Akpoborie unimpressed by home lads

This guy talks like a typical Nigerian,using the south-end of his orifice instead of his mouth.Dumber than a goat with his i play for europe before attitude.if you were that that good in europe what medals did you bring back with you asshole?NONE so shut the fuck up

@Benosa,am not sure who you are and i don't much care. You need to do your research of a public person before opening your pie hole. Jonathan was a very accomplished striker that played his entire career in the Budesliga and won a worldcup as an under16 in china in 1985. He was part of that team. You are the one talking out your your sorry ass and a goat. This former player sees the obvious deficiencies in this team and is more than qualifies to state his opinion and critic. Am not sure what you have accomplished but am certain its not much as you should have educated your illiterate grey matter before insulting him. Anyone that knows football and can see this team is severely lacking in technical skills and will be blown out by a competent African team eg ivory coast. This team needs some quality infusion of competent professionals.

@gator well spoken...

I have thought about it, we need our foreign based players, especially for the international exposures, which means, they have gained better technical experience and the kinds of pressures that home lads lacked. It is also true that does who plays outside Nigeria, where the best in our domestic league before they became international players, and if we must use our best, we need our foreign based. What we lacked was continuous recruitment of the best domestic players and gradually introduce them to the national team, and constantly scouting for quality players that will compliment our foreign based players and that will replace our aging internationals as they bow out of the national team. Quality matters, and tasted quality matters in wars, and that's where our foreign based players experiences, skills and exposure will be an invaluable assets to our national team. Akpoborie is taking sense, and I agree totally with him. But whether local or international, we need only committed patriots.

I have thought about it, we need our foreign based players, especially for their international exposures, which means, they have gained better technical experience and able to withstand the kinds of pressures that home lads lacked. It is also true that those who plays outside football outside Nigeria were the best in our domestic league before they became foreign based players, and if we must use our best, we need our foreign based players. What we lacked in our national team was continuous recruitment of the best domestic players and their gradual introduction to the national team. We need to constantly scout for quality players that will compliment our foreign based players and that will replace our aging internationals as they gradually bow out of our national team. Quality matters, and tasted quality matters in wars, and that's where our foreign based player's experiences, skills and exposure will be an invaluable assets to our national team- An intimidation and psychological factor against our opponents in Africa and confidence in the international arena. Akpoborie is taking sense, and I agree totally with him. But whether local or international, we need only committed patriots in our national team.

I have thought about it, we need our foreign based players, especially for their international exposures, which means, they have gained better technical experience and able to withstand the kinds of pressures that home lads lacked. It is also true that those who plays football outside Nigeria were the very best in our domestic league before they became foreign based players internationals, and if we must use our best, we need our foreign based players. What we lacked in our national team was continuous recruitment of the best domestic players and their gradual introduction to the national team. We need to constantly scout for quality players that will compliment our foreign based players and that will replace our aging internationals as they gradually bow out of our national team. Quality matters, and tasted quality matters in wars, and that's where our foreign based player's experiences, skills and exposure will be an invaluable assets to our national team- An intimidation and psychological factor against our opponents in Africa and insulated self-confidence in the international arena which the boys from players at Ibadan, Aba and kano lacked. But whether local or international, we need only committed patriots in our national team.

The Honest truth is that when you discover a new player from the local league, he becomes a foreign based in no time, what then? Example: Ezeonyi is being pricd by sivaspor of Turkey same way Ekigho left and became out of favour! so funny we use National team to sell players and pick crap rsult on the way! by the way Nigeria has ver Good agnts that can sell thse players without them playing for the National team, a player like Emenike would score 45goals if brought to Nigerian league now as I write! Funny........@Gator thanks for being objective, some people in this forum only know the phrase 'Home Based' not knowing that most of them are at the bridge of becoming foreign pros! A word they say is enough for the wise! I wouldn't leave out Champions league players like 'Emenike(Spartak), Brown(Kyiv), Rabiu (Celtic), Mikel (Chelsea), Obi(Inter) any day because it takes guts to play in these teams whether starting or not...People say bench warmers 'yes' a bench warmer in a Big team is better than a regular pro in small teams, check these stats: Dos Santos(Mexique/Totenham) Romaric(CIV/Sev) Chicharito(Mexique/Man Utd), Jordan Ayew(Mars/Ghana) e.t.c

@gator:

I like your choice of words. Well said! Only a fool will be impressed with the kind of Super eagles Keshi has dished out these past months. We didn't have it like this in the era of the Generalisimo Westerhof-- The man with the best record of unearthing home based stars.

Time and nature will find Keshi out. We the apostles of Siaone are still watching.


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Jonathan Akpoborie ,,good observation ,,but some guys just don,t want to hear the truth here on KON COMEDY SITE,,
the team lack technical football their style of play is so boring

and i do hope keshi we listen to you

no doubt keshi is doing a marvelous job but he need to step up is ability to read and understand the game more professionally

well wish him all the best
no hard feeling
na my mind i say ooh

Akpoborie talks too much. Why single out home-based players for not-so-impressive performance? Why did he not simply say that SE did not live up to expectation in the qualifying matches? I am not for home based or foreign based, I just think that the home lads are willing tools for a coach who has the technical and tactical ability to work with over a long period of time and turn to goldmine. It may take several months. It does not stop foreign lads from being invited at the time. Obuh's and Siasia's U20 teams were composed of home players and they played the best football in recent times dumping players from better organised leagues of the world.

