Algeria couldn't have gotten a wind of this information if they didn't act on a tip off by a Nigerian journalist. This was how journo from Ibadan made $2000 from Etoile du Sahel in 2012 when he sold them information about the contractual snafu between 3Sc and Rangers over Emmanuel Daniel. Rangers forfeited the match after beating Etoile over 2 legs.
The Tunians went on to win the Confederations cup that year.
I can bet my car keys a Nigerian journalist sold this information to Algeria.

nelszx:

Yes it was actually against Swaziland away

Every matches played count. That's why I said Martins played part in our qualification to the WC. EOD

Lmaoooooo what are the NFF technical committee smoking?? This is how they didn't tell Siasia we only needed to beat Guinea by one and we missed Afcon 2012.
Inexcusable error...imagine if we were only a point or two ahead of Zambia?? This is crazy.
Come to think of it, why would Algeria report this now?? What do they stand to gain?? Petty but we'll within their rights tbh. Maybe we should've tested Aina and Ebuehi like most wanted...this wouldn't have happened.

forgiveness:


Every matches played count. That's why I said Martins played part in our qualification to the WC. EOD

Didn't score or assist to be fair...

tbaba1234:


It is not about emotions. This is not a simple mistake, it could easily have been extremely costly.

Accountability is important. That is where disciplinary actions come in. Steps must also be taken to reduce the chances of reoccurrence.

The NFF is working on that and I don't think any of us can dictate to them how they discipline their erring staff. Thankfully, it's not that costly.

I see a learning experience afterward.

tbaba1234:

See, People get fired for less.
This is a serious error and should be tackled seriously

They probably do not understand the magnitude of this type of error.

edi287:
Lmaoooooo what are the NFF technical committee smoking?? This is how they didn't tell Siasia we only needed to beat Guinea by one and we missed Afcon 2012.
Inexcusable error...imagine if we were only a point or two ahead of Zambia?? This is crazy.
Come to think of it, why would Algeria report this now?? What do they stand to gain?? Petty but we'll within their rights tbh. Maybe we should've tested Aina and Ebuehi like most wanted...this wouldn't have happened.

And we also missed out 2006 world cup cos they didn't know it's head-to-head and not goal difference.

And we also waited for the referee to tell us that it's intention he punish by awarding an undue penalty against us.

Isaac Success is on the bench for Watford

Joebie:
Yes new competition can help in bringing out the best in what we have

Correct. 100/100.

edi287:

Didn't score or assist to be fair...

It doesn't matter. It is on record that he Martins was part of the team that qualified us to the WC.

Abi no bi for the same match we don lose our unbeaten runs?

tbaba1234:
Ajagun with a terrific goal

That's my boiiiii.

Oasis007:




Nothing gives Forgiveness than this kinda News!

I know dem good boiiis ballers. Ajagun is among.

Ehen

tbaba1234:


People die regularly from doctor's incompetence in Nigeria.

I know someone who was given an IV of glucose but this man was diabetic. It took an observant visitor who was also a doctor to observe the anomaly otherwise the man would have died from incompetence.

Someone will then tell you, everyone makes mistakes after all he has been saving/serving others.

forgiveness:



This is what you get when you are too sentimental about a player.

Ebuehi suppose start and finish that match but the coach was busy playing pranks.

Thank God we have already qualified else the second best could have just replaced us if the 3 point will make dem top the league.

I tell you....I remember that day how oga icon and his crew jump to defend rohr for benching ebuehi...

even when everyone here was citing reasons why the young man should have played instead so as to better assess him.....

but oga rohr unwilling to take risk...still went ahead field shehu and that almost cost us the world cup.....
mtcheeew ....

Anderlecht Advised To Buy Another Striker: Onyekuru Belongs To Everton
allnigeriasoccer.com Dec 12, 2017 1:00 PM
Anderlecht Advised To Buy Another Striker: Onyekuru Belongs To Everton


Belgian First Division A champs Anderlecht have been advised to scour the transfer market for an alternative to Henry Onyekuru as the Nigeria international could return to his parent club Everton in the next six months or even in January.
Even though Onyekuru has often been criticized by manager Hein Vanhaezebrouck for unnecessary showboating as you would expect from a young player, the fact is the Nigerian has delivered for Anderlecht, topping the goal charts with nine goals after the latest round of matches.

