Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:24 am
I think the sending off ended his career.Once he got sent off he never recovered and refused to come back to the field.
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YEAH THAT WAS THE 87 TOURNEY QUALIFIERS WITH OKON,ESIN & NIEKETIEN........mister dolly wrote:The Flying Eagles of the eighties feared no one and ruled the African terrain with relative ease...Cameroon chopped five goals in that return leg with Odiaka getting a hattrick...those were the days...
I also remember Oliha's heroics when we beat Egypt away in freezing cold by if I remember rightly 4 goals to 1 in another WYC qualifier.
...not forgetting my boy Nosa Osadolor...of Great Ife fame...original skeepolah wrote:YEAH THAT WAS THE 87 TOURNEY QUALIFIERS WITH OKON,ESIN & NIEKETIEN........mister dolly wrote:The Flying Eagles of the eighties feared no one and ruled the African terrain with relative ease...Cameroon chopped five goals in that return leg with Odiaka getting a hattrick...those were the days...
I also remember Oliha's heroics when we beat Egypt away in freezing cold by if I remember rightly 4 goals to 1 in another WYC qualifier.
87 edition was in Chile right? Flying Eagles of those days ruled the African landscape but for some reason never won the WYC..They always entertained though. Look at what the Flying Eagles have become now.. But maybe the Siasia nostalgia factor will get things off and rolling..original skeepolah wrote:YEAH THAT WAS THE 87 TOURNEY QUALIFIERS WITH OKON,ESIN & NIEKETIEN........mister dolly wrote:The Flying Eagles of the eighties feared no one and ruled the African terrain with relative ease...Cameroon chopped five goals in that return leg with Odiaka getting a hattrick...those were the days...
I also remember Oliha's heroics when we beat Egypt away in freezing cold by if I remember rightly 4 goals to 1 in another WYC qualifier.
heavyd wrote:TD wrote:He made it TO the senior team, he just didn't make it IN the senior team, being oddly enough kept out of the SE by Samson SiaSia among others.Akure4Life wrote:wanaj0 wrote:I thought Andrew Uwe led the 1985 Flying Eagles.obong itatex wrote:Monday Nkemdilim Odiaka.Now,that was a striker!I was up close with the ACB of Lagos team that he was part of,before and after his u-20 World Cup exploits,but I believe his efforts at going abroad did not quite pan out.He was no frills,could not dribble much,but had a rather direct attitude towards scoring.He was part of the Franklin Howard led Flying Eagles of 1985.
Odiaka was a striker that was good enough for the Flying Eagles then. Not really a striker with finesse. He did his best while it lasted. Got some call ups to the senior national team but never really made it big there.
I remember him vividly. But like Jimoh Balogun, he never made it to the Senior team.
CICOB has already offered a good explanation of why this may have been so.
Actually he DID make it INTO the senior team. He played at least three games. His debut was against Cote d'ivoire on Jan 4 1987 and he played two more games later in the year against Togo and Liberia.
Remember Paul Hamilton (who took the team to the 1985 WYC) was the Coach then and he drafted in many plyers from that team into the senior side including Odiaka, Osaro Obobaifo, Mike Odu, Mark Annunobi etc.
Nigeria was desperately in need of a quality striker at this time. Yekini was still very raw, Wole Odegbami was too inconsistent, Siasia was also very young so Odiaka had the chance to claim the spot for himself. Unfortunately he failed to step up to the plate and faded out of the scene soon afterwards.
HeavyD, English na wahala for you? You actually did not correct TD there. You want correct TD, the grammar bombastic bomber? While he featured in a few games he didn't last long. He didn't have the longevity of Samson Siasia which explains why TD say he did not make it IN the senior team.heavyd wrote:TD wrote:He made it TO the senior team, he just didn't make it IN the senior team, being oddly enough kept out of the SE by Samson SiaSia among others.Akure4Life wrote:wanaj0 wrote:I thought Andrew Uwe led the 1985 Flying Eagles.obong itatex wrote:Monday Nkemdilim Odiaka.Now,that was a striker!I was up close with the ACB of Lagos team that he was part of,before and after his u-20 World Cup exploits,but I believe his efforts at going abroad did not quite pan out.He was no frills,could not dribble much,but had a rather direct attitude towards scoring.He was part of the Franklin Howard led Flying Eagles of 1985.
Odiaka was a striker that was good enough for the Flying Eagles then. Not really a striker with finesse. He did his best while it lasted. Got some call ups to the senior national team but never really made it big there.
