Kog45:
Yes competitions from street to street.

Then when houses had no fences.

When children from different homes could mix freely.

When children could play from street to street without parents being scared of kidnappers.

I WEEP FOR THIS COUNTRY.

Life was a lot better.

Icon4s:


Then when houses had no fences.

When children from different homes could mix freely.

When children could play from street to street without parents being scared of kidnappers.

I WEEP FOR THIS COUNTRY.

Life was a lot better.

I remember having our mini Los Angeles Olympics after 1984 Olympics in our area,fun my man but now mind your business,no real integration,the talents for sports are now yahoo boys,so the grassroots sports development in Nigeria is dead.Thank God for FB that came to rescue especially in Super eagles.

Kog45:
Kai Andrew age matter again,married at 21 get as e be,just like Awoniyi,well possible his wife is older.

Smiles

Kog45:
I remember having our mini Los Angeles Olympics after 1984 Olympics in our area,fun my man but now mind your business,no real integration,the talents for sports are now yahoo boys,so the grassroots sports development in Nigeria is dead.Thank God for FB that came to rescue especially in Super eagles.

this statement is golden

I kinda find these vintage escapades intimidating

Are going to get stucked on this oldies Nostalgia forever??!!

Our SE camp opens tomorrow for Fuccks sake



Yeah, yeah,.. Yeah... Old memories are good and we have had enough of it already

Lets get back to business boys!

Kog45:
I remember having our mini Los Angeles Olympics after 1984 Olympics in our area,fun my man but now mind your business,no real integration,the talents for sports are now yahoo boys,so the grassroots sports development in Nigeria is dead.Thank God for FB that came to rescue especially in Super eagles.

Carl Lewis, Innocent Egbenike, Chidi Imo. Golden era of Nigeria's athletics.

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Icon4s:


Chei!!! Table soccer!!!!
I was always Brazil and was fond of playing plenty of passing game.

For those that didn't see it. This is table soccer:

Broooooosssssss!!!
I play this thing die!!!

That Chukwueze could turn out to be Nigeria s best LEFT FOOT ATTACKER in history the way he is going...better than Friday Elahor....He seems to have some finesse about him.. Amuneke was an action attacker cum winger...Elahor had flair...but this guy..Chukwueze..left footer,attacking from the right...is something else..almost sumptous

Icon4s:


Carl Lewis, Innocent Egbenike, Chidi Imo. Golden era of Nigeria's athletics.

Innocent Egbunike of Africa by Arap Moi of Kenya.

Icon4s:


Well I understand your view, but sometimes Love will forget age difference o.

Yes thats true bros

Relax my good man... Let him keep growing... He is indeed an outstanding quality young talent. From his 2015 U-17 exploits, it is so obvious in his plays that a robben may have just been reborn. He reminds me of Robben so much but I also see drops of a few other left footed geniuses in his style of play. In the end, he will grow to be Chukwueze Samuel.

gamaliel9:
That Chukwueze could turn out to be Nigeria s best LEFT FOOT ATTACKER in history the way he is going...better than Friday Elahor....He seems to have some finesse about him.. Amuneke was an action attacker cum winger...Elahor had flair...but this guy..Chukwueze..left footer,attacking from the right...is something else..almost sumptous

Kog45:
I remember having our mini Los Angeles Olympics after 1984 Olympics in our area,fun my man but now mind your business,no real integration,the talents for sports are now yahoo boys,so the grassroots sports development in Nigeria is dead.Thank God for FB that came to rescue especially in Super eagles.

The growth of criminality in Nigeria still stuns me. Yahoo yahoo, kidnapping etc.. It is hard to comprehend how things changed so quickly.

gamaliel9:
That Chukwueze could turn out to be Nigeria s best LEFT FOOT ATTACKER in history the way he is going...better than Friday Elahor....He seems to have some finesse about him.. Amuneke was an action attacker cum winger...Elahor had flair...but this guy..Chukwueze..left footer,attacking from the right...is something else..almost sumptous

I'm still waiting for left foot attacker better than Adokiye Aimesemeka,Humphrey Edebor,Folorunsho Okenla,James Etokebe and Friday Elahor,hope Chukwueze can keep his head cool cos he has everything to be the best.

Icon4s:


Chei!!! Table soccer!!!!
I was always Brazil and was fond of playing plenty of passing game.

For those that didn't see it. This is table soccer:

I was always Nigeria. And I made the WC final in my hood every damn time. The only time I lost the title in the final... Was to my elder brother who was France that year. Goal was scored by a counter top with the name "Thierry Henry"

Table soccer, also called "Bottle tops league" in my hood because we could play it on large or good wide-sized tables, flat rug surfaces, concrete grounds and even carpet-covered floors, was one of my very favorite pastimes as a kid when not reading from my mum's library or watching Cadbury breakfast show(usually after chores is done) or all those Saturday football shows or even best of football on Sundays on NTA.


