safarigirl:


I am angry when people try to belittle me to prove a point[.

I said I feel US is overrated only for a self-professed ethnic champion to imply that I am ignorant and "just because I was not privileged to be born in the US.....". Do you think that comment is not annoying?

If I called you ignorant and told you that one day, some white officer would shoot you down for walking down the street in the US, would you be okay with it?

I said nothing to warrant that denigrating statement, so, excuse me, if it annoyed me and your defense of the statement is annoying me.


[My birthday was going fine until I read that rubbish. Being in the US, in no way, makes him or anyone else better than those of us in Nigeria.


I hope you now understand the point of my anger, because it seems you think I am angry because he said the US is not overrated. Tbaba said the same thing and I did not get angry.


I am certainly not ignorant, so, nobody on this thread should call me that just because I did not kiss the US flag.

@ the first bolded: nobody likes being looked down upon. Maybe cos the statement wasn't directed at me, I really didn't go deep into it.

Second bolded made me laugh.
Your points are understood.

Kog45:
Chief don't start Shehu vs Ebuehi debate o.Shehu is more capable?Good to have the two

It's a healthy debate if there is

Luckyroro:
Wow! Thanks a lot for this explanation. That's to say we younger ones missed the opportunity to witness one of the memorable World events. Sir, let me tell you again, I noticed that even women and children followed football then because it was so popular. I was still a kid as at that time but I noticed the shouts and everything then. Atalanta 1996 was also like that. People brought their TV sets outside for everyone to watch the matches in unity. I can tell you that almost everybody comes out to watch Nigeria play on match days. It's unbelievable but during match days everything would be on standstill, no businesses, no schooling activities etc. I have never seen Nigerians unite like that again. Women could mention at least 7 Nigerian players then. It's quite unfortunate that things have changed a lot. Nobody even remembers there's a big tournament as the world cup coming up. If you ask me, modernization has done more harm than good to us. I miss the good old days!

I was in my final year of secondary school during Afcon 2000.I can't recall why I stayed in school till almost close to the kick off between Nig and Senegal. Omo I couldn't find a vehicle to get home, everywhere was silent and it was just around 6pm or so. By the time I got home (I can't remember how now) Senegal was leading one nil

Mujtahida:

I have decried this trend but sometimes I am thrilled with the infusion of technology into football. Fact is it's inevitable. Machines WILL take over. What you watch in Sci Fi will become a reality.

Till date I go back and watch old football just so I refresh my heart with the poetry that was once football.

seems we have the same cravings

MetalJigsaw:
It's a healthy debate if there is

Yes healthy one.Upcoming friendlies will definitely shape things,may be it is Shehu or Ebuehi as first choice.

May God give you the strength to bear the loss.

fabyom:
I lost my one and only sibling yesterday to the cold hands of death. My elder bro, he was just 40 years old. Got sick the same day he was to start a very lucrative job after years of struggling without a well paid Job. Trying to control how sad I am.

Mujtahida:

I was in my final year of secondary school during Afcon 2000.I can't recall why I stayed in school till almost close to the kick off between Nig and Senegal. Omo I couldn't find a vehicle to get home, everywhere was silent and it was just around 6pm or so. By the time I got home (I can't remember how now) Senegal was leading one nil

It was a match that Sunday Oliseh showed real patriotism.He came from the bench and took over the midfield from Senegal and settled the game.

Mujtahida:

I was in my final year of secondary school during Afcon 2000.I can't recall why I stayed in school till almost close to the kick off between Nig and Senegal. Omo I couldn't find a vehicle to get home, everywhere was silent and it was just around 6pm or so. By the time I got home (I can't remember how now) Senegal was leading one nil

Hahaha. I know that feeling. cheers to the good old days!

asha80:
seems we have the same cravings

We do Bro. We've had exchanges on this point na. I am still enamoured to players like Maradona, Zico, Asprilla, Stoichkov, van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Zamarano, Silas, De Lima, Baggio (he hurt us but I have personal affection for him) Paul Ince, Klinsmann, Eric Contona, Ginola Zola, Vialli, Andre Flo, Maldini, Kempes, Eusebio, and many others. Go to four four two magazine website you will see interesting articles that give insight into the lives of these players.

Thst was where I read that Escobar the drug don once invited Maradona to play football in his privately built prison. I too like Maradona. He's a crazy guy. That's the difference between him and Messi. Maradona had talent plus a lively personality. Messi is so quiet.

Kog45:
It was a match that Sunday Oliseh showed real patriotism.He came from the bench and took over the midfield from Senegal and settled the game.

That match was intense. I even watched a clip of it recently.

