Keshi urges NFF to move for Sam

He will surely play for naija buh it wunt be in afcon 2013. The future of our beloved team is very bright wit the calibre of young players dat we hv in our ranks now. The likes of sam sidney,ahmed musa,nosa igiebor, victor moses,kenneth omeruo,ezekiel imoh,efe ambrose, haruna lukman,obiora nwankwo,joel obi,ogenyi onazi etc just to mention a few. Naija is blessed

Good idea

Please guys update us on Golden Eaglet and Mali,thanks

As at the 57TH minute
Nigeria leads Mali by 1 goal to nil.
from
http://www.futbol24.com/team/CAF/Nigeria-U17/

Coache

It's full time, Mali 0 - Nigeria 2

Thanks guys.

Culled from MTN Football-
Nigeria Golden Eaglets braved all the odds to qualify for next year’s African Junior Championship after a superb 2-0 win in Mali on Sunday.

The Eaglets thus qualified for the final tournament in Morocco in April on a 4-0 aggregate.

Highly-rated striker Isaac Success opened scoring for the visiting Nigerians against their more physically imposing Malian opponents in Bamako in the first half, before Bernard Bulbwa made the game safe in the second half.

Despite the burning heat in Mali and very harsh officiating the Eaglets held out to qualify for Morocco 2013 in fine style.

The Eaglets scored a first goal which was disallowed but after the game even the local fans came out to celebrate with them.

They scored a staggering 21 goals and conceded only a goal in matches against Niger, Guinea and Mali to make it to the eight-nation tournament in Morocco next year.

The three-time world champions have failed to qualify for the last two editions of the African Junior championships.

NFF should do their job without excuses. First they should have started this long ago. Come to think about it, I suggest there should be a department in the NFF whose mean priority should be working with the couches to identify potential Nigerian players at every stage of Eagles (both for the present and future), then move swiftly to secure these players for the country. Fix all the paper work far in advance. Off course this will be after contacting the player. Understand that this is not a license to the player, or an open invitation to any camp. Rather, it serves as the boys scout motor \"Be Prepared\", should we decide to eventually call up this player.

While some might think this idea would discourage our foreign players from swapping allegiance, they must realize that a lot of our foreign based players hope to future in the Super Eagles team, being increasingly aware that they may eventually be used and dumped by these foreign countries. The advantage to us is that we would have abundant choice of players at our disposal. This would further keep every single player on their toe when eventually invited.

Question is why won't the NFF think of short and long team plans? Will the monetary value/expense of practicalize this be commensurate to the risk of abandoning our best players? In overall, what do we lose by giving this a trial?

NFF should do their job without excuses. First they should have started this long ago. Come to think about it, I suggest there should be a department in the NFF whose mean priority should be working with the couches to identify potential Nigerian players at every stage of Eagles (both for the present and future), then move swiftly to secure these players for the country. Fix all the paper work far in advance. Off course this will be after contacting the player. Understand that this is not a license to the player, or an open invitation to any camp. Rather, it serves as the boys scout motor \"Be Prepared\", should we decide to eventually call up this player.

While some might think this idea would discourage our foreign players from switching international allegiance, they must realize that a lot of our foreign based players hope to future in the Super Eagles team, being increasingly aware that they may eventually be used and dumped by these foreign countries. The advantage to us is that we would have abundant choice of players at our disposal. This would further keep every single player on their toe when eventually invited.

Question is why won't the NFF think of short and long team plans? Will the monetary value/expense of practicalize this be commensurate to the risk of abandoning our best players? In overall, what do we lose by giving this a trial?

Sorry guys, the word \"swapping\" in my first post was corrected in my second post. Please read second paragragh of second posting.

These are panic buttons. Head hunting players who have never set foot in Nigeria. Scared???