I was never tired of winning... I played to trash opponents. I didn't give a damn... I just love how winning makes one feel...

Guardian Uk ranks Nigeria as the 10th likely team to win the WC. We are ranked above Uruguay, England, Colombia, Serbia, Russia...

10th hmmm... That's still a round of 16 finish. They don't see us in top 8 obviously. I have a funny feeling about this 2018 edition. The pundits' scripts won't be followed to the very last dot... In fact, most of it MAY be torn to shreds.

tbaba1234:
Guardian Uk ranks Nigeria as the 10th likely team to win the WC. We are ranked above Uruguay, England, Colombia, Serbia, Russia...

TheSuperNerd:


I was always Nigeria. And I made the WC final in my hood every damn time. The only time I lost the title in the final... Was to my elder brother who was France that year. Goal was scored by a counter top with the name "Thierry Henry"

Table soccer, also called "Bottle tops league" in my hood because we could play it on large or good wide-sized tables, flat rug surfaces, concrete grounds and even carpet-covered floors, was one of my very favorite pastimes as a kid when not reading from my mum's library or watching Cadbury breakfast show(usually after chores is done) or all those Saturday football shows or even best of football on Sundays on NTA.


I was never tired of winning... I played to trash opponents. I didn't give a damn... I just love how winning makes one feel...

Best game ever.

Computer games have taken over.

tbaba1234:


The growth of criminality in Nigeria still stuns me. Yahoo yahoo, kidnapping etc.. It is hard to comprehend how things changed so quickly.

My man this yahoo yahoo of a things really dealt a blow to our sports development.

The stadiums are scanty now compare to what we have before,you see guys then in Basketball court,Track and field,table tennis, boxing arena,handball,volleyball and football fields doing massive training especially during weekends.

Now they are in clubs jamming WizKids and Davido songs '30 billions in my account 'wey no dey but fictiius' if Yahoo yahoo no gel,then kidnapping and robbery.

Most of Taiwo Awoniyi's mates that started the game with him are into yahoo yahoo,blasting music up and down and wasting away.

TheSuperNerd:
10th hmmm... That's still a round of 16 finish. They don't see us in top 8 obviously. I have a funny feeling about this 2018 edition. The pundits' scripts won't be followed to the very last dot... In fact, most of it MAY be torn to shreds.

The countries above us are the usual suspects, Germany, Brazil, Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina, Poland and Mexico.

Kog45:
My man this yahoo yahoo of a things really dealt a blow to our sports development.

The stadiums are scanty now compare to what we have before,you see guys then in Basketball court,Track and field,table tennis, boxing arena,handball,volleyball and football fields doing massive training especially during weekends.

Now they are in clubs jamming WizKids and Davido songs '30 billions in my account 'wey no dey but fictiius' if Yahoo yahoo no gel,then kidnapping and robbery.

Most of Taiwo Awoniyi's mates that started the game with him are into yahoo yahoo,blasting music up and down and wasting away.

My brother you can't be more right. Yahoo yahoo has been around for quite some time. But it has suddenly taken a different dimension. Yahoo plus and Yahoo plus-plus.

Another worrisome thing is this online betting.

Honestly, I don't know the kind of fathers will be having in the next couple of years.

Kog45:
My man this yahoo yahoo of a things really dealt a blow to our sports development.

The stadiums are scanty now compare to what we have before,you see guys then in Basketball court,Track and field,table tennis, boxing arena,handball,volleyball and football fields doing massive training especially during weekends.

Now they are in clubs jamming WizKids and Davido songs '30 billions in my account 'wey no dey but fictiius' if Yahoo yahoo no gel,then kidnapping and robbery.

Most of Taiwo Awoniyi's mates that started the game with him are into yahoo yahoo,blasting music up and down and wasting away.

Instant wealth, no one wants to struggle/suffer for wealth again.

Also, we have to try to engage young people. We used to easily produce WC athletes but the people who should be world class athletes are doing something else.

jihday:
I think I read somewhere that drums won't be allowed inside the stadium

I am not sure why fifa did this but it kills the atmosphere in venues

tbaba1234:


The countries above us are the usual suspects, Germany, Brazil, Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina, Poland and Mexico.

Nigeria has been listed as one of those countries that will spring upsets in this WC. So I am not suprised.

The football world knows we are better than our official ranking.

