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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Embell: 9:17am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Icon4s: 1. Nigerian Player of the Year: - Wilfred Ndidi 2. NPFL player of the Year: - Mfon Udoh 3. Most Impactful New Inclusion (2019): - Joe Ayodele-Aribo 4. Best Ogedengbe Super Eagles Best Goal Keeper of the Year: - Daniel Akpeyi 5. Stephen Keshi Best Defender of the Year: - William Troost-Ekong 6. Samuel Okwaraji Best Midfielder of the Year: - Wilfred Ndidi 7. Rashidi Yekini Best Attacking player of the Year: - Odion Ighalo 8. Most improved player (2019): - Victor Osimhen 9. Young Player of the Year (U-21): - Samuel Chukwueze 10. Best performing Foreign born Prospect of the year: -Eberechi Ezeh 11. Super Falcons Player of the Year: - Azeezat Oshoala 12. Super Eagles Goal of the Year: - Paul Onuachu vs Egypt (Friendly) 13. Best assist of the Year: - Aina for Ighalo vs Burundi (2019 AFCON) 14. National Team of the Year: - The Super Eagles CC: Tbaba1234, Safarigirl, Komekn, Bascovanveli, TheSuperNerd, Andrewbaba44, forgiveness, Icon4s.[/quote] |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ChrisKels: 9:24am On Dec 07, 2019 |
1. Nigerian Player of the Year: - Wilfred Ndidi 2. NPFL player of the Year: - Mfon Udoh 3. Most Impactful New Inclusion (2019): - Joe Ayodele-Aribo 4. Best Ogedengbe Super Eagles Best Goal Keeper of the Year: - Daniel Akpeyi 5. Stephen Keshi Best Defender of the Year: - William Troost-Ekong 6. Samuel Okwaraji Best Midfielder of the Year: - Wilfred Ndidi 7. Rashidi Yekini Best Attacking player of the Year: - Victor Osimhen 8. Most improved player (2019): - Ola Aina 9. Young Player of the Year (U-21): - Samuel Chukwueze 10. Best performing Foreign born Prospect of the year: -Cyriel Dessers 11. Super Falcons Player of the Year: - Chiamaka Nnadozie 12. Super Eagles Goal of the Year: - Samuel Kalu vs Benin Republic(2021 AFCON qualifiers) 13. Best assist of the Year: - Aina for Ighalo vs Burundi (2019 AFCON) 14. National Team of the Year: - The Super Eagles CC: Tbaba1234, Safarigirl, Komekn, Bascovanveli, TheSuperNerd, Andrewbaba44, forgiveness, Icon4s. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 9:42am On Dec 07, 2019 |
1. Nigerian Player of the Year: - Wilfred Ndidi 2. NPFL player of the Year: - Ifeanyi Anaemena 3. Most Impactful New Inclusion (2019): - Joe Ayodele-Aribo 4. Best Ogedengbe Super Eagles Best Goal Keeper of the Year: - Daniel Akpeyi 5. Stephen Keshi Best Defender of the Year: - William Troost-Ekong 6. Samuel Okwaraji Best Midfielder of the Year: - Wilfred Ndidi 7. Rashidi Yekini Best Attacking player of the Year: - Odion Ighalo 8. Most improved player (2019): - Ola Aina 9. Young Player of the Year (U-21): - Samuel Chukwueze 10. Best performing Foreign born Prospect of the year: -Eberechi Ezeh 11. Super Falcons Player of the Year: - Chiamaka Nnadozie 12. Super Eagles Goal of the Year: - Paul Onuachu vs Egypt (Friendly) 13. Best assist of the Year: - Aina for Ighalo vs Burundi (2019 AFCON) 14. National Team of the Year: - The Super Eagles CC: Tbaba1234, Safarigirl, Komekn, Bascovanveli, TheSuperNerd, Andrewbaba44, forgiveness, Icon4s. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 9:49am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Ademola Lookman keeps World Cup options open as he waits on England RB Leipzig’s forward discusses his ‘serious decision’ for 2022, who he turns to in tough times and listening to Denzel Washington When Ademola Lookman has felt in need of reassurance – and there have been a few such occasions over the years – he calls up two men who know him better than almost anyone. Des and Felix coached him from the ages of 11 to 16, during an extended teeth-cutting process playing Sunday league football for Waterloo FC, and beyond that he has counted both as “mentors” for as long as he can remember. If uncertainty began to take root during those teenage years they would put him straight immediately, keeping his focus trained on the dream that had always consumed him. “I wanted to be playing in an academy and, as time went on, I was thinking: ‘Time’s catching up, when’s it going to happen?’” he says. “Sometimes I’d be like: ‘Maybe it won’t work out for me.’ And they’d quickly go: ‘What are you talking about? God’s given you this talent for a reason, don’t ever give up on it.’ In defence of RB Leipzig “Them reminding me what I have is always refreshing. Even if there’s that second of doubt where you’re saying, ‘I’m not too sure’, they’re always like: ‘No, no, no, we didn’t start off [playing football] to doubt ourselves, we do it properly, we do it because we back ourselves no matter what the situation is.’” AdvertisementHide It is a sentiment that comes to mind now because this is not the easiest of times. Lookman has just come inside from an hour and a half’s training with RB Leipzig and, make no mistake, he has looked the part out there. In an 11-a-side match crammed into two-thirds of a pitch and containing its fair share of hard knocks, he has scored a couple of sharp finishes and to the naked eye has responded well to Julian Nagelsmann’s constant demands for “intensität”. But on a match day, when it really matters, Lookman has had only 201 minutes all season. Leipzig, a point off the Bundesliga summit, are flying but on a personal level the move he sought for more than a year has yet to catch light. “This time around it’s definitely different,” says Lookman, whose loan from Everton in the second half of 2017-18 brought five goals, a series of sparkling performances and a clamour for his return. “The first time it was like a leap of