my preferred group

Argentina

England

Denmark

Nigeria

on a serious note I want these teams especially England

EmmGee:
Congratulations tbaba1234.
May Allah bless your baby.

As hausas say. Allah ya raya.

Alhamdulillah.. Ameen

Thank you

jotey:
my preferred group

Argentina

England

Denmark

Nigeria

on a serious note I want these teams especially England

Argentina & England are OK but not Denmark please. Have you forgotten USA 94 Nigeria v Denmark 1-4. I will be so pleased playing England. They are an over hyped team

Icon4s:


Here you go again.

It is not simple straight arithmetic calculation.

We lost over 70points from that Algeria draw. The Argentina win redeemed us a bit. Maybe na 60th position we for find ourselves.

When you draw or lose to a team that is less than you in ranking. It will negate your points. The further the team is behind you the more the deduction. Algeria were about 20 places behind us. You draw with such a team and you get a massive deduction. It was a case of 3 steps backwards and 1 step forwards for us.
Or more precisely 70 points deduction and 20 points addition.

The Algeria game carried 2.5 points while the Argentina game carried only 1 point.

cc: Bascovanveli

Oga I don't say stuff like this and I stand to be corrected but I just personally feel FIFA is a racist organization. The Argentina that we are talking about had 3 draws in a row against lesser competition.

solonnachi:


Argentina & England are OK but not Denmark please. Have you forgotten USA 94 Nigeria v Denmark 1-4.

That was then and this is now but that group would easily be the group of death.

tbaba1234:


Thank You sir... e no easy o!!

Congrats boss.

Rohr, Nigeria Need A Unique Style Of Play Like “Palmwine Football” In Russia 2018
November 23, 2017018

With Russia 2018 around the corner, now is the time to start thinking about marketing Nigerian football as a premium product

Being a 57 year old nation, it is time for Nigeria to grow up and take her place at the country of mature countries. Nowhere is this more pertinent than on the football pitch where we have shown that we can compete with some of the best in the world.

Our national team the Super Eagles have been on the verge of achieving greatness for about two decades now but at no stage have they really shown that they are set to join the elite band of sides that have won the World Cup before. We may dazzle, flatter to deceive and now and again come up with brilliant results like our recent victory over Argentina but are nowhere near as good as the likes of Brazil, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Argentina or Spain.

If we want to make this quantum leap, it is time among other things to work on our own unique brand of football and start selling it as a global brand. Brazil plays Samba Football, the Dutch gave us Total Football and Spain gave us Tika-Taka and I believe it is time for Palm Wine Football to make its way up there with them.

First of all, we have got to stop celebrating this win in a mere friendly and learn the lessons from the game. Argentina exposed a lot of flaws in our Eagles rear guard and we should be more interested in fixing before next June.

Nigerian football is based on pace, quick counter-attacks, physicality and athleticism and it is now time to turn this into a global brand. It is time the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) packages this Palm Wine Football into a global brand as Rinus Michels did with Total Football and let it sell like a premium product.

Can you just imagine how many jerseys, kits, and memorabilia the NFF would sell globally if it could attract neutrals to fall in love with Nigerian football? Back in the 1990s when the likes of Austin Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu, George Finidi, Taribo West, Daniel Amokachi, Sunday Oliseh, et al wooed the world, it was common to see our green-white-green jerseys being worn by Europeans.

Today, that rarely happens but with the current crop of players at Gernot Rohr’s disposal, we may be on the cusp of something great. When I look at the likes of Mikel Obi, Victor Moses, Henry Onyekuru, Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Nwakali, Tyronne Ebuehi, William Ekong, Alex Iwobi, Francis Uzoho and Brian Idowu, I see a group of players who could become household names after Russia 2018.

Given the pace with which our Eagles launch counter-attacks and the devastating pace with which we can get the ball from box-to-box, we have a brand which appears unique to us.

When you add the physicality of Mikel Obi, Odion Ighalo and Leon Balogun into the mix, we can conjure a unique brand that will be as globally as popular as Samba or Total Football.
To make this work, however, a successful Eagles team is compulsory and I believe that at the very least, the team needs to get to the final of Russia 2018 to be taken seriously.

We are known for pace, strength and flair but we have got to add winning to the mix, which is why we simply have to make getting to the last four of next year’s World Cup a national objective.

I love the fact that we have some exciting young players full of flair coming through at the moment. Onyekuru, Nwakali, Iwobi, Ighalo and Ebuehi are players who can thrill audiences with clever one-twos on the edge of the area, dragbacks, Cruyff turns, nutmegs, back heels, etc, Add Mikel’s long rang passing to what they offer and we are in fact a very entertaining side.

All we need on top of wining is an appealing kit that fans will be happy to go out and purchase. No one wants to wear a kit that looks awful, so Nike need to be keyed into the agenda as well.

