Cybereagles

Damunk wrote:

Spicyee wrote:Not surprising. I said on the other thread the Nigerian team selection is poor, especially offensively. This type of tourney requires more midfielders than traditional defenders. Sunday Oliseh, Mutiu Adepoju and Finidi George would have given so much balance to this team.
Aghahowa, Uche Okechukwu and Taribo West, unfortunately could not offer much.

Bottom line is that most were totally out of shape. I think they took it as a novelty tournament but others took it seriously. What were Okocha Snr, Uche Okechukwu and Taribo doing in the squad? Even Bbayaro sef.
Yakubu our best player was phoned up by Okocha on the morning of the first game and 53 year old Peter Rufai was our second best performer. And they seemed to be the fittest.

...moving the goal post age wise. na who force dem to field over aged when others dey field underage

I'm highly disappointed in the preparation of the team. These ex eagles came into this tournament out of every shape. It is fun, but at the minimum, show up prepared to entertain the fans.

goldenera94 wrote:I'm highly disappointed in the preparation of the team. These ex eagles came into this tournament out of every shape. It is fun, but at the minimum, show up prepared to entertain the fans.

Dem choose demsevs?

Try go any play ground do Sunday-Sunday na so dem full... out of shape but insisting on playing.

Rufai and JJ still look good. Yak too... although I won't add him to the list as he was still playing until very recently.

Cellular wrote:

goldenera94 wrote:I'm highly disappointed in the preparation of the team. These ex eagles came into this tournament out of every shape. It is fun, but at the minimum, show up prepared to entertain the fans.

Dem choose demsevs?

Try go any play ground do Sunday-Sunday na so dem full... out of shape but insisting on playing.

Rufai and JJ still look good. Yak too... although I won't add him to the list as he was still playing until very recently.

Very impressed with Rufai's shape. If we are to believe ageologists, the man should be in his 60's by now.

Cito wrote:

Damunk wrote:How did oyibo end up keeping for Naija after Rufai got injured?

The tournament has a single backup keeper for any team that needs a keeper. Malik Taylor is the tournaments backup keeper.

Aha! Thanks!

Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:

Cellular wrote:

goldenera94 wrote:I'm highly disappointed in the preparation of the team. These ex eagles came into this tournament out of every shape. It is fun, but at the minimum, show up prepared to entertain the fans.

Dem choose demsevs?

Try go any play ground do Sunday-Sunday na so dem full... out of shape but insisting on playing.

Rufai and JJ still look good. Yak too... although I won't add him to the list as he was still playing until very recently.

Very impressed with Rufai's shape. If we are to believe ageologists, the man should be in his 60's by now.

Rufai was actually amazing. I really had to do a double take in the first game when I saw how he was diving for low balls and keeping them out.
54 years old! Wow.

Carles Puyol

Gaizka Mendieta

Míchel Salgado


Pedro Contreras

David Albelda


Alfonso Pérez

Luis García

Fernando Morientes


Carlos Marchena

Joan Capdevila

EIGHT?


The tournament organizers no well. After five, dem supposed call time on the match. We are not accepting invitation any more.

Spain lost to France 2 to 5. Brazil lost to Denmark 2 to 4. France vs Denmark in final

platinum wrote:EIGHT?


The tournament organizers no well. After five, dem supposed call time on the match. We are not accepting invitation any more.

berra be thankful that we didn't face Denmark...

whoever started this thread is very unpatriotic.. he no see sey Aliens dey this site too? E no know sey dem go take the score mock us?

oh..na oga Yujam...its ok..he has roots in Ijebuland

Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:

1naija wrote:Okocha should apologize to Nigeria for this disgraceful outing.

Apologize? He hasn't apologized yet for getting lost in London, for wasting 15 free kicks against S Leone, and for allowing Malian teenagers to destroy our midfield He still hasn't apologized for that ridiculous outfit with so many pockets that he could not find his documents.

My belle-ooo!

YUJAM wrote:Spain and other sides featured recently retired players while the average Nigerian player has been out of the game for close to 15 years. The fact that the Nigerian team did this well is a miracle. Rufai had to go off after spraining his wrist from a bulala from Salgado. Body no be firewood. Watching this was painful

Old age no be "yoke," Even me dey feel my old age somtaims for hia

maceo4 wrote:

YUJAM wrote:Spain and other sides featured recently retired players while the average Nigerian player has been out of the game for close to 15 years. The fact that the Nigerian team did this well is a miracle. Rufai had to go off after spraining his wrist from a bulala from Salgado. Body no be firewood. Watching this was painful

Add on top the major age cutting this generation of players used to do, Yakubu is the only one that could somewhat keep up lol.

Thus what you are saying is our players are "probably" 100 years old - eh?

platinum wrote:EIGHT?

The tournament organizers no well. After five, dem supposed call time on the match. We are not accepting invitation any more.

... but will we be invited "ever"again - is the question?

Odas wrote:

maceo4 wrote:

YUJAM wrote:Spain and other sides featured recently retired players while the average Nigerian player has been out of the game for close to 15 years. The fact that the Nigerian team did this well is a miracle. Rufai had to go off after spraining his wrist from a bulala from Salgado. Body no be firewood. Watching this was painful

Add on top the major age cutting this generation of players used to do, Yakubu is the only one that could somewhat keep up lol.

Thus what you are saying is our players are "probably" 100 years old - eh?

Nah not that old, but look at Uche bobo moving around like a 60 year old

goldenera94 wrote:I'm highly disappointed in the preparation of the team. These ex eagles came into this tournament out of every shape. It is fun, but at the minimum, show up prepared to entertain the fans.

To be honest, it would have been difficult for them to prepare...compared to the europeans and the brazilians. They live all over the world....for them to prepare, they would need to camp. Who's gonna pay for that? I read on this thread someone say one team was preparing for 3 months....for the eagles, that's virtually impossible. The players from more developed countries can easily pull this off....Nigerian players can't....they're much farther apart than the europeans

Abeg leave JJ alone. Spain whacked Brazil 11-3 today.

Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:

platinum wrote:EIGHT?


The tournament organizers no well. After five, dem supposed call time on the match. We are not accepting invitation any more.

berra be thankful that we didn't face Denmark...

It would have been a goal a minute and it is a 20minute game. Kai, we dodged bullet there.

When I saw Rufai in the list, I knew we would be in for a basket of gaol harvest...Why Jay Jay didn't select Ike Shorunmu or Alloy Agu, baffles me..