First African women's footballer of the year talks about Nigeria v Brazil Fifa 1999

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[2think]

Good one

Merciless Mercy Akide and Impatient Patience Avre.... Those were the days

I also thought Mercy never played for Rivers/ Larry's Angels. It was at Pelican Stars (if my memory serves me correctly) she gained limelight

Nice one from Mercy

[EMIR KONGI JAFFI JOFFA]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

[Lolly]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

[The Eagle]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

[jette1]

Good one

Merciless Mercy Akide and Impatient Patience Avre.... Those were the days

I also thought Mercy never played for Rivers/ Larry's Angels. It was at Pelican Stars (if my memory serves me correctly) she gained limelight

Nice one from Mercy

Yea! You mean the days of chopping 5,5 goals

[packerland]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

Maybe we would’ve lost 6-1 like how Russia dealt with Cameroon Lol… But for real, it didn’t matter if we had an LC or FC. We hired a new coach a few months before the WC and used a washed up Rufus out of retirement as our #1. The team had no RB and carried a bunch of injured/unfit players onboard. I was surprised we even made it out of the group stage. We blew a lot of our chances to make noise at the WC and these days we are struggling to qualify for the WC with a group with Benin, Lesotho & SA.

[bret- hart]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

Maybe we would’ve lost 6-1 like how Russia dealt with Cameroon Lol… But for real, it didn’t matter if we had an LC or FC. We hired a new coach a few months before the WC and used a washed up Rufus out of retirement as our #1. The team had no RB and carried a bunch of injured/unfit players onboard. I was surprised we even made it out of the group stage. We blew a lot of our chances to make noise at the WC and these days we are struggling to qualify for the WC with a group with Benin, Lesotho & SA.

Sacking Trouser was the worst thing we did. Had we retained him and got on his program, we would have smashed Denmark. 20+ years later and i still get PTSD about that match.

[EMIR KONGI JAFFI JOFFA]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

Maybe we would’ve lost 6-1 like how Russia dealt with Cameroon Lol… But for real, it didn’t matter if we had an LC or FC. We hired a new coach a few months before the WC and used a washed up Rufus out of retirement as our #1. The team had no RB and carried a bunch of injured/unfit players onboard. I was surprised we even made it out of the group stage. We blew a lot of our chances to make noise at the WC and these days we are struggling to qualify for the WC with a group with Benin, Lesotho & SA.

Sacking Trouser was the worst thing we did. Had we retained him and got on his program, we would have smashed Denmark. 20+ years later and i still get PTSD about that match.

We’ve been making the same mistakes for decades and decades. I’m sorry but there’s enough sample in all aspects of life to suggest that Nigerians can be good technocrats but we definitely are not good managers of anything. If they told anybody in 1994 that 30yrs later the SE would not do better than 2nd rd @ the WC nobody would believe it. Troussier, Rohr, Pesseiro , Amodu ,Keshi even Vogts all left unceremoniously. That’s unprecedented in international football.

[bret- hart]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

Maybe we would’ve lost 6-1 like how Russia dealt with Cameroon Lol… But for real, it didn’t matter if we had an LC or FC. We hired a new coach a few months before the WC and used a washed up Rufus out of retirement as our #1. The team had no RB and carried a bunch of injured/unfit players onboard. I was surprised we even made it out of the group stage. We blew a lot of our chances to make noise at the WC and these days we are struggling to qualify for the WC with a group with Benin, Lesotho & SA.

Sacking Trouser was the worst thing we did. Had we retained him and got on his program, we would have smashed Denmark. 20+ years later and i still get PTSD about that match.

We’ve been making the same mistakes for decades and decades. I’m sorry but there’s enough sample in all aspects of life to suggest that Nigerians can be good technocrats but we definitely are not good managers of anything. If they told anybody in 1994 that 30yrs later the SE would not do better than 2nd rd @ the WC nobody would believe it. Troussier, Rohr, Pesseiro , Amodu ,Keshi even Vogts all left unceremoniously. That’s unprecedented in international football.

