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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 7:02pm On May 25, 2020
BascoVanVeli:



Should people start picking and choosing who they help? When u place an expectation like this on something so simple who do u think will want to lend a helping hand in the future? I agree that some people can be ungrateful but this was never the reason for giving.

The way the guy got the message across was bogus. It was clearly a swipe at Nacho's image. I will go even further to say that this could be putting KC and his family it risk.

I don't understand. Don't people always pick and choose who they help?

You can say his tone was crude. You can say he should have phrased his words better.

I have no beef with that. My problem is when people say Nacho owes nothing.

Help should not be about benefits.

Godswill was helping Nacho in the little way he could when he was young. I guess Nacho was doing the same. It was not for immediate gains or later gains. That should not change.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Subzero047: 7:09pm On May 25, 2020
Rennes are linked with Ibrahim Salisu

Rennes are heavily investing this season

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 7:36pm On May 25, 2020
TheGoodJoe:


Pellegrini's job was to secure the best talent he could lay his hands on after losing a class act like Dzeko. His job was not to groom a teenager for such vital position.

Yet, he believed he could get the best from a young kid if he took a risk by giving the kid a chance. So do not make it that was what he was to do.

Secondly, I am not saying Nacho had it easy. Out of lots, I am one who knows the trials he went through fighting into City's team and also his trials at Leicester City.

Keep in mind, last season, Rodgers could have gone big for a backup for Vardy but chose to keep faith in Nacho. Even when the criticisms were high, Rodgers insisted Nacho was working hard and would come good.

I am not saying must but if any is in position to help, try to in any little way you can. I wonder why that hurts people.
How do u know he's not helping out a lot of people already?

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Joebie: 7:50pm On May 25, 2020
NPFL clubs need to step up their game. Vandresser FC the only true professional club I’ve seen in Nigeria

Eizzy003:
All of you who have being asking about Ekerete Udom aka Tall Boi of Vandresser Fc,These are his pics
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 7:53pm On May 25, 2020
safarigirl:


E no wan help, no be by force. He can't even help.

Kelechi has also helped people, I'm sure you can find details of that on the internet. I don't know why you will be advocating for such a person. In his over twenty years of living, it is only Iheanacho he is seeking help from. No one else in his life can help him, it says a lot of his person. E for don use entitlement mentality chase away all his helpers.
My sister u couldn't have said it better, entitlement mentally has wrecked many families and friendship, it breeds hatred, strife and jealousy. My own mantra is to recognize God as my helper and not any man. If any man does help, realize that God used him or her. The late Yoruba fuji icon Barrister once sang that everyone should work hard and not beg any rich man termed selfish so he also doesn't call you a GREEDY and lazy thief!!!

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Joebie: 8:02pm On May 25, 2020
Is he taller than Onuachu?
mostob:
o boy! Be like this guy tall pass simy nwankwo o . Onuachu still dey learn o
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by do4luv14(m): 8:11pm On May 25, 2020
Nah dongoyaro sure pass, asin, see as that player dey look am for second pics





Edopesin:

Chisus
Tall boy is an understatement
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrewbaba44: 8:21pm On May 25, 2020
U
TheGoodJoe:


Kingsley did not know Iheanacho from day one. He knew Iheanacho after Iheanacho became a star at Manchester City. He met Iheanacho in England. I think Chidebere Nwakali introduced them.

So I doubt Godswill (Bala) will know Kingsley in any way.

Well I didn’t really know about their relationship

Nacho has really helped some friends ,even one of his late friend self he is also helping that one

I might agree they Kingsley didn’t know nacho form day one because kingsley is way older than nacho and dude has played football in Hungary

Maybe Na Nadho God take bless Kingsley

This life dey one kind

Make people leave nacho ooo ,dele momodu didn’t help his old friend that they use to sell newspaper together ,the old baba still dey sell newspaper till now and dele has progressed
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Joebie: 8:24pm On May 25, 2020
Achara made the official MLS team of the week before the league was halted.

Toronto FC rookie forward Achara thinking of family back home in Nigeria
May 22, 2020

TORONTO — You could forgive Toronto FC rookie Ifunanyachi Achara if he thought “Why me?”

When the 16-year-old Achara came to the U.S. from Nigeria in 2014 to attend Berkshire High School in Massachusetts, he had to undergo a one-month quarantine because of concerns over Ebola. He had flown out of Lagos where cases had been reported.