Mujtahida:

I have decried this trend but sometimes I am thrilled with the infusion of technology into football. Fact is it's inevitable. Machines WILL take over. What you watch in Sci Fi will become a reality.

Till date I go back and watch old football just so I refresh my heart with the poetry that was once football.

Finally I found someone who does same thing I do. I stream matches of the 90's a lot and like you said, that's pure poetry.

Luckyroro:
Hahaha. I know that feeling. cheers to the good old days!

It seems you are fond of good old days of Nigeria football.

Mujtahida:

I was in my final year of secondary school during Afcon 2000.I can't recall why I stayed in school till almost close to the kick off between Nig and Senegal. Omo I couldn't find a vehicle to get home, everywhere was silent and it was just around 6pm or so. By the time I got home (I can't remember how now) Senegal was leading one nil

When the match was on, i could not eat because of tension.. When it finished, i was too excited to eat.

No dinner that day.

Mujtahida:

That match was intense. I even watched a clip of it recently.

Good match and always remember Julius Aghaowa who became a great revelation of Afcon 2000

Luckyroro:
Finally I found someone who does same thing I do. I stream matches of the 90's a lot and like you said, that's pure poetry.

And as I am watching I am reading comments. I once watched a clip on Baggio. One of the commenters said he was talking with his Dad about how good the current crop of players are. He said his Dad told him to watch Baggio. He did and was blown away. Baggio is called Il Divin Codino (The Divine Ponytail)

Then the first flying Dutch man Marco Van Basten. Watch his testimonial match and you will almost cry.

Kog45:
Good match and always remember Julius Aghaowa who became a great revelation of Afcon 2000

Aghawonder. Cameroun cheated us. We deserved that Afcon. Our first Afcon since 94.if not for Abacha and Mandela political battles we would most likely have retained out title in 96 and 98

Kog45:
It seems you are fond of good old days of Nigeria football.

fond is an understatement. I am very passionate about old Nigerian football. I am trying so hard to replicate same passion to the new generation of Nigerian footballers but it's almost proving difficult.

tbaba1234:


When the match was on, i could not eat because of tension.. When it finished, i was too excited to eat.

No dinner that day.

Then people watched Super eagles games with passion cos i remember the sadness that followed our loss against Italy at US 94

Luckyroro:
fond is an understatement. I am very passionate about old Nigerian football. I am trying so hard to replicate same passion to the new generation of Nigerian footballers but it's almost proving difficult.

Nigeria was a different place in the early 90s.

Kog45:
Then people watched Super eagles games with passion cos i remember the sadness that followed our loss against Italy at US 94

I cried so much after that loss to Italy. When people were discussing it in school the next day. I could not bring myself to talk. I was so sad.

tbaba1234:


When the match was on, i could not eat because of tension.. When it finished, i was too excited to eat.

No dinner that day.

I wonder if one can reach such a pitch of emotional heights again. Til date though I'm practically useless on match days. Sometimes it's not defeat or victory I enjoy. It's the intensity of the battle on the field, the gut wrenching expectation and mix of hope and disappointment. That's why I sometimes don't like it when a football match is boring. Goodjoe lamented our double header in Yaounde. I knew he was right but I just wanted us to qualify. I do have high expectations that we would be treated to wild football come the WC next month

Mujtahida:

We do Bro. We've had exchanges on this point na. I am still enamoured to players like Maradona, Zico, Asprilla, Stoichkov, van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Zamarano, Silas, De Lima, Baggio (he hurt us but I have personal affection for him) Paul Ince, Klinsmann, Eric Contona, Ginola Zola, Vialli, Andre Flo, Maldini, Kempes, Eusebio, and many others. Go to four four two magazine website you will see interesting articles that give insight into the lives of these players.

Thst was where I read that Escobar the drug don once invited Maradona to play football in his privately built prison. I too like Maradona. He's a crazy guy. That's the difference between him and Messi. Maradona had talent plus a lively personality. Messi is so quiet.

sometimes i find myself rewatching clips of 82,86,90,94 and 98 world cups..from 2002 it started getting a bit mechanical(players)..one of my younger cousins once said made a statement "what is so special about brazil and the way they playfootball that older people rave(d) about?..i have watched them and nothing special about the way they played ..they have good players no doubt but nothing spectacular" he was sort of trying to say despite some talented brazillian players that there was nothing to be mad about their style of football that barca plays better football(not disrespecting barca here)...i had to call him aside and told him that the brand of football that oldies raved about died essentially in the late 80s and it was called jogo bonito..i now opened YouTube and showed him clips of brazil of 82 and 86..i now showed him careca's goal against France in 86..the pure poetry of that goal wowed him..ever since he has been looking at other older clips

tbaba1234:
Ludogrets just said that the player from Kano Pillars (Lokosa) is below the level to be signed by their club.

