Chelsea rumored to be also interested in Gift Orban with the plan to sign and loan him out next season

Papi85:
https://www.owngoalnigeria.com/2023/05/17/pitso-mosimane-tops-list-of-five-coaches-lined-up-by-nff-as-potential-replacement-for-super-eagles-coach/

If true….he’s a good choice but can we afford him?

typicalgamer:


You don’t understand my point bro

Victor oladipo is an elite player, rebounder and 2 way scorer and an all around good player,( aside injuries)

What I’m saying is this

They’re are guaranteed a starting role
Drop. Nigeria 🇳🇬 and usa 🇺🇸
On the table 10/10 will pick usa

You think if iwobi was hotshot and England was calling

Do you think okocha words would have changed his minds

The sad truth is that we’re always second choice to players who didn’t make it in their country of birth

Guaranteed a first shirt

Zaha would pick Ivory Coast over England

It seems we all forgot why INAKI WILLIAMS
Followed ghana to the World Cup

I actually agree with you. I stated that clearly. I only said that using "all players" may be too definite as there are always outliers. It's why I used the example of Victor Oladipo. He didn't go through any of the USA age grade basketball group showing he really had no intention to represent them. Most players like you pointed out will chose the USA/England or any other western nation over Nigeria; I agree most will. But there are outliers, maybe few in number who will chose heritage over those.

Udodi like I sited was born in the US but chose Nigeria at a very young age. He's miles ahead many persons currently representing the USA in his age group and will have no problem at all making cuts, but he chose Nigeria cause he values heritage. That's my point really. They may be very few but they do exist.

Papi85:
salisu will be appoint on interim basis

humility33 kuku like the man

Nigeria and Ghana. Golden generation incoming.

Joebie:
He is the number 4 rated player in the league based on average score all games put together.

Oga Jobie,pls I was curious to check best five players in Segunda league based on what you said but didn’t see Nwakili in the first fifty though saw Kenneth Omerou 52 on the list possibly I checked wrong site.

Kog45:
Oga Jobie,pls I was curious to check best five players in Segunda league based on what you said but didn’t see Nwakili in the first fifty though saw Kenneth Omerou 52 on the list possibly I checked wrong site.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Papi85:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Charles Baba,serious I checked it not to spat Nwakili.I want the guy to move to better league and I believe it would be easier if he is among the best five.

SofaScore rating. I also have another source where he is also in top 5.

Kog45:
Oga Jobie,pls I was curious to check best five players in Segunda league based on what you said but didn’t see Nwakili in the first fifty though saw Kenneth Omerou 52 on the list possibly I checked wrong site.

#3 Accurate Long balls

Just one explosive season in France and the sky is his limit.

Papi85:
Good move if it happens

Odunayaw:
I'm a quantity surveyor not a mathematician


IMO he chose the easiest route to a shirt

Lol 😂

Question for Everyone: Besides Osimhen, who else can bench Balogun at the Super Eagles?

JohnBullMySon:
Lol 😂

Question for Everyone: Besides Osimhen, who else can bench Balogun at the Super Eagles?

only moffi. Onuachu, dessers and Dennis have not been spectacular this season so if he joined us his chance of having a starting shirt is dependent on how well he can perform in his first matches.

Odunayaw:
humility33 kuku like the man

You no lie, baba like am scatter 😁😁😁

Amedino99:
only moffi. Onuachu, dessers and Dennis have not been spectacular this season so if he joined us his chance of having a starting shirt is dependent on how well he can perform in his first matches.

Where then will you put Awoniyi and Sodiq when he returns

lovewins:


I actually agree with you. I stated that clearly. I only said that using "all players" may be too definite as there are always outliers. It's why I used the example of Victor Oladipo. He didn't go through any of the USA age grade basketball group showing he really had no intention to represent them. Most players like you pointed out will chose the USA/England or any other western nation over Nigeria; I agree most will. But there are outliers, maybe few in number who will chose heritage over those.

