Vogts admits tactical blunder
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Vogts admits tactical blunder
EMBATTLED Super Eagles coach, Berti Vogts, yesterday admitted that tactical blunder by the technical crew and the players led to Eagles ouster in the on-going Nations Cup on Sunday night.
The Eagles lost to 10-man Ghana team in the quarter-finals.
"We made mistakes and got punished by Ghana. But football is like that; you win, draw or lose and it's most unfortunate.
"Even at the international level, mistakes are made and it is disappointing that we have to bow out like that," Vogts said.
The Super Eagles relinquished an early lead to lose 1-2 to host Ghana to exit at the quarter-finals stage for the first time in 24 years.
The German trainer says the Ghanaians, who made nonsense of their numerical disadvantage were the better of the two sides.
According to him: "This is a young team playing against a very experienced Ghana side that did very well at the World Cup in Germany last year."
The disappointed coach said his side would now emphasise on reorganising for the future. Nigeria won only once in four games and this has put the coach under pressure.
Vogts said the Super Eagles would return home with the intention of keeping the team and building upon their positives for the future. The team, which boasts of respected strikers like Yakubu Aiyegbeni; Obafemi Martins and John Utaka scored only thrice in all four games. Nigeria had made the semi-finals of every competition since the mid-70s.
http://odili.net/news/source/2008/feb/5/6.html
The Eagles lost to 10-man Ghana team in the quarter-finals.
"We made mistakes and got punished by Ghana. But football is like that; you win, draw or lose and it's most unfortunate.
"Even at the international level, mistakes are made and it is disappointing that we have to bow out like that," Vogts said.
The Super Eagles relinquished an early lead to lose 1-2 to host Ghana to exit at the quarter-finals stage for the first time in 24 years.
The German trainer says the Ghanaians, who made nonsense of their numerical disadvantage were the better of the two sides.
According to him: "This is a young team playing against a very experienced Ghana side that did very well at the World Cup in Germany last year."
The disappointed coach said his side would now emphasise on reorganising for the future. Nigeria won only once in four games and this has put the coach under pressure.
Vogts said the Super Eagles would return home with the intention of keeping the team and building upon their positives for the future. The team, which boasts of respected strikers like Yakubu Aiyegbeni; Obafemi Martins and John Utaka scored only thrice in all four games. Nigeria had made the semi-finals of every competition since the mid-70s.
http://odili.net/news/source/2008/feb/5/6.html
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Re: Vogts admits tactical blunder
naija4ever wrote:
"Even at the international level, mistakes are made and it is disappointing that we have to bow out like that," Vogts said
This guy think say him dey talk to bushmen...oops, that's what we all are.
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...this is just further proof that the guy does not even know his team.Osaze's been playing for Nigeria for 4 years...Yobo for 7..Enyeama 6,Yakubu 7,Olofinjana 4,Utaka 6,Martins 3, and Taiwo/Obi/Nsofor 2 ...and he calls these 'inexperienced'?Has he googled that word in English?I think BV is under the delusion that he has a large margin of errors to get this team right....airwolex wrote:Which side is inexperienced?Dodo wrote:nonsense, what was he doing when the mistake was happening? counting dollars i would imagine.
A side that includes Yobo, Osaze, Mikel, Olofinjana, Taiwo, Ejide, Yakubu, Utaka, Nsofor is young and inexperienced??!!! What a big time fraud!
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Don't forget Kanu with 2 WC and 13 years of international experience. What a dum #$%[color=brown]paj[/color] wrote:...this is just further proof that the guy does not even know his team.Osaze's been playing for Nigeria for 4 years...Yobo for 7..Enyeama 6,Yakubu 7,Olofinjana 4,Utaka 6,Martins 3, and Taiwo/Obi/Nsofor 2 ...and he calls these 'inexperienced'?Has he googled that word in English?I think BV is under the delusion that he has a large margin of errors to get this team right....[color=brown]airwolex[/color] wrote:Which side is inexperienced?[color=brown]Dodo[/color] wrote: nonsense, what was he doing when the mistake was happening? counting dollars i would imagine.
A side that includes Yobo, Osaze, Mikel, Olofinjana, Taiwo, Ejide, Yakubu, Utaka, Nsofor is young and inexperienced??!!! What a big time fraud!

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