Its not just the administrators. Our own players are terrible when it comes to working well as a team. If Oliseh, Okocha, and Amokachi had put their personal egos aside Nigeria could have gotten to the World Cup Final in 94 and at least a QFinal in 1998. Oliseh especially refused to pass to Yekini same with Okocha. I get so pissed off seeing how average Morocco, Ghana and Senegal teams made deep runs at the WC while Nigeria with the most talented team Africa ever produced underachieved just because our players are too selfish.

[The Eagle]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

Maybe we would’ve lost 6-1 like how Russia dealt with Cameroon Lol… But for real, it didn’t matter if we had an LC or FC. We hired a new coach a few months before the WC and used a washed up Rufus out of retirement as our #1. The team had no RB and carried a bunch of injured/unfit players onboard. I was surprised we even made it out of the group stage. We blew a lot of our chances to make noise at the WC and these days we are struggling to qualify for the WC with a group with Benin, Lesotho & SA.

Imagine if Cameroun's manager had been a Camerounian, instead of Henri Michel, when Russia spelled "DOUALA" with goals.

As for why the Eagles flopped in 1998 and are struggling now .... that one na long tori.

Per Mercy Akide's comments on Ismaila Mabo (RIP) .... players and managers are free to take individual or shared responsibility for stuff, to point the finger at each other, or to blame instability of some kind at their club or national federation. Or they can say "stuff happens". With that said, watching the brief clip of Nigeria vs Brazil they played, I am reminded that in those days, the goalkeeping on most female national teams was not the best.

A lot of teams tried to exploit the goalkeeping frailties by testing the keeper with shots from anywhere, near or far. This didn't lead to as many goals as you might think, because a lot of teams also had problems shooting .... on the defensive end as well, where many goal-kicks didn't make it to the middle of the park, or even out of the defensive third sometimes. I was and am a fan of the 1999 team, inclusive of Ann Agumanu-Chiejine .... but that department was and is stronger with Precious Dede and Chiamaka Nnadozie.

[bret- hart]

Kai….. she said “ Ismaila Mabo (Rip) with his little knowledge couldn’t help us at half time. The coaches were blaming the players”. I thought he was a coaching genius. No?

Just like Pep the genius can’t help Manchester City these days. It happens bro.

I wonder what some people would have said, what those people would still be saying today, if it had been a Nigerian manager that lost 4-1 to Denmark in front of a worldwide television audience .... never mind the other blowouts the Eagles suffered that year.

Maybe we would’ve lost 6-1 like how Russia dealt with Cameroon Lol… But for real, it didn’t matter if we had an LC or FC. We hired a new coach a few months before the WC and used a washed up Rufus out of retirement as our #1. The team had no RB and carried a bunch of injured/unfit players onboard. I was surprised we even made it out of the group stage. We blew a lot of our chances to make noise at the WC and these days we are struggling to qualify for the WC with a group with Benin, Lesotho & SA.

Imagine if Cameroun's manager had been a Camerounian, instead of Henri Michel, when Russia spelled "DOUALA" with goals.

As for why the Eagles flopped in 1998 and are struggling now .... that one na long tori.

Per Mercy Akide's comments on Ismaila Mabo (RIP) .... players and managers are free to take individual or shared responsibility for stuff, to point the finger at each other, or to blame instability of some kind at their club or national federation. Or they can say "stuff happens". With that said, watching the brief clip of Nigeria vs Brazil they played, I am reminded that in those days, the goalkeeping on most female national teams was not the best.

A lot of teams tried to exploit the goalkeeping frailties by testing the keeper with shots from anywhere, near or far. This didn't lead to as many goals as you might think, because a lot of teams also had problems shooting .... on the defensive end as well, where many goal-kicks didn't make it to the middle of the park, or even out of the defensive third sometimes. I was and am a fan of the 1999 team, inclusive of Ann Agumanu-Chiejine .... but that department was and is stronger with Precious Dede and Chiamaka Nnadozie.

Ann Chijine was average but she didnt keep in the game vs Brazil. It was another keeper and she was even worse. If it was a keeper close to the Level of Precious Dede or Nnadozie, we would have beaten Brazil like 3-0. Most of the goals they scored were gifts from Nigeria.

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