faith, but this time it’s more like ‘go’ time. The club has changed, the team is stronger – a lot stronger – and there’s a new coach, so it’s something I have to adapt to.” It was, he says, a “no-brainer” to come back in July when the clubs finally agreed a fee. Last season it had been hard, initially, to get over the disappointment when Everton rejected two offers. “At the beginning it was,” he says. “But then thinking of that was hurting me. If I was thinking, ‘I wish I was there’ then I’d be like, ‘How’s that going to help my situation now?’” He knuckled down and received some reassurances from Marco Silva but a breakthrough never really came. Only three starts in the league ensued and he admits it was hard, at times, to wonder what was going wrong when those ahead of him were hardly firing on all cylinders. That was another situation in which Des and Felix, who stopped him going “off-topic”, proved invaluable. Their advice appears to work because Lookman, for all the stop-start nature of his career to date, hardly seems low on confidence. He talks fondly and at length about Waterloo, a club set up two decades ago to provide a supportive and inclusive community for youngsters in disadvantaged parts of Lambeth and Southwark, but in the same breath as recalling the leaf-strewn, bobbly, sloped pitch of his youth he is unhesitant in stating: “This is my stage now.” Ademola Lookman in action against Schalke this season. Ademola Lookman in action against Schalke this season. Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy The players who came through at Waterloo were “a bunch of brothers”, he remembers. “We were a top team. Dead serious. All should be playing at a top level; all 16 of us, including the subs, were good enough. Some of them are now in uni or working and some of them are playing football part-time.” AdvertisementHide He was picked up by Charlton after a trial game in 2013, reaching the first team within a little over two years. Looking back he wonders whether his truncated formal football education has held him back in some way. “Yes and no. There are some things I’d love to have learned. Tactically there are things I’m not too sure about and I’d definitely have learned that inside an academy. But there was never a time when I wasn’t getting coached. I was playing with my friends and that was cool.” Much of Lookman’s conversation is lighthearted, peppered with little asides that underscore his confidence in things coming good. Nagelsmann, the prodigious 32-year-old coach, has told him “to play with freedom” and encouraged him to back his ability. “If I have to think about what I’m going to do I don’t do it well,” he says. “When I’m instinctive I do things off the cuff and it just comes naturally.” There is some thinking to do, though, where his international future is concerned. A senior England call looks far off, even though he seemed primed for that when he shone in the Under-20 World Cup win two years ago, and Nigeria – his parents’ homeland – remains an option. The England setup keep in occasional contact but he knows he has “a serious decision” to make with the 2022 World Cup in mind. “I’ve not changed my mind [on wanting to represent England] but I’m open and it’s good to have different opportunities,” he says. In three years’ time he will be “not at my peak but good, very good” – that self-belief again – and it is something he wants to demonstrate in Qatar. Ademola Lookman celebrates with the trophy and England teammates after winning the Under-20 World Cup in 2017. Ademola Lookman celebrates with the trophy and England teammates after winning the Under-20 World Cup in 2017. Photograph: Alex Morton/FIFA via Getty Images By then he will hope to have proved his worth at Leipzig. Life under Nagelsmann has meant adapting to a possession-based style that informed onlookers say is as complex as any they have seen. After a long pause he agrees he has never quite worked in conditions like these but the winter break is coming and the expectation is he will receive far more game time from January. During those weeks off he will develop himself off the pitch too: when he is alone in his apartment he reads assiduously and enjoys watching speeches and lectures by people who inspire him, with Denzel Washington a current favourite. “I just like to learn about different people,” he says. “Even if I watch something 10 times, every time I’ll learn something different, take it and use it.” The relative quiet of Leipzig sits well with Lookman. Despite the frustration of the last five months he is certain he is in the right place, even if young English players have not always taken easily to a continental setting. “Yeah, it’s happened,” he says. “But in my case it was successful first time, and this time it will be even more successful.” Source - The Guardian. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:58am On Dec 07, 2019 |
safarigirl:My beautiful sister,any good addition to me is acceptable. Oh just using Fikayo as a case when you said Iorfa can be chilling for now cos we have 4 CBs meaning if Fikayo is available he too can chill. On our CBs quality, well my opinion they are average. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by nairalandankrah: 10:18am On Dec 07, 2019 |
I relish the prospect of chukwueze working under BRENDAN Rodgers..but I dont mean soaking up knowledge oooo 7 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 10:21am On Dec 07, 2019 |
