U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 3
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The boys are not good and our coach nor dey see beyond.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because welts?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned. And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?“ --Chuck Coonradt
Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
Brawn no brain. Amoo is like Shaqiri.
Make good thinking a priority so that you can make Godly placement a possibility.
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Na your disappointment day talk.Lolly wrote:I would be surprised if any of these boys gets scouted. There is nothing there.
Result is not everything at this level.
These kids are quite talented individually.
Scouts look for individuals, not teams.
If they never get scouted as you say, it will only be down to insufficient exposure.
I see more talent in our boys than the Dutch, no question.
"Ole kuku ni gbogbo wọn "
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Sir V,Sir V wrote:Bros, I hope we are watching the same game?Enugu II wrote:Sir V,Sir V wrote:our boys are not playing well.
They could lose this game but make no mistake about it they have been the better team in the opening half. They appear to have the better players and have created better opportunities cutting through the Dutch defense regularly. However, lack the haste in attack is mind boggling and not covering the second ball in defense is bad. However, I must admit that the energy and effort put in trying to tie this game has left the team vulnerable to a Dutch attack (Fortunately, the Dutch have been unable to muster much going forward in the opening half).
I hope so. In the opening half which is what we were talking about, Nigeria was the better team except for the problems that I have already mentioned. Unfortunately, being the better team did not give them the lead at halftime and they obviously lost the game. However, that does not mean that I should suddenly change that thesis.
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Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
We outplayed the Dutch by a country mile. Not sure what else you need to see. Its football. We cannot win every tournament.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
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Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
Poorly coached team....running around huffing and puffing clueless!
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Exactly.Sir V wrote:The boys are not good and our coach nor dey see beyond.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because welts?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned. And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
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Talent indeed.I hate watching soccer players that can't just do the basics.bushboy wrote:Good team. Loads of talent. Unfortunately, the coach let them down. I am still very high on Tijani. He will be a top level pro.ojafranpa wrote:This is a terrible team and the coaching crew is outdated.
Make good thinking a priority so that you can make Godly placement a possibility.
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Na that we go chop?bushboy wrote:We outplayed the Dutch by a country mile. Not sure what else you need to see. Its football. We cannot win every tournament.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
Make good thinking a priority so that you can make Godly placement a possibility.
Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
Well, we dey see different things.Damunk wrote:Na your disappointment day talk.Lolly wrote:I would be surprised if any of these boys gets scouted. There is nothing there.
Result is not everything at this level.
These kids are quite talented individually.
Scouts look for individuals, not teams.
If they never get scouted as you say, it will only be down to insufficient exposure.
I see more talent in our boys than the Dutch, no question.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
At no time have we taken "the best U17s in Nigeria", even when we won the WC.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
We take the best we can find. Manu did it once. He cn do it again but it is not his birthright to win every time he' lands' at the WC.
We have been spoilt by U17 success. So now we are hearing that the boys are "terrible" and 'Brainless"
Typical Nigerian sour grapes.
They are kids. They will learn...and hopefully will build on this their experience.
How anyone can smear them for their performance is beyond me.
Thats not how responsible adults react to failure in kids.
"Ole kuku ni gbogbo wọn "
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Thank you. I really can't see the talent people are seeing.ojafranpa wrote:Talent indeed.I hate watching soccer players that can't just do the basics.bushboy wrote:Good team. Loads of talent. Unfortunately, the coach let them down. I am still very high on Tijani. He will be a top level pro.ojafranpa wrote:This is a terrible team and the coaching crew is outdated.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
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Lolly,Lolly wrote:Well, we dey see different things.Damunk wrote:Na your disappointment day talk.Lolly wrote:I would be surprised if any of these boys gets scouted. There is nothing there.
Result is not everything at this level.
These kids are quite talented individually.
Scouts look for individuals, not teams.
If they never get scouted as you say, it will only be down to insufficient exposure.
I see more talent in our boys than the Dutch, no question.
Take this to the bank, at least two players from this set will be heard in a few years time. This is about individual players. There is nothing about these individual players that says that they cannot fit into senior level football in Europe or anywhere else in the coming years. TBH, I saw more in these players than I saw with our U20 a few months ago when compared to their mates. Granted this U17 team was not as good as Iheanacho's set but that does not mean all the players will suddenly be rubbished.
