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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 10:02am On Nov 25, 2023 |
chrisooblog:Oga calm down Abi no be football talk again,no yeye talk here abeg….bring your opinion and let’s others bring their opinions and we disagree to agree. **unattached check it out did anyone criticize Westerhoff why,he delivered,pls answer my question what was Keshi performance with players you mentioned,Afcon 2013 and 2014 WC second round. Pls rate super eagles coaches from time immemorial and let’s discuss further. 1 Like
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:03am On Nov 25, 2023 |
Kog45: That is one of the reasons I believe Oliseh's hands were twisted to make that decision. It was so irrational. Even if he wanted to strip Enyeama off his captain band, must it be in that international window he was burying his mum. What was the rush for? 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 10:31am On Nov 25, 2023 |
chrisooblog:Check out US 94 team and tell me what was Keshi,Uche Okafor,Emeka Ezeugo,Thompson Oliha and Mike Emenalo doing in that team based on their clubs,in fact Ezeugo,Okafor and Emenalo were playing what I will call semi pro league…fine Keshi as a captain and his contribution to the team made Westerhoff to repay him…..Oliha too was struggling. Yes on IKechucwu Uche…I will never take a player who was not ready to play to my instruction and went as far telling my employer that tactically am not ready and at the end my poor tactics won the cup…pls if you are in Keshi’s shoe what will you do? 2 Likes
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by chrisooblog: 10:46am On Nov 25, 2023 |
Egbon 4 out of the 5 names you mentioned had already been part of the team for years and we all know how Keshi influenced the invitation of Emenalo in place of Ugbade. So egbon are you saying that because Westerhof did it that makes it right? On Ike Uche issue I would have found a way to reconcile with the team's best striker before the WC. The fact that they were able to put aside their differences for the AFCON qualifiers shows it wasn't impossible. Keshi was a patriot, a great player and coach for the SE but he wasn't a saint and we shouldn't stop people from also pointing his own flaws. Kog45: 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by mank1234(m): 10:59am On Nov 25, 2023 |
Is it true the team that started against CIV had 7 home based players? If true, that's the power of a good coach. Believing in your players, psychin them up. Other coaches would have said if they are not in Europe, they are not good enough. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/lets-go-back-to-starting-point-ahmed-musa-super-eagles-captain/ |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:03am On Nov 25, 2023 |
chrisooblog:Oga Chris,I had close relationships with Westerhoff when he was in Ilorin as KFA administrator.I had the opportunity of handling his utilities and this brought us together. I asked him alot of questions regarding Super eagles and Ugbade issue was one of my questions cuz I was pained when Nduka failed to make it not cuz of anything but that U 17,U 20 and WC record. He said he needed a natural left back as a cover for Ben Iroha but not satisfied with Ugbade….he set out and find Mike Emenalo based on recommendation from his assistant.He came in and was satisfied with his performance in camp. He said Keshi came and said Boss hope Ugbade is making it cuz he has a record to fulfill and he replied “we are going to WC not for personal record” He said Keshi made it cuz he did unimaginable for Nigeria football and his presence was inspiring to other players. He remember,Keshi turning his wife to a cook voluntarily anytime eagles camped in papendal.He brought in Chidi Nwanu and Semitoje paid the price cuz there was no way Keshi must make it despite his injury and club situation. Nobody is against criticizing Keshi but he deserves little respect. Stephen Keshi did a lot for Nigeria football than ridiculing him with unfounded and baseless allegations. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 11:07am On Nov 25, 2023 |
mank1234:Wikipedia shows there were only 6 home based in the squad for the tournament and only 2 featured in that game. There's no need for sensationalism. 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:08am On Nov 25, 2023 |
Odunayaw:Odun correct. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Cecco90: 12:43pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
To Sack Jose Peseiro, Or Not! –Odegbami A friend, a foremost sports journalist, called me up last week from Abuja to inform me that he was racing to the office of the Minister of Sports to inform him of his decision to lead a national campaign to sack Jose Peseiro, the Portuguese coach of the Super Eagles. He wanted my urgent opinion. Of course, I do not take decisions in a hurry, nor in a panic mode. I also do not swim with the tide of opinion based on emotional or sentimental outbursts, or be part of a mob action baying for the blood of a foreign or local coach, when everything around is skewed against any form of success. I politely told him I had no opinion yet on the matter and would make it public when I do. That’s what I am doing now. I have traversed a similar path in the past and got burnt by the power of narrower interests and personalities that have run and ruined Nigerian football for many years. The core of the matter is that the Super Eagles are not winning their matches. Even easy ones. As far as the people are concerned, these last two drawn matches are ‘failures’ and someone must pay for them. That person is Jose Peseiro.I won’t completely fall for such sentiments now. The Super Eagles should win AFCON 2023. They should also qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Let’s look at some of the issues that can truncate these goals. There is no depth to the country’s domestic football. They were neglected for too long by successive football federation boards. The boards concentrated on the more personally ‘lucrative’ Super Eagles. They