Former Anderlecht striker Gilles De Bilde reckons that the club will encounter problems if Onyekuru returns to Everton.

He told Het Laatste Nieuws : ''In spite of everything, his figures are good, he gets his return, but he is hired and at the end of the season he is basically away or with some bad luck maybe even this winter. So in the long run ... ''

The 20-year-old Onyekuru penned a multi-year contract with Everton in the summer before he was immediately loaned out to Anderlecht after failing to obtain a British work permit.

He is contention to be included in Nigeria's squad list for the 2018 World Cup.

Igho Kingsley

Humility017:

I tell you....I remember that day how oga icon and his crew jump to defend rohr for benching ebuehi...

even when everyone here was citing reasons why the young man should have played instead so as to better assess him.....

but oga rohr unwilling to take risk...still went ahead field shehu and that almost cost us the world cup.....
mtcheeew ....

I wanted Ebuehi to start that game. I included him in my preferred starting line up.

But we cannot hinge on that now to blame Rohr

NFF has once again reminded us of who they are.

Icon4s:


I wanted Ebuehi to start that game. I included him in my preferred starting line up.

But we cannot hinge on that now to blame Rohr

NFF has ones again reminded us of who they are.

I still remember how you reminded me...that fielding almost all this players that have been on bench all this while could cost us the match....

and opt for few introductions....
anyway that has passed....I just thank God it all ended this way...it could have been worse

Humility017:

I still remember how you reminded me...that fielding almost all this players that have been on bench all this while could cost us the match....

and opt for few introductions....
anyway that has passed....I just thank God it all ended this way...it could have been worse

Na-na-na, cost us the match?

If only you can go back and dig up my preferred starting 11.

7 reasons why Nigeria was sanctioned


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Was Sanctioned For Fielding An Ineligible Player In The Match Between Algeria And Nigeria On 10 November 2017 World Cup Qualifier.

Reasons Why Nigeria Was Sanctioned In The World Cup Qualifier

1. ABDULAHI SHEHU got yellow card right from first match (preliminary rounds) of the qualifiers against Swaziland in Swaziland.

2. When the draws for group stage were made the technical staff assumed the cards from preliminaries would not count going forward and didn’t take proper records. Indeed throughout the qualifying series Adullahi Shehu has never been counted as being on yellow even by the match documents such as when we played Cameroon Mikel, Moses and Balogun were all put on notice they are on a yellow and so there was even a meeting before the game how to make their yellow cards so as not to miss the decisive next match but Abdullahi Shehu was never in the mix…

3. Abdullahi got yellow card from the penultimate match against Zambia which is two years since the first match where he got the first Yellow (note we played the preliminary rounds against Swaziland in November 2015 under Sunder Oliseh and played the Zambia match in November 2017).

4. FIFA sent notice after the match against Zambia that Shehu is suspended for Algeria match but sent the email directly to the technical officer in charge, whom incidentally was hospitalized at that period with a serious heart problem so was not on emails and couldn’t have seen it.

5. On match day against Algeria neither the match Commissioner was aware nor the away team and ABDULAHI played the match without any protest or notice from either side.

6. Algerian never protested as they too are not aware but FIFA sent NFF a query to ask why the player played. NFF duly responded with proofs that the notice was sent to an email account of a technical staff that was Hospitalized with proofs. The FIFA disciplinary committee met and decided since previous emails has always been sent to same account and were taking so the notice is valid and sanctioned Nigeria..

7. Yes it’s a really a bad mistake but thank God it’s not costly and NFF is already reorganizing the Technical and Competitions departments to ensure this horrendous mistake never happened again, as this mistake is clearly the lack of delingence of the Technical department and the Competitions departments…


https://brookinfo.com/world-cup-qualifier-7-reasons-why-nigerian-was-sanctioned/

forgiveness:



This is what you get when you are too sentimental about a player.

Ebuehi suppose start and finish that match but the coach was busy playing pranks.