Lolly, think about the fact that Nigeria remains in the top 10 in the world in sending players to Europe, many of them from this age group era bit older. Note that this includes sending players to even areas where language can delay a player's chances of advancing quickly. That statistics isn't something to ignore given that these players have actually been more exposed than many of their mates that will eventually undertaken that journey from home.
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The difficulties of statistical thinking describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events -- Daniel Kahneman (2011), Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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At this level, yes.ojafranpa wrote:Na that we go chop?bushboy wrote:We outplayed the Dutch by a country mile. Not sure what else you need to see. Its football. We cannot win every tournament.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
If na result you wan chop, then you shouldn't be watching developmental football.
"Ole kuku ni gbogbo wọn "
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Time to get a coach with european youth football experience- Finidi if he's willing...
Form is temporary; Class is Permanent!
Liverpool, European Champions 2005.
We watched this very boring video, 500 times, of Sacchi doing defensive drills, using sticks and without the ball, with Maldini, Baresi and Albertini. We used to think before then that if the other players are better, you have to lose. After that we learned anything is possible – you can beat better teams by using tactics." Jurgen Klopp
Liverpool, European Champions 2005.
We watched this very boring video, 500 times, of Sacchi doing defensive drills, using sticks and without the ball, with Maldini, Baresi and Albertini. We used to think before then that if the other players are better, you have to lose. After that we learned anything is possible – you can beat better teams by using tactics." Jurgen Klopp
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Kids or no kids, we are here ranting and raving about football. No other reason for staying awake this late.Damunk wrote:At no time have we taken "the best U17s in Nigeria", even when we won the WC.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
We take the best we can find. Manu did it once. He cn do it again but it is not his birthright to win every time he' lands' at the WC.
We have been spoilt by U17 success. So now we are hearing that the boys are "terrible" and 'Brainless"
Typical Nigerian sour grapes.
They are kids. They will learn...and hopefully will build on this their experience.
How anyone can smear them for their performance is beyond me.
Thats not how responsible adults react to failure in kids.
I played football and I understand football. A lot of these players I have been watching over the last week are below par.
They played better today but it is still the same uncoordinated an selfish play.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
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Damunk wrote:At no time have we taken "the best U17s in Nigeria", even when we won the WC.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
We take the best we can find. Manu did it once. He cn do it again but it is not his birthright to win every time he' lands' at the WC.
We have been spoilt by U17 success. So now we are hearing that the boys are "terrible" and 'Brainless"
Typical Nigerian sour grapes.
They are kids. They will learn...and hopefully will build on this their experience.
How anyone can smear them for their performance is beyond me.
Thats not how responsible adults react to failure in kids.
We know everyday nor be Christmas, what some of us are saying is the kind of football we displayed today, if they have played well and lost I will be the first to applaud the boys. I hope the boys and Manu learn something from this tournament.
"If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?“ --Chuck Coonradt
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Lolly wrote:Kids or no kids, we are here ranting and raving about football. No other reason for staying awake this late.Damunk wrote:At no time have we taken "the best U17s in Nigeria", even when we won the WC.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
We take the best we can find. Manu did it once. He cn do it again but it is not his birthright to win every time he' lands' at the WC.
We have been spoilt by U17 success. So now we are hearing that the boys are "terrible" and 'Brainless"
Typical Nigerian sour grapes.
They are kids. They will learn...and hopefully will build on this their experience.
How anyone can smear them for their performance is beyond me.
Thats not how responsible adults react to failure in kids.
I played football and I understand football. A lot of these players I have been watching over the last week are below par.
They played better today but it is still the same uncoordinated an selfish play.
I don't blame the boys; they played to instructions. Even during a tournament Manu still drills his team.
Just an outdated coach who is unwilling to learn...
Form is temporary; Class is Permanent!
Liverpool, European Champions 2005.
We watched this very boring video, 500 times, of Sacchi doing defensive drills, using sticks and without the ball, with Maldini, Baresi and Albertini. We used to think before then that if the other players are better, you have to lose. After that we learned anything is possible – you can beat better teams by using tactics." Jurgen Klopp
Liverpool, European Champions 2005.