feasted on the fruits without properly feeding the roots. The tree eventually and inevitably weakened and withered, having been deprived of nutrients essential for the development of players for a career in the domestic leagues – good nurseries, organisation, integrity, infrastructure, capacity-building programs, adequate funding, great welfare packages, and so on. The only available ingredient has been the endless sea of young uncut diamonds in Nigerian players. Ironically, these players are doing everything to flee the country for greener pastures and better opportunities in other parts of the world, and not to strengthen the domestic leagues. This uncontrolled migration has made nonsense of any attempt to build a serious national team of local players. The failure of the big clubs in the country to win any continental laurels confirms this. That is why all the recent foreign coaches employed don’t take the route of the domestic leagues to seek players for the national teams. The calibre of players is just not there. So, Peseiro, like the others before him, concentrates on observing Nigerian players in the various leagues in Europe. He assembles the best of them that he finds to form the country’s Super Eagles. He also only has two days before most matches to work with the players before matches, making it impossible to build a team with any level of organised play, pattern and understanding. You do not build solid teams that way. They must have some time to train together, understand each other, be infused with a planned style and philosophy, and be made to play several matches. That’s the only way a good team can emerge. Under the present circumstances, the Super Eagles do not have such luxury. Coaches have been on this impossible mission for well over a decade. AFCON and the World Cup are the only championships that provide a little time for the team to train together, play some friendlies, and become a unit. The team uses the earlier group matches of the championship to get better. That’s what happened during the transition between Gernot Rohr and Austin Eguavoen. A good team started to evolve during the group matches of AFCON 2021, only for the process to be disrupted by a difficult match and a costly error that saw the Eagles exit rather uncharacteristically ‘prematurely’. The baby and the bath water were thereafter thrown into the gully of history. The result is to begin again. Jose-peseiro-super-eagles-dr-segun-odegbami-afcon-2023-2026-fifa-world-cup That’s how Jose Peseiro came in to inherit an impossible and unchangeable situation. For as long as the present system is not changed, no coach in the world can change the fortunes of the Super Eagles. The best he can do is what Gernot Rohr and, now, Jose Peseiro have been doing – not wasting time on the local players from the domestic league (they are not good enough for the national team without additional exposure and training in Europe), scanning Europe for players of Nigerian descent, assembling the best of them for the short periods before matches that can NEVER make them a good team with organizational depth, and then going on their knees to pray for undeserved victories. They win some and lose most! So, Nigerians are disappointed and angry, and bay for the blood of successive coaches. Yet, deep down, the issues have roots in other issues. A proper study by proper experts is necessary. Arm-chair critics masquerading as experts whose noise-making rises above the din of common sense and more careful interrogations blur proper and more meaningful conversations. Meanwhile, the present Super Eagles are not strong in two major areas of the field – the midfield and goalkeeping. There is little that can be done about the team’s strength without the influence of a few players with exceptional skills and abilities in certain areas of the team. Presently, there is a dearth of creative and attacking midfield players who can hold and distribute the balls well. Goalkeeping has become a problem only because Peseiro refuses to see the difference between an efficient goalkeeper and one whose only qualification is his physical frame. The last goal against Zimbabwe, scored directly from a free kick 30 metres from his goal clearly exposed Uzoho’s weakness. It is an elementary goalkeeping error. Finally, Nigeria should not panic and make decisions that will not impact anything, will not change the Super Eagles and will not provide guaranteed outcomes. This is the time to be cool, calm and calculated. Nigeria is blessed with a lot of good players presently. With a little bit of luck, more patience and the time shortly before AFCON 2023 used properly to build a stronger team, plus the return of one of the deadliest strikers on the planet, Victor Osimhen, in the team, Nigeria shall improve steadily into AFCON 2023. In January, the team will use the group matches of the championship to get better, and possibly go on to win AFCON 2023. They will then gain the essential confidence to play more consistently and (at the end of AFCON) establish a stronger team that shall be able to go into the World Cup qualifying matches with more strength and purpose and qualify for the World Cup as true champions of African football. Source : completesport |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Cecco90: 12:46pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Cecco90: The last goal against Zimbabwe, scored directly from a free kick 30 metres from his goal clearly exposed Uzoho’s weakness. It is an elementary goalkeeping error. Odegbami on the beat. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 1:00pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Fantastic take by Papa Odegbami 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by joelsteron: 1:16pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
https://soccernet.ng/2023/11/im-better-than-yesterday-forgotten-super-eagles-star-offers-himself-as-solution-to-jose-peseiros-number-one-problem.html Aside Mahrez freekick st the nation cup. Would Daniel Akpeyi have let in those cheap goals conceded, Okoye and Uzoho at those critical moments or all these guys 3 are the same? ![]() 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by joelsteron: 1:20pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