TheSuperNerd:


I was always Nigeria. And I made the WC final in my hood every damn time. The only time I lost the title in the final... Was to my elder brother who was France that year. Goal was scored by a counter top with the name "Thierry Henry"

Table soccer, also called "Bottle tops league" in my hood because we could play it on large or good wide-sized tables, flat rug surfaces, concrete grounds and even carpet-covered floors, was one of my very favorite pastimes as a kid when not reading from my mum's library or watching Cadbury breakfast show(usually after chores is done) or all those Saturday football shows or even best of football on Sundays on NTA.


I was never tired of winning... I played to trash opponents. I didn't give a damn... I just love how winning makes one feel...

....your own table soccer was modern,icon4s own was pure floor with Biro cover to.play it.

Icon4s:


My brother you can't be more right. Yahoo yahoo has been around for quite some time. But it has suddenly taken a different dimension. Yahoo plus and Yahoo plus-plus.

Another worrisome thing is this online betting.

Honestly, I don't know the kind of fathers will be having in the next couple of years.

Chief wahala dey o.

Icon4s:


My brother you can't be more right. Yahoo yahoo has been around for quite some time. But it has suddenly taken a different dimension. Yahoo plus and Yahoo plus-plus.

Another worrisome thing is this online betting.

Honestly, I don't know the kind of fathers will be having in the next couple of years.

a friend from Benin said to me recently that Benin used to be a beehive of sports activities in the 80s but now it is a shadow of it former self when it comes to sports thanks to Yahoo.. owerri has joined the trend too

tbaba1234:


Instant wealth, no one wants to struggle/suffer for wealth again.

Also, we have to try to engage young people. We used to easily produce WC athletes but the people who should be world class athletes are doing something else.

u don talk am finish

asha80:
a friend from Benin said to me recently that Benin used to be a beehive of sports activities in the 80s but now it is a shadow of it former self when it comes to sports thanks to Yahoo.. owerri has joined the trend too

Yes old Bendel State was the best when it comes to sport in 80s and 90s and had her athletes representing different States especially during National sports festival.

realpoacher:
Are going to get stucked on this oldies Nostalgia forever??!!

Our SE camp opens tomorrow for Fuccks sake



Yeah, yeah,.. Yeah... Old memories are good and we have had enough of it already

Lets get back to business boys!

Sir Realest poacher.... What I see here mostly are Men of Olds from different Oldies timelines.... Unlike "boys" or 90s kids abi na indomie generation lads like myself whose first full WC was 2002 Korea/Japan France 98, me was just 6 and followed it without much interest. I only saw some games especially Nigeria's and the final because my dad did. I was just one year away from being infected with the football bug. And so it happened in 1999... I stumbled upon an archive of Great sporting and football events kept in organised formats by my elder brother in different files in his famed hideout.... That day, I was infected and my serendipity began for me a journey into the beautiful game at age 7.

It had been brilliant since then.... I still have that child-like wonder from time to time as regards football.



But mehn... Reading Asha80, Mujtahida, Tbaba1234, Icon4s all talk about their good old days when Dad and Mum never even meet na real wire..... To make matters worst, Elder Kog45 dropped hints say him watch 1982 WC. Meaning Baba saw 1980 Afcon and Maybe Elder Enomakos saw 1976 Afcon... Mehn... I have always known that we get Super Elders and Youngie Elders for hia but mehn.... I never even call Sir TheGoodJoe, Sir Joebie and others who I spot... All fall into various grades of the Elders classifications... The youngie Elders, The Middle age Elders, The Grand elders, The Super Grand Elders... And the Elites (those who possibly saw the 1950-1970 WC editions and watch from above on this thread and will never ever drop a comment... I mean like never!)

Una don fully expose unaseleves this weekend.. And I look around and I be like... "Wetin give me mind bikonu to stand where dese men dem dey stand for football discussions sef?"



Thanks goodness say I get fellow 90s kids like Safarigirl, Sir Humility017, and a few others for hia...

The likes of Maidaboi and Abusule007 dey give me hope at least... Good to know I get younger siblings here... And Hey! E be like say Elyte89 follow for the younger siblings sef... Bia I read your confession too ooo... Hehehehehehe....

It is all good... All these timelines in our football experiences provide a fine solid bridge we can all walk on anytime either for a visit to the past or into recent times or for a glance into the future while keeping eyes on the present..... It's like a family cutting across different times.

I played that one too... Usually done on paper. Played with Biro covers and buttons. Hahahahahahahahaha....

But I was speaking specifically of the type involving Bottle tops/counters.

Kog45:
....your own table soccer was modern,icon4s own was pure floor with Biro cover to.play it.