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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 12:56pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
kellycute:Well done there. One 'like' for you. 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 12:57pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
BascoVanVeli:Are we building a new team? |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 12:57pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Mickael2: I do not want to be too critical, going round in circles but your initial comment was false. Omeruo has not been better than Ekong this season so far. Hopefully, he gets better. 7 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by junnyjake(m): 12:58pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
TheGoodJoe: Spots on Bro. Spot on! 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 1:05pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
edi287:No wonder. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by junnyjake(m): 1:06pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Mickael2: Not every CB is a ball playing CB. And that one is, is just a plus. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 1:08pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Dessers liking Iwobi's tweet. 3 Likes
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 1:10pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
junnyjake:Yep. Dude is much better than given credit for. He wouldn't be bad as a CB provided he has a calming influence in front of him as DM. Omeruo is still good but he needs to wake up. Leaving him out for a few games might just be the wakeup call he needs 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 1:10pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
tbaba1234: What about Hazard at Lille going out to get drunk and then scoring a hat trick the next day? We are all human even C-Boy went out and painted the town red once or twice in his youth. He just needs to learn from this and become a better person. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elyte89: 1:10pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
[quote author=tbaba1234 post=61220752]Dessers liking Iwobi's tweet. If he likes,let him like buharis speech ,NO BACK DOOR TO WORLD CUP |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 1:11pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Mickael2:Yea u are right,Rohr has said it,Omeruo is still part of d team and we cannot discard him like that,against Zambia d guy was OK if not for that stupid error.I still rate him highly. 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 1:12pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Edopesin: How do u mean? |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 1:14pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
BascoVanVeli: Hopefully, he does. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 1:14pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
soetanoreoluwa: No, just some guys who the coach will most likely want to see in action. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by junnyjake(m): 1:18pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
edi287: Rorh knows what he sees in him and why he keeps getting calls. Them no wan DE hear that boy name for the thread sha. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 1:18pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
The Algerian game is now our first pre- world cup friendly and should be taken that way. We should see all the people on the bench that do not play. Every one must justify their place in the world cup. 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:19pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
mostob: Elderson... He can't walk.. Got ice on his laps 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mickael2(m): 1:19pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
tbaba1234: yes this season he hasn't. I was caught between his rating for last season and this season |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 1:19pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
AIG07:They were really determined. I just pray we get our preparations in gear without the constraints of finance. This is Rohr's first World Cup. He should go brush up oo cos I read Eguavoen one time saying that being a novice at the World Cup affected Westerhof regarding that match against Italy 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by terzurum5(m): 1:21pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
AIG07:A bigger shoutout to you and all the Super Eagles fans. This Victory has vindicated us, our hope and believe. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mickael2(m): 1:22pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
For me he remains our third choice CB. And his inclusion in the world cup squad will be vital. Let's assume that Aina starts playing the LB position, we only have Shehu and Ebuehi who is not that high up Rohr's ladder, Omeruo can do more than a decent job at RB as well, he is a good ball player not just a tackler Kog45: 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:24pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
komekn: I like you sir.. Is this not what I was expecting from you with the post... You are a good man! |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Daejoyoung: 1:25pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Ola Aina though, good player but must minimize the spaces he leaves behind him. Echiejille was average though and mainly lacked pace, he also didn't offer so much support for Moses but l think his critics have been slightly unfair to him most times. We still need a left back and Omeruo to compete with the oyinbo wall, we also need a center forward and an attacking midfielder relegating Mickel to Central Midfield. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 1:26pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Kog45:You say you know Ojokojo. How can we convince him to get that his son to play for us. The guy can play comfortably as left back or CB. He's tall, strong and quick. He can either be a back up for our central defensive duo or as substitute for Echiejile or even replacement if he proves his worth so that Aina can stay on the right where he's most comfortable and battle with Shehu for a position at RB. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:31pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
safarigirl: During U17 2007..ajiboye Don born 3 children... Lol... Just hope someone will not see this... And the guy claim 17years .... 11years down the line... Now in super eagle.. Ajiboye is at his peak right now... Thank God is a goalkeeper |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 1:45pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
I read somewhere that Nigeria qualified for her first World Cup on the 8th of October 1993. We began this campaign in October and ended it in October. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:46pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
BascoVanVeli: But seriously I don't see him overhaul all the players and Start entire new first eleven... The players need to bond more... World Cup in not far again... Just three or four changes will do... Not the whole first eleven.. Expect change at left back wings, striking position and probably goalkeeper but I can't tell you...the changes won't be much.. Papi Rohr is more of players bonding that doing experient...even during friendly he will start his first eleven them bring in other players.. Like Akpeyi, Elderson, Onazi and Simon... These four players will need extra effort to be back in start eleven... Something extra ordinary... Just my opinion... 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:52pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Tweets...enjoys still about yesterday
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:53pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
My best tweet so far!