Well done Keshi. I was actually wondering why would the NFF tell the world that they are Not expecting Fifa to clear Sidney Sam till after the Nations Cup. Bbc were so happy to report it as if Nigeria has given up on the player. We want the NFF to do their job, cross every t and dot every I. If Fifa approves the petition before the Afcon,Great. But if they dont, we will make do with what we have. We should not start off with a defeatist attitude. Slyman

@ Anonymous, the Europeans who secure our Nigerian players, future them for less than a minute in just a game, thereby ruining their international carrier for ever do not actually hate these players. They are just looking out for themselves should the need arise. They want all options on their table and their table alone. Afterwards, they find what seems equally as good or better option to them at that moment and they go for it. This is no rocket science, it is being proactive. Remember, "self-first is not selfishness\".

My last post was directed to Mr. Anonymous who didn't present his name or user I.d.

Stanslinks, I like your idea of being pro active. But I am sorry to say, I dont see how this can work. The reason is simple, players will not want to process the change of allegiance paper work with Fifa unless they are sure they won't have a chance with the European country. Only few, like Victor Anichebe chose Nigeria first not caring if England thought he was good enough. A lot of them are like Nedum and Ameobi who would rather wait till they have no chance with their European first choice.

We need to keep winning, cos success attracts everybody. They will come home to us, iF we have our house in order. Slyman

NFF, Please, you can still do something. Keshi has politely told you,it is possible. Please push it. We need to win this cup.

keshi, we don't have to wait for the Celtics to play Rabiu Ibrahim week in and out before we can know how good he is. Sometimes, it becomes our responsibility to shore up our own who are not seeing enough action at the very 'competitive' Europe by inserting them in grade A actions just to beef up their confidence.

This is very true of immensely gifted players such as Rabiu Ibrahim. Thats what Westerhof did with you when it was obvious that your career was winding down. Yekini benefited from that too when things were not looking good for him at Olympiacos. Rabiu Ibrahim deserves this. The fact that he is in a big team such as Celtics, albeit on the bench, is a testament to the football pedigree that he possesses. Please, lets help this guy. He is the closest we have to making another Jay Jay Okocha.

Thank You.

\"Knowledge is like onyx. One digs deep to have it.\"

We don't need bench warmers in the eagles. Rabiu ibrahim and his agent shud do their best to resurrect his dwindling career. It shud be even betÀ for him to cm bck to our league Ínorder to be playing regular football again. My dream eagles midfield: mikel (defensive midfielder),haruna lukman (box to box midfielder) and nosa igiebor (attacking midfielder or free role midfielder)

Please read
http://allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=8429

@Futbol Aficionado, please before you make any remarks, try and do a little research through google on the facts. The link I posted above is the most recent news on Rabiu Ibrahim who was allowed to play 90 minutes against Scottish division 2 Abroath in the Scottish Cup last weekend and he disappointed.

The fact is, unlike most African countries, we have a lot of players who are playing regularly at their clubs. We also have a few young players like Onazi of Lazio who get games every 10- 14 days. But Rabius form continues to drop. So why do we need to to change the Super Eagles to rehab Eagles. Look at our good options right now

Defensive Midfield: Mikel, Obiora @ Padova, Reuben @ Pillars
Box to Box: Obi @ Inter, Lukman @ Dynamo Kiev, Lawal @ Dermispor, Turkey
Attacking Midfield: Igiebor @ Bêtis, Onazi@ Lazio, Aluko @ Hull

The last comment was from Slyman.

Also would like to add my only worry now is when the Super Eagles foreign based players are scheduled to join up with the crew for the Afcon prep. It has been reported that, the European based will start arriving camp on the 4th of January. Zambia is in Saudi Arabia preparing and they have a more blended team already. Why NFF?

Ukraine league is on winter break till March 1! NFF please check the European league time tables.
Almost all the major leagues are on holiday before Christmas, so why not ask the Euro based to fly out to Faro, Portugal with the rest of the crew on December 27. We can have over 20 professionals blending together till the English based can join them. Only the English League is in action through the holidays and according to Fifa they must release all their players to Afcon participants by 12 noon January 4, 2013.