Icon4s:


Onuachu seems to be growing in status.He looks a lot improved player from the one we saw a couple of Seasons ago.

His Aerial ability could be an asset to the SE. However, there may be questions about the level of competitiveness in the Danish league.

He should keep working hard. If he continues in this form till March, who knows...?

MetalJigsaw:
Which club?

tbaba1234:
Ejide started in the SE at 19.
Enyeama at 21.

They grew to be important members of the team.

Why do we have Ezenwa, Ajiboye and Afelokhai going to CHAN These men have no long term future in the SE. These guys are already close to 30 or in their 30s.

At least one young goalie should have made the team.

We are wasting this CHAN.

OMANBALA1:


I really like Oghenekaro Etebor becuaseof his fighting spirit and all but I am scared for him. If Sokari shows up and steals the show in the attacking midfield then Karo is the only player likely to be dropped. Not forgetting Joel Obi is out there posting great performances. Chai ,that midfield is so loaded.
I am fantasizing about a midfield that includes... ...
Mikel
Ndidi
Ogu
Joel
Onazi
Mikel Agu/Etebor/Sokari.

Sokari might just gate-crash this party because he is a natural attacking midfielder, a lot like Wilson Oruma.

tbaba1234:

Fortuna Düsseldorf

soetanoreoluwa:


Sir where are the younger goalkeepers?

Failure to qualify for both under 17 and 20 is really affecting us at this moment...

Most of the NPFL goalkeepers are old already

The New generation are not yet there... Sorry to borrow sir icon4s words

MetalJigsaw:
Oh.. All those Chinese clubs

daveP:
Sirs bascovanveli, joebie, mikron, elyte89, terzurum5, kratoss, maidaboi i expect your votes for the awards today pls. gracias.

Liamm:
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Danycrusoe:
[b]Profiling The Newly Promoted Teams For The 2018 NPFL Season[b]

December 30, 2017 admin 0 Comments Go Round FC, kwara United, NNL, NPFL, Yobe Deserts Stars

[i]written by Danycrusoe for Cheapgoals.Com[i]



At the end of the 2016/17 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season, 4 out of the 20 teams dropped into the Nigeria National League (NNL) while four new teams took their places in the top division.

Remo Stars, Gombe United, ABS FC, and Kastina United were the new boys for the last season and out of the four only Kastina United escaped the drop back into the lower division with Remo stars (20), Gombe (19) and ABS (18) making up the last 3 while Shooting Stars FC completed the relegation zone.

The NPFL spots of the afore-mentioned teams were taken by the newly promoted teams which include former NPFL champions Heartland Fc of Owerri, Yobe Desert Stars of Damaturu, Go Round Fc of Omoku and Kwara United of Ilorin.

■ Heartland FC



Location: Owerri, Imo state
Last NPFL appearance: 2016
Home Ground: Dan Anyiam Stadium
Best NPFL Finish: 5-time winners (last triumph in 1993)




The Naze Millionaires were relegated in 2016 in controversial circumstances after the team abandoned its final league game against Plateau United.

A goal which gave Heartland a 2-1 lead was cancelled by referee Folorunsho Ajayi making the team abandon the game with 15 minutes left and was subsequently punished by the League Management Company (LMC) who awarded 3 points and 3 goals to Plateau United ensuring that the 2009 CAF Champions League finalists were relegated for the first time in their history.

However, the team only spent one season in the Nigeria National League (NNL ) finishing first on the Southern Division log after an impressive 61 points from 32 games which include 18 wins, 7 draws and 7 loss.

A finish in the continental places or the top 6 of the table at the end of the season wouldn’t flatter Heartland considering their pedigree in the league, and the Chibuzo Etuemena led team are highly unlikely to be involved in the relegation dogfight this season.

■ Kwara United



Location: Ilorin, Kwara State.
Last NPFL Appearance: 2015
Home Ground: Kwara State Stadium
Best NPFL finish: 3rd in Super Four (2006)

While Kwara state fans may rue the drop of ABS, they might take solace in the promotion of Kwara United whose promotion ensured that top flight football continues in Kwara for at least another year.

The harmony Boys were relegated in 2015 and spent the next few seasons in the relegation wilderness before former Nigeria u20 coach John Obuh led the team to the promise land.

Kwara inspired by the high scoring striker and NNL best player for 2017 season, Micheal Ohanu who scored 22 goals, topped the Northern division of the NNL where they got promoted with four games to spare.

Going into the new NPFL season a lot will be expected from the young striker Ohanu to keep the team afloat with his goals, the former Ifeanyi Uba player scored 3 hattricks last season and a replica of such performances should be enough to see his team avoid immediate relegation.

With a manager who has NPFL experience after managing Sharks FC and Enugu Rangers in the past, Kwara United may fancy a finish in the top half of the table.

READ ALSO: Top Ten foreigners in the Npfl

■ Yobe Desert Stars



Location: Damaturu, Yobe.
Home Ground: Damaturu Township Stadium.
Last NPFL Appearance: 2001
Best NPFL finish: 20th

After 15 years of absence from topflight football, Yobe Desert Stars return to NPFL.

The Desert Stars had a terrible campaign to forget in their first and only top flight experience till date. The Damaturu based side won only 11 games in the 2001 campaign to immediately return to the lower leagues where they have since shuffled.

Consecutive promotions from the Nigeria Nationwide League to the NNL and from the NNL to the NPFL could give their fans hope of a decent Campaign, at least a better one than that of 2001.

