Former Super Eagles great, Taribo West has blasted the defensive pair of Kenneth Omeruo and Godfrey Oboabona, labelling their efforts in the ongoing Nations Cup qualifiers as amateurish.

The former Derby County defender, once considered world class by his peers, clearly has a low opinion on the Eagles' current back line after pushing the national team's caretaker coach Shaibu Amodu to look for replacements for both centre-back and left-back positions.West, who won a gold medal in the 96' Olympic Games, claimed Nigeria had themselves to blame for their disappointing position and Omerou and Oboabona should take the majority of the blame.

- The Eagles impressed me [during their 3-1 win over Sudan] but our defence was suspect and Omeruo and [Godfrey] Oboabona played like amateur defenders, Taribo told hereisthecity.com
- They are good defenders but they were too relaxed and made the same mistakes over and over again. We have conceded goals in the same way in the qualifiers.- Sudan's goal in Nigeria's 3-1 win was similar to the one against us in the first leg in Kartoum.

- They only did well against South Africa, though they made some mistakes. South Africa had the opportunity to execute one-on-one moves and score goals but Vincent Enyeama saved us. The two defenders didn't play like champions or professionals in other games.- I think they need competition. We need to scout for new central defenders. I would have suggested that they should be dropped but we don't have better replacements for them now. But we should work on improving their weaknesses.
This is not the first time West will rail at young defenders, as he labelled Joseph Yobo and the other new faces in the Super Eagles team to the 2002 World Cup in Korea Japan as 'junk players'http://www.futaa.com/football/article/omeruo-and-oboabona-are-amateurs--taribo-west

Oboabona-Yes!...Omeruo-No!

Both of them are overrated.

Centre backs are one of our strong points,truly Omeruo and Oboabona are not yet there.They need stiff competition

Lol

Ok

I see

Very true how can Omeruo who have not played a single match for chelsea appeared 21 times in super eagles and a first eleven for that matter. The same thing is applicable to Oboabonna and Keshi their unreasonable coach.

Taribo is right

Are you sure taribo

...

Hmmm

Do we need to be told that?
Is there anyone on this thread who wants to deceive him or herself that what Taribo said is not true? That would actually make me laugh.
It's not about been overrated or being out of form.
Those guys don't have the talent to stay in the spotlight.

They do not have the agility, the passion, the focus, the gift, perhaps better to say they are not putting in much effort to reach the pinnacle of their career.
The world doesn't want weaklings.
You have to be aggressive and give it all it takes to be taken seriously and in other to stand out.

They are trying but their best is not good enough.
My opinion.

To cap my point, kindly look at when Messi plays, when Rashidi Yekini plays, when Kanu plays, when Drogba plays...
They play with all they got. They deliver all they got. They know that in other to be separated you need to separate yourself.
I wish them well.

Edit:
Those that may want to abuse me or Taribo for calling a spade a spade, remember that when someone is rebuked, if he is wise, he or she evaluates the criticism, sieves it, pick what will make him better in life, thank the person that rebuked him and then work at becoming better.

If you have
everyone back
from a team that
lost ten games,
experience isn’t
too important.

Why didn't u say so since? Or is it because ur scared of keshi?

But its true sha, especially dat oboabona.

The man of God can't be wrong

What was he when he was playing that he will call others amateur,instead of encouraging them to improve

Talking from experience......it is the Gospel truth

. Again

Yes they are amateur but they won the nation's cup with their amateurish football. How many times did he win the afcon with his well experienced football?

Confirm

Ok.......

Bring back Yobo

[size=45pt]Yeah. But taribo is amachild[/size]

I remembered your days sir. you were really good.

but every one cannot be like you. they needed some encouragement/ advice. pick up your phone and call them like a godfather would.

Those amateurs won nations cup gold for us.

Am tired of watching our boys play........

Weldon expert

Kettle calling pot black!

I just finished watching the highlight of the 2nd round match between Nigeria and Denmark at Fifa World Cup (France 98).

Mr Taribo West, it seems you have forgotten how Sand take ball skin that pair of dada wey dey the center of your gorimapa head abi?


The pair won the Nations Cup and were so solid. Obabona presence was felt at the world cup because his replacement was the Clueless Captain named yOBO

lemme book dos space