Thank God we have already qualified else the second best could have just replaced us if the 3 point will make dem top the league.

I can't for the life of me know why Shehu had to play that match. Not pranks by Rohr though. Pranks for what na?

Humility017:

I tell you....I remember that day how oga icon and his crew jump to defend rohr for benching ebuehi...

even when everyone here was citing reasons why the young man should have played instead so as to better assess him.....

but oga rohr unwilling to take risk...still went ahead field shehu and that almost cost us the world cup.....
mtcheeew ....

If they had given Ebuehi his debut that day we would have had
1-the advantage of giving him his debut and settled the issue of his international allegiance once and for all
2- gotten to see him perform as a RB and plus the match against Argentina we would have gotten a very good idea of his qualities
3-avoided this disheartening situation we now have with FIFA fines and deduction of points.
Playing Shehu in that match was not necessary indeed now it has proved costly.

krattoss:
7 reasons why Nigeria was sanctioned


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Was Sanctioned For Fielding An Ineligible Player In The Match Between Algeria And Nigeria On 10 November 2017 World Cup Qualifier.

Reasons Why Nigeria Was Sanctioned In The World Cup Qualifier

1. ABDULAHI SHEHU got yellow card right from first match (preliminary rounds) of the qualifiers against Swaziland in Swaziland.

2. When the draws for group stage were made the technical staff assumed the cards from preliminaries would not count going forward and didn’t take proper records. Indeed throughout the qualifying series Adullahi Shehu has never been counted as being on yellow even by the match documents such as when we played Cameroon Mikel, Moses and Balogun were all put on notice they are on a yellow and so there was even a meeting before the game how to make their yellow cards so as not to miss the decisive next match but Abdullahi Shehu was never in the mix…

3. Abdullahi got yellow card from the penultimate match against Zambia which is two years since the first match where he got the first Yellow (note we played the preliminary rounds against Swaziland in November 2015 under Sunder Oliseh and played the Zambia match in November 2017).

4. FIFA sent notice after the match against Zambia that Shehu is suspended for Algeria match but sent the email directly to the technical officer in charge, whom incidentally was hospitalized at that period with a serious heart problem so was not on emails and couldn’t have seen it.

5. On match day against Algeria neither the match Commissioner was aware nor the away team and ABDULAHI played the match without any protest or notice from either side.

6. Algerian never protested as they too are not aware but FIFA sent NFF a query to ask why the player played. NFF duly responded with proofs that the notice was sent to an email account of a technical staff that was Hospitalized with proofs. The FIFA disciplinary committee met and decided since previous emails has always been sent to same account and were taking so the notice is valid and sanctioned Nigeria..

7. Yes it’s a really a bad mistake but thank God it’s not costly and NFF is already reorganizing the Technical and Competitions departments to ensure this horrendous mistake never happened again, as this mistake is clearly the lack of delingence of the Technical department and the Competitions departments…


https://brookinfo.com/world-cup-qualifier-7-reasons-why-nigerian-was-sanctioned/

isn't the mail used in communicating the official mail of the NFF? if it is, then whether the person is hospitalized or not another person can still view the mail from time to time

But where the mail isn't the official mailing address of the nff then I think the fault is partly from fifa then

Icon4s:


You cannot be striving for excellence and be giving excuses for Mediocrity. They don't go hand in hand.

Oga! I am not you and you are not me. Please respect that!
Dont be so rash and condescending when speaking. I respect your views, and i suggest u do the same to mine. Thank you

Shebi we want to punish people abi? If we really want to punish, then I say punish everyone, starting from Pinick to Gernot Rohr himself and his coaching crew

What is the job of the technical committee that they have to wait for one fifa email to know who is on yellow card alert?
Then i would also say Rohr too is incompetent because he wasnt thorough enough in setting up his team. He too should have a dossier on all the players at his disposal. Question their role in this as well

Punish the fans too for not picking this up as well as knowledgeable as the fans are. They should av waved the red flag immediately Rohr invited Shehu too.

Punish pinnick too for not knowing every detail, and for firing and hiring coaches at will which led to oversight on the part of Rohr!