We maybe on the cusp of something historic here. Just imagine what good it would do for our national psyche if we could sell a brand of football to the international community. The feel good factor would almost certainly spread throughout every other aspect of our national life and serve as a catalyst for economic regeneration.

owngoalnigeria.com

Congrats tbaba1234. May Allah never cease to bless ur household

ChrisKels:
Congrats tbaba1234. May Allah never cease to bless ur household

Ameen, thanks.

BascoVanVeli:


Oga I don't say stuff like this and I stand to be corrected but I just personally feel FIFA is a racist organization. The Argentina that we are talking about had 3 draws in a row against lesser competition.

Argentina's ranking points dropped from 1445 to 1348. They retained their 4th position because the 5th placed team which is Belgium were 112 points behind. So Argentina did not lose enough points to drop from 4th position.

You guys should not only look at the position look also at the ranking points. It is the ranking points that determine the positions.

BascoVanVeli:


Oga I don't say stuff like this and I stand to be corrected but I just personally feel FIFA is a racist organization. The Argentina that we are talking about had 3 draws in a row against lesser competition.

The organisation may well be racist. However, the points tally seems largely consistent with their ranking formula which is transparent for all to see and Icon4s' prediction was right. Hence, I don't think racism has anything to do with the ranking except of course the formula/procedure was designed to somehow discriminate against African teams

BascoVanVeli:


Congrats boss.

Thank you sir

Many congratulations to you tbaba1234, TheGoodJoe and Naijaphobia

Icon79:
So I was just thinking last night how a country like Poland (and to some extent Portugal) played and manipulated the FIFA ranking game to find themselves in the pot 1. This something we could discuss here and make some recommendations to the NFF regarding the 2022 World Cup. I mean, Poland has shown that you can game the system and that's not cheating .... it's called gaining a competitive edge

Anyway, let's put on our thinking caps on and come up with ways we can make FIFA ranking work for the Super Eagles going forward.

Mickael2, Junnyjake, Kog45, MetalJigsaw, elyte89, Icon4s, Mujtahida, tbaba1234, Joebie, goodjoe, Taliban, forgiveness, komekn, ChrisKels, Chrismario, kennysville, kingphilip, soetanoreoluwa, safarigirl, chrisooblog, optional1, Napoleon55, realpoacher, jotey, sontoly, Daejoyoung, nelszx, etc.


O pari

the way to improve on FIFA ranking is to make use of every window for friendlies,and make sure never to play any team ranked lower than us.
there are some of this countries in top 10 we can beat.

Celebrations are rife on this thread today. Happy birthday to the goodjoe. Wish you many good years. Naijaphobia your son will do you proud. Tbaba1234 congratulations on your new born baby girl.

Napoleon55:
the way to improve on FIFA ranking is to make use of every window for friendlies,and make sure never to play any team ranked lower than us.
there are some of this countries in top 10 we can beat.

In that case top 10 teams would not want to play us because they know we are better than our ranking and any loss to us and they drop points.

Argentina lost almost 100points in the latest ranking.

HBD to you boss

TheGoodJoe:
Thank you all for the Birthday wishes. May God bless you all too.
cc: komekn, Kog45, terzurum5, jotey

apart from BRAZIL,GERMANY ,SPAIN AND FRANCE,we can beat every other seeded teams,or draw them.
our first match is the key to qualifying,if we can b able win our first match,we can easily qualify,i just pray our first match is not against a stronger team,

comodo:
Rohr, Nigeria Need A Unique Style Of Play Like “Palmwine Football” In Russia 2018
November 23, 2017018

With Russia 2018 around the corner, now is the time to start thinking about marketing Nigerian football as a premium product

Being a 57 year old nation, it is time for Nigeria to grow up and take her place at the country of mature countries. Nowhere is this more pertinent than on the football pitch where we have shown that we can compete with some of the best in the world.

Our national team the Super Eagles have been on the verge of achieving greatness for about two decades now but at no stage have they really shown that they are set to join the elite band of sides that have won the World Cup before. We may dazzle, flatter to deceive and now and again come up with brilliant results like our recent victory over Argentina but are nowhere near as good as the likes of Brazil, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Argentina or Spain.

If we want to make this quantum leap, it is time among other things to work on our own unique brand of football and start selling it as a global brand. Brazil plays Samba Football, the Dutch gave us Total Football and Spain gave us Tika-Taka and I believe it is time for Palm Wine Football to make its way up there with them.

First of all, we have got to stop celebrating this win in a mere friendly and learn the lessons from the game. Argentina exposed a lot of flaws in our Eagles rear guard and we should be more interested in fixing before next June.

Nigerian football is based on pace, quick counter-attacks, physicality and athleticism and it is now time to turn this into a global brand. It is time the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) packages this Palm Wine Football into a global brand as Rinus Michels did with Total Football and let it sell like a premium product.

Can you just imagine how many jerseys, kits, and memorabilia the NFF would sell globally if it could attract neutrals to fall in love with Nigerian football? Back in the 1990s when the likes of Austin Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu, George Finidi, Taribo West, Daniel Amokachi, Sunday Oliseh, et al wooed the world, it was common to see our green-white-green jerseys being worn by Europeans.

