terzurum5:
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Sokari apologizes to Siasia
by Sammy Wejinya
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Kingsley Sokari

More than a few eye brows were raised when Kingsley Sokari was left out of the Nigeria squad for the 2015 Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Senegal.


Sokari was an integral member of the squad in the run up to the tournament and also played a vital role to help the Nigeria under-23s reach the football event of the 2015 All Africa Games in Congo.


It was widely reported in the local media that Sokari fell out with Nigeria head coach, Samson Siasia, just before the Under-23 Afcon in Senegal.


Siasia told the media that Sokari and two of his teammates at his former club, Nzube Anaezemba and Daniel Etor, were overlooked for what he termed indiscipline.


“I feel bad in taking this decision (to expel the players from the team’s camp), but discipline must be maintained for us to achieve success in Senegal.


“All players in camp were told not to leave camp as the team would be traveling (on the weekend they were to commence pre-tournament in The Gambia), only for these three players to come and ask to be allowed to go play for their club as they wanted to be part of the victory parade.


“I had no option but to allow them leave and also in the process, leave them out of the team,” Siasia said as Nigeria defied the odds to finish as winners at the tournament.


Sokari, now in the books of Tunisian club, CS Sfaxien, has now attempted to give his side of the story while “apologizing profusely” to the coach.


“The three of us didn't train on the day the incident happened. The coach was upset and called for a meeting later that day and asked us to leave the camp.


“Looking back now, I know I made a big mistake and I apologize profusely to the coach, my teammates and the fans.


“It is always an honour to serve the country and I hope the coach forgives me and gives me another chance,” Sokari told supersport.com.


The midfielder has scored twice for Sfaxien this season.
http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria/news/160307/Sokari_apologizes_to_Siasia
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confun:
eyaa, I feel for him sha

This Kingsley Sokari of a guy wants to play a fast one on Coach Samson Siasia right? Why did it take him too long to tender the well derserved appologgy in the first place? Is it because he now feels with Coach Siasia at the helm of affairs, his chances of wearing the green white green will be slim that he now wants us to take his appology?

Hmmmmmm how life turns out to be. Me I do not feel for him oooooo. With so many options available both home and abroad, he find it difficult to get a call up. I still wish him the best though.

tbaba1234:
Ehizibue has been called up by the Dutch under 21. Since we are failing to give these guys a chance, it is probably best that they move on.

Icon4s:


Do you know how many uncapped young players Nigeria has as at today?

Even if we form four Super Eagles Teams not all of them will still get that chance you are talking about.

How many matches have the Super Eagles played in the last 5-6 months? Or you expected us to have flooded the Team to play Egypt with uncapped players just to secure their nationalities. Look at the current squad in camp you will see that there are so many debutants already.

Besides, is he even better than the crop of young Right backs we have? Is he better than Shehu Abdullahi, Sincere Seth, Musa Mohammed, Moses Odubajo; some of whom have not even seen invitation to the Super Eagles. There are also Leon Balogun and Efe Ambrose who are the more established Right back options.

I dnt think Ehizubue can even make our U23 Team if given a fair chance.

Holland can have him play for their U21 if they want. He is still eligible to play for Nigeria in future if he improves on his game.

Pavarotti:
http://www.soccerassembly.com/popularside/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21

Examining the Centre Backs eligible for the U23

terzurum5:
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EXCLUSIVE: SANI EMMANUEL REJECTED BY LATVIAN SIDE
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2009 U-17 World cup top scorer Sani Emmanuel has not been offered a contract by Latvian side FK Jelgava after a two weeks trial.


He was widely tipped to secure a deal with the Latvia based side but the club presented their list of players for the new season to the press and the Nigerian wasn’t listed a clear sign his period of trial wasn’t successful.


The former Lazio youth teamer has had a topsy turvy career since leaving Lazio in 2011 loan spells at Salernitana in Italy,Biel-Bienne of Switzerland and Beitar Jerusalem of Isreal didn’t provide the lift his career needed.

23 year old Sani last season played just 50 minutes of top flight football appearing four times as a substitute for Swedish side Oskarshamns AIK.


This is about the second time in a space of two years he has reportedly fail trials after he was refused a contract by Polish side Lechia Gdansk after a trial in 2013.


However he is a free player and can still move before the end of the season although that looks unlikely and even if he does it might be to teams outside mainstream Europe.
http://owngoalnigeria.com/2016/03/09/exclusive-sani-emmanuel-rejected-by-latvian-side/
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edi287:

What a shame. The level of age cheating in that 09 u17 was shocking to say the least.
He needs to come back to naija and try his luck.

Icon4s:


Do you know how many uncapped young players Nigeria has as at today?

Even if we form four Super Eagles Teams not all of them will still get that chance you are talking about.

How many matches have the Super Eagles played in the last 5-6 months? Or you expected us to have flooded the Team to play Egypt with uncapped players just to secure their nationalities. Look at the current squad in camp you will see that there are so many debutants already.

Besides, is he even better than the crop of young Right backs we have? Is he better than Shehu Abdullahi, Sincere Seth, Musa Mohammed, Moses Odubajo; some of whom have not even seen invitation to the Super Eagles. There are also Leon Balogun and Efe Ambrose who are the more established Right back options.

I dnt think Ehizubue can even make our U23 Team if given a fair chance.

Holland can have him play for their U21 if they want. He is still eligible to play for Nigeria in future if he improves on his game.

tbaba1234:


It does not mean, he cheated. Some youths do not make the step up. They do not improve. At 14, freddy Adu was touted as the next big thing. He did not reach any where near that level.

