golden era of Nigerian football. The fallout of ‘anyone that plays overseas is good enough’ is having a national team of strangers that are lacking in cohesion, discipline and passion to play to strength.
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Ekoku, on is part, was seen as not good enough by many (his super eagles team mates inclusive) in spite of his goal scoring exploits with Norwich City.

If a player with dual nationality was good enough he would never play for Nigeria.

NFF President, Ibrahim Gusau has suggested that foreign-born players do not possess the mentality to play African football.

The new NFF boss also hinted that the number of foreign-born players in the Super Eagles would be reduced going forward.

He, however, noted that the country couldn’t rely on the home-based players alone to bring back the glory days in Nigerian football.

What happened to Alampasu?

Best players in the back water leagues are better than bench warmers and average players in EPL

do4luv14:
Now Joebie, bros prophhad come to pass6, Finally Portugal had won us 4 zero,

And Wonders Am Surprised nobody is saying anything about Uzoho chopping 4, And of its Maduka the Drums of Attack would had been sounding long after the match

Agreed without question ❓

Totally ignore the main problem which is the coaching and focus on the birth country of the players. Classic nff.