Today, that rarely happens but with the current crop of players at Gernot Rohr’s disposal, we may be on the cusp of something great. When I look at the likes of Mikel Obi, Victor Moses, Henry Onyekuru, Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Nwakali, Tyronne Ebuehi, William Ekong, Alex Iwobi, Francis Uzoho and Brian Idowu, I see a group of players who could become household names after Russia 2018.

Given the pace with which our Eagles launch counter-attacks and the devastating pace with which we can get the ball from box-to-box, we have a brand which appears unique to us.

When you add the physicality of Mikel Obi, Odion Ighalo and Leon Balogun into the mix, we can conjure a unique brand that will be as globally as popular as Samba or Total Football.
To make this work, however, a successful Eagles team is compulsory and I believe that at the very least, the team needs to get to the final of Russia 2018 to be taken seriously.

We are known for pace, strength and flair but we have got to add winning to the mix, which is why we simply have to make getting to the last four of next year’s World Cup a national objective.

I love the fact that we have some exciting young players full of flair coming through at the moment. Onyekuru, Nwakali, Iwobi, Ighalo and Ebuehi are players who can thrill audiences with clever one-twos on the edge of the area, dragbacks, Cruyff turns, nutmegs, back heels, etc, Add Mikel’s long rang passing to what they offer and we are in fact a very entertaining side.

All we need on top of wining is an appealing kit that fans will be happy to go out and purchase. No one wants to wear a kit that looks awful, so Nike need to be keyed into the agenda as well.

We maybe on the cusp of something historic here. Just imagine what good it would do for our national psyche if we could sell a brand of football to the international community. The feel good factor would almost certainly spread throughout every other aspect of our national life and serve as a catalyst for economic regeneration.

owngoalnigeria.com

There's nothing drunk like about our style of play. I don't even see anything unique about our style of play so much that it gets tagged as 'palm wine football'

Exactly. For instance, I am pretty sure that our ranking would've improved tremendously if we had played the following countries in the past one year:

Portugal (3)
Poland (7)
Switzerland (
Chile (10)
Peru (11)
Denmark (12)
Wales (19)

I am pretty sure that the folks at the NFF don't know how to play the FIFA ranking game yet.


O pari

Napoleon55:
the way to improve on FIFA ranking is to make use of every window for friendlies,and make sure never to play any team ranked lower than us.
there are some of this countries in top 10 we can beat.

Icon4s:


In that case top 10 teams would not want to play us because they know we are better than our ranking and any loss to us and they drop points.

Argentina lost almost 100points in the latest ranking.

once we have good outing at d WC,some of them will agree to play us.
and now is the best opportunity we have even to play BRAZIL AND GERMANY,because of our victory against ARGENTINA.we should grab it

Oh, tbaba1234's wife gave birth recently? Congratulations o, my broad. Abeg, mek sure you prepare good ofe nsala for madam, along with ji mmiri oku. It no easy o



O pari

Mujtahida:
Celebrations are rife on this thread today. Happy birthday to the goodjoe. Wish you many good years. Naijaphobia your son will do you proud. Tbaba1234 congratulations on your new born baby girl.

jotey:
my preferred group

Argentina

England

Denmark

Nigeria

on a serious note I want these teams especially England

Go pick that group for Fifa biko.

Happy birthday Goodjoe
Congrats to Tbaba on his new baby girl.

Congratulations Oga Tbaba1234
God will grant you all the necessary resources to take good care of her...Amen She will be proud of you...


To Oga naijaphobia ..happy Birthday to your lovely baby boy... God will grant him long life and prosperity... Wish him all the best in life..

Mujtahida:
Celebrations are rife on this thread today. Happy birthday to the goodjoe. Wish you many good years. Naijaphobia your son will do you proud. Tbaba1234 congratulations on your new born baby girl.

Thank you sir..

soetanoreoluwa:
Congratulations Oga Tbaba1234
God will grant you all the necessary resources to take good care of her...Amen She will be proud of you...


To Oga naijaphobia ..happy Birthday to your lovely baby boy... God will grant him long life and prosperity... Wish him all the best in life..

Ameen and thank you..

edi287:
Happy birthday Goodjoe
Congrats to Tbaba on his new baby girl.

Thank you, sir.

tglobal:
Many congratulations to you tbaba1234, TheGoodJoe and Naijaphobia

Thank you sir..

Congrats to thegoodjoe and naijaphobia 2.

jotey:
my preferred group
Argentina
England
Denmark
Nigeria
on a serious note I want these teams especially England

you're not serious... you think we will qualify from this group?
forget...it Denmark and Argentina will steal the show....

tbaba1234:

Thank you sir..

congrats sir....my regards to your family

Morocco trying to get Munir El Haddadi who has already played a competitive game for Spain.
Munir wants the switch.
Wow!