We watched this very boring video, 500 times, of Sacchi doing defensive drills, using sticks and without the ball, with Maldini, Baresi and Albertini. We used to think before then that if the other players are better, you have to lose. After that we learned anything is possible – you can beat better teams by using tactics." Jurgen Klopp
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Bro, you need to take off your dark glasses.ojafranpa wrote:Talent indeed.I hate watching soccer players that can't just do the basics.bushboy wrote:Good team. Loads of talent. Unfortunately, the coach let them down. I am still very high on Tijani. He will be a top level pro.ojafranpa wrote:This is a terrible team and the coaching crew is outdated.
I get that you are upset but this your statement get as e be.
The basics?
You mean like first touch, long passes, one-two-interchanges, positioning, tracking back?
Or are you simply allowing the poor final ball and poor decision-making to overshadow everything else?
Wait for the game stats and see whether the 'basics' are reflected or not.
Convert two of those numerous wasted chances and I am certain 75% of you will be singing a different song....even if the brilliant Dutch keeper made two howlers to our benefit.
That's how fickle our fans can be.
"Ole kuku ni gbogbo wọn "
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Name them.Enugu II wrote:Lolly,Lolly wrote:Well, we dey see different things.Damunk wrote:Na your disappointment day talk.Lolly wrote:I would be surprised if any of these boys gets scouted. There is nothing there.
Result is not everything at this level.
These kids are quite talented individually.
Scouts look for individuals, not teams.
If they never get scouted as you say, it will only be down to insufficient exposure.
I see more talent in our boys than the Dutch, no question.
Take this to the bank, at least two players from this set will be heard in a few years time. This is about individual players. There is nothing about these individual players that says that they cannot fit into senior level football in Europe or anywhere else in the coming years. TBH, I saw more in these players than I saw with our U20 a few months ago when compared to their mates. Granted this U17 team was not as good as Iheanacho's set but that does not mean all the players will suddenly be rubbished.
Most played like they lack the basics. That would be difficult to fix but no impossible.
If I have to chose one or two players, I will say Tijani and Said. Ibrahim looked good in one of the early games but haven't seen much since.
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"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Re: U17 ROUND OF 16: NIGERIA 1 VS NETHERLANDS 2
Lolly,Lolly wrote:Kids or no kids, we are here ranting and raving about football. No other reason for staying awake this late.Damunk wrote:At no time have we taken "the best U17s in Nigeria", even when we won the WC.Lolly wrote:These are not the best 11 under 17 in Nigeria. No way.Damunk wrote:He has not done well because we lost?Lolly wrote:Our boys are coming home. 3-1 down.
Hope the NFF find another manager. Manu has not done well here at all. This team is not it.
These boys are quite talented as far as I am concerned.
And they have played well in this (only) game I have watched.
We are not going to win the WC every time we enter an U17 team.
I don't expect us to win it all the time but I expect a certain standard of football and this is not it.
We take the best we can find. Manu did it once. He cn do it again but it is not his birthright to win every time he' lands' at the WC.
We have been spoilt by U17 success. So now we are hearing that the boys are "terrible" and 'Brainless"
Typical Nigerian sour grapes.
They are kids. They will learn...and hopefully will build on this their experience.
How anyone can smear them for their performance is beyond me.
Thats not how responsible adults react to failure in kids.
I played football and I understand football. A lot of these players I have been watching over the last week are below par.
They played better today but it is still the same uncoordinated an selfish play.
You are correct per playing as a team but that does not mean that there are no individuals with the likelihood of making it. The fact that you acknowledged that they played better today should give you hope that there are scouts who will take a chance on some of them. I think, perhaps, our memories of previous great Nigerian teams at this level is leading to this judgment that you are making.
The difficulties of statistical thinking describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events -- Daniel Kahneman (2011), Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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As a team they look okay, but they lack that exceptional player that can take the game by the scruff and produce a game changer. The likes of Kelechi, Taiwo, Nwakali and Osimeh.
If the game went of for 3 hrs they were not going to score.
If the game went of for 3 hrs they were not going to score.
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