Chai, this is our league top scorer. What a shame!!

Nothing new, Arsene Wenger said/did worse to Ibrahimovic

Kog45:
Then people watched Super eagles games with passion cos i remember the sadness that followed our loss against Italy at US 94

lost my appetite the next day in okigwe..was in jss 3

tbaba1234:


I cried so much after that loss to Italy. When people were discussing it in school the next day. I could not bring myself to talk. I was so sad.

In France 98 after the match against Denmark we heard it in school that FIFA had cancelled the match because Eber Sand was obviously on drugs. Omo we believed ooo. The defeat was hard to accept.

Again when Nigeria failed to qualify for Germany 2006 a colleague (Ola that's his name, one year my senior in the University) came with a story that CAF ordered a replay and we still believed him.

Mujtahida:

I wonder if one can reach such a pitch of emotional heights again. Til date though I'm practically useless on match days. Sometimes it's not defeat or victory I enjoy. It's the intensity of the battle on the field, the gut wrenching expectation and mix of hope and disappointment. That's why I sometimes don't like it when a football match is boring. Goodjoe lamented our double header in Yaounde. I knew he was right but I just wanted us to qualify. I do have high expectations that we would be treated to wild football come the WC next month

Nowadays, i am far better.

I remember, i used to listen to all the radio/tv shows on the day before a match. From Larry ichiejiele (now Izamoje) on radio to paul bassey and co on tv..

By the time, it is 4.. I would have built so much expectation. The tension used to be so much.

Bolowolowo:

Why are we still monitoring this flop. We ought to move on.

I tire o

Mujtahida:

In France 98 after the match against Denmark we heard it in school that FIFA had cancelled the match because Eber Sand was obviously on drugs. Omo we believed ooo. The defeat was hard to accept.

Again when Nigeria failed to qualify for Germany 2006 a colleague (Ola that's his name, one year my senior in the University) came with a story that CAF ordered a replay and we still believed him.

I had a super eagles poster in my bedroom. I tore it after the Denmark display.

safarigirl:
it is still the same thing.

Work is different for every man. It is not about coming back, it is about what goes on before he comes back.

Same risk applies to marrying a pilot, a doctor or an actor. All high risk jobs for married men

a husband is not meant to be with you 24 hours a day, you won't even like it. for a footballer is even better and easier for the wife because you get to see and confirm on TV when he tells you his travelling for a game

Kog45:
Yes Rohr first choice.

O pari.

Mujtahida:

Aghawonder. Cameroun cheated us. We deserved that Afcon. Our first Afcon since 94.if not for Abacha and Mandela political battles we would most likely have retained out title in 96 and 98

Oh missing 96 Afcon was damn terrible cos the team list remain the best till today.

Check the list

Goalkeeper

Peter Rufai

Ike Shorunmu

Emma Babayaro

Defence

Uche Okechukwu

Chidi Nwanu

Taribo West

Austin Eguavoen

Ben Iroha

Celestine Babayaro

Mobil Oparaku

Uche Okafor

Midfield

Austin Okocha

Mutiu Adepoju

Wilson Oruma

Karibe Ojivwe

Sunday Oliseh

Forward

Rashidi Yekini

Daniel Amokachie

Samson Siasia

Kanu Nwankwo

Finidi George

Tijani Babangida

Emma Amuneke

Oh Abacha political decision ruined all time best 23 man list

asha80:
sometimes i find myself rewatching clips of 82,86,90,94 and 98 world cups..from 2002 it started getting a bit mechanical(players)..one of my younger cousins once said made a statement "what is so special about brazil and the way they playfootball that older people rave(d) about?..i have watched them and nothing special about the way they played ..they have good players no doubt but nothing spectacular" he was sort of trying to say despite some talented brazillian players that there was nothing to be mad about their style of football that barca plays better football(not disrespecting barca here)...i had to call him aside and told him that the brand of football that oldies raved about died essentially in the late 80s and it was called jogo bonito..i now opened YouTube and showed him clips of brazil of 82 and 86..i now showed him careca's goal against France in 86..the pure poetry of that goal wowed him..ever since he has been looking at other older clips

You initiated him into the unspeakable mysteries of the beautiful game. I can't really pin point it but I like the joy and lavishness with which the oldies played. The field seemed more spacious. Players could drive from the defence with flair. While those days cannot come back let us enjoy the memories of days gone by

Luckyroro seems to have made today history and recollection Sunday. Season has ended. Let's talk about our own personal stories and experiences of this beautiful game