AIG07:

The '09 u-17 sets that paraded d likes of Olarewaju Kayode, Edafe Egbedi, Sanni Emmanuel(the super sub), Stanley Okoro(who was den tagged as Nigeria version of Messi), Paul d shot stopper(that dude throws ball n reaches d opponents half wit his hands) onazi(no one ever tot he 'll go far in his career after his lackluster performance against Germany) and d rest were just bunch of flukes who shone and went into oblivion.
Nigerians tot they will be d next generation of a super talented Eagles but most of them failed to live up to expectation just like d 2007 set of Chrisantus n co...

Those years were years of AGE CHEATING, no wonder we've not been able to pull a strong national team till now.

'WHATEVER A MAN SOW; HE SHALL REAP'

AIG07:

The '09 u-17 sets that paraded d likes of Olarewaju Kayode, Edafe Egbedi, Sanni Emmanuel(the super sub), Stanley Okoro(who was den tagged as Nigeria version of Messi), Paul d shot stopper(that dude throws ball n reaches d opponents half wit his hands) onazi(no one ever tot he 'll go far in his career after his lackluster performance against Germany) and d rest were just bunch of flukes who shone and went into oblivion.
Nigerians tot they will be d next generation of a super talented Eagles but most of them failed to live up to expectation just like d 2007 set of Chrisantus n co...

Those years were years of AGE CHEATING, no wonder we've not been able to pull a strong national team till now.

'WHATEVER A MAN SOW; HE SHALL REAP'

forgiveness:



So that in the future when he turns out to become another David Alaba and Dele Ali, we will start bitting our fingers and saying had we known...... ok na!

I have my reasons for not criticizing Iwobi's inclusion on the list cos i think dey just want to cap him which is good for us.

Icon4s:


Let me start with ur last sentence. Iwobi was nt jst invited bc he is abt to b capped. He has been capped already . I am surprised u dnt know dat.

Then to ur other statement; nobody is bitting any finger bc of Alaba or Dele Alli. U cannot b capping every d!ck and harry player u see in Europe jst bc u dnt want dem to play for d other country. So we should ignore d already identified and established players and start chasing after players hu probably have nt even shown interest to play for Nigeria?

I am nt saying we should nt go after such players bt as i said before we cannot cap all of them all at once even if we parade four Super Eagles teams. After all in d last 1-2 years we have capped players like Leone Balogun, William Troost-Ekong, Steven Ukoh and Alex Iwobi. In more distant past we also converted Sola Ameobi, Victor Moses and Victor Anichebe.

Such players are many and can only b introduced bit by bit.

AIG07:

The '09 u-17 sets that paraded d likes of Olarewaju Kayode, Edafe Egbedi, Sanni Emmanuel(the super sub), Stanley Okoro(who was den tagged as Nigeria version of Messi), Paul d shot stopper(that dude throws ball n reaches d opponents half wit his hands) onazi(no one ever tot he 'll go far in his career after his lackluster performance against Germany) and d rest were just bunch of flukes who shone and went into oblivion.
Nigerians tot they will be d next generation of a super talented Eagles but most of them failed to live up to expectation just like d 2007 set of Chrisantus n co...

Those years were years of AGE CHEATING, no wonder we've not been able to pull a strong national team till now.

'WHATEVER A MAN SOW; HE SHALL REAP'

Icon4s:


In that team were also Kenneth Omeruo, Ramon Azeez, Michael Olaitan, Abdul Ajagun, and Olanrewaju Kayode.

The thing is majority of U17 graduates dnt end up playing for d senior national team. I think so far d Japan 93 set had d highest number of players hu later played for d Super Eagles:just 5players out of 18 in dat squad. They are closely followed by that 2009 set that u are talking down. Yes 4players: Kennth Omeruo, Ogenyi Onazi, Ramon Azeez & Stanley Okoro have played for d Super Eagles. Bt for ill health Michael Olaitan i blieve would have featured for d Super Eagles by now. Now remember those boys are still below 24 , there is a possibility dat players like Abdul Ajagun, Mike Olaitan and Olanrewaju Kayode can get to feature for d eagles.

When dat crop progressed to d U20s in 2011 & 2013 they were jouned by players like: Ahmed Musa, Uche Nwofor, Shehu Abdullahi, Usman Mohammed, Wilfred Ndidi, Moses Simon, Umar (forgotten his first name) and Kingsley Madu all of whom u know are Super Eagles players today. They are also known as d John Obu's boys; jst like how we have d Yemi Tela's boys, Manu's boys and Amuneke's boys.

Permit me to say that d John Obu's boys: 2009 U17, 2011 U20 & 2013 U20 dominate d Super Eagles and Olympic teams today. That production line to me did nt turn out badly.

forgiveness:


Can you pls kindly remind me of the match he was capped?

Maybe you are not but i have read several articles on that even just today on this forum. Maybe you are not interested in winning World Cup. Believe me with those two lads in our team, we can go places. Like Argentina with Messi is something else.

If Ehizibue is good, we should not wait until he becomes a star before chasing after him. As German, England, France etc with all the arrays of talents at their disposal, still cap players. How come ours is different?

Icon4s:


Alex Iwobi featured in the NIG vs DRC and NIG vs CMR friendlies.

Talking abt Alaba and Delle Alli, i can see they have helped Austria and England respectively to win the World Cup.

Is Ehizibue d only young player that has nt been invited? We have youngsters like Awaziem, Success, Odubajo, and a host of others hu are on d waiting line. Is Ehizibue better than them?