I remember him vividly. But like Jimoh Balogun, he never made it to the Senior team.
CICOB has already offered a good explanation of why this may have been so.
Actually he DID make it INTO the senior team. He played at least three games. His debut was against Cote d'ivoire on Jan 4 1987 and he played two more games later in the year against Togo and Liberia.
Remember Paul Hamilton (who took the team to the 1985 WYC) was the Coach then and he drafted in many plyers from that team into the senior side including Odiaka, Osaro Obobaifo, Mike Odu, Mark Annunobi etc.
Nigeria was desperately in need of a quality striker at this time. Yekini was still very raw, Wole Odegbami was too inconsistent, Siasia was also very young so Odiaka had the chance to claim the spot for himself. Unfortunately he failed to step up to the plate and faded out of the scene soon afterwards.
BNR,baba no regrets wrote:HeavyD, English na wahala for you? You actually did not correct TD there. You want correct TD, the grammar bombastic bomber? While he featured in a few games he didn't last long. He didn't have the longevity of Samson Siasia which explains why TD say he did not make it IN the senior team.heavyd wrote:TD wrote:He made it TO the senior team, he just didn't make it IN the senior team, being oddly enough kept out of the SE by Samson SiaSia among others.Akure4Life wrote:wanaj0 wrote:I thought Andrew Uwe led the 1985 Flying Eagles.obong itatex wrote:Monday Nkemdilim Odiaka.Now,that was a striker!I was up close with the ACB of Lagos team that he was part of,before and after his u-20 World Cup exploits,but I believe his efforts at going abroad did not quite pan out.He was no frills,could not dribble much,but had a rather direct attitude towards scoring.He was part of the Franklin Howard led Flying Eagles of 1985.
Odiaka was a striker that was good enough for the Flying Eagles then. Not really a striker with finesse. He did his best while it lasted. Got some call ups to the senior national team but never really made it big there.
I remember him vividly. But like Jimoh Balogun, he never made it to the Senior team.
CICOB has already offered a good explanation of why this may have been so.
Actually he DID make it INTO the senior team. He played at least three games. His debut was against Cote d'ivoire on Jan 4 1987 and he played two more games later in the year against Togo and Liberia.
Remember Paul Hamilton (who took the team to the 1985 WYC) was the Coach then and he drafted in many plyers from that team into the senior side including Odiaka, Osaro Obobaifo, Mike Odu, Mark Annunobi etc.
Nigeria was desperately in need of a quality striker at this time. Yekini was still very raw, Wole Odegbami was too inconsistent, Siasia was also very young so Odiaka had the chance to claim the spot for himself. Unfortunately he failed to step up to the plate and faded out of the scene soon afterwards.
not forgetting Ikpowonsa Omoregie, Ladi babalola, Deolu Adekola and jonathan. Another awesome team but sadly failed to deliver.mister dolly wrote:...not forgetting my boy Nosa Osadolor...of Great Ife fame...original skeepolah wrote:YEAH THAT WAS THE 87 TOURNEY QUALIFIERS WITH OKON,ESIN & NIEKETIEN........mister dolly wrote:The Flying Eagles of the eighties feared no one and ruled the African terrain with relative ease...Cameroon chopped five goals in that return leg with Odiaka getting a hattrick...those were the days...
I also remember Oliha's heroics when we beat Egypt away in freezing cold by if I remember rightly 4 goals to 1 in another WYC qualifier.
That free-kick by Austin Igbinabaro from the centre circle is one of the best goals I have seen scored by a Nigerian national team. The 5-1 defeat of the Cameroonian team led by the Biyik brothers was one of the greatest comebacks by a Nigerian team after losing the first leg 3-0.Goldleaf wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:39 pm My memory of Monday Odiaka was when he beat the last defender in the box 18" in our WYC qualifier against Ethiopia and I was thinking "ok, place the ball in the corner". The ethiopian keeper was on his knees as Odiaka smashed a hot shot past him. That was the match where Sportscity fans were throwing bread at the ethiopians because of their famine. Their fans took revenge by beating our boys up in the return leg in Addis Ababa. I remember Uwe arriving at MM Airport with a heavy plaster at the back of his head.
The 5-1 victory against Cameroon in '85 ranks amongst the greatest performances by our national team. I believe our first goal came from a free-kick from either John Ene Okon or Austin Igbinaro. Odiaka followed with a hat-trick and when Francois Oman-Biyik pulled one back, Michael Dominic shut them up for good.
Monday Odiaka was all heart..