Cybereagles

deanotito wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:57 pm That's quite the celebration for pulling one goal back after being 3 down

greg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:30 am I remember watching that friendly and having low expectations as our payers could barely touch the ball. They also played a few Swedish club sides prior to that match. Their style of play attracted a lot of Swedish admirers. One of them was a young teenager by the name of Johan Allard. This boy was so inspired that he started the first successful website and forum dedicated to Nigerian football around 1996/97. That website is called Cybereagles today. Small history lesson for you folks who joined relatively recently.

Synopsis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:41 am Did the ‘94 or ‘98 team win any friendly?

gochino wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:23 am

greg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:30 am I remember watching that friendly and having low expectations as our payers could barely touch the ball. They also played a few Swedish club sides prior to that match. Their style of play attracted a lot of Swedish admirers. One of them was a young teenager by the name of Johan Allard. This boy was so inspired that he started the first successful website and forum dedicated to Nigerian football around 1996/97. That website is called Cybereagles today. Small history lesson for you folks who joined relatively recently.

Is he still in charge of this site?

anointed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:33 am The downside of that was that we have often made irrational, knee-jerk reactions after bad results. In 1998, after those failed friendlies, holidaying and unfit Peter Rufai was forcefully conscripted into the team because Abiodun Baruwa's gaffes knocked him off. The other goalie, Christian Opara was not trusted by the players because, according to them, he was too short. Back then, players ran the SE, not the hapless Bora Milutinovic. I, for one, believed Baruwa, who was usually astounding for Shooting Stars, including on the continent, would have been okay

gochino wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:23 am

greg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:30 am I remember watching that friendly and having low expectations as our payers could barely touch the ball. They also played a few Swedish club sides prior to that match. Their style of play attracted a lot of Swedish admirers. One of them was a young teenager by the name of Johan Allard. This boy was so inspired that he started the first successful website and forum dedicated to Nigerian football around 1996/97. That website is called Cybereagles today. Small history lesson for you folks who joined relatively recently.

Is he still in charge of this site?

The YeyeMan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:33 pm

anointed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:33 am The downside of that was that we have often made irrational, knee-jerk reactions after bad results. In 1998, after those failed friendlies, holidaying and unfit Peter Rufai was forcefully conscripted into the team because Abiodun Baruwa's gaffes knocked him off. The other goalie, Christian Opara was not trusted by the players because, according to them, he was too short. Back then, players ran the SE, not the hapless Bora Milutinovic. I, for one, believed Baruwa, who was usually astounding for Shooting Stars, including on the continent, would have been okay

The main reason Rufai was called up was due to an injury to Jospeh Dosu (car accident I think).

First-choice Ike Shoronmu was desperately unfortunate to break his hand in the final game of the season at club side FC Zurich; his deputy Abiodun Baruwa had a poor outing against Yugoslavia, and the veteran Peter Rufai let in five goals against the Dutch. His call-up alone was an indication of the seriousness of the problem, as he had been on his way to vacation.
https://www.goal.com/en-gh/news/world-c ... ebb9e610c4

anointed wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:31 am Never saw the footage till now. It's in this link.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/W7HHzB ... tid=oFDknk

We lost 3-1 and it's like we used some players who didn't eventually make the WC.

Is Joseph Odegbami same person as Wole Odegbami?

anointed wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:16 pm

The YeyeMan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:33 pm

anointed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:33 am The downside of that was that we have often made irrational, knee-jerk reactions after bad results. In 1998, after those failed friendlies, holidaying and unfit Peter Rufai was forcefully conscripted into the team because Abiodun Baruwa's gaffes knocked him off. The other goalie, Christian Opara was not trusted by the players because, according to them, he was too short. Back then, players ran the SE, not the hapless Bora Milutinovic. I, for one, believed Baruwa, who was usually astounding for Shooting Stars, including on the continent, would have been okay

The main reason Rufai was called up was due to an injury to Jospeh Dosu (car accident I think).

Dosu last played for Nigeria in January 1997. His unfortunate accident happened in June 1997, a full year before the WC, during Ike Shorunmu of FC Zurich had stepped in comfortably.

First-choice Ike Shoronmu was desperately unfortunate to break his hand in the final game of the season at club side FC Zurich; his deputy Abiodun Baruwa had a poor outing against Yugoslavia, and the veteran Peter Rufai let in five goals against the Dutch. His call-up alone was an indication of the seriousness of the problem, as he had been on his way to vacation.
https://www.goal.com/en-gh/news/world-c ... ebb9e610c4

anointed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:33 am

Synopsis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:41 am Did the ‘94 or ‘98 team win any friendly?

We were never good at those friendlies. We also lost 2-0 to Romania. Our prep for 1998 was even worse, losing 3-0 to Yugoslavia and 5-1 to Netherlands but we always sort of turned things around. Meanwhile, when we had better friendly results, we most didn't fare well. You could so those bad friendly results were sort of blessings in disguise because we were brought down to earth and didn't go to the World Cup with unnecessary overconfidence.

The downside of that was that we have often made irrational, knee-jerk reactions after bad results. In 1998, after those failed friendlies, holidaying and unfit Peter Rufai was forcefully conscripted into the team because Abiodun Baruwa's gaffes knocked him off. The other goalie, Christian Opara was not trusted by the players because, according to them, he was too short. Back then, players ran the SE, not the hapless Bora Milutinovic. I, for one, believed Baruwa, who was usually astounding for Shooting Stars, including on the continent, would have been okay.

2002 also comes to mind. Because we supposedly did not play well in afcon, the rash decision to sack Amodu Shuaibu and drop several other players burnt us badly. We wasted that WC. Summarily, it's kinda safe to say that we had that unique characteristics to raise our game when the expectations were low. Nobody was really expecting much at this past afcon. So, it's better to be pumelled during the friendlies. Adegboye Onigbinde, who replaced Amodu Shuaibu in 2002 got some fair friendlies results and even unearthed Bart Ogbeche in the runup to the WC but we ended up with eggs on our faces.