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Dutch club stop Ahmed Musa

Posted: 2011-04-27 08:03

Star striker Ahmed Musa will not feature for Nigeria’s Flying Eagles in Thursday’s semi-final of the African Youth Championship after his Dutch club turned down a request from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for his release.

“It is sad to report that VVV Venlo have turned down our requests and pleas for Ahmed to play for us against Mali on Thursday,” discloses NFF official Nasir Jibrin.

“We were very hopeful that they will let him come down and we even purchased his ticket, only for the club to turn around and reject our proposal to have the player for only the semi-final against Mali.”

The player was slated to fly out Tuesday night and arrive Johannesburg the following day for the semi-final on Thursday. He would then depart South Africa hours after the match.

Jibrin says the player is very bitter that he will not return to be able South Africa to help the team win a sixth AYC title.

The board of VVV met Tuesday evening to discuss whether or not to release Musa for the AYC.

A top official hinted that at a point in time the Dutch club requested that two of their officials accompany the 18-year-old striker to and from South Africa.

The former Kano Pillars star was the man of the match when Nigeria defeated Ghana 2-1 in their opening group match of the AYC.

VVV Venlo are battling against dropping from the Dutch top-flight and this weekend host Feyenoord in a must-win match, before they play their last game of the season away from home.

They are only seperated from bottom team by three points with the team eventually at the foot of the table being demoted to the lower league, while the second from bottom feature in a relegation/promotion play-off.

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cosmiradogh: 2011-04-27 09:31

i am new to this forum i hope i am welcome?

chum: 2011-04-27 09:46

Nff should leave this dude that called his self ahmed musa to concetret in his club football, we have thousand of ahmed musa in that team i prefer stanley okoro then him, we should leave him alone after all he is not a member of this team that play in last u17 world cup hosted in nigeria, we won our last match against The Gambia without him.Nff this is waste of resourcess.

chum: 2011-04-27 09:48

Nff should leave this dude that called his self ahmed musa to concetret in his club football, we have thousand of ahmed musa in that team i prefer stanley okoro then him, we should leave him alone after all he is not a member of this team that play in last u17 world cup hosted in nigeria, we won our last match against The Gambia without him.Nff this is waste of resourcess.

chum: 2011-04-27 09:53

your welcome.

ezeson : 2011-04-27 10:00

They can do it without him. just do it

Throw In: 2011-04-27 10:08

I really need to get this clear, if Ahmed Musa was not with this team during the pre-tournament tours where we heard them beating and drawing teams then why should Obuh be jittery because he does not have Musa in his team. Nobody picked his final players for him; he did that by himself so he should know how he is going to win by himself without Ahmed Musa. This is where his coaching acumen comes into play. The Flying Eagles spent more time outside Nigeria on foreign tours and played so many friendlies so he should know the capability of his players.
For your information, VVV Venlo is lying 2nd bottom of the Dutch league and might be relegated so holding on to Ahmed Musa when the league is closing to me doesn’t make sense. Though it makes sense to be appreciated by your club but with or without Ahmed Musa VVV Venlo is still going to be relegated.
@ cosmiradogh, you are very much welcome. We discuss football related matters in this forum and rub minds on how to move Naija football forward in reaction to comments posted or issues of the day. Though KON is the web-site for Nigeria (as we have KOG for Ghana, and South Africa sites) Ghanaians and South Africans encroaching KON attacking our football and way of life without provocation.

cosmiradogh: 2011-04-27 10:20

@Chum and Throw in.thanks a lot for welcoming me in to the forum .i will also do my part and share my idea for the best interest of our great nation Nigeria.well i have been living in Ghana now for the past 5 years and i know how Ghanians treat Nigerians here.well the forum is strictly for football and not to share racist and tribal words.i am looking for the clash between our dream team and Black Metors of Ghana in the all Africa games.the last time Nigeria national team visited Ghana was when Siasia came to make us proud by earning the draw we needed to boost our chance for qualifying for bejing Olympic .

cosmiradogh: 2011-04-27 10:28

@Chum and Throw in.thanks a lot for welcoming me in to the forum .i will also do my part and share my idea for the best interest of our great nation Nigeria.well i have been living in Ghana now for the past 5 years and i know how Ghanians treat Nigerians here.well the forum is strictly for football and not to share racist and tribal words.i am looking for the clash between our dream team and Black Metors of Ghana in the all Africa games.the last time Nigeria national team visited Ghana was when Siasia came to make us proud by earning the draw we needed to boost our chance for qualifying for bejing Olympic .