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AIG07: 1:54pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
FAREWELL ANDREA PIRLO, FOOTBALL'S LAST ARTIST IN AN ERA OF ATHLETES Carlo Garganese 11:30 Goal The playmaker announced that he will retire from football in December - he'll go down in history as an all-time great and one of the last of his kind Italy have produced some magnificent midfielders over the years. Valentino and Sandro Mazzola, Gianni Rivera, Giancarlo Antognoni, Marco Tardelli, Rino Gattuso, Daniele De Rossi – the list goes on and on. But one player trumps all of these stars, the maestro that is Andrea Pirlo. On Sunday, Pirlo announced that he will retire from football when his contract with New York City FC expires in December . Italy 18/1 to win World Cup “You realise by yourself that the moment has arrived,” the 38-year-old told Gazzetta dello Sport. “Every day you have physical problems. At my age, you have to say: enough. You can’t keep on until you are 50." Since making his Serie A debut for hometown club Brescia at the age of just 16, Pirlo has wowed audiences all over the world. Football is so tribal, especially in Italy, that it is very rare to find a world-class player who transcends club colours and national boundaries. Along with the likes of Javier Zanetti, Paolo Maldini and Gianluigi Buffon, Pirlo is adored by almost everyone. He is adored because he is so unique. Instantly recognisable - with or without his flowing locks and trademark beard - to watch L'architetto (The Architecht) effortlessly glide around the pitch, moving the ball and his team-mates like a chess-master and curling home stylish free-kicks is pure beauty. For purists of the game, Pirlo is everything that a footballer should be. He is slow, he is weak, he doesn’t head, tackle or sprint, but such is his genius from a technical and mental viewpoint that he is still untouchable. It is for this reason that Pirlo is particularly worshipped in Brazil – the country where joga bonito was born. Many Brazilians yearn for a return to the days of 1970 and 1982 where free spirits like Rivelino, Tostao, Socrates and Zico revelled in their Bohemian surroundings. Pirlo is the representation of the untainted, carefree, risk-taking football Brazilians wish they still played. "Andrea Pirlo is the most Brazilian player of all Europeans. He's the first player on the paper if I had to make a dream team,” said former Brazil coach Dunga, ironically one of the first figures to signal the Selecao’s shift towards athleticism. Indeed, we now live in the age of the athlete. Rule changes, medical advancements, synthetic footballs and the subsequent tactical evolution and increased speed of the game have pushed most artists of Pirlo’s ilk out of the sport. He is more suited to the 1980s when the game was slower, more technical and effective total pressing was still years away. "He's the epitome of class; a man who leads the team using all the weapons that some consider antiquated yet, for me, are irreplaceable: deception, the pause, the fake, precision," said ex-Argentina and Real Madrid star Jorge Valdano. "These are all the exact opposite of that word that is so fashionable today and such a disaster for the game: 'intensity'." This intensity could have robbed us of Pirlo’s genius, too. As the No.10 position began to become obsolete, Pirlo struggled to nail down a place at Inter. Fortunately, first Brescia’s Carlo Mazzone and then Carlo Ancelotti at AC Milan had the foresight to move Pirlo back from his natural habitat into a deep-lying playmaker role. From there, he could express himself, dictating the tempo and executing his pin-point through passes. Perhaps no one since Michel Platini has been so accurate and effective when it comes to the lofted chipped ball over the top of the defence. Perhaps no one at all has been as calm and unflustered in possession as the 116-cap international. No matter the quality of the opposition nor the size of the game - there was no such thing as pressure to Pirlo. “I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup,” he famously remarked. As a regista, Pirlo was the brains and beating heart of one of the Champions League’s best ever club midfields. Together with Gattuso, Clarence Seedorf and Kaka, Milan reached three Champions League finals, a semi-final and quarter-final in five years in the mid-noughties, winning two titles and throwing another two away. His good cop-bad cop partnership