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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:01pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Marjoribanks: Nigeria did not feature at the 1986 AFCON. At 20 Yekini was the leading striker in Shooting stars and featured at the 1984 AFCON. There were just a handful of African players playing in Europe as at then. Note that AFCONs of the 80s and 1990 had only 8 teams and hence less matches compared to now. 1992 AFCON had 12 teams of 4 groups. 16 team AFCON started in 1996. The more the number of games the more the number of goals scored by players. Most of the AFCONs Yekini featured had only 8 teams with maximum of 5 games. Yet he emersed a total of 37 career goals. Meaning if we had 16 or 24 teams like we have today, Yekini could have scored a lot more. Osimhen has already featured in one AFCON which is the 2019 edition. He missed out on the 2021/22 edition due to injury, just like Yekini missed out of the 1986 edition because we didn't qualify. Yekini came back smoking in the 1988 AFCON, let's see what Osimhen will do at the 2024 AFCON. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by maidaboi(m): 4:02pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
charlesemeka85:Jones plays for Liverpool 😂😂😂 |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:04pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
oloriooko:old news It’s normal for these kids to lean towards their country of birth than us Even those we managed to convince once had hopes of playing for their country of birth. Players like Aina,Lookman, akpoguma,Toru etc took us time to get and they only accepted when the chances of turning out for their country of birth was minimal So nursing the ambition to play for their country of birth shouldn’t deter the nff and jpes from reaching out to them both now and in the nearest future having it at the back of our mind that we can’t and will never hv them all Lookman wey u celebrate em goal and assist on Sunday na foreign reject too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 4:04pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
ChrisKels:Perhaps the young man is showing strong leadership qualities. You know Osimhen goes hard. They say he takes his football very serious. And we all see his passion. Only thing is that personally I like the captain to be either a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I don't fancy attackers being captains. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by caprikon: 4:04pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Kog45: Akinsanmiro is a fine prospect. More brains than brawn. I hope his career blossoms as expected. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:05pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
AndSunGorilla: Win everything you want at club level. If you don't achieve anything with the National team, your name remains a champion in the history books in Europe and your club. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:05pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
caprikon:sure his career will blossom because he has all the qualities to make it to the very top |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 4:06pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
ChrisKels: I haven't heard that . And if by any chance it's actually true, he is doing a Jordan Jordan Torunarigha, it's obvious he will never get into England barring a miracle. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:07pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Kog45: You get it. Just a comparison. No one is disrespecting any of the two players. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:07pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
komekn:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 4:09pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
AndSunGorilla:Oga AndSunGorilla,even Osimehn will not agreed with you on this baba. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:09pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:osimhen won the u17 Sorry sir 🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿 🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:11pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
zuchyblink:na CM/CAM we need abeg Ndidi,Onyeka and onyedika don cover the CDM position |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Princezibk: 4:12pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:13pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
charlesemeka85: Just like so many other Ex-U17 players that have gone into limbo He should win us at least an AFCON Trophy |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:15pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:don’t worry he will do that before he retires |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 4:16pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
charlesemeka85:If he hadn't missed the last Afcon and if we had qualified for Qatar 2022 WC by now he should have hit 30 goals or at least 25 goals. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 4:16pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Mujtahida:If you want to know important of captaincy in national team,just read about Stephen Keshi…..He came into eagles at 21 in 1981 and made Afcon Libya 82 but at 21 he was already eagles captain leading the seniors like Muda Lawal,Henry Nwosu to Afcon 84….When Onigbinde was asked about Keshi captain band he said that boy hate to lose. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:17pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
charlesemeka85: Na wetin we want be that. To unseat Yekini as Nigeria's King of goals no be beans 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:18pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Mujtahida:that one na for sure I get hope say Lesotho 🇱🇸 go chop like 4 goals home and away from em hand during the World Cup qualifiers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Then others fit manage 5 which will bring he’s goal tally to 29🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Then in afcon him fit net 4-5 goals depending how far the team goes bringing the total goals to 33-34 goals How many goals come remain for the yekini record mk osimhen equal am?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 4:19pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Kog45:That's the stuff of a captain. 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 4:21pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Mujtahida:My lawyer longtime o (IF) many players lost out to IF… |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 4:24pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:Sincerely,37 goals damn too poor for all time eagles scorer.Imagine Odegbami that retired in 1981 as a winger still held second highest all time scorer. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:25pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Mujtahida:If Yekini had not missed the 1986 AFCON and Nigeria qualified for the 1990 WC and played in the 1996 AFCON maybe he could have hit at least 50 goals 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 4:27pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Mujtahida:Ibra, Kane, Ronaldo say hi, they are natural.leaders. Osimhen is a natural leader too, honestly I think.he will make a.good coach when he retires. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:28pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 4:29pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:Sir Victor Ikpeba didn't achieve much with Nigeria but he did.a.lot personally and he's still a legend, Osimhen has raised the profile of Nigeria right now whether we like it or not. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 4:29pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Kog45: You also need to consider the number of international matches and friendlies played back then. AFCON mostly had only 8 teams. Most of the WC qualifying games were home and away knock out matches. 2026 WC qualifiers has 6 teams per group and 10 matches, 2024 AFCON will have 24 team. Both tournaments would opportunities for strikers to record plenty of goals. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 4:32pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:Absolutely correct sir, we want that record broken and the liveliest person right now is Osimhen. Records are.meant to be broken anyway and after Osimhen breaks it by God's Grace, we.hope someone else will come and break that one and not be as long as it has taken to break Rashidi Yekini's records. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 4:33pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:That's true. But I'm really gunning for Osimhen to smash Yekini's record if not for anything but to renew the myths and legends of Nigerian football in the hearts of the new generation. These new generation born between 1998 and early 2000 cannot really connect with them Rashidi oo. So they need their own heroes so that they can tell the next generation stories just as we are telling them stories about Yekini and the other great guys who inspired us. Me I'm biased towards the old guys oo but for Osimhen I pray he breaks the record. 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 4:35pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
Icon4s:e no concern us the main thing be say osimhen go break the record before 2026 World Cup 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 4:36pm On Sep 12, 2023 |
charlesemeka85:Nigeria World cup qualifier must be a team work not padding of goals cuz I remembered how France lost out during 1994 WC qualifiers,losing last two matches to Israel and Bulgaria.I will not forget how Italy lost out to North Macedonia….Abi you don forgot we lost to CAR and recently to Guinea Bissau at home. Nigeria World Cup qualification cannot be traded for anything,South Africa is in our group and no way for Ghana episode again,it would be painful if we lost out to over confidence. |
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