BishopofUnimaid02/03: 2011-04-27 11:10

I am pretty surprised that the NFF never learns any lesson. I blame Coach Obuh for relying so much on established pro-league players for an age grade competition. We have the talents in this country that can be used to represent us at that level. It is our folly that made us to loose 2 players before the tournament began and to rely on a player like Ahmed Musa who is an established regular with the Super Eagles. When are we going to begin to discover new players? The other day Eguavoen was struggling to recall players from the SE to the Under 23 team. He managed to beat E-Guinea 5 nil in Benin and won 4 -1 away only to suffer a draw with the Liberians. The reason is that Eguavoen is also not an age grade coach. Give him the best players and he will still fail!

Kakaraka: 2011-04-27 11:13

Pls does anyone know the nig vs mali kickoff time 2mrw?there r lots of conflicting times online..nig time or gmt pls

Izu: 2011-04-27 11:33

So even to win semifinal how much more final you have to promise them reward and also need an ahmed Musa. With all the red lights before the begining of the tournament, why did we not find a replacement for him when he was not even in the training tour instead of wasting time asking for a joel Obi and ahmed Musa. Same thing with Eguavoen looking for a chibuzo okonkwo to be in U23 as well as other super eagles stars. How i wish Samson siasia enjoyed all this when he coached the U20 and the olympic team. They snuffed the life out of him by not providing money even for training that he had to go to public to beg and he still got to the finals and even won the AYC U20. He prosecuted the U20 with faces that were not established in the eagles who later made their mark. I do hope he is given all the money for the super eagles to prepare them to be world beaters. Siasia is simply the best hands down.

wiseman: 2011-04-27 11:49

@Kakaraka, Nigeria vs Mali 12noon Nigerian time.

Throw In: 2011-04-27 12:08

@Wiseman, Your time is the GMT local time in South Africa.
Nigerian time of play is 11.00am. Nigeria is one hour less South Africa.
Nigeria vs Mali - 11hrs Nigeria Time
Cameroun vs Egypt - 16.30hrs Nigeria Time

carla: 2011-04-27 12:26

I was actually born in Spain, Nigeria father, but was moved around various parts of europe because of sports and lastly settled in spain, when I was 27yers. i travil to NIGERIA with my father and mother and my senior brother dickson to IMO STATE my father home.That is why some times my English sound negative because here in MALAGA SPAIN we speak spanish.I am a woman and i play football in spain I love my Father country NIGERIA i follow up there games,news paper concerning sport here in SPAIN,Here in MALAGA spain there are eliot of NIGERIANS here We love each other.
GOOD BLESS NIGERIA MY FATHERS LAND.

HHAHAHAH@Sarah u are a tipical lieya@Everyone i advice u not to listen to mrSarah he is a man and not woman..he is not spanish national as claimed,1 Sarah u chalenge someone in this furum last 2 weeks OSAZE ODENWINGE to be prcly...claiming u have money just as Osaze hahahaha mr Sarah an european born DO NOT BEHAVE THAT WAY hahahaha NO2 Nigerians dont have grown up kids in Spain infact there is no Nigeria/spanish of 17 years mr Sarah..i dint rember anyone asking u about ur nationality or where u recide so my dear brother...no show ur self..hope u remeber what happned here 2 weeks ago...be warn a word is enough for the.......U better work hard in other to realize ur dreams instead of hiden under laptp or cyber cafe bragin...i,m still waiting words from u Nigerian/spanish...u will come to Malaga train station and clarify ur self Mr Sarah

Billion : 2011-04-27 12:38

This guy Ahmed Musa is obviously within 28-30 age bracket. When are we going to stop cheating? It's even annoying relying on an 'old man' rather than a younger agile fellow. When will our football grow? How many 2005 U20 Siasia boys are still playing today? It pains my heart!