andrewbaba44: not true!! Suarez wanted to leave even before the season we almost won the league,if not that arsenal offered chicken change for him, he would have left.. As for Coutinho, Liverpool had no intention of selling him.. he wanted the move! |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 10:59am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Danielnino00: Bro the point is when barca comes calling any player will wanna leave and to make it worst is when you know your position is vacant at Barcelona and your salary will be higher For examply If barca comes calling for mane tomorrow and the position is vacant, Liverpool will only make it hard but wont stop him from moving Look at coutinho earning almost same salary with luis suarez |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 11:23am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Flashback to Iheanacho's winning strike.... Jordan Pickford somehow knew it was already game-over by the time Iheanacho lined it up... That look on his face says it all.... Hoping for more of such for the rest of our Naija stars in action this weekend after Osimhen and Chukwueze served us a sweet appetizer for the weekend action. 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:34am On Dec 07, 2019 |
andrewbaba44:Lol, but they said Chuks was using Lodi as training cone, how come he had a better rating 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 11:35am On Dec 07, 2019 |
jihday: I no watch the game sha, but lodi was man of the match, so i no really understand them |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:35am On Dec 07, 2019 |
andrewbaba44:These ones are clowns na, you can't mention Top 10 strikers on Europe and start mentioning these ones |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Nobody: 11:37am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Rockyrascal: Joao Felix, Lemar.. Atletico is not the club for an attacking player 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:38am On Dec 07, 2019 |
TheSuperNerd:Thanks for the last pic before some people start saying he's nothing less than 54 yrs old |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 11:38am On Dec 07, 2019 |
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:40am On Dec 07, 2019 |
andrewbaba44: Oga, Mane will not leave Liverpool for barca. Only a player like Salah would do that |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:42am On Dec 07, 2019 |
jihday: The thing is; if you like dribble 10 players, if no goal comes out of it, it only damages your rating further. As for me, I don't rate all these dribbles that many here shout and clamour for. Chuka needs to start scoring himself if toko ekambi won't 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:43am On Dec 07, 2019 |
andrewbaba44: You only wish you had Mane but he isn't going to barca. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Nobody: 11:44am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Blueelf: Youdonknowwarrisgoingon |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:44am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Kog45: Exactly my brother. All these second division keepers from leagues that ate already obscure makes no sense 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:45am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Rockyrascal: Athletico Madrid isn't a club for an attacking player. I'd rather Semi Ajayi or Ekong join them than a young Chukwueze. That their coach isn't an attacking coach at all 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:47am On Dec 07, 2019 |
ChrisKels: Exactly. However, Omeruo isn't a calamity. He is just inconsistent |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:48am On Dec 07, 2019 |
ChrisKels: I'd rather he plays for Liverpool or Man city. They have coaches they are excellent player development experts if the player is willing to work hard. I don't fancy Zidane's coaching at all |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:49am On Dec 07, 2019 |
semid4lyfe: I think it was said here last week that his crosses and passes haven't improved. We don't really need another Ekong. We need more ball playing defenders 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:50am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Blueelf:He said the truth tho, if Barça wants him and he's interested (who wouldn't be) Liverpool can't stop them |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:50am On Dec 07, 2019 |
semid4lyfe: Do you watch him regularly in his plays for Udinese to arrive at such conclusion? I don't that's why I'm asking 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:52am On Dec 07, 2019 |
charlesemeka85: What of rakitic and frenkie? |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:52am On Dec 07, 2019 |
andrewbaba44: Exactly |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:54am On Dec 07, 2019 |
TheSuperNerd: I have nothing against you or what you typed. However, the truth is, they didn't get the win. Chukwueze had no goal or assist. These matter more than inane dribbles |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 11:54am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Blueelf: No i am making example, mane is better than dembele but still there is no space for him at barca If barca comes calling you cant cant stop him |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 11:54am On Dec 07, 2019 |
Blueelf: Lol, we dont want any of the above |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Blueelf: 11:55am On Dec 07, 2019 |
charlesemeka85: If Kane isn't leaving for Madrid, let Osimhen stay where he is or leave to another club where he is guaranteed of playing time and not Tottenham. Daniel Levy will frown at benching Kane; form or not |
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