Icon79:
Safari, I can tell you right now that the so called psychic pig would be wrong. I pray and hope that Nigeria and Argentina makes it to the semi finals, but I don't see Uruguay and Belgium making it past the quarter finals.

Go write it down .... we'll revisit this post at the appropriate time.


O pari

Mujtahida:

europeans better at dribbling? opinion abi fact? i still maintain that you did not grab the kernel of my write-up.
i used dribbling as an example and not that all of our game should center on dribbling. so what makes the bolded different from all i said? i guess you want to pick on dribbling and begin an argument on it but if you grasp what i wrote you wont center on dribbling.

Mujtahida:

so once we win the tide will change in our favour? what about the fact that Europe is basically the home of football- all the major leagues are concentrated there. dop you think winning will be sufficient to make our style dominant?

Mickael2:



Seriously it touches me more than anyother thing. I'd have felt like a mad man if not that Oasis too grabs the fact that Siasia is close to everything we need. Some/most of our local coaches are only good enough for U17 people where ego is yet to set in. Look at Iheanacho's U20, IIRC Success came to the tournament a day or so before the first match yet he told the coach he wanted to play and the coach didn't check his ego and played him, in fact he ended up playing Awoniyi out of position. On a normal no African parent would behave like that, as a coach you need to be a tactician and a father to the players, that means you need to understand what they need and that is why top countries recruit local coaches. Isn't it funny that CAF coaching licence does not make sense, is it the Europeans that will teach us how to play football in Africa? Football did not start anywhere, just like you are black and naturally you can't have curly hair, so also you can't be able to do what the Europeans do. No African player can pass very well like Xavi, which is why Barca hardly waste their time recruiting African players. But no European is going to be as fast as Ikedia for 90mins straight, they naturally do not have that ability. All continents produce dribblers but obviously Africa produces a lot more than Europe because here nobody cares about the defender, only that fanciful winger who left 3 players in his wake, and the guy that scored the goal, that's how we work in Africa. So our advantages are, easily, our strength and our dribbling ability. Trying to imbibe a possession game will not make sense to us because naturally it isn't what we do, we do the direct approach to everything. So the sooner we realise that possession game, though it may be the norm, isn't our game. South Africa for example have almost all their players from the local league, the problem is that they tend to think that they are less African, they coach themselves in the European way trying to pass their way out, it may work in one or two matches but in the long run it won't work. Like I have said before, if Rohr was the team manager and Siasia the tactician going to this world cup, I would have applied for my leave, pay the 520k that I saw in one ad and go to Russia because I am sure we would be getting out of the group. Our problem is that our good local coaches almost always allow greed to take over them. For a moment just pause and wonder if Ike Uche or Obafemi Martins was our second choice striker in 2014, if Joel Obi had been the one entering that French game instead of Reuben, if Igiebor had been the player going in when Babatunde got injured, trust me had it been we utilised the proper tools we had France for dey go house, but even with only 11 players and 12 other farmers, Keshi got to the Round of 16, that shows you what we could achieve if we remove greed.


I don dey write too much sha because this is a topic that seriously appeals to me and it exposes our over-dependence on foreign stuffs and why we need to stop it.

Mujtahida:

TheSuperNerd abi tbaba1234 please answer this our guest.

TheSuperNerd:

Lol... him catch me as I dey try escape into my room...

Okay uhmmmm.. madam Esetim...

Opening ceremony is 3:30pm Nigerian time (also BST). 30 mins to the kickoff of the first game of the World cup.

TheSuperNerd:
Super Eagles camp update

@Samm Audu's Fifa Blog (FIFA.com)

Behold a unique tribute by the town of Essentuki to the Super Eagles of Nigeria! The specially manicured grass statue is a thank you for choosing the town as their Team Base Camp for the World Cup.
It stands in the heart of the little southern Russian town, so you can’t miss it when you drive to and from the town’s central business district. The sports minister of this town, meanwhile, has already predicted the finalists of this World Cup – Russia and Nigeria!