The Man : 2011-04-27 12:48

@carla, is this another drama III? Two wks ago it was chioma man vs Chioma woman, last week it was the battle of the billions, mobile billion vs original billion and this week it is the battle of the sarahs, sarah man vs sarah woman?

Maziugonso: 2011-04-27 12:55

Your welcome cosmiradogh..

Maziugonso: 2011-04-27 13:03

I kn tht Musa is a gud player but Obuh will still win the tittle up nija

Mr Kpim: 2011-04-27 13:05

Instead of concentrating on strategy of using the available players to defeat the agile malians, NFF is busy pursuing another mallam...next you know, he will kick another player off the line and then will be sent off...I don't know why all these mallams are playin football in naija...is football some kinda quota system? ridiculous!

To Hell With Ghana!: 2011-04-27 13:18

Obuh, please no excuses o.... you have to win this match if you dont want trouble and curses like was rained on Shuaibu Amodu. If you fail, you may end up running or being a consultant to your state's Priary School board o... I don talk my own.

@ Caria: You have started. Since yesterday you have been posting the same stuff. You will soon be exposed. Are you the first person to claim to be of mixed race? whats the big deal? Obama's fater is from Kenya and his mother from USA and the world didnt fall, so why do you think we care if your father is from Nigeria and mother from Spain? Take time o....

Segun: 2011-04-27 13:20

@Billion, it takes a miracle to get all players in the youth team into the senior team. It does not happen even in countries that will claim that they are free of age cheating. Nsofor, Obi, Obasi, Adefemi, Adeleye, Apam were part of the 2005 team. It is six years ago now. If we can get six years service out of the guys, it is something. And more could have graduated but they were not given the chance. You simply hate anything Nigeria, admit it.
Mr Kpim, that is simply not fair. Ahmed Musa entered the national team set up on merit and not quota system. A record holder in the national league cannot be said not to have paid his dues. I am from the south west but we overrate ourselves occasionally. That is evident in the last election when we shouted change change change and the 'most educated' region as we call ourselves did not go with change but preferred the status quo. Let's seek peace instead of being ethnocentric and egocentric.

peterstev: 2011-04-27 13:21

@ fake billion or what ever you call your self i think our forumites here is doing a good job by ignoring your hilarions comments and i have been reading your commenst with my phone for the past weeks but let me remind you that in football no body uses his true age although some players bring down their age too much that it reflect for the world to see but mostly its not their fault bcos most of them went through a hell before they reach this stage and as you can see once a player got to his 30s teams will not give him a long contract and you know this is their occupation so if they bring down their age in other to prolong their playing career what is got to do with you? why are you taking medication for another person`s sickness? why can`t you be happy for once in you life? didn`t you know here is a pubic site? respect your self and act like a civilize person. i too i am a football and if i cheat with 6 or 5years in other to get a contract with clubs or get agent that will help me is none of your business. if you are bitterly feel bad about their age then i will help you pass it to the nff just compose your letter for them and express your concern about the so called age cheat and send it to me via my email petobi05@yahoo.com and i will help you forward it to the nff so that you will stop this your madness.
one love Nigeria and its good people.

anthony_sports: 2011-04-27 13:24

Congratulation Flying Eagles.I want to inform Coach Equaveon that there is a nigerian Striker in Denmark by the name Jude Ikechukwu Nworuh who is doing very well.He is young and he joined FC Midjiytland of Denmark in 2006 at the Age of 16 and plays for FC FREDERECIA now ,this player is young and scores virtually in every match he plays,check him out on facebook other forumites

Maziugonso: 2011-04-27 13:59

Up nija.... Obuh all the best

To Hell With Ghana!: 2011-04-27 15:02

Ghana Football falling down, falling down, falling down..
Ghana Football falling down, falling down, falling down..
My dear people...

In case you do not know how to sing this song, please use the melody of this old beautiful song, "London Bridge is falling down..."

Okay, one more time people,

Ghana Football falling down, falling down, falling down..
Ghana Football falling down, falling down, falling down..
My dear people...

- REPEAT AND AD-LIB TO FADE -

ikenna: 2011-04-27 15:02

Please does any 1, know where to watch Nigeria vs Mali online tomorrow please guys.

