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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?

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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, Aminu Umar, Emem Eduok 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.

AIG07:

I said 'MOST' not all of them didn't leave up to expectation.

Playing in europe(lesser leagues) or been capped @ d national team should not be d only yardstick to measure d progress/performance of a whole set f grade teams.

You all know how promising these guys were.
Well since time is still on their side... We all hope de re-invent themselves in d round leather game

forgiveness:


Bros, Michael Olaitan was not part of 2009 under 17.

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Ok thanks, he joined them at U20.

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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?

tbaba1234:


How many teams get to win the WC?

And there is no reason why success and co, should not have been invited by now. Success is probably on a higher level in terms of progression than iheanacho.

TheGoodJoe:


I disagree with your last statement. Iheanacho is already an important player in a key Man City side. There is so much trust in his finishing ability by his teammates and Coaching crew.

Nacho had Man of the Match performances against EPL teams which we know are tough oppositions.

So on what ground would you think Success has progressed better than Nacho?

Coach Siasia made calls to Super Eagles top players, including Mikel, Ighalo and V. Moses. He listed Nacho and called him along with the Super Eagles top players.

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In the same way that MOST players from other U17 teams all over the world dnt get to play for their respective senior teams.

@ bolded, tell us the other yardsticks.

forgiveness:
By SL10 - Feb 04, 2015 02:35 PM 0

Barcelona loanee Bobby Adekanye is set to commit his international future to Holland instead of his country of birth, Nigeria.

The Royal Dutch Football Association is in the driving seat to cap the highly-rated winger after he was included by Coach Edwin Petersen on the roster for the upcoming UEFA Development Tournament.

Ademola Adekanye, Bobby's dad, has reiterated that the NFF did not attempt to persuade the PSV Eindhoven starlet to represent any of their youth teams, and it would have been disrespectful to give a negative response to the KNVB.

''Bobby is going with the Dutch under 16 team to Portugal. They are scheduled to play three games, against Spain, Portugal and Deutschland,'' said Ademola Adekanye to SL10.ng.

''The door is not finally shut on Nigeria, nobody knows tomorrow if he will decide to play for Nigeria.

''The truth is that the Nigeria Federation never invited him, but Netherlands did and he needs to respect them.''

According to Fifa rules, the door is still open for Bobby Adekanye to defend the colors of Nigeria until he plays a Fifa-sanctioned competitive game for Het Nederland’s Elftal.

ADO Den Haag winger Segun Owobowale represented Holland at the 2014 European Under-17 Championship, but it has been 'claimed' that he has opted to play for the Super Eagles in future.


http://www.sl10.ng/news/articles/categories/nigeria-players-abroad/barcelona-loanee-bobby-adekanye-set-to-make-international-debut-for-holland/200106


I still don't understand why some players born in abroad get invitation to the National team while some got ignored delibrately. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Na animal Farm thing.

They will say we need home grown players and that we have too much talented players. But when you look at the countries poaching our players, you will begin to wonder if we have more better talented players than them. And you will think they are poaching from our crumbs. Hehehe! Crumbs indeed!

But reverse is the case. With the arrays of stars they have, they still have the quest to accumulate more talented players.

The boy approached Emmanuel Amuneke but Amuneke turned him down without even a trial while Holland had already seen enough of him to give him a call up. Which way naija? Tomorrow dem go say he is not patriotic for chosen Holland because they think the boy no like success.

I talked about Tiago Ilori exploit at Sporting Lisbon and Bordeaux the other day (now playing for Liverpool) but someone said na average player. But i was shocked when he started mentioning and Clarmoring for one of our rising in Porto to be included in the under 23 just because he played only three matches recently. Don't get me wrong. I support his suggestion but i don't support his selective......

I always supported any good player but i don't support......

I am suspecting something and i still dey observe.

TheGoodJoe:


Come on, we are talking U17 teams here. If he was U20 and he is not invited, it is a different case but our coaches scout our U17 teams from the grassroots.

It is impossible for him to get a call up now. At the U20 and above level, if we call him and he says yes good. If we call him and he says no, we have too much talents not to miss him.

TheGoodJoe:
When will Pellegrini learn. Why send in Sterling as replacement when looking for a goal. After Sterling's horrendous misses against Liverpool in the Capital One Cup finals, is he the person to send in search of goals.

Hope Nacho saves the game.

Icon4s:


Lamentations chapter 1 verse 2.
Take heart my brother.
The title is coming to London.

TheGoodJoe:
When will Pellegrini learn. Why send in Sterling as replacement when looking for a goal. After Sterling's horrendous misses against Liverpool in the Capital One Cup finals, is he the person to send in search of goals.

Hope Nacho saves the game.

tbaba12345:
Pacy and direct: Abdullahi Nura


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0MkCVyEMA

TheGoodJoe:


I wonder what Pells thought when he sent in Sterling. It is time for the man to pair up Nacho and Aguero up front if he wants to salvage this season.

This was a Banker win.