One question I have for Akpoborie is this: what happened during the ANC 2012 qualifier where we had the bulk of foreign based players, created several chances and our world stars spurned them all. Even in the ongoing qualifiers, the attack was made up of foreign based players mostly, how many goals were scored? Let's not be biased. The team has not gelled but it is not because of home lads alone. Let September come and let's recall the Obasi, Nsofor, Adeleye (who all have dismal seasons), if the coaches do not impact the right technicalities into them and get the team formation right, we will still be having the crappy type of play.

@segun, i think you misunderstood Jonathan's statement. He stated "I did not see the hunger in them that we say is missing from the foreign-based players." As you can see, his statement proposes to state that the hunger is missing in Local and foreign based players. Now who is at fault for not having "hungry" players in the national team? I say the head coach. This coach has taken it upon himself to start from scratch instead of building upon what was improving in a free flowing football with only defence as its weakest link in the chain. Now the goals are hard to get with no coordination in the team. It seems to me that mr keshi is lacking in modern football technics and strategy compared to siasia. And if my memory serves, keshi is similar to chukwu in lacking progressive attacking football. The only difference is keshi is utilizing local inexperieced and lacking technical skills and chukwu using old tired legs. For a country as Nigeria with the most population in Africa, its a shame the administration of football is in such a deplorable state which includes the NFF, trainers, coaches, and the sports minister reneauging on a gentlemans agreement with Mr Sainfet. Now they want to recycle one of their cronies. Unbelievable!!!

Akpoborie you self disappoint me so much at your playing time. i never forget it,every body will be hearing that Jonathan Akpoborie score halt tricks he core this that in bundesliga, but when bonfere joe will invite him in the super eagles i will be expecting a big weekend from him but its always flops thanks to good players that we have then,domestic players are doing well its upto the coach to be tactical sound, after all zambia won the last nations cup with domestic players only

Big Jo,u hv personally told me u dont think a Nigerian can handle d Eagles,I disagree that was 2010,the likes if Obaobona,Egweke,Uzoenyi,Reuben ean stand against any African opposition,the coach will invite more Pros but he has a new pool to choose from,the Big Boss has done well,now nobody can do shakara for us,levels don change

I agree with you @gator. Can someone tell me whay is the point of all this rebuilding? It is not as if thunder has struck all the good players we have used in the past 2 to 3 years ...God forbid. All Keshi had to do is introduce some new players in the area of weakness, for example, defence. He needs to introduce new players one at a ttome

What I meant to say in my last comment is that, the coach only needs to introduce one or two new players every in subsequent matches . There is no need to make wholesale changes for the sake of continuity. I have been watching the European championship and i see the zeal in the players, the way go for tackles you never thought they could win, retrieve balls that some players would have given up as a lost cause and i habe come to the conclusion that great coaches bring out the best in their players. In my opinion, Keshi is not the messiah we are looking for

@kola, us
Time will tell, I might turn arround and tell you in a couple of months time that you were right or that "did I not tell you". My gut feeling is that keshi is not technically sound enough for this job - I hope he proves me wrong.

Akpoborie is asking for a return of the foreign based players when the eagles are to play the bigger teams, was it not the foeign based platers we used when we had problems, people tend to forget the past so easily is he thinking once those players return they we will have a world class team? we all know the home based players are not fully baked so we don't expect them to play today like they will beat spain, we are just building them, they are still in d process of building unlike d foreign based that are already finished for example at Yakubu age i dont expect him now to do anything he hasnt done before, we will not improve now this applies to the others

What is this flop talking about? Why should we bring back the same players who have consistently failed us in the past? Another foolish Jonathan

Finally someone with sense speaks. I've always followed Jonathan's analysis and he is one person who is bold enuff to say this Keshi's teams is chambolic. And if the two were placed at far as regards football success, Jonathan is miles ahead of keshi. The Germans killed his career when he was sued or jailed for allowing his vessel to be used for child trafficking. I Think he is how most achieved player to ever play on the german turf, even ahead of Oliseh, Agali and Kariibe Ojigwe.

Nuff said, let keshi keep being delusional that this home lads can take use to glory ..

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@Kola did you know tha Yobo was once a striker? and it only means that Nigeria was able to score from corner kicks, and Yobo is a part of the team, the same way John terry would score for Chelsea. Dele Ayenugba was being used becos enyama had dropped on form and we saw how that made us concede a late goal in Malawi. I remember Eminike scored under siasia, Ehiosun scored 3 goals, Musa scored, Peter Utaka Scored, Osaze sccored, Nsofor scrored, so it wast just ike uche. Let me also state is clear that siasia has alwys been an admirer of ike uche and thats why he knows how well to use him.

Just before the Olympics, sia1 invited >> Ike uche, Enyama, Shittu, Osaze and one other player i cant remember as these were our best legs in the super eagles at that time. Only Osaze Made it.

For a team that was scoring so well just last year to be struggling to score now, dont you think theres a problem. Truly i agree that keshi should have just held on to that team afterall its called super eagles of Nigeria and not of siasia, But Keshi wants to kiss ass and prove ppl right that the home lads can do it. These same boys that cant beat egypt thats Central Africa beat 3-2. u want to compare Ruben Gabriel you yaya toure, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?