Udodi like I sited was born in the US but chose Nigeria at a very young age. He's miles ahead many persons currently representing the USA in his age group and will have no problem at all making cuts, but he chose Nigeria cause he values heritage. That's my point really. They may be very few but they do exist.

Probably due to parental and family pressure. You didn't factor that.

Also depends on the experience such a person had growing up. However, I doubt if any just gets up and decides they must represent Nigeria. If he's good enough, the US will discover him first before Nigeria. At that point it becomes almost impossible except for aforementioned reasons.

Joebie:
SofaScore rating. I also have another source where he is also in top 5.

Okay Baba,I wish Nwakili well.

do4luv14:



You no lie, baba like am scatter 😁😁😁

Humility must have seen yariyan for Salisu compound.

JohnBullMySon:
Probably due to parental and family pressure. You didn't factor that.

Also depends on the experience such a person had growing up. However, I doubt if any just gets up and decides they must represent Nigeria. If he's good enough, the US will discover him first before Nigeria. At that point it becomes almost impossible except for aforementioned reasons.

You probably need to check him out to confirm this. There was no parental pressure of any kind. His father was even surprised he chose Nigeria cause they obviously would have preferred the US for him. And like I said, he was born and raised in the US but chose to represent Nigeria at the last u-18 athletics world championship.

As I am sure you know, the US uses the NCAA primarily to discover their athletes, and he's been phenomenal there. He just won the 200m SEC meet a few days ago and have broken many records at Stanford already.

Point is, there are people like him who for whatever reason side more with heritage and identity. Ashleigh plumtre is also like that, it's why she still insist with playing for Leicester city. I strongly believe that we'll have many more of their kind of we make our processes easy and have a system many can be proud to identify with. Some elite athletes really would love to represent Nigeria but our wahala is much.

Joebie:
#3 Accurate Long balls

Who Nwakali pass the “accurate” long balls give? His club is still relegated.

typicalgamer:


E be like na for only your tv them take they show basketball 😂

No make me laugh you’re a clown

Nobody mentioned the female BBall team

Nobody mentioned athletics

Spencer dinwiddie is a role player at best he’s a supporting cast he was never a super star
He’ll never get a super max contract that super stars get

I’m telling you that no franchise star and key man in an NBA team will choose to pick Nigeria ahead of usa

As long as usa shows interest

You won talk to me about basketball no ever try am o

Yen yen yen .
Spencer is a role player? Somebody that was a starter with the Mavs and Nets but was affected by injuries.. Jerami Grant was at the Olympics with the US and won a gold medal, u think Spencer won't have been called up?


Folarin Balogun is still up and coming anyway, so all this gragra about who will accept which invitation isn't important...if he had picked Nigeria or England,he won't be a starter ..he can't displace anybody there...so he went for the easier option

Kog45:
Humility must have seen yariyan for Salisu compound.

Very beautiful one at that Sir 😁😁😁

lovewins:



True, the Ogwumike sisters are elite players (Nneka mostly). They were both no 1 WNBA draft picks but Nneka has featured the most for USA (mostly at the world cup) and injury hasn't exactly the favourable to them Chiney. Both sisters are very proud of their heritage, but it doesn't mean they would have chosen to play for Nigeria. Nneka only considered playing for Nigeria when it became obvious she was never going to get a chance to feature in the Olympics for team USA even though she deserves and has earned it (she's been snubbed twice).

The Tobi Amusan angle is likely untrue. Tobi's best tournament so far has been the recent world championship. She didn't make the podium at most outings prior (save the diamond league) prior to that. She of course could have chosen to switch, but no way she was seriously lobbied to represent USA.

It's also true that none of the D'tigress players would have made team USA. It doesn't mean as a collective they can't achieve glory globally, but as individuals none is even close to being considered. There's none currently in the WNBA. The closest has been Victoria Macaulay who was giving a training contract by the Aces last year and Connecticut Suns this year and she was cut both times.

