Great performance from the BlackStars with that final Atsu goal a worthy World Cup clincher. Plans for Copacabana beach from Accra to Kumasi and by proxies in Nairobi are well underway!!

Missed the Ghana game. England scraping through!!!

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There werent any good teams in Naija's qualifying group: Kenya, Malawi, Namibia....
Aagain being crowned African champions has nothing to do with this. I never said Naija had an easy time becoming African champions.

Why do you keep bringing up the Africa nations cup when it has absolutely nothing to do with qualifying ?

Go back to my original post and you will see that I was talking about the qualifiers. This has nothing to do with Africa cup.

Of all the teams that will qualify from Africa, Naija's path has been the easiest. The highest ranked team they played was Ethiopia which is ranked #93 by FIFA.

All the teams in naija's qualifying group( Kenya, malawi, Namibia) are very low in the FIFA rankings. Kenya is actually the highest at number 118 in the FIFA rankings. Talk about an easy qualifying group.



Ethiopia are not weak. But ask any Nigerian which of the 7 teams they would have liked to meet in the playoffs and the unanimous answer would have been Ethiopia.

Of all the playoff teams, Ethiopia have the lowest FIFA rankings. And Ethiopia have weaknesses which Naija is in prime position to capitalize on, namely that they are slow and they are weak. Its a very favourable matchup for Naija because Nigerians are fast.



If you follow African football, you will know that the reason reffing is poor is not because referees are incompetent. It is because referees arrive with a fixed mind and many are bribed. There is a lot of corruption in African football and it would not shock me if CAF is giving Naija a helping hand. I cant say for sure. But to deny it outright is to be naive.

When Naija played Kenya in 2009, it was blatantly obvious that the ref was helping Naija. It became so bad that fans started throwing objects onto the field.

And I am not singling out Naija. Please do not put words in my mouth. In fact my point is that corrupt referees are so common. From what I am reading, even Burkina Faso were helped by this ref this past week. The ref allowed a phantom goal against Algeria.

Also you should know that Naija football is by far the most corrupt in Africa. Their league is so corrupt that sometimes its impossible for any team to win a match away from home. And recently, there were some teams that scored 79 goals and 67 goals respectively.

And Naija often use dirty tactics like frustrating visiting teams the way they did against Kenya this year. Even despite not giving Kenya a training ground, CAF did not sanction them. Given all this, it will not shock me if Naija are up to something.

We African hate ourselves. Obsessed with everything imported ; men coaches food religion mitumba hata airports

My brother in soccer, I disagree with you on seeding. The groups were created back in 2011 using the July 2011 ranking. Rankings change every month. If you talk of easy groups, what's your say in groups B and E? Seeding is dictated by Fifa ranking the rest is a matter of randomness. Nobody influences who plays who it's a game of chance. Turn your TV on when the grouping will be done for next years world cup! Right now it's obvious Croatia, Portugal, Greece and Sweden can not meet another in the play-offs neither can France, Ukraine, Romania and Iceland. This because those groups fall in the same pot as dictated by this month's FIFA ranking. Same was done for Africa during play-offs. Who meets who in the other pots is a matter of random process. Mambo na ref, ni personal opinion. U r just against ogas full stop.

Airfrares expected to be astronomical during worldcup


"... June 12 return flights from Rio to Sao Paulo, which will stage the opening match that day, will cost 2393 reais ($1155).

"That's more expensive than going to Curacao in the Caribbean (1,900 reais) or Buenos Aires (900 reais) and a little less than the price of a return to New York or Paris,'' said Folha.

It is also some 10 times the normal fare of around 250 reais.

Folha added it had uncovered some flights costing 2,923 reais - a 1311 per cent hike on a normal return.

I think McReggae has acute difficulty understanding what I write. Once again you have completely misunderstood what I said.

I said that of all the teams left in the final round of qualifying, Ethiopia is the weakest.
And since you guys like talking about FIFA ranking, also note that of all the remaining teams in the playoffs, Ethiopia has the lowest FIFA rankings.

So Naija have gone from playing in the easiest qualifying group (based on FIFA rankings) to playing against the weakest team in the playoffs.


In fact Naija is the only country that will go through the qualifiers having never played against a team ranked higher than 93

Thats either luck or its corruption at work. Either is possible.

Again I say, those who think random fairness exist in African football are naive.

sasa mitumba mekufanya nini? kwani the new H&M or Gap clothes are made by africans.
anyway, most african coaches do not understand the basic formations and formal aspects of the game - the reason our oga brothers or their neighbours might do well with local coaches is due to the fact that most of their players are professionals with the leading foreign coaches at their clubs.

France beaten 2:nil. away