The same Odegbemi who singlehandedly made Joseph Yobo assistant of SE. I don't rate all these old men. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 1:32pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
TheGoodJoe:a bloody lie from Okpala 4 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 1:48pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
TheGoodJoe:sorry, no way I’m rating a coach who thinks Ndidi is better than Mikel or benched Mikel for a certain Paul Onobi. If Oliseh becomes the coach today I’m sure he’ll bench Osimhen for Onuachu 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elyte89: 1:55pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
jihday: U Dey mind goodjoe …e Dey believe okpala ,e no gree believe Taiye taiwo …😀😀 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 2:02pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
elyte89:even the Okpala story be like pry 4 children gist |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elyte89: 2:04pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
jihday: Goodjoe no get street O.T ,so e no fit detect 😀 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 2:16pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
jihday:Then who Dey lie between Taiye Taiwo and Okpala cuz after Quicksilver Okpala responded nothing was heard from Taye Taiwo. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 2:19pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
elyte89:Pls be sincere can Taye Taiwo bench Elderson Echiejele during the period….we need to ask ourselves why players who can’t cut it always making bribery allegations…..pls did Keshi asked Taye for bribe or what cus me I no Dey understand something o |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 2:22pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
joelsteron:Even Mahrez free kick can beat any keeper,people just don’t want Akpeyi in goal,reason why they always criticizing him though he too can be annoying 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Philosopher1979: 2:30pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Kog45: Daniel Akpeyi is 1. Playing regularlly in the South-African league 2. Has the experience at international level. Im surprised this clown called Jose Peseiro is not calling him. He should be first on the list |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 2:32pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
joelsteron:Odegbami philosophy is simple,let’s the young man assist and learn,possibly he would be a good coach,now left for the young man to learn.It happens in Europe,so Odegbami was not wrong. Keshi got Togo coaching job through Patrick Ikeji after understudy Amodu through Odegbami recommendation.When he left Togo,the same Patrick recommended him for Mali job. All these things are networking and it’s happening all over but left for individuals to grab the opportunity. 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 2:46pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Philosopher1979:Peseiro Dey collect kickbacks Abi no be so…if na local coaches we for don Dey shout Uzoho Dey settle nau. All I know solution to our goalkeeper is in NPFL and am rooting for Christian Nwoke. 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by mank1234(m): 3:36pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
joelsteron: Is the message right? Leave the old man alone. Focus on the message. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by do4luv14(m): 3:52pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Liverpool had done the Lords work |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by daveP(m): 3:56pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Cecco90: I'm sorry, but this write up is empty and full of excuses that all trace back to those in charge of our football. He is addressing a matter that we all know will not be solved ANYTIME soon. So why harp about it like asif some emergency solution is right outside the door. I also see excuse made for the cluelessness of Jpes, with style. See, Grammar cannot deflect the obvious, respectfully saying. We may as well expect another article when jpes messes up and the excuses would be out the window after the home delivery through the door. Why do we continue to do this to ourselves? Smh Who takes the blame for pes not facing his primary duty? Is that now an excuse? |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 4:23pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
daveP:The bolded is you summing up the crux of the write-up. Except y'all are not tired of treating symptoms and pampering the root cause we keep the cycles of finding elusive players that will solve our woes, firing and hiring & arguing/counter arguing about local players and coaches. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by isan(m): 4:24pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Mitoma vs Ola Aina ![]() |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Philosopher1979: 4:30pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Kog45: If peseiro was a local coach he will have been sacked by now. He is worse than Amodu, Eguavon, Keshi etc Rohr is 10 times better than him. In fact, Rohr's first 3 years were fantastic before he fell off. Peseiro is not giving us any memorable match, performance, players or anything. He is the worst coach (local or foreign) we have ever had. Its really terrible. We should fire him and manage our local coaches they cant do worse. 55% is better than the 20% that peseiro is. 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 4:46pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Osimhen was listed in Napoli's match day squad... Might start from the bench |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by do4luv14(m): 4:59pm On Nov 25, 2023 |
Danielnino00: Just what I was about to ask |
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