BARAJ92:
Apart from Okocha, Kanu and amuneke who were born in the east, every other player's on this list were not born in the east, victor ikpeba and victor moses are even from the north

BARAJ92:
Those two are better than some players that have been invited to the national team in recent times

OMANBALA1:
Rashidi Yekini won what and Odegbami won what ? Oga, let it go before you will start telling us about Abdul Jabaar who is not even a ffucking Nigerian.

forgiveness:


No! Abdul Jaabar is from Omanbala Republic.

Abi na lie say Yekini and Emmanuel Adebayor won AFOY award?

How many won it from both SE/SS? Just three.

Kanu, Amunike and Ikpeba. But you want us to believe they produce best talents.

forgiveness:
I noticed their long ball reduced in the second half and they attacked from the wings. Jaabar introduction paid off.

However, dat Olusegun na suspect. Manu knew the attack was the problem during the qualifiers but he refused to bring in a better player.

DrKlever:
Same way opportunity has made the Brazilians and Argentines produce better footballers than United States right? Oga football is a culture. You only nuture it to improve. You can't compare talents from an area where kids sneak out of school to play football to another that will rather be cramming calculus.

forgiveness:


No! Abdul Jaabar is from Omanbala Republic.

Abi na lie say Yekini and Emmanuel Adebayor won AFOY award?

How many won it from both SE/SS? Just three.

Kanu, Amunike and Ikpeba. But you want us to believe they produce best talents.

charlesemeka85:
@forgiveness, in the last 2 decades can you make a list of 10 players from the west who had a long international career with the super eagles and went on to have a stellar careers in one of Europe's best leagues. I can only think of a few which are:

Obafemi martins
Taiye taiwo
Yusuf ayila
Seyi ologinjana
Leon balogun
Ayo makinwa

safarigirl:


Did you not see where I said there are exceptions? Did I say the South East doesn't produce academicians? Please, read to understand, or read further. If you did, you would not be telling me about your disagreement

BascoVanVeli:


I am waiting for you people to start the my daddy is richer than yours argument chai, my beautiful divided Nigeria.

OMANBALA1:


Adebayo is a Togolese and Yekini NEVER won the African Footballer of the Year....lmao....YEKINI NEVER WON AFOY!!

darkelf:


Iwobi didn't score or assist

chucs:
Exceptions that are worth more than 1000 local academicians? I hail thee ma'am!

BascoVanVeli:


Yekini was the first Nigerian to be crowned AFOY. Did it in 93

BascoVanVeli:


I am waiting for you people to start the my daddy is richer than yours argument chai, my beautiful divided Nigeria.

BascoVanVeli:


Yekini was the first Nigerian to be crowned AFOY. Did it in 93

TheSuperNerd:
Charlton Wonderkid Dubbed The New
Moussa Dembele Reveals He Will Not Reject
Nigeria Call Up






The highly-rated Charlton
Athletic midfielder Joe Aribo
is keeping his options open
regarding his international
future and has revealed that
he has not yet been
approached by the Nigeria
Football Federation.


Born in London, Camberwell
to Nigerian parents, Aribo’s
performances for the
Addicks Development squad have not gone
unnoticed back in Nigeria, with the player
winning the club’s Goal of the Month for
September.


“I can play for both Nigeria and England, I’m
open to playing for both but I have not had any
contact with the Nigerian Federation or their reps,

” Aribo told allnigeriasoccer.com.

“My strengths are I am able to move around the
pitch with energy and passing, my weaknesses
are my weaker foot and heading.


“I model my game after Tottenham Hotspur’s
Moussa Dembélé because he is a left footed
midfielder like me. ”

The 20-year-old Joe Aribo starred for St Mark’s
Academy, Mitcham and Staines Town before he
was acquired by Charlton Athletic a year ago.


Source: http://allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=20826

safarigirl:
this 1993 abi another one?

*modified* different awards

Icon4s:


Oga, let's stop all these tribal accusations.

I don't think you guys know the weight of responsibility on these coaches. Why would they want to chose their tribes men as players at the expense of their jobs? Think about that.

Even though some of us expect a kind of balance in the ethnic composition of our national teams, sometimes they are balanced and at other times they are not.

Yes, a coach might chose a couple of players based on certain sentiments which could be ethnic, religious, political, economic etc. But be rest assured that the majority of players especially the key men in the team will be selected based on merit.

For those accusing Manu of ethnic or religious biase look at his 2013 team. Is it not the team that produced likes of Iheanacho, Nwakali, Mathew, Ndidi, Ezeh, Nwobodo, Obasi, Uzoho, Okon, Just from off my head.

How can we come in 2019 and accuse same man of ethnic or regional biase?

And even for those accusing Amuneke of same in 2015, things like this happen where most of the best players that emerge will just spring up from a certain region which was the case in 2015 and now in 2019.

Do you know there was no Yoruba player in Fani Amun's 1993 Golden Eaglets team?

Do you also know there were not more than one or two Igbos in Yemi Tela's 2007 Golden Eaglets?

But sometimes too, we have a mix of ethnicities like the John Obu's era of U17 and U20s.

Things like these happen. It switches sides and then balances again. But the most important thing is that they are all representing Nigeria and we have to support every of our teams irrespective of the ethnic composition.

OMANBALA1:
Forgiveness, I will wait for you to do the research and prove to me that Yekini ever won the AFOY...lmao. Tomorrow you will tell us how 3SC won the African champions league....silly old man.

charlesemeka85:
Shun Iheanacho still have it, he just need a club where he will be playing often

Icon4s:


Oga, let's stop all these tribal accusations.

I don't think you guys know the weight of responsibility on these coaches. Why would they want to chose their tribes men as players at the expense of their jobs? Think about that.

Even though some of us expect a kind of balance in the ethnic composition of our national teams, sometimes they are balanced and at other times they are not.

Yes, a coach might chose a couple of players based on certain sentiments which could be ethnic, religious, political, economic etc. But be rest assured that the majority of players especially the key men in the team will be selected based on merit.

For those accusing Manu of ethnic or religious biase look at his 2013 team. Is it not the team that produced likes of Iheanacho, Nwakali, Mathew, Ndidi, Ezeh, Nwobodo, Obasi, Uzoho, Okon, Just from off my head.

How can we come in 2019 and accuse same man of ethnic or regional biase?

And even for those accusing Amuneke of same in 2015, things like this happen where most of the best players that emerge will just spring up from a certain region which was the case in 2015 and now in 2019.

Do you know there was no Yoruba player in Fani Amun's 1993 Golden Eaglets team?

Do you also know there were not more than one or two Igbos in Yemi Tela's 2007 Golden Eaglets?

But sometimes too, we have a mix of ethnicities like the John Obu's era of U17 and U20s.

Things like these happen. It switches sides and then balances again. But the most important thing is that they are all representing Nigeria and we have to support every of our teams irrespective of the ethnic composition.

OMANBALA1:
Abedi Pele won the AFOY in 1993 not Yekini.

komekn:


By implication that means every Nigerian player who has scored a goal HAVE IT. Whatever that means.

OMANBALA1:
Abedi Pele won the AFOY in 1993 not Yekini.