Fast forward six years and Achara found himself in COVID-19 lockdown just days after celebrating scoring the winning goal in his pro debut March 7.

The young forward is not thinking of himself these days, however. While he misses soccer, he knows there’s more at stake.

“You just have to understand this is bigger than all of us,” he said.

He’s just grateful he got the opportunity to earn an MLS contract and make Toronto’s first team.

Achara’s thoughts are for his family and others back home in Enugu, where his father runs a small retail store.

One brother and sister are back in Nigeria. A younger brother, Ugo Achara Jr., is a sophomore forward at Northwestern University and is weathering the pandemic with a friend in Chicago.


Nigeria, a country of some 214 million located off the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa, had just over 7,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 211 deaths as of Friday, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Enugu state had 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.

Achara wonders about the numbers, questioning how much testing is being done in his home country.

“There’s concern,” said Achara, noting Nigeria lifted its lockdown after just two weeks. “I’m worried about the virus and stuff because I feel like maybe it’s spreading and they’re not paying attention as much as they should.”

He’s worried about Nigeria’s health-care system — and his family.

“I think my family, they’re taking it seriously. I hope they are. I mean they told me they are, so I believe them.”

His father is seen as an essential worker so his store remains open.

“I told him ‘Hey, you have to really be careful about going out,'” said Achara, who has not been home since 2016.

The concerns go both ways. His mother offered some good advice in telling Achara to make the most of the break, given he has been consumed by school and soccer ever since coming to North America.

Brian Wiese, his coach at Georgetown University, told him virtually the same thing.

“He said ‘Be healthy.’ Because I wasn’t healthy the whole time at Georgetown,” said Achara.

Taken in the first round (25th overall) of the 2020 MLS SuperDraft, Achara earned a contract after scoring three goals in pre-season despite missing the first part of training camp due to illness.

Toronto believes Achara would have gone much higher in the draft had he not enduring a string of injuries with the Hoyas.


After sitting out Toronto’s season-opening 2-2 tie in San Jose, he was a late addition to the starting lineup a week later against New York City FC when Tsubasa Endoh failed a late fitness test.

Achara wasted little time making an impression on the home crowd at BMO Field. While an 11th-minute goal was ruled offside, Achara scored the winner in the 81st minute.

“Tonight, he was fantastic,” coach Greg Vanney said after the match. “He’s been fantastic since the day he arrived in pre-season in L.A. … From the day he arrived, he’s shown that he fits in, that he’s talented, that’s he’s a smart player, he can adapt within the game, can read plays, can play on the move as we saw tonight. He’s got soft feet even when he’s playing on the run.

“And he’s got a nose for goal. He scored twice tonight, really.”

While Achara praises the team for how its has treated its players during the pandemic, the young forward finds himself in a new city with not many acquaintances other than his teammates. He knew winger Jacob Shaffelburg from their time together at Berkshire High School.

Living in a high-rise near the team’s north Toronto training facility, Achara has not had much of a chance to check out his new city. He doesn’t have a car so the club picks him to take him to individual workouts rather than leave it to a cab.

It is one of the highlights of his week.

“Because you gets to see the coaches and the staff, even if it’s like six feet or two metres away,” he said.


“It’s fun, (it) just feels normal again,” he added. “I know it’s not but it’s something to do.”

Achara has been trying to make the best of the situation. He was featured in a Toronto FC workout video, hefting cans of tomatoes as makeshift weights.

“Just trying to stay fit,” he said with a laugh.

Away from practice, he has been rewatching TFC’s first two games of the season and delving into YouTube, watching Champions League finals and other games from the past.

The return of the Bundesliga has also provided a lift.

His elegantly braided hair has proved to be a challenge, however. Normally he leaves the “retwists” to a professional every three to four weeks but has had to do it himself of late.

“My hair. I need a new haircut, for sure,” he said with a belly-laugh. “It’s not looking good.”




This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 22, 2020.



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Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by kenigwe18: 8:47pm On May 25, 2020
safarigirl:
I hate rubbish.

Help friends help friends, who are the friends helping? Make we no talk wetin friends wey dem help don do to others. This one is crying because Kelechi no remember am, people have built an entire business for friends that abandoned them when the going was tough, dem no come social media to wail, this one is crying because of viewing center money he spent. For all we know, he was not even part of Kelechi's inner circle, but for him mind now, na besties dem be.


