Re: WHICH SUPER EAGLES PLAYERS WOULD MAKE THE 1994 SQUAD?
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 5:26 pm
My question is can this current team beat the 94 team?
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I would drop Okocha for Amo. Finidi is disciplined enough to drop back to help the DM. Ditto, Amo and his work rate. I would bring in Okocha after we're already comfortably ahead...wiseone wrote:Who would you drop to play Amokachi? Do you think playing with 5 attackers in the starting 11 is a bit reckless (including Okocha who roams all over the place leaving defensive gaps behind him).
Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:wiseone wrote:If I did a first 11, plus squad of 23:
Rufai
Eguavoen-Uche-Ekong-Iroha
Oliseh-Mikel
Okocha
George-Yekini-Amunike
Other squad members: Agbonevbare, Uzoho, Ebuehi. Keshi, Nwanu, Idowu, Ndidi, Adepoju, Moses, Amokachi, Siasia.
A healthy Amo can't be on the bench if Mikel and Okocha are starting.
You go school. Good observations. I’m giving you 89% for this work.nzeogwu wrote:With all due respects to a lot of my paddies and friends on the 1994 team. It took a while to build that team. Almost ten years and four years respectively. The ten year guys were Yekini, Emenalo, Nwanu, Keshi, Rufai while the two to four year guys were Amunike, Adepoju, Finidi, Oliseh and Amunike.
I really liked this team.
lets talk about the downfall. They were not exactly harmonious. Two many cliques and factions. Secondly, the rumor about freezing out Rashidi is no rumor. It happened. After the Bulgaria game, the Eagles managed to score four goals in their remaining three games. That is a very low average if you ask me. They also conceded four goals in that time frame. I doubt the current team will be that poor, statistically speaking.
This 2018 team does not need to have a comparison. It does not have too. It also lacks some have some measurable intangibles and has a lot of work to do. What it does have is better unity, better fitness, better coaching and a much better bench. They PLAY FOR EACH OTHER.
Let us all not forget that when Amunike, Amokachie went down, the coach did not see it fit to bring in Ekoku or Ikpeba. If we were so deep why did they not play our best substitutes.
The 1994 team had two advantages. They were the beneficiaries of naive white people and therefore under rated and secondly, they played a transition game. Watch Oliseh's interview on FIFA TV to fully grasp that. Once the cat was let out of the bag, Italy knew just what to do to neutralize them.
Despite the so called and revered work of goals-father, one goal in four games when it mattered is nothing to write home about. We created a lot of chances but as I always tell my kids, you'll play the way you practice. Our finishing was piss poor. Watch the Greece game. The 2018 team may not create many chances, may not have ten dribblers. What I can assure you is a few things.
Tactically, they are superior. Depth wise, they are superior, Conversion wise, they are superior. Ambition wise, they are superior.
Some things in life are not mathematical. Two plus two in this case may give you twenty and not four.
At least 94 created chances. Let this set create the chance first. You gonna blame Rashidi on the maldini hacking? Maldini shd have seen red. This is team is not superior anything. Weak link of 94 set is ogun efon cerezo. Else they wld have created more chances, waste more chances and wld still dance their way to final.nzeogwu wrote:With all due respects to a lot of my paddies and friends on the 1994 team. It took a while to build that team. Almost ten years and four years respectively. The ten year guys were Yekini, Emenalo, Nwanu, Keshi, Rufai while the two to four year guys were Amunike, Adepoju, Finidi, Oliseh and Amunike.
I really liked this team.
lets talk about the downfall. They were not exactly harmonious. Two many cliques and factions. Secondly, the rumor about freezing out Rashidi is no rumor. It happened. After the Bulgaria game, the Eagles managed to score four goals in their remaining three games. That is a very low average if you ask me. They also conceded four goals in that time frame. I doubt the current team will be that poor, statistically speaking.
This 2018 team does not need to have a comparison. It does not have too. It also lacks some have some measurable intangibles and has a lot of work to do. What it does have is better unity, better fitness, better coaching and a much better bench. They PLAY FOR EACH OTHER.
Let us all not forget that when Amunike, Amokachie went down, the coach did not see it fit to bring in Ekoku or Ikpeba. If we were so deep why did they not play our best substitutes.
The 1994 team had two advantages. They were the beneficiaries of naive white people and therefore under rated and secondly, they played a transition game. Watch Oliseh's interview on FIFA TV to fully grasp that. Once the cat was let out of the bag, Italy knew just what to do to neutralize them.
Despite the so called and revered work of goals-father, one goal in four games when it mattered is nothing to write home about. We created a lot of chances but as I always tell my kids, you'll play the way you practice. Our finishing was piss poor. Watch the Greece game. The 2018 team may not create many chances, may not have ten dribblers. What I can assure you is a few things.
Tactically, they are superior. Depth wise, they are superior, Conversion wise, they are superior. Ambition wise, they are superior.
Some things in life are not mathematical. Two plus two in this case may give you twenty and not four.