Mujtahida:
MY THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF THE WC
since 2002 no country apart from european countries has won the WC(and more european countries have won the WC than any other country from other continents since the inception of the FIFA WC in 1930. while it can be argued that this is because europeans have proportionately more teams than other continents -could there be other causes?) could this be as a result of the fact that global football is tailored to suit the style, the nature and character of Europeans?
take this issue of pressing that has almost become the alfa tactics employed by most teams for example. it is about choking and pressuring the opposition when they(the opposition) have the ball. now i think this is what happened: europeans eliminated the dribble(yes dribbling is almost dead) because i do not see how pressing can be effective when you have a team of good ball dribblers. can you press maradona, or okocha or any team with a good number of dribblers like Brazil 82 team? they will just dribble themselves out of the choke and pass the ball to a team mate who is free from the press. just a moment of sheer individual brilliance, a sweet turn, a flick and dance with the ball and the whole press will collapse.but you see what europeans have done: they eliminated the dribble, clamped down on individual displays and erected a temple to the god of passing, passing, passing and laid more emphasis on team game.
europeans thrive on organization and efficiency: they hate anything disorganized which is how they regard anything free flowing(meanwhile africans want expressiveness and flair). check out classical european music, opera and the ballet dance. everything is timed and organized. the world of music was cold until africans and south americans(and it was still africans if you know your history)with the their toms toms, sense of natural rhythm and free flowing dance brought in the blues, jazz and pop culture was born. for the life of me i have tried to enjoy mozart, bach, handel and others but omo i still prefer the sound of the gong, ekwe, beaded gourd and talking drum. to the european ear african music is disorganized but as africans we know theres a method to that seeming "disorganization". our music is all about rhythm and improvisation.

my point is we must break away from this european model of playing football: we cannot beat them when it comes to an organized approached to football. no wonder xavi said that they understand football as a space-time concept. this is nothing but the scientific european mind speaking. the black man has no such concept. (thats why he cannot operate by the 24 hour clock). africans understand football as a dance, as rhythm, as beat, as robustness and vigour.
this is how we must play our football. we must play football according to our soul. we are africans and its not a matter of race- its a matter of an outlook on life which we can perfect and use to define our game.

my brothers i would appreciate your thoughts on this issue
cc
Icobn4s
asha80
bascovanveli
goldfish80
tbaba1234
safarigirl
servik
kennysville
oasis07
thesupernerd
goodjoe
joebie
chriskels
davep
AIG
mikael2
kog45
forgiveness
soetanoluwa
martz07
charlesemeka
and every other esteemed poster on this great thread

TheGoodJoe:


How can someone put Obasi and Zaha in the same place when we are talking Cruyff, Michael Laudrup and Seedorf? By the way, I stated clearly that the South Americans top on skills. I do not know why you are bringing Messi and Ronaldinho into the debate.

I am saying Nigeria as a whole lacks behind when it comes to skills, compared to the Europeans. For instance, who can we compare skill wise to Martial or Pogba?

Jarus:


What will be the correct rating? Favourites? Contenders?

TheGoodJoe:


No need deceiving ourselves. Hazard was showing tremendous ability with the ball at a very young age. By Onyekuru's current age, he was known as one of the best skillers in the World. Media hype will not put tricks on the ball in anyone's leg.

TheGoodJoe:


Forget media hype and judge Beckham with your eyes. His ability with the ball was out of this World. Football did not have one like him before Beckham and doubt there will be another after him.

TheSuperNerd:

Lol... him catch me as I dey try escape into my room...

Okay uhmmmm.. madam Esetim...

Opening ceremony is 3:30pm Nigerian time (also BST). 30 mins to the kickoff of the first game of the World cup.

TheGoodJoe:


Forget media hype and judge Beckham with your eyes. His ability with the ball was out of this World. Football did not have one like him before Beckham and doubt there will be another after him.

aodis:
https:///94IuFQBTLl?amp=1

Pig predicts semi finalists at the World Cup!

Argentina ��, Nigeria ��, Belgium �� Uruguay �� .

Na wa!

optimist25:
Chinedu obasi...john obi mikel....Ezekiel bala in their early dayz....how time flies

Certitude:

That picture should give an Idea of why only one is still ballin'

Certitude:

That picture should give an Idea of why only one is still ballin'

LaExpert:


Dark horses maybe...just like Costa Rica was in the 2014 edition.

On paper, Nigeria has no chance of qualification though; but we shouldn't rule them out...and we should not also expect them to progress from the group anyway.

TheGoodJoe:


Forget media hype and judge Beckham with your eyes. His ability with the ball was out of this World. Football did not have one like him before Beckham and doubt there will be another after him.

hardwerk:
Beckham was trash ....Can you compare him to Dennis Bergkamp

hardwerk:
Beckham was trash ....Can you compare him to Dennis Bergkamp