chief nfachairman wrote:
We have 11 wingers playing in Top 5 Leagues, Top tier 2 Leagues and also the champions and Europa leagues. Considering the SE can only go with 4 wingers for any match, who wins.
Nigeria has never had it so good with top quality players. 10 Top league strikers and 11 top league wingers.
The season is going to be every interesting.
Wingers:
Left Wingers
1. Onyekuru (Gala, Turkey/ Champions league): Fastest player in the turkish league, he's tricky and scores goals for fun. Monaco are interested in signing him but he wants Gala. He wuold have to almost double his goal tally this season to retain his SE spot.
2.Ahmed Musa (Saudi): Bros
3. Simon Moses (Levante, Laliga): Hardworking and tricky Simon Moses seems to have turned ROhr on. He'll only retain that turn on, if he can start every game when fit and add more goals to his game. He only started from mid-season last season but i think he'll have a better season this time.
4. Nwaekaeme (Trabzonspor, Turkey/ Europa League): Strong and very skillful with a powerful shot, he was the golden boy of Trabzonspor in only his first season. With 11 goals and 10 assists last season, can he do better this season considering that he would have the supply of Captain Fantastic, MIKEL and Onazi cleaning up behind him?
THis guy is very exciting. Watch the video
Right Wingers:
5. Samuel Kalu (Bordeaux, France): Garri master has a point to prove. Can he add more goals to his game like Onyekuru. Can he form a strong partnership with Josh Maja lifting bordeaux and making a strogn case for both their inclusion? Only top performances, assist and goals would make him retain his SE spot.
6. Samuel Chukwueze (Villareal, Laliga): Seems like Boy wonder would continue his growth at Villareal this season which is great. He is expcted to explode this season, but in the SE, he has tough competition.
7. Dennis Emmanuel Bonaventure (Club Brugge, Belgium/ CHampions League): The guy with 2 English names and a french one (wuithout a Local name) is a Very skillful player with a deadly pass and cross.Injury really slowed down his last 2 seasons but when he was fit, he started. Already scored in the league this season and I expect he'll use the Champions League to stake a claim for an SE invite.
8. Imoh Ezekiel (Kotrijk, Belgium): Came in as a sub in their last Europa League qualifier and scored. Started the last league match. Would he rediscover that top form he lost by going to Qatar and bang in goals making him top 5 goalscorers?
9. Chidera Ejuke (Herenveen, Dutch League): While i was writing this piece, he came in as a sub in the first game of the season and first league game for his club and scored. This guy is a bundle of skills and dribbles constantly with very high success rate. We know the dutch league "nurture" top quality and high technical players. He could just be that special player in the SE.
10. Sarenren Bazee (Ausburg, Bundesliga): NIgeria's Nicholas Pepe. He's been so unlucky with injuries and when he finally made a stke to starting shirt at HAnnover, he had a nasty clash of heads during the league game.
NEw lease of life at Ausburg and this very tricky and effective dribbler would defintely get a callup from our "everything German and French is best" coach.
This was 2yrs ago:
11. Hillary Gong (Vitesse, Dutch League): MOved to Vitesse last season and spent 90% of his season injured. His back and made a sub appearance in their first game. Good dribler, fast and strong, he's from the same academy (Coach Bros) that produced Ahmed Musa, Samuel Kalu, Simon Moses. Watch out for GONG this season.
NOTE:
*Isaac Success also qualifies as a winger.
*All these players can also play on the alternate wings.
NEXT: BATTLE OF THE AMs
Trust me this team has the potential to equal or be better than our teams of the 90's looking at the ages of the players and the league they are already playing. The strength Nigeria football has always been the attack. Clement Westerhof/Jo Bonfrere understand this. The 90's team was strong because of the attack which was complimented by very good wingers. Is a pity Rohr has a penchant for defensive minded players. Rohr is not the best coach for the Nigerian system, period !