Maziugonso: 2011-04-27 15:10

ONE OF D GREAT SONS OF AFRICA HAS WON GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
IN IMO STATE, OWELLE ROCHAS OKOROCHA
PDP; 155,617
APGA; 189,134
ACN; 8,620

luise-hero: 2011-04-27 15:21

ahmed musa comes or not Nigeria will eventually carry the day ,let him concentrate on the league match becos venlo need to escape been relegated to the lower league of which can somehow jeopardize is carer
he still young and has many years to offer for Nigeria football relax NFF all will be welll

luise-hero: 2011-04-27 15:25

@Maziugonso:is him the great rochas who play for nigeria in 70s-80s if yes ,,that is great to hear

prince: 2011-04-27 16:33

@peterstev pls just ignore that fake useless ghana billion nobody cares about what he says cause his ghana team are no where to be compared with our f.e

Boa: 2011-04-27 16:33

@Billion, what a shame your country are out of the tournament even with your own age cheats. Nigeria will continue to be your master, no matter what you post here. You are just jealous of us and bitter about your own country. You people have too many hateful spirits in that poor country. We are a happy people and is making you people so unhappy. Get it??? I want to make you angry even more so you can post more.

no be una fault: 2011-04-27 16:34

For the past few weeks KON have been hijack by some unscrupulous human being who lack moral sanity and personal integrity.

anytime i log on to this site i ask myself if our generation truly is a lost one?

luke : 2011-04-27 17:28

Hi forumites,this is my first post on KON,but i read almost every comment posted every now and then. U see, i was forced to make a comment by the disgusting and negative postings mk by this billion of a guy that doesnt see anything gd in 9ja football. Let me tell u, siasia is and ever will be d most successful age grade football coach in nigeria(until his record is broken)got to d U20 & olympics final with virtually almost d same set of players,majority of whom are in SE today as rightly pointed out by @segun not 4geting Taye Taiwo who was also in d squad. U sure u are a nigerian,billion(topic 4 another day). @carla pls leave sarah alone,i think u shld appreciate d fact that we av a female like sarah in KON(always consistent)and u feel attacking her brings u contemptment. U shld be ashamed of ur life,almost everyone on KON appreciate sarah,giving her word of encouragement,by ur actions-carla-u paint d picture of someone who love attacking d weaker ***(posting the same comment abt sarah since yesterday,u pervert). Pls stop this insane and cowardly act and get a life.

Doc : 2011-04-27 17:35

Maki una no answer billion anymore. If u er taking ur bath nd mad man take ur cloth away, would u come out nakedly and be running after him/her? If answer is no u pple shouldn't answer BILLION anymore.

Austin: 2011-04-27 17:44

Why are we attacking @Billion for stating the obvious. Coach Obuh paraded some players with questionable biodata, and those that shouted were said to be unpatriotic. Where is Chukwudi now? From the picture above I doubt that Musa is less than 25. Period. But for now, let's not go there. I wish nigeria and the team well.

Chibuzz: 2011-04-27 18:43

@Austin birds of the same feather flock together, U are not sane upstairs what buisness has Chukwudi got to do with this discussion and did u see the other teams paraded by other African countries? U choose to play the spy who loves Nija and u are not. Shame on u haters of Nija football and progressive Nija youths plying their trade in the round leather game.
Check ur self before u check others, facial expression is not used to denote age if so some players are bald even at 17yrs of sge why do`nt u say they are 30yrs. infact macheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! 4 u, Agbaya!

topstarz: 2011-04-27 19:07

mmmmm..these forum getting interesting, many guys on here with double profiles, KON is the best jare !!!

topstarz: 2011-04-27 19:12

@To Hell With Ghana.... thank you for the song, it sparked nice memories

baller: 2011-04-27 19:28

Pls does any 1, know where to watch Nigeria vs Mali online tomorrow pls guys.let us knw

baller: 2011-04-27 19:32

Please does any 1, know where to watch Nigeria vs Mali online tomorrow please guys.