If people remember you when they blow, fine, if not, suck it up and move on. I won't even recognise most of my childhood friends if I see them.

Never use what you did for someone in the past, as leverage to seek favors in the present. You can't even make heaven with that kind of behavior. And to think it is even a man that is doing this kind of nonsense....he must be making a living, telling everyone he grew up with Iheanacho. Pathetic.

Absolutely True
love your sense if humour
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 8:51pm On May 25, 2020
AndSunGorilla:

How do u know he's not helping out a lot of people already?

Where did you get that from? I clearly stated carrying an extra luggage earlier. Nacho is helping lots of people. Please, I never said he does not help.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:04pm On May 25, 2020
andrewbaba44:
U

Well I didn’t really know about their relationship

Nacho has really helped some friends ,even one of his late friend self he is also helping that one

I might agree they Kingsley didn’t know nacho form day one because kingsley is way older than nacho and dude has played football in Hungary

Maybe Na Nadho God take bless Kingsley

This life dey one kind

Make people leave nacho ooo ,dele momodu didn’t help his old friend that they use to sell newspaper together ,the old baba still dey sell newspaper till now and dele has progressed

If Iheanacho wants to help, let him help. If he does not, let him keep his money to himself. When one door closes, another one opens. The money Iheanacho will use to help this guy and some of his friends is what he will spend on a chick he will fly to London and flex her.

It is not by force.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 9:05pm On May 25, 2020
TheGoodJoe:


I don't understand. Don't people always pick and choose who they help?

You can say his tone was crude. You can say he should have phrased his words better.

I have no beef with that. My problem is when people say Nacho owes nothing.

Help should not be about benefits.


Godswill was helping Nacho in the little way he could when he was young. I guess Nacho was doing the same. It was not for immediate gains or later gains. That should not change.

Yes, it should not change.

We all have our priorities.

I value friendship.

I do not take the moments I have shared with people for granted.

Every genuinely rich person. who has tasted real wealth had help,
and subconsciously knows that he owes his fellowman, let alone the people he had good moments with.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:11pm On May 25, 2020
Meliforme:


Yes, it should not change.

We all have our priorities.

I value friendship.

I do not take the moments I have shared with people for granted.

Every genuinely rich person. who has tasted real wealth had help,
and subconsciously knows that he owes his fellowman, let alone the people he had good moments with.


Thank you.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Joebie: 9:46pm On May 25, 2020
I don’t see how the duration of time you know someone should determine if or not or the extent at which you help someone. There is no law to this things. People change environment and circumstances also change. People even change. Sometimes the friends you know go shook hand for your eye, Family sef. Help who u want to help. It’s up to them to appreciate it, but u don’t owe them.
andrewbaba44:
U

Well I didn’t really know about their relationship

Nacho has really helped some friends ,even one of his late friend self he is also helping that one

I might agree they Kingsley didn’t know nacho form day one because kingsley is way older than nacho and dude has played football in Hungary

Maybe Na Nadho God take bless Kingsley

This life dey one kind

Make people leave nacho ooo ,dele momodu didn’t help his old friend that they use to sell newspaper together ,the old baba still dey sell newspaper till now and dele has progressed
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by CaptainStephen(m): 10:00pm On May 25, 2020
Currently watching the replay of our world cup game against Iceland.
Kelechi did a fantastic job linking up play with musa and moses.
I just prayed for ebuehi to heal and come back stronger too.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Eizzy003(m): 10:15pm On May 25, 2020
Joebie:
NPFL clubs need to step up their game. Vandresser FC the only true professional club I’ve seen in Nigeria

I do hope they get promoted

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by semid4lyfe(m): 10:39pm On May 25, 2020
CaptainStephen:
Currently watching the replay of our world cup game against Iceland.

Kelechi did a fantastic job linking up play with musa and moses.

I just prayed for ebuehi to heal and come back stronger too.

Watching the game too.