We are all talking. Lets not also forget to punish the Fifa appointed match commissionser too. Cos he too was supposed to know. What was his job?

Una don see say if heavens dey fall, no be one man matter? Shebi una wan punishment.. Oya na, make heads dey roll.

krattoss:
7 reasons why Nigeria was sanctioned


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Was Sanctioned For Fielding An Ineligible Player In The Match Between Algeria And Nigeria On 10 November 2017 World Cup Qualifier.

Reasons Why Nigeria Was Sanctioned In The World Cup Qualifier

1. ABDULAHI SHEHU got yellow card right from first match (preliminary rounds) of the qualifiers against Swaziland in Swaziland.

2. When the draws for group stage were made the technical staff assumed the cards from preliminaries would not count going forward and didn’t take proper records. Indeed throughout the qualifying series Adullahi Shehu has never been counted as being on yellow even by the match documents such as when we played Cameroon Mikel, Moses and Balogun were all put on notice they are on a yellow and so there was even a meeting before the game how to make their yellow cards so as not to miss the decisive next match but Abdullahi Shehu was never in the mix…

3. Abdullahi got yellow card from the penultimate match against Zambia which is two years since the first match where he got the first Yellow (note we played the preliminary rounds against Swaziland in November 2015 under Sunder Oliseh and played the Zambia match in November 2017).

4. FIFA sent notice after the match against Zambia that Shehu is suspended for Algeria match but sent the email directly to the technical officer in charge, whom incidentally was hospitalized at that period with a serious heart problem so was not on emails and couldn’t have seen it.

5. On match day against Algeria neither the match Commissioner was aware nor the away team and ABDULAHI played the match without any protest or notice from either side.

6. Algerian never protested as they too are not aware but FIFA sent NFF a query to ask why the player played. NFF duly responded with proofs that the notice was sent to an email account of a technical staff that was Hospitalized with proofs. The FIFA disciplinary committee met and decided since previous emails has always been sent to same account and were taking so the notice is valid and sanctioned Nigeria..

7. Yes it’s a really a bad mistake but thank God it’s not costly and NFF is already reorganizing the Technical and Competitions departments to ensure this horrendous mistake never happened again, as this mistake is clearly the lack of delingence of the Technical department and the Competitions departments…


https://brookinfo.com/world-cup-qualifier-7-reasons-why-nigerian-was-sanctioned/

I knew the point 2 was the case. "The technical staff just assumed.....". Assumption without making any efforts to verify?

kennysville:


Oga! I am not you and you are not me. Please respect that!
Dont be so rash and condescending when speaking. I respect your views, and i suggest u do the same to mine. Thank you

Sorry if that hit you hard.

I was really pissed by those NFF guys.
In fact I am still pissed.

The technical staff just ASSUMED that the yellow card will not count after the preliminary stage.

Meaning they were aware but just assumed.
It was a one month period between the Zambia and Algeria game. Couldn't they have written to FIFA to confirm or verify?

we are aiming for the world cup trophy. We are Nigerians!

http://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/argentina-world-cup-2018-russia-discussion.2073213/page-7

Even Argentinian fans show us a lot of respect, let us appreciate ourselves. Some even prefer our jersey to that of Croatia.

Humility017:

I tell you....I remember that day how oga icon and his crew jump to defend rohr for benching ebuehi...

even when everyone here was citing reasons why the young man should have played instead so as to better assess him.....

but oga rohr unwilling to take risk...still went ahead field shehu and that almost cost us the world cup.....
mtcheeew ....

Na common sense to use Ebuehi but....anyway this is another eye opener.

Icon4s:


Firstly the CHAN is classified on the same level with international friendlies. And so each game carries 1point and not 3points as you stated.

Look at the other teams in our group: Libya, Rwanda and Equatorial Guinea. These are lowly ranked teams that we are expected to beat. Just a lose or draw against any one of them is enough to negate the whole ranking points even if we win the other 2 group games. So we must claim all 9points. That is my point.

You guys won the last argument concerning FIFA rankings, but your first paragraph is a big lie.

CHAN is fully accepted by FIFA as Confederation's Regional tournament and its full ranking multiplier is 3.