ChrisKels:


Preseasons flatter to deceive, so disregard these goals Achor is banging in because when the main season starts...

ChrisKels:


Preseasons flatter to deceive, so disregard these goals Achor is banging in because when the main season starts...

ChrisKels:


Preseasons flatter to deceive, so disregard these goals Achor is banging in because when the main season starts...

TheGoodJoe:


Please.

It shows the young man is working hard and determined to succeed. Wish and pray for the young man to succeed than trying to play down his effort.

BascoVanVeli:


I honestly thought that was grass but 20k should be enough for first round matches na. I should rather have a full small stadium than an half empty giant stadium. Anyhow sha, if na by size let me suggest Lagos, Abuja, Kastina, Ibadan, Uyo and Port Harcourt. All over 30K

TheGoodJoe:


Please.

It shows the young man is working hard and determined to succeed. Wish and pray for the young man to succeed than trying to play down his effort.

charlesemeka85:
you are right bro.i am presently in accra ghana and what am seeing here in terms of development and infrastructure is no where near the hype

Icon4s:


Go look at the capacities of the venues used in the last 3 or 4 AFCON. None is 20k. Standards should always be improved upon and not the other way round.

From the list up there only the Abuja, Uyo and Adokiye stadium in PH meet CAF Standards.

BascoVanVeli:


Size of stadia does not always indicate standards being increased. A packed stadium does a lot for viewers watching at home, it makes the event more exciting.

Please if I may ask why do the others not meet CAF standards?

krattoss:

OK let me put it through.

Poverty rate, Nigeria 33.1, benin, 40.1

Economy per gdp. Nigeria 405.1 billion dollars, benin, 8.53 billion dollars.

Now tell me how on earth will u even think comparing Africans largest populous country with tiny village of a benin.
Only Lagos gdp will take on that country hands down.

I havent even bring on military might and infrastructures.
, dude stop embarrassing this country to sound intelligent.
There is no room for comparison between Nigeria and benin.

ChrisKels:



So if person tell u those are my words u go blv am abi? If u kno, u knw. Some times, u go blind, so times u become an Eagle. Were u here last time I talked about Success and someone came up with that mindset?

Icon4s:


CAF does not approve artificial pitches for AFCON.

BascoVanVeli:


This is what is crippling us as a people. So because somebody did something wrong to u, u must do it to another? I knew this was exactly where u were going when u said preseason flatters to deceive.

BascoVanVeli:


Ibadan is natural and the others can get redone as natural it shouldn't be that hard to do and it will also help our football in the long run.

TheGoodJoe:


Please.

It shows the young man is working hard and determined to succeed. Wish and pray for the young man to succeed than trying to play down his effort.

ChrisKels:
Isaac Success the best Watford player so far in this preseason. Yes u heard me right... The real Isaac Success is back to his beast mode!!!

safarigirl:
All these pre-season games flatter to deceive. Make we enter the real season, we go see who be who.

I am sha sure that Man City isn't taking that trophy this season

ChrisKels:


And u forgot it is the best time for players(mainly those with a point to prove) to make impressions on their coaches to be given a chance in the main event? U forgot a bad pre season could place u on the bad book of the coach and have u sent away on loan?

It was a good preseason that gave Achor his Man City break under Pelegrini

safarigirl:


That perennial Chelsea loanee that was promising two years ago, we never see the promise, he is still a loanee. Who pre-season epp?

ChrisKels:


Iwobi, Achor, Assensio, Vieto, el sharawy , wilshere, walcot, Alex Arnord, maitland niles, Mbappe, Moussa Dembele et al too numerous to mention

Icon4s:


Hmm.. Eyimba stadium. You have a point though. But I have not really seen good pictures of the current state of the facility to conclude.

The only other 2 stadiums with natural grass are the UJ Esuene stadium, Calabar and the Ahmadu Bello stadium in Kaduna. But mehn...those stadiums are for the 20th century. Serious renovation need to be done to bring them to today's standards in less then 10months.

Plus the current administration is currently too focused on winning the next year's election to take hosting of the AFCON serious.

An option could be if Nigeria can co-host with Cameroun. It is even easier since we are neighbors. Each side will produce 3 stadiums each

CAF should have considered the poor state of facilities across Africa before expanding the AFCON to 24 nations.

BascoVanVeli:


This Nigeria bashing has become a norm these days smh. I stayed in the states almost half my life. I am not some village hack who has been brainwashed or something because I like the NPFL. So I know what a great country is like but if you cant back your self nobody will do it for you. You tend to overblow anything involving Nigeria which is unfair, Nigeria has issues but where doesn't?
You missed the point with Togo and Benin. Without us where will they sell those goods?

Icon4s:


There are people that just do not see anything good about Nigeria. To them any other country in Africa is better.

I shake my head for instance when I see people comparing a country like Ghana to Nigeria. Accra in my opinion is not more developed than Port Harcourt. What I heard before I visited there was way different from what I met. The only things they have that we don't have are steady power supply and security.

I watched a documentary of top ten most developed Cities in Africa, Lagos and Abuja were in top 6. Both in one country. Some of our state capitals are likened to the Capital of some countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

If you have never left this country and hear what people say about other countries you will think we are the worst in the world.

With the highest GDP in Africa, Nigeria is an economic giant of Africa.

BascoVanVeli:


Ibadan is natural and the others can get redone as natural it shouldn't be that hard to do and it will also help our football in the long run.

Icon4s:


Ok, I see Obafemi Awolowo is natural grass.

But look at the standard do you think it is of AFCON Standard?

Icon4s:


There are people that just do not see anything good about Nigeria. To them any other country in Africa is better.

I shake my head for instance when I see people comparing a country like Ghana to Nigeria. Accra in my opinion is not more developed than Port Harcourt. What I heard before I visited there was way different from what I met. The only things they have that we don't have are steady power supply and security.

I watched a documentary of top ten most developed Cities in Africa, Lagos and Abuja were in top 6. Both in one country. Some of our state capitals are likened to the Capital of some countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

If you have never left this country and hear what people say about other countries you will think we are the worst in the world.

With the highest GDP in Africa, Nigeria is an economic giant of Africa.

ChrisKels:


Ur baby says hi













So u c? it wasnt my words

Icon4s:
AFCON 2015 Venues: Equitorial Guinea 2015

ChrisKels:



So if person tell u those are my words u go blv am abi? If u kno, u knw. Some times, u go blind, so times u become an Eagle. Were u here last time I talked about Success and someone came up with that mindset?

ChrisKels:


Everything thing u wrote might be true but that GDP wey no feed his population, that gdp na joke. Nigeria as a country has no sustainable gdp for his very large population let alone Africa, so how is it a giant?

BascoVanVeli:


I once heard an African president make that exact comment, let's not underrate Nigeria here.

Icon4s:


Ok, I see Obafemi Awolowo is natural grass.

But look at the standard do you think it is of AFCON Standard?