We played with so confidence after the first goal
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by junnyjake(m): 10:41pm On May 25, 2020
kenigwe18:


Jesus
babe this post alone can make someine commit suicide

Anybody that commits suicide with that post his reason doesn't deserve to exist in the first place.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by CaptainStephen(m): 10:42pm On May 25, 2020
semid4lyfe:

Watching the game too.
We played with so confidence after the first goal
Yeah, How time flies ?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elunico: 10:59pm On May 25, 2020
Edopesin:


it's a win win for levante and Nantes, maybe more for Nantes as they get to keep him at that cheap amount

it's the same amount levante bought him for

Nantes may have signed him to sell him off at a higher amount like Osimhen to Lille

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Edopesin: 11:07pm On May 25, 2020
Joebie:
NPFL clubs need to step up their game. Vandresser FC the only true professional club I’ve seen in Nigeria


As in ehn, their Media follow up is unrivaled
they recently got to 200k followers on FB and also recently launched their website and forum

I can't wait to see them in the Npfl but not next season, my Bendel insurance is still top priority

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:08pm On May 25, 2020
daveP:



Nacho might have reached out. Tbings like this happens. And unfortunately, despite what we opine, he can help this one.

Desperation might have caused this


But as usual, while many say Nigerians feel entitled, its also Nigerians that see it as a big deal helping a friend in need. Why?

No problem.


Factually speaking, are you inferring you would not help a close friend if youre in a better place after a long length of no contact?
so how do you know kelechi isn't helping any of his friend? I'm sure there are some Ronaldo's childhood friend he's not helping, do you even know how many mouth kelechi much be feeding? Both family and close friends. Na why these boys dey quick broke after football be that
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Edopesin: 11:08pm On May 25, 2020
elunico:


Nantes may have signed him to sell him off at a higher amount like Osimhen to Lille

I don't think Nantes are ready to let him go anytime soon
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:10pm On May 25, 2020
Edopesin:
Emmanuel Adebayor that refused to help Togo in this worst case scenario Covid19 nko? are they wrong to drag him or does that mean his countrymen are too entitled also

The friends approach is wrong but make nacho reach out
yes they are entitled, he doesn't owe them shit abi is he their president?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by solonnachi: 11:16pm On May 25, 2020
andrewbaba44:


The only positive news here is Ejuke and maduka

Why will dessers move to genk? if he moves there then he is not ambitious, is dessers not the top scorer in the dutch league or 2nd top scorer?

Belgian clubs scouting a soon to be 34 year old daniel akpeyi ? baba tell me something i dont know

If playing in a Belgian club will give the soon to be 34 year old Akpeyi all the confidence he needs to be the best in the GWG colous, we are OK with it.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 11:16pm On May 25, 2020
Eizzy003:

Na him person for here talk say e da 19 ooo
Anyway
why can't he be 19? He looks young could very well be 19 or close to it
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Joebie: 11:19pm On May 25, 2020
I was on their website earlier. We don’t take things like that serious.

Edopesin:


As in ehn, their Media follow up is unrivaled
they recently got to 200k followers on FB and also recently launched their website and forum

I can't wait to see them in the Npfl but not next season, my Bendel insurance is still top priority

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 11:21pm On May 25, 2020
TheGoodJoe:


Thank you.

You are welcome, Sir.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Edopesin: 11:21pm On May 25, 2020
jihday:
yes they are entitled, he doesn't owe them shit abi is he their president?

Of course he doesn't owe them anything, if everyone that has contributed to the control of this pandemic had the same mentality e for no funny

If you're in a position to help anyone, do it and remember when it was rainy

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Danielnino00(m): 11:26pm On May 25, 2020
Edopesin:


As in ehn, their Media follow up is unrivaled
they recently got to 200k followers on FB and also recently launched their website and forum

I can't wait to see them in the Npfl but not next season, my Bendel insurance is still top priority

Seriously NPFL clubs suck at media publicity..

Enyimba is the only NPFL club I know that are kinda good when it comes to social media management and they have been having like 60k followers on their FB page now ...

The rest of them are a joke...

Modified: Enyimba has 49k followers on Facebook...

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 11:30pm On May 25, 2020
jihday:
so how do you know kelechi isn't helping any of his friend? I'm sure there are some Ronaldo's childhood friend he's not helping, do you even know how many mouth kelechi much be feeding? Both family and close friends. Na why these boys dey quick broke after football be that
Rashidi Yekini that helped people, where is he today? It's good to help the needy and friends and all but what I am against is the blackmail and entitlement mentality that so and so must help me. Jihday I dey your side jare.

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