in the middle of the park with the snarling Gattuso was vital as Italy ended a 24-year wait to finally lift a fourth World Cup in the summer of 2006. In Germany, Pirlo topped the charts for assists and man-of-the-match awards. He scored their first goal of the tournament against Ghana with a rasping drive and assisted Marco Materazzi’s equaliser in the final win over France, also scoring in the victorious shootout. And just like any great player, he proved his doubters wrong when many wrote him off after Milan ended their 10-year love affair by releasing him in 2011. In his 33rd year, he enjoyed perhaps the best individual season of his career. He was the catalyst for new club Juventus, who had been in the doldrums since the Calciopoli crisis, inspiring them to the Scudetto without losing a game before starring at Euro 2012 – where he was unplayable in the knockout victories over England and Germany. Article continues below He was named Serie A Player of the Year, retaining the honour in the next two seasons as the Bianconeri built a dynasty. Juve are currently on a six-year Serie A-winning stretch. The only true disappointment during his stint in Turin was his final game for the club in 2015 as Juve suffered a 3-1 Champions League final defeat to Barcelona in Berlin. He was reduced to tears on the Olympiastadion pitch as he narrowly missed out on a historic treble. His two-and-a-half years at New York City FC have also been mixed at best, scoring just one goal, but by the time he arrived in the United States it was clear he was winding down his career. Indeed, he has created more than enough history during a glittering career. He has won almost every major title for club and country - six Scudetti, two Champions Leagues, a World Cup and European Under-21 Championship among 19 team honours. Some insiders believe he would have won the Ballon d’Or in 2012 had Italy not lost that year’s final of the European Championship – the one elite trophy to elude him. His career is full of unforgettable moments that will still be played on highlight reels 50 years from now. From his Panenka penalty against England at those Euros to his reverse assist to Fabio Grosso six years earlier during the most dramatic ending to a World Cup semi-final in Dortmund. Then there was his sublime chipped ball for Roberto Baggio to famously round Edwin van der Sar in 2001, his free kick versus Real Madrid in 2009 and another stunning set piece against Mexico on the occasion of his 100th Italy cap. “Pirlo is a genius. Together with Baggio, I think he’s the greatest talent that Italian football has produced in the last 25 years,” gushed Gianluigi Buffon. "History will remember him as one of the best ever for sure. He has achieved everything," Pirlo's former team-mate Samuele Dalla Bona told Goal upon news of his retirement. What is certain is that there will never be another player as unique as Pirlo. For not only is he Italy’s best ever midfielder and one of the all-time greats in his role – he is perhaps football’s last pure artist in an era of athletes. source: goal.com Cc: Sir Mujtahida |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 1:54pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Mujtahida:Yea but NFF guys know him very well especially Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi,Segun Odegbami, Felix Owolabi,these people are enough to talk to him coz it seems he is d problem not d boy. I don't expect him to be a stumbling block on this issue,he was a very local home based player then and i thought he should be happy seeing d boy played for Nigeria. Kudos to Iwobi and Aina Fathers, see d join in their face, just like when someone child graduated from d university.They are just too happy seeing their children playing for Nigeria. Hope Tammy Dad can do d same thing, though a lot are not happy with him now for coming out to denied Nigeria but hope he can have a rethink. Ojokojo and Irofa fall my hand on their children coz they know d system very well and nobody should tell them before these guys pledge allegiance to Nigeria. My wish is to see Felix Uduokhai,Ojokojo, Irofa in Nigeria colour and make d competition thick in d national team just like d way we are seeing Aina,Iwobi Balogun, Ekong doing it. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by soetanoreoluwa(m): 1:54pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
Three musketeers! 3 Likes
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