Someone give dat man a beer!nzeogwu wrote:With all due respects to a lot of my paddies and friends on the 1994 team. It took a while to build that team. Almost ten years and four years respectively. The ten year guys were Yekini, Emenalo, Nwanu, Keshi, Rufai while the two to four year guys were Amunike, Adepoju, Finidi, Oliseh and Amunike.
I really liked this team.
lets talk about the downfall. They were not exactly harmonious. Two many cliques and factions. Secondly, the rumor about freezing out Rashidi is no rumor. It happened. After the Bulgaria game, the Eagles managed to score four goals in their remaining three games. That is a very low average if you ask me. They also conceded four goals in that time frame. I doubt the current team will be that poor, statistically speaking.
This 2018 team does not need to have a comparison. It does not have too. It also lacks some have some measurable intangibles and has a lot of work to do. What it does have is better unity, better fitness, better coaching and a much better bench. They PLAY FOR EACH OTHER.
Let us all not forget that when Amunike, Amokachie went down, the coach did not see it fit to bring in Ekoku or Ikpeba. If we were so deep why did they not play our best substitutes.
The 1994 team had two advantages. They were the beneficiaries of naive white people and therefore under rated and secondly, they played a transition game. Watch Oliseh's interview on FIFA TV to fully grasp that. Once the cat was let out of the bag, Italy knew just what to do to neutralize them.
Despite the so called and revered work of goals-father, one goal in four games when it mattered is nothing to write home about. We created a lot of chances but as I always tell my kids, you'll play the way you practice. Our finishing was piss poor. Watch the Greece game. The 2018 team may not create many chances, may not have ten dribblers. What I can assure you is a few things.
Tactically, they are superior. Depth wise, they are superior, Conversion wise, they are superior. Ambition wise, they are superior.
Some things in life are not mathematical. Two plus two in this case may give you twenty and not four.
You have decided to follow the man miss road. The paragraph about naive white people na serious opaks. Italy neutralized us, so the team must not have been that good? Ok o. Continue, you hear me?Cellular wrote:Someone give dat man a beer!nzeogwu wrote:With all due respects to a lot of my paddies and friends on the 1994 team. It took a while to build that team. Almost ten years and four years respectively. The ten year guys were Yekini, Emenalo, Nwanu, Keshi, Rufai while the two to four year guys were Amunike, Adepoju, Finidi, Oliseh and Amunike.
I really liked this team.
lets talk about the downfall. They were not exactly harmonious. Two many cliques and factions. Secondly, the rumor about freezing out Rashidi is no rumor. It happened. After the Bulgaria game, the Eagles managed to score four goals in their remaining three games. That is a very low average if you ask me. They also conceded four goals in that time frame. I doubt the current team will be that poor, statistically speaking.
This 2018 team does not need to have a comparison. It does not have too. It also lacks some have some measurable intangibles and has a lot of work to do. What it does have is better unity, better fitness, better coaching and a much better bench. They PLAY FOR EACH OTHER.
Let us all not forget that when Amunike, Amokachie went down, the coach did not see it fit to bring in Ekoku or Ikpeba. If we were so deep why did they not play our best substitutes.
The 1994 team had two advantages. They were the beneficiaries of naive white people and therefore under rated and secondly, they played a transition game. Watch Oliseh's interview on FIFA TV to fully grasp that. Once the cat was let out of the bag, Italy knew just what to do to neutralize them.
Despite the so called and revered work of goals-father, one goal in four games when it mattered is nothing to write home about. We created a lot of chances but as I always tell my kids, you'll play the way you practice. Our finishing was piss poor. Watch the Greece game. The 2018 team may not create many chances, may not have ten dribblers. What I can assure you is a few things.
Tactically, they are superior. Depth wise, they are superior, Conversion wise, they are superior. Ambition wise, they are superior.
Some things in life are not mathematical. Two plus two in this case may give you twenty and not four.
Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:You have decided to follow the man miss road.The paragraph about naive white people na serious opaks. Italy neutralized us, so the team must not have been that good? Ok o. Continue, you hear me?Cellular wrote:Someone give dat man a beer!nzeogwu wrote:With all due respects to a lot of my paddies and friends on the 1994 team. It took a while to build that team. Almost ten years and four years respectively. The ten year guys were Yekini, Emenalo, Nwanu, Keshi, Rufai while the two to four year guys were Amunike, Adepoju, Finidi, Oliseh and Amunike.
I really liked this team.
lets talk about the downfall. They were not exactly harmonious. Two many cliques and factions. Secondly, the rumor about freezing out Rashidi is no rumor. It happened. After the Bulgaria game, the Eagles managed to score four goals in their remaining three games. That is a very low average if you ask me. They also conceded four goals in that time frame. I doubt the current team will be that poor, statistically speaking.
This 2018 team does not need to have a comparison. It does not have too. It also lacks some have some measurable intangibles and has a lot of work to do. What it does have is better unity, better fitness, better coaching and a much better bench. They PLAY FOR EACH OTHER.