Much wouldn’t be expected of the less fancied side as they are expected to the boo boys of the League alongside fellow promoted side, Go Round FC. A finish above the relegation zone will be considered a good season.

■ Go Round Fc



Location: Omoku, Rivers State
Home Ground: Krisdera Hotel Stadium
Last NPFL Appearance: NIL
Best NPFL Finish: NIL

The only debutant in the league for the 2018 season, Go Round FC are based in Omoku, Rivers state.

Go round secured promotion on the last day of the Southern Divison of the NNL campaign last season finishing second behind Heartland Fc. Relatively unknown, the stats don’t give good omen for the newcomers, of the 3 debutants promoted to the NPFL in the last 2 seasons 2 of them returned to relegation immediately.

Remo Stars, Ikorodu United and MFM were promoted for the first time in their histories in the last 2 seasons and only MFM managed to escape relegation in its first ever season in the NPFL. In fact only one of the promoted teams last season escaped relegation.

However, Coach Ngozi Elechi will hope to lead the team to a decent first top-flight season by avoiding relegation

Source: http://cheapgoals.com/profiling-the-newly-promoted-teams-for-the-2018-npfl-season/

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tbaba1234:


What do we want to see from Ezenwa, Ajiboye and Afelokhai?

What is the purpose of playing CHAN?? What do we want to achieve from CHAN?

tbaba1234:

Not Chinese.
In the German second division.

tbaba1234:


Fortuna Düsseldorf

soetanoreoluwa:


It's very bad to tagged them very bad... Suraj have several clean sheet on just concluded NPFL league

We see brilliant performance of Ajiboye during the WAFU tournament.. Then we keep tagging them terrible

Maybe he has forgotten that nigeria league has always produce super eagles goalkeeper...

Thank God we will see more of the league of TV... This coming season...

Jarus:


But Nacho has been delivering for SE.


He didn't score EPL goal in 2017 but he scored for SE. Great performance against the Argies.


Nacho for Russia is a settled case. Not open fordebate at all.

MetalJigsaw:
Pls Kindly remove that Mikel Agu.

Joebie:
I'm saying I'd trade these awards for a strong showing in Russia. It's just my opinion.
I care less about the awards.

MetalJigsaw:
Hope it doesn't get them carried away if they win any of the awards.

Icon4s:


That is what they don't want to hear.

But if left to me there should be an age limit for players participating in CHAN.

If the major purpose is to unearth talented players who are not given the opportunity to shine because of the preponderance of foreign players in the national team, then preference should be given to the younger players. Is someone like Rabiu Ali still aspiring to make the Super Eagles Team?

This tourney, IMO, should be restricted to U21 players still playing in their local leagues. We still have a good number of players within this age bracket that have not had the opportunity to showcase themselves. Besides, scouts are typically after young talented players and not those who have passed their primes in the local leagues. Europeans also have an U21 Tourney different from the U19/20. Cant we also do same? But in this case solely for home based players. Besides this will give teams a good start in the scouting for U23 players. For Eg the next AAG is in 2019 and Olympics in 2020. Players who are U21 in 2018 would still be U23 in 2020.

I am still yet to buy into this CHAN idea.

joseph1013:


Make una vote na. Abeg una want make dem beg una?

Oya, go vote

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soetanoreoluwa:


Please give this guy chance... Righting him off as if is very terrible baffles me

He performed very well in second half against Zambia and did his job well... Let see him one more time...

Joebie:
Lol it shouldn't but if they don't win it could make them have a burning desire to prove a point.

BascoVanVeli:


CHAN is an incentive to ply your trade in your country. Just a way of building the local game.

MetalJigsaw:
That's my point.

Icon4s:


But is that what it has become in Reality?

Has it not become another opportunity for those players to seek clubs outside the country?

Joebie:
Two things. Either you are translating your club form for country, or you are doing for country what you are not doing for club. Iheanacho is very much in contention for Russia.

tbaba1234:


They do not have to be there, yet. It is about preparing them for the future.

Ejide was far from ready when he first played. I remember Ejide's first game as a 19 year old for the super eagles, playing in London in a friendly. He was shaking like a leaf all game.

Are you trying to tell me that there are not below 25 year old keeper in the league?

tbaba1234:
Ejide started in the SE at 19.
Enyeama at 21.

They grew to be important members of the team.

Why do we have Ezenwa, Ajiboye and Afelokhai going to CHAN These men have no long term future in the SE. These guys are already close to 30 or in their 30s.


At least one young goalie should have made the team.

We are wasting this CHAN.

soetanoreoluwa:


Ejide performance then can't be compare to those we have now...

If I can remember well might be wrong ejide played for gabros united before he joined etiodul Sahel in Tunisia and move all the way to be a first goalie for several seasons

What is the purpose of having below 25 that are not performing very well in their team...

Goal keeper position is about the higher you age the better you become unlike the defender and striker position where age always caught up with them...

We have seen goalkeeper playing till 35 - 40...

There time will come... In next two or three years we will have series of performing goalkeepers in every corner of Europe and NPFL.... Just matter of time
Let do with what we have now...

New goalkeeper trainer, new fitness trainer ...

Let just give them chance... That is it...

Liamm:
I'm a football enthusiast. Been following this thread albeit keeping a low profile. I must admit that I'm amazed by the intelligence and maturity displayed by members on here. Have decided to come out of my shell and become an active member here. Welcome me guys!

I welcome you. So you're one of the notorious silent readers.

Now, go and vote