NFF U13/U15 Tournament.......

[Enugu II]

[ogasir]

Nice. Will the players for the official NFF U13 team be selected from this tournament?

[aruako1]

Well done NFF! Well done Zenith!

[oyek]

Nice. Will the players for the official NFF U13 team be selected from this tournament?

That's the purpose of the tournament.

[okuns]

What about the South East U-13 team? The region was not represented in the tournament?

[Enugu II]

What about the South East U-13 team? The region was not represented in the tournament?

[Enugu II]

[Goldleaf]

Divine? What a wonderful name! No wonder he scored a hat-trick.
Well done to that young boy, well done to Amaju Pinnick, NFF and Zenith.
Seems we are already on our way back to the glory days of regional football reps.

[Damunk]

Delighted to see that this youth program is still on track.

[Damunk]

Divine? What a wonderful name! No wonder he scored a hat-trick.
Well done to that young boy, well done to Amaju Pinnick, NFF and Zenith.
Seems we are already on our way back to the glory days of regional football reps.

What about the kid named 'Eniye Hitlar'?
Must be a deadly finisher.

[Goldleaf]

Delighted to see that this youth program is still on track.

Damunk,

Spent sometime last weekend watching videos of our teams in the 70s and early 80s, especially the SE. Seems you were right that a lot of credit owes itself to nostalgia. Most of our teams showed great individual talent buts very poor team organisation. Some of the goals that we conceded were awful because the back 4 were all over the place. The worst video was a 5-nil thrashing of the SE by Tunisia in a friendly in 1984. Terrible defending. A major difference came when our players started playing abroad and our team organisation improved significantly.

[mcal]

Divine? What a wonderful name! No wonder he scored a hat-trick.
Well done to that young boy, well done to Amaju Pinnick, NFF and Zenith.
Seems we are already on our way back to the glory days of regional football reps.

What about the kid named 'Eniye Hitlar'?
Must be a deadly finisher.

...saw that, hope it's only a nickname and would drop it before progressing outside the country.

[Cellular]

Commendable work by NFF and their able sponsors Zenith bank.

[Polly]

Abeg, somebody kindly clarify: is this an annual tournament? And what happens to these boys NOW?

[oyek]

Abeg, somebody kindly clarify: is this an annual tournament? And what happens to these boys NOW?

Yes it is. The likes of Awoniyi, Iheanacho, Chidera Ezeh etc were discovered from it.

[amafolas]

4 years from now, some people will come and tell us this boys are in their 30s.

[Damunk]

4 years from now, some people will come and tell us this boys are in their 30s.

That's Nigerians for you.

[ogasir]

i hope that kid named Hitlar changes his name if he wants to ever play in Europe.

[Damunk]

i hope that kid named Hitlar changes his name if he wants to ever play in Europe.

I'm sure they will tell him.

[Gotti]

Damunk,

Spent sometime last weekend watching videos of our teams in the 70s and early 80s, especially the SE. Seems you were right that a lot of credit owes itself to nostalgia. Most of our teams showed great individual talent buts very poor team organisation. Some of the goals that we conceded were awful because the back 4 were all over the place. The worst video was a 5-nil thrashing of the SE by Tunisia in a friendly in 1984. Terrible defending. A major difference came when our players started playing abroad and our team organisation improved significantly.

And who were SE coaches in the 1970s/80s? Did those coaches not familiar with football “abroad”?
Ex-Portugal NT coach Otto Gloria, Father Tiko, Jorge Penna, Manfred Höner, Karl-Heinz Marotzke, etc.?

While “team organisation” has evolved and has changed for EVERY team WORLDWIDE (even Brazil) since the 1970s/80s, it is nonetheless worth pointing out that since it is NOT the players who are responsible for “team organisation”, it is substantively irrelevant whether SE players played abroad or in Nigeria. Those of us who grew up abroad and actually personally watched a lot of foreign football pre-Sky Sports (and in those days, televised football was generally considered a bad thing) can assure you that “team organisation” was hardly a hallmark thereof (with the arguable exception of Italy and West Germany). In fact, the unanimously admired Brazilians were often as “disorganized” as it was ultra-successful. And IMHO, the most organized Cameroonian team was the 1982 squad which almost entirely home-based.

[Cito]

i hope that kid named Hitlar changes his name if he wants to ever play in Europe.

Maybe that's a typo. At least I hope it is.

[Cito]

4 years from now, some people will come and tell us this boys are in their 30s.

Sad, isn't it?

[Polly]

4 years from now, some people will come and tell us this boys are in their 30s.

Sad, isn't it?

Perhaps not. Four years from now, there will be people whose eyes are so much better they will be able to show us the facial hair we should have seen on these kids in 2017. It is a specialty of the College of Ageology.