2022 WAFU B U-17: Golden Eaglets Defeat Togo, Pick Semi-final Ticket

Thanks Brother Selfie but I have to disagree with you. Women’s football has gain humongous traction over the years so much so that the United States of America’s FA has equalised the wages of both the senior male and female national teams.

Ghana would have gone far in Women’s football if not for Nigeria’s meddling.

Nigeria stopped Ghana from lifting the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 3 times: 1998, 2002, 2006.

To add insult to injuries, Nigeria then stopped Ghana from participating in a whole 2 tournaments: the 2022 Afcon and the historic 2023 women’s world cup, the first to be hosted by 2 countries.

If the reverse were the case and Ghanaian women had been the ones to inflict this perpetual injuries on Nigerian women in international football, YOU, MY WONDERFUL MR SELFMADE KING WILL NEVER LET US HEAR THE LAST OF IT.

But because our women have been battering and bruising Ghanaian women over the years, to you, NOBODY CARES ABOUT WOMEN’S FOOTBALL.

How convenient!

Also, every footballer wants to be an Olympian. Lionel Messi fought Barcelona tooth and claw to attend the 2008 Olympics. After the senior men’s World Cup, the men’s Olympics (which incidentally parades 3 senior players) is next in profile after the senior men’s World Cup – fact.

Nigeria has Gold, Silver and Bronze whereas Ghana only has bronze – admittedly Ghana were the first African team to win an Olympic medal.

But you conveniently leave this out of your overall assessments because ‘Olympics is not a Fifa tournament’. That assessment is not acceptable. As you know, the Olympic games is the greatest sporting fiesta in the whole world, more higher in profile than the Fifa Senior Men’s World Cup.

So, there are 4 major global men’s football tournaments: Under 17, Under 20, Olympic and Senior Men’s football.

– Nigeria has won gold in 2 of them.
– Ghana has won gold in 2 of them.
– Overall though, Nigeria has won more gold, silver and bronze medals in all men’s football tournaments across age groups compared with Ghana : FACT!

In Fifa and CAF women’s competitions across all age groups, Nigeria has won more gold, more silver and overall more medals compared with Ghana – FACT!

In the senior men’s football, Nigeria has attended more Fifa World Cups and has reached the knockout phase more times than Ghana, fact!

In the men’s Afcon, Nigeria has accumulated 15 medals compared with Ghana’s 10.

So, Nigeria’s dominance over Ghana is statistically undeniable in men’s and women’s international football.

Selfmade, let’s face it, there is a reason why you come here to goad us Nigeria fans, it is simple : Nigeria is bigger and better than Ghana in international football across gender and across age groups, FACT!

We love you all the same, though. 🙂

If not for Nigeria, Ghana would do easily have been the most successful African country in international football. We have caused you to operate behind our shadow and you find it hard to stomach.

Just look at the past 12 months. Black Stars could not defeat the Super Eagles over two legs. Thanks to away goals rule you scaled through.

However, we beat your under 17 convincingly (no away goals) even in your own backyard, we beat your under 20 convincingly (no away goals), our women beat their wives convincingly across 2 legs (no away goals). All WITHIN just 12 months.

What does that tell you? we are better than Ghana in football. Simple.

Yes, head-to-head, the Black Stars were better than Nigeria historically, but from 1994, we started to turn the table. Since 1994, Nigeria and Ghana “A” teams (not all these CHAN or WAFU nonsense) have met 15 times. Nigeria has 5 wins, 7 draws and just 3 losses to Ghana in that period.

In fact, Ghana’s “A” Black Stars team has been unable to defeat Nigerias ‘A’ Super Eagles team since 2011. The matches have all ended in draws including the 2 most recent world cup qualifiers. We will rather draw than lose to Ghana, even if it means losing out on a technicality of away goals.

We are starting to reassert our dominant position vis a vis Ghana. The days (like in the 1950s,60s,70s and 80s) of just rolling down and dying to Ghana are effectively a thing of the past.

I congratulate Ghana for qualification to Qatar, have fun there. But, for the purpose of the history books, Ghana’s ‘A’ team are yet to defeat Nigeria’s A team since 2011.