Let us all not forget that when Amunike, Amokachie went down, the coach did not see it fit to bring in Ekoku or Ikpeba. If we were so deep why did they not play our best substitutes.
The 1994 team had two advantages. They were the beneficiaries of naive white people and therefore under rated and secondly, they played a transition game. Watch Oliseh's interview on FIFA TV to fully grasp that. Once the cat was let out of the bag, Italy knew just what to do to neutralize them.
Despite the so called and revered work of goals-father, one goal in four games when it mattered is nothing to write home about. We created a lot of chances but as I always tell my kids, you'll play the way you practice. Our finishing was piss poor. Watch the Greece game. The 2018 team may not create many chances, may not have ten dribblers. What I can assure you is a few things.
Tactically, they are superior. Depth wise, they are superior, Conversion wise, they are superior. Ambition wise, they are superior.
Some things in life are not mathematical. Two plus two in this case may give you twenty and not four.
Looks like White folks never overcame their naiveté when Naija came back to the US 2 yrs later to win Olympic gold, nor when Naija beat Bulgaria (AGAIN!) and Spain in 1998, but lost to the only non-naive Oyibos called Denmark!Gotti wrote:Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:You have decided to follow the man miss road.The paragraph about naive white people na serious opaks. Italy neutralized us, so the team must not have been that good? Ok o. Continue, you hear me?Cellular wrote:Someone give dat man a beer!nzeogwu wrote:With all due respects to a lot of my paddies and friends on the 1994 team. It took a while to build that team. Almost ten years and four years respectively. The ten year guys were Yekini, Emenalo, Nwanu, Keshi, Rufai while the two to four year guys were Amunike, Adepoju, Finidi, Oliseh and Amunike.
I really liked this team.
lets talk about the downfall. They were not exactly harmonious. Two many cliques and factions. Secondly, the rumor about freezing out Rashidi is no rumor. It happened. After the Bulgaria game, the Eagles managed to score four goals in their remaining three games. That is a very low average if you ask me. They also conceded four goals in that time frame. I doubt the current team will be that poor, statistically speaking.
This 2018 team does not need to have a comparison. It does not have too. It also lacks some have some measurable intangibles and has a lot of work to do. What it does have is better unity, better fitness, better coaching and a much better bench. They PLAY FOR EACH OTHER.
Let us all not forget that when Amunike, Amokachie went down, the coach did not see it fit to bring in Ekoku or Ikpeba. If we were so deep why did they not play our best substitutes.
The 1994 team had two advantages. They were the beneficiaries of naive white people and therefore under rated and secondly, they played a transition game. Watch Oliseh's interview on FIFA TV to fully grasp that. Once the cat was let out of the bag, Italy knew just what to do to neutralize them.
Despite the so called and revered work of goals-father, one goal in four games when it mattered is nothing to write home about. We created a lot of chances but as I always tell my kids, you'll play the way you practice. Our finishing was piss poor. Watch the Greece game. The 2018 team may not create many chances, may not have ten dribblers. What I can assure you is a few things.
Tactically, they are superior. Depth wise, they are superior, Conversion wise, they are superior. Ambition wise, they are superior.
Some things in life are not mathematical. Two plus two in this case may give you twenty and not four.
Abegi lef them. That’s how folks fail exam...
They ask about individual players, some folks start to compare TEAMS (and even coaching). SMH
PS: BTW, Westerhoff probably elected not to replace injured Amokachi and Amunike with Ikpeba and Ekoku against Italy in 1994 because the SE were defending a lead, NOT chasing goals. It’s called situational substitution folks!
nzeogwu wrote:To be clear, oyinbo naivete expired after the Bulgaria game. Denmark, Italy and Argentina did their homework.
Yes. But what does that prove?Sir V wrote:My question is can this current team beat the 94 team?
The 1996 Olympic Gold Medal team LOST its only pre-tournament friendly 1-3 at home to Togo...john12 wrote:1994 team lost virtually to all teams except Georgia prior to 1994 World Cup and also lost 2 games at the World Cup itself but people really think no one in this present eagles would make that a team. Haha bunch of jokers
This match was definitely NOT prosecuted by the 1994 WC squad...folem wrote:11 Jun 1995 USA v Nigeria L 3-2 US Cup
Rufai kept in the first two games I think...I know he definitely was the keeper when he let in a howler against the US in the first gamenzeogwu wrote:Rufai did not keep It was Shorunmu at the US Cup.
7 played for SE in 1994 CAN or WC.Gotti wrote:This match was definitely NOT prosecuted by the 1994 WC squad...folem wrote:11 Jun 1995 USA v Nigeria L 3-2 US Cup
Nigeria: Peter Rufai, Benedict Iroha, Bawa Abdullahi, Chidi Nwanu, Godwin Okpara, Austin Okocha, John Zaki (Chukwu Ndukwe 55'), Ajibade Babalade (Uchenna Okafor 66'),Edema Fuludu (Taiwo Enegwa 55'), Samson Siasia, Taiwo Wasui