Awaziem

[Dammy]

Awaziem is one of the jokester on the team. He is a bit like Kelechi. They are several videos of him on YouTube m/Twitter with Kele cracking jokes or dancing. I don’t think he’s good enough but for some reason guys with his personality seem to have a place on the team with this current SE.

Thats the problem right there. There are too many old jokers in this team. They need to go. Omeruo, Musa, Awaziem. They older players that have shown 0 growth need to be shown the door.

I agree with you. If by the Grace of God, we qualify for the WC, will the likes of Omeruo or Musa still be in any shape or form to play at the highest level?
If we keep playing these players, when are the likes of Osho, Ogbu, Tella, Dele-Bashiru etc going to get a chance?
We need to start culling the team now and thank some of the veterans for their services

[Lolly]

Akpoguma was never given as much opportunities as Awaziem before being canned

Because he was useless when he played both at RB and Central defence. At least Awaziem looked decent when he played at RB a few years ago but I have never rated him as a central defender though.

[Enugu II]

Akpoguma was never given as much opportunities as Awaziem before being canned

Because he was useless when he played both at RB and Central defence. At least Awaziem looked decent when he played at RB a few years ago but I have never rated him as a central defender though.

Bros, Dammy thinks because the guy is playing in Germany he should automatically play for Nigeria. Akpoguma received several opportunities both at rightback and centrally and he failed. He just could not cope with the pace of opponents and worse still failed to win consistently in the air.

[1naija]

Awaziem was trying to clear the ball, but slipped due to the pressure from the Mali Player. However, it was the indicipline of the defense starting with Nwabali that caused the goal. There were about 5 mali players around our 18 yet Nwabali decided to pass the goal kick to Awaziem with a Mali player standing few feet away from him. He successfully passed the ball to another player who also had a Mali player on him. The player rushed and passed the ball back to Awazien who was now under even more pressure. They got away with this during the Ghana game, but got caught in this game. The real culprit for the goal was Nwabali not reading his defense well. Watch the sequence of plays that led to the goal.

[Dammy]

Akpoguma was never given as much opportunities as Awaziem before being canned

Because he was useless when he played both at RB and Central defence. At least Awaziem looked decent when he played at RB a few years ago but I have never rated him as a central defender though.

Bros, Dammy thinks because the guy is playing in Germany he should automatically play for Nigeria. Akpoguma received several opportunities both at rightback and centrally and he failed. He just could not cope with the pace of opponents and worse still failed to win consistently in the air.

There’s a reason why he plays in the Bundesliga but I don’t expect you to gerrit!

[Lolly]

Akpoguma was never given as much opportunities as Awaziem before being canned

Because he was useless when he played both at RB and Central defence. At least Awaziem looked decent when he played at RB a few years ago but I have never rated him as a central defender though.

Bros, Dammy thinks because the guy is playing in Germany he should automatically play for Nigeria. Akpoguma received several opportunities both at rightback and centrally and he failed. He just could not cope with the pace of opponents and worse still failed to win consistently in the air.

There’s a reason why he plays in the Bundesliga but I don’t expect you to gerrit!

Doesn’t make him a good fit for Nigeria and African football. He just looked out of sorts in all the matches he played for us. Not surprisingly since he has not even been mentioned as a potential German international since captaining the youth team. He has obviously not developed to be the player that everyone expected him to be. Even though both are below average, I will take Awaziem over him going by his previous performances with the SE.

[icee]

Awazien is actually one of our best ball playing defenders. Looks to me like he slipped and couldn’t strike the ball the way he wanted. Give him a break.

Playing the ball across the 18 with 3 Malians in the box like that is the main offense in case you don't know. YOU never do that. That he slipped is an error but the thinking is the problem. I've said it here, you can assess the intelligence and the game reading ability of a player at 17. This part typically doesn't improve. Mikel is one of the least athletic players we've had in 10 years- not fast, doesn't pack a shot etc but he so good at reading the game and positioning himself accordingly. This is typically the difference between 800,000K Euro market value and > $20M market value. Same reason Alhassan Youssof is at Antwerp - Dude can ran but poor game reader and anticipator - same with Awazeim.

[1naija]

This was one of my comments from the Ghana game.

All these their passing in the back get as e be. If we face an Osimhen type player e go cost us.

[goke313]

Awaziem is one of the jokester on the team. He is a bit like Kelechi. They are several videos of him on YouTube m/Twitter with Kele cracking jokes or dancing. I don’t think he’s good enough but for some reason guys with his personality seem to have a place on the team with this current SE.

We can’t afford players taking up spots for “vibes”. If we’re constantly winning trophies (WC, AFCON) so be it