We currently have 3 elite players of Nigerian decent in the WNBA (Arike Ogunbowale, Michaela Onyewere and Queen Egbo) with Arike Ogunbowale being the most elite of them (the other 2 have less than 4 years in the league). Arike isn't even considering playing for Nigeria at the moment, she's still hoping to play for USA (she's been invited to several camps and may just make the team.

With regards to Tobi, are you telling me that the US didn't notice her exploit in the NCAA, commonwealth games and the African championship? Let's agree that the interest wasn't there, she could still have represented another country.. IAAF rule makes it easy for athletes to switch nationality,but she didn't...

As for the women basketball team, I agree with you.. But again, the WNBA is not that much of a big league.. the rooster spots are limited, so the players need the national team exposure too ..Unlike NBA players that mostly don't care.. At the last men world cup,team US fielded a squad of mostly second rated players..a squad that I believe the like of Spencer can easily make.. Look at Gabe Vincent...went all the way from being a 2 way player to a starter and one of the Heats most important player this season... He plays for Nigeria too..

JohnBullMySon:
Lol 😂

Question for Everyone: Besides Osimhen, who else can bench Balogun at the Super Eagles?

Moffi is better than him

Truidstar:
Who Nwakali pass the “accurate” long balls give? His club is still relegated.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Odunayaw:
The thing you are missing is that the player in question is not a superstar. It's not hard to see that he will go where he is wanted and cherished (a shirt)

Facility? Education? For someone who grew in Arsenal?

You don't even need to assume what I'd pick. We have people who "settled" for SE. Why?

Right of choice becomes narrow when you are not spectacular and no disrespect to Folarin, we can't describe him as spectacular

I just remembered this Nigerian player that opted to play for Haiti . Emmanuel or something like that... Baba later told the media that he opted for Haiti because Nigeria demanded for bribe ..who he wan whine? 🤣.
There was also Kenneth Otigba who wanted Nigeria over Hungary, a more developed country.... Alaba too...

True, naturally, we are second choice to a lot of these foreign borns, but in the end, they all prefer which country they feel can help their career more.. For instance, why is Olise yet to decide on his international career? Breaking into the English and French team would be a bit hard for him, so that leaves him with Nigeria and Algeria. Algeria is a better country than Nigeria, yes, but why hasnt he considered them? Maybe fear of being targeted as an outcast?

Truidstar:
Who Nwakali pass the “accurate” long balls give? His club is still relegated.

You dey underrate Accurate Long balls,

Accurate long balls to the Thirgunda

Take us time ooo, never you underrate Accurate long balls give 😀😀😀

JohnBullMySon:
Lol 😂

Question for Everyone: Besides Osimhen, who else can bench Balogun at the Super Eagles?

You forget Moffi? Awóníyì?

do4luv14:




You dey underrate Accurate Long balls,

Accurate long balls to the Thirgunda

Take us time ooo, never you underrate Accurate long balls give 😀😀😀

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Joebie:
Just one explosive season in France and the sky is his limit.

But the way I Dey see thing now…Nigeria born CFs go Dey do switch to another country just like Olisadebe switched to Poland when Super eagles had Kanu,Agali,Aghaowa

Nino00:


Yen yen yen .
Spencer is a role player? Somebody that was a starter with the Mavs and Nets but was affected by injuries.. Jerami Grant was at the Olympics with the US and won a gold medal, u think Spencer won't have been called up?


Folarin Balogun is still up and coming anyway, so all this gragra about who will accept which invitation isn't important...if he had picked Nigeria or England,he won't be a starter ..he can't displace anybody there...so he went for the easier option

Bro you’re dumb asf

Jeremy grant is a power forward

Spender dinwiddie Is a shooting gaurd and point guard

If dinwiddie was healthy 101 percent

Name any of the guards he would be able to bench on this rooster

There’s never been a point in history where spencer was considered better than these guys listed above

So shut your trap on what you don’t know please sit back down and talk about football

Or should i bring stats to back my claim ?