BULLY: 2011-04-27 21:33

@Austin,
I don’t understand your logic here. Somebody has been attacking and saying bad things about your country for a long time and you’re asking what is wrong with that? People never cease to amaze.
Would you just stand by and watch while somebody beats up your child because the child said something wrong? Would you not come to your child’s aid regardless???

sonny: 2011-04-27 22:44

For those of you who think(including himself) Jose Morinho is the Special one, he needs to learn a lesson or two on how to play proper football from Barca. Mourinho is not a creative coach but a spoiler.
Messi is brilliant and i am already thinking about the proposed match between Nigeria and Argentina, I hope he (Messi) does not destroy SE

luke : 2011-04-27 23:28

He is MESSILESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs

luke : 2011-04-27 23:34

Messi u 2 much

cosmiradogh: 2011-04-28 00:14

I join this forum today and i am so proud to be a Nigerian .my people love this game with passion and each time i log on the site i feel so happy to read comment posted on this site .love you all my brothers back home we are the best and we are representing.and thanks to everyone who welcome me to this site.and as for you Ghanaian that are not here to make me peace you better back off because i know more about you people.i work for next magazine so that should tell you people that i know much about your country.Ghana

Toluwase: 2011-04-28 05:08

The groups for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011 are as follows:

Group A (Bogota/Cali)
Columbia
France
Mali
Korea Republic

Group B (Cali/Bogota)
Portugal
Uruguay
Cameroon
Champion of Oceania (TBD)

Group C (Manizales/Pereira)
Australia
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Spain

Group D (Armenia/Pereira)
Croatia
Saudi Arabia
Nigeria
Guatemala

Group E (Barranquilla/Cartagena)
Brazil
Egypt
Austria
Panama

Group F (Medellin/Cartagena)
Argentina
Mexico
England
Korea DPR

THUNDER: 2011-04-28 05:50

Nigeria's group seems 2b d weakest and on papers we have no excuse not 2 win all our group matches

Omo 9ja: 2011-04-28 05:53

@Toluwase, thanks for the groups for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011. We are in the easiest group but the only problem is NFF, they shd please give Mr. Obuh a free hand to select the players he knows that its going to ok for under 20 world 2011. Look at what is going on in South Africa U-20 nations cup and we should compare the set of F/E team to 2009 U-17 team. Hopefully, Cameroon,Egypt
and Mali will make africa proud too.
God bless Nigeria!!!

gerry: 2011-04-28 10:55

@Trust, unless you have watched Croatia,Saudi Arabia and Guatemala play, i do not agree that group is the weakest. Lets not judge them by their country names rather by the quality of players they would bring to the tournment.

These countries would be watching the ungoing AYC and would be think that Flying Eagles is nothing to write home about because the boys are not showing championship form.

I pray that we win AYC and go to the world cup as the African champions atleast that would enhance our reputation and give them more impetus to do well at the world cup. UP Flying Eagles



Nigeria

gerry: 2011-04-28 10:59

@Trust, unless you have watched Croatia,Saudi Arabia and Guatemala play, i do not agree that group is the weakest. Lets not judge them by their country names rather by the quality of players they would bring to the tournment.

These countries would be watching the ongoing AYC and would be think that Flying Eagles is nothing to write home about because the boys are not showing championship form.

I pray that we win AYC and go to the world cup as the African champions atleast that would enhance our reputation and give them more impetus to do well at the world cup. UP Flying Eagles

ikenna: 2011-04-28 11:17

please where to watch Nigeria vs Mali online, can somebody help please.

Austin: 2011-04-28 12:44

@ Bully, @Chibuzz, nobody here on this forum is more patriotic than I am for Nigeria. Not only on this forum but in real life. But i do not defend the indefensible. There is no point "killing" those who tell the truth. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

stan: 2011-04-28 14:04

NICE ONE FLYING EAGLES: Nwosor and okoro gave Nigeria a 2:0 victory over Mali.

nano: 2011-04-29 13:36

COSMIRADOGH, u are welcome, but be sure to observe the rules that guide us here, this is kickoffnigeria, whoever that is posting here should either be a Nigerian or a fan of all our eagles and falcons, we have some nuisance here in the name of ghananians and few other mediocre africans that always want to speak bad about nigeria, please ignore them, criticize constructively, ague wisely and finally be a good fan, God bless you and you are welcome again