posted Feb 7, 2008

"Lets live Vogts alone and please find a lasting solution to our problems."

Innocentagbodike
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I really can't understand some Naija's!
What are the problems we are meant to be finding solutions to, if Vogts is not a part?

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posted Feb 8, 2008

Nigeria lost because their players are simply not good enough to win !! Accept it and move on. Sack the coach, make any changes you like. If the players are not good enough you are not going to get anywhere. Another coach will not be able to wave a magic wand and make his players suddenly a world force again. He might be able to squeeze a little more out of the players through motivation and belief but they will ultimately fail because they are just not as good as Egypt, Cameroon or Ivory Coast. Notice I left Ghana out. They are the most overhyped over inflated bunch of losers since the last England team.

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posted Feb 10, 2008

Please let Berti Vogts go!!! Let him go because he lacks character and credibility he is irresponsibility personified.
I watched the post match interview When Nigeria lost to Ghana and I discovered that the man thinks that we are truly monkeys as Germans have always thought blacks to be in their country. The average person from is country is a racist so why should he be different anyway?. The man does not like the people he is working for so how can he be passionate about his coaching job? When he has clearly made us to know that our country isn’t good enough for him to live in but our money is very good for him to be spent. He remains the only coach who does his job from his country (contempt). Does a banker work from home? Does a teacher teach from home? Then why are deceiving ourselves?
Let me state here that since the man has been too blind to see that he is the one that failed and not the players, there will not be a possibility for his improvement in the next 100 hundred years. Berti vogts has nothing at stake in this matter because whether we make it or not he will get his pay.
He was sacked from his last job so, why did we go for a failure. He isn’t a failure because we didn’t win, he is a failure because he is a blind leader and a blind Leader has nothing to offer anybody including himself.
When I see a successful and intelligent mind I easily recognize him in the case however, permit me to say that he is not one.

He has also gone ahead to call Nigerians names and has absorbed himself of blame in the woeful performance of the Super eagles.
Like Fasehun rightly said, the man has taken us back ten years.
Let us give Westerhoof, Stephen Keshi and Eguavoen another chance. Westerhoof loves the people of this country he is now a Nigerian to the core he feels our pain, when we win he is happy when we lose he feels our pain too. We should not just work with a man who we think knows the job but has no passion, but the one that has genuine love for us and the job.
Let’s take heed world cup is around the corner again! Lest, we face another global humiliation
Let us remember, better teams now are getting even better before the world cup. What battle will a man that has lost his fight at home fight on the global scene? If he keeps maintaining the status quo


Thanks
P. I. U
Lagos

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posted Feb 11, 2008

Dear P.I.U.

I feel your pains and its true the man Vogts lacks any iota of honour.Tactically,he is very deficient also. But truth sadly enough, is that i wont be surprised if the man is not sacked eventually despite the overwhelming plea for his sack. It is so glaring there is more to his contract than it meets the ordinary eyes. Some powerful people would most likely
be affected negatively if he gets sacked and millions of Nigerian football lovers better suffer than these few people suffer.That has been the bane of my Fatherland. Interests and aspirations of a very few overiding the interests and welfare of majority. God is watching!

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posted Feb 11, 2008

Good coaches are difficult to find, so even Leroy has been resigned by Ghana.

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“We need to build and not sack our coach anytime we fail to win something. How many coaches have we had in the last six years? From Bonfrere to Amodu and then Onigbinde, Chukwu and Eguavoen, so there really can be no development,” (Ahman) Abdulrahman said.

(more at this link)

- http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=02/11/2008&qrTitle=%E2%80%98Vogts,%20not%20Super%20Eagles%E2%80%99%20problem%E2%80%99&qrColumn=SPORTS

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posted Feb 12, 2008

"PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been urged to declare a state of emergency in Nigerian sports as a matter of urgency, especially in football, if the country would be represented at the next World Cup in South Africa in 2010."

- http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sports/article01//indexn3_html?pdate=120208&ptitle=Kojo-Williams%20calls%20for%20state%20of%20emergency%20in%20sports&cpdate=120208

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I was wary when I heard Vogts was hired but I figured optimistically, maybe this time around he could have some success.

All I can say, is Nigeria still lost to two good teams, one the host, the other the favourite of the tournament.

The NFA should be discussing this in length with him.

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Here is one more story of interest:

"(Muyiwa) Oladokun died in Accra on February 4, a day after Nigeria's exit, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He died of severe brain damage induced by hypertension, according to medical reports."

- http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sports/article11//indexn3_html?pdate=110208&ptitle=Oladokun's%20corpse%20arrives%20Lagos&cpdate=110208

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posted Feb 12, 2008

I earnestly believe that Vogts will go and when he does, we can now pray that there will be a total overhauling of the sports ministry. We keep going back to the drawing board! When are we going to start building what we have been drawing for ages? The main challenge here is that we keep appointing old, unproductive and greedy fellows who have nothing to offer this vibrant generation of intelligent thinkers and doers to head NFA. The only way forward here is to either appoint a focused and disciplined female (the likes of Dr Dora Akiunyili) to sanitize the NFA or appoint a young man like Nuhu Ribadu; one that has the language and mind set of change because all we need is change. I am vehemently calling for a total disbandment of the present NFA. This might sound unrealistic but just the way EFCC surfaced unexpectedly; I believe something will soon happen. I am very optimistic and sure it will happen! And when it does, you will remember me!

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posted Feb 15, 2008

You are a Nigerian indeed! Twisted mind-set Open your eyes and look can’t you see that there won’t be a future for your football if you all pretend all is well. All is not well with your football association at all.
Don’t be myopic boy! Deal with the troubles now!
Wake up!

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posted Feb 15, 2008

YOU DON'T LEARN HOW TO DRIVE ON A SUPER HIGHWAY!
IF YOU DO, YOU'LL BE CRUSHED!!!!!!!!
SO, YOU CAN'T HIRE A COACH TO BUILD HIM.
YOU HIRE A COACH TO BUILD YOUR TEAM!
GET IT STRAIGHT.

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posted Feb 15, 2008

tricia2005
I can only agree with your comments. I believe Berti Vogts should go because any coach who can't notice the kind of talents he has at his disposal and use them, has nothing to offer.

In 2005, John Mikel Obi and Taiwo were in a team that lost to Argentina in a final after a fantastic performance in the U20 world cup. In 2007 our U17 national team won the U17 world cup. Both of these teams had 22 players and only 2 of them made it to the nations cup team. That is wrong and that coach should be fired.

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