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Friendly: Madugu Invites Nnadozie, Plumptre, 18 Others For France

Head Coach Justine Madugu has called up CAF Awards nominee, goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, defenders Osinachi Ohale and Ashleigh Plumptre, midfielders Christy Ucheibe and Jennifer Echegini, and forwards Gift Monday and Rinsola Babajide among a list of 20 players for Saturday’s international friendly match against the Les Bleues of France.

US-based defender Michelle Alozie, Turkey-based Oluwatosin Demehin, midfielder Adoo Yina and forwards Mercy Omokwo and Ifeoma Onumonu are also invited to the encounter scheduled for the Stade Raymond Kopa in the city of Angers, with kick-off set for 9.30pm France time.

Midfield lubricator Toni Payne, now with Everton Ladies in England, as well as Rofiat Imuran and Shukurat Oladipo – who both starred for the Falconets at the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia in September – will also fly to France for the big match.

Captain Rasheedat Ajibade, who is also a CAF Awards nominee, is out as a result of injury.

While the Bleues are happy to take the game as part of their preparations for the League of Nations in the spring and the 2025 UEFA Euro Women Championship in Switzerland in the summer, the Falcons will welcome the encounter as part of the process for blooding a new squad, as well as another test ahead of the 2025 Women Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco next summer.

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Already pitched with Tunisia, Algeria and Botswana in Group B of the Africa Cup final tournament, Madugu will be grateful for the stern test that the Les Bleues will provide for his nine-time African champions in Angers.

All the invited players will fly directly to France for the match, to be joined by the coaching crew and backroom staff.

Super Falcons Line-Up

Goalkeepers: Chiamaka Nnadozie (Paris FC, France); Anderline Mgbechi (Rivers Angels); Rachael Unachukwu (Nasarawa Amazons)

Defenders: Osinachi Ohale (Pachucha Club de Futbol, Mexico); Michelle Alozie (Houston Dash, USA); Ashleigh Plumptre (Ittihad Ladies, Saudi Arabia); Rofiat Imuran (London City Lioness, England); Sikiratu Isah (Nasarawa Amazons); Oluwatosin Demehin (Galatasaray Sportive, Turkey)

Midfielders: Jennifer Echegini (Paris Saint Germain, France); Toni Payne (Everton Ladies, England); Josephine Mathias (Nasarawa Amazons); Christy Ucheibe (SL Benfica, Portugal); Shukurat Oladipo (FC Robo Queens); Adoo Yina (Nasarawa Amazons)

Forwards: Blessing Nkor (Pyramids FC, Egypt); Gift Monday (Coasta Adeje Tenerife Egatesa (Spain); Ifeoma Onumonu (Montpellier FC, France); Omorinsola Babajide (Coasta Adeje Tenerife Egatesa (Spain); Mercy Omokwo (Bayelsa Queens)

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  • Wasiu 1 week ago

    Does this mean that Tochukwu Oluehi has retired?

  • Greenturf 1 week ago

    Someone with the name Tony [email protected] impersonating me!

  • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

    Nassarawa Amazons must be the next best thing to happen to Nigerian football.

  • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

    Pls someone should make traveling to a single header friendly match with 3 GKs in a 20 man squad make sense to me.

    Why is no one from Edo queens on this list…?

  • Greenturf 1 week ago

    Nasarawa Amazon must be a very good team.
    Meanwhile,midfield dynamo Deborah Abiodun’s name is missing how come,is she nursing an injury?

  • chuks haifa 1 week ago

    I just don’t get this our local coaches. No player from Edo queens, Delta Queens or Bayelsa Queens. I saw Nigerian players in TP Mazembe and FAR Morocco. I don’t know the criteria for inviting players to the national team these days. No more merit. Nigerian factor of fulani scoring 20% in Civil service test but hired over an Igbo man that scored 80%.

    • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

      Mercy Omokwo is from Bayelsa Queens…

      The Nigerian players you saw in TP Mazembe (Glory Edet) and ASFAR Morocco (Maureen Okpala) have both been previously invited to the Super Falcons. In fact, Edet was called up by this same coach Madugu for the WAFCON 2024 qualifier against Cape Verde. Let’s not overrate players simply they play outside Nigeria.

  • Pompei 1 week ago

    There better be a good reason for Deborah Abiodun”s exclusion.
    Plumptre should play a more offensive role. Her goal threat is wasted playing her at the back. Just my opinion. And where is that Edo Queens striker that grabbed a Hattrick against Algeria? Hmmm.

    • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

      “Goal threat” in Saudi Arabia? How many goals did she score in the almost a decade she played in the UK?! 

    • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

      “Goal threat” in Saudi Arabia? How many goals did she score in almost a decade of playing in England? Bro, with all due respect, we’re playing France not Kuwait…lol

      • Greenturf 1 week ago

        Does each of the french players have four heads?If you accord too much respect to an opponent,you allegedly admitting that you have lost even before a ball is kicked!!

        • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

          Did the players she couldn’t score against in England (even in the second division) have five heads? 

          Dude, PERSPECTIVE is always essential. Scoring goals in a backwater league in Saudi Arabia does not translate to “goal threat” at international level, when there’s a decade-long RECORD that indicates otherwise. Let her stick to what she has consistently excelled in at all levels.

  • Papafem 1 week ago

    Hmm… what a list indeed! It’s as though we’ve learned absolutely nothing from past failures. Someone once said one of the reasons Thomas Dennerby abandoned the Super Falcons job was the undue influence over player selection. I hear Randy Waldrum resisted this nonsense to a large extent, insisting on picking players based on merit. But now that a local coach is in charge, we’re back to square one: strange names with questionable criteria for their inclusion.

    Take a look at this list. Is this a national team or a marketing venture for Nasarawa Amazons? Why are there so many players from a single local club, a club which isn’t even the best in the league, while glaring talents like Ijamilusi from Edo Queens, a player who scored a fantastic goal against Algeria, and Essien, another Edo Queen player, who shone like a million stars in the recently concluded CAF Women’s Champions League, are nowhere to be found? What happened to Deborah Abiodun, arguably our most reliable defensive midfielder after Ayinde? Is she injured? Or Onyenezide, who showed promise against Algeria? Are we saying none of these players is good enough, yet Nasarawa Amazons suddenly dominate the squad?

    The lack of consistency is staggering. This coach is supposed to build on the team that beat Algeria convincingly over two legs just weeks ago. Instead, he’s throwing out a fresh blueprint and starting from scratch. Against France, one of the best teams in the world, aren’t we supposed to be consolidating and not experimenting with mass changes in personnel? What exactly is the plan here? To embarrass us again, as happened the last time we played a friendly in France against France? Back then, we lost 8-0, a humiliation that only Dennerby’s reorganization saved us from when we played France against in the group stage of the 2019 FIFA WWC.

    Shouldn’t this NFF know that this isn’t the time for experiments or local politics, with Super Falcons transitioning to a new era in their history? Friendly or not, matches like this are crucial for maintaining the team’s credibility and momentum. Sadly, the list reeks of horrible imbalance blatant favoritism. If history repeats itself, as it likely will, no one should act surprised. We keep setting ourselves up for failure, then wondering why we never progress. It’s the same script, different cast.

    • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

      Dennerby was the coach when we were trounced and humiliated 0-8 by France…Perhaps he should’ve applied his fabled “reorganization” then. SMH

      • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

        Continue biting everyone like a rabied dog, defending the indefensible…LMAOoo.

        Dennerby should have applied reorganization to a hurriedly assembled team that hadnt been together for almost 2 years and he as a coach was meeting for the first time….?!

        Whoever gave you any hint that you are a realist needs to go beg God for forgiveness…..LMAOoo

      • Papafem 1 week ago

        @9jarealist, let’s set the record straight: that infamous 8-0 drubbing by France happened during Dennerby’s first or second game in charge of the Super Falcons. Yes, it was an embarrassing start, but context matters. The team he inherited was a disjointed mess, and turning them into a competitive force required time. By the time the World Cup rolled around, Dennerby had transformed the squad into a well-drilled unit, and France—on their home soil, with their A-team—barely scraped past us in a nerve-wracking encounter. That’s what competent coaching and proper team-building look like.

        Now compare that to what we’re seeing from Madugu. This is a friendly against one of the best teams in the world, in front of their home fans, with France bringing their full-strength squad. Yet, here we are, presenting a diluted team with questionable selections. Madugu’s list raises more questions than it answers. Why the sudden overhaul after a decent showing against Algeria? How does anyone justify inviting an experimental lineup against a juggernaut like France?

        France knows the importance of a home game, even if it’s a friendly, and they’ve come prepared to impress their fans. Meanwhile, we’re out here making questionable decisions, as if this game is some backyard kickabout. This is exactly why local coaches often find themselves under scrutiny of people like us who ate never their fans. Instead of building on the progress made by their predecessors, they complicate things with politics, bias, and experiments that don’t make any sense.

        Madugu’s approach feels like he’s gambling with the team’s reputation. Perhaps someone should tell him that he simply doesn’t have any excuse if this game turns into another lopsided affair like the 8-0 loss back then. France isn’t coming to play nice, and we shouldn’t either.

        It’s hard to remain optimistic when decisions like these make it feel like we’re stuck in a loop of mediocrity. But fingers crossed—maybe Madugu has a magic trick up his sleeve. Otherwise, history is poised to repeat itself, and not in a good way.

        • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

          Talking about context. That friendly match against France was the first time that team was coming together for any reason after the 2016 AWCON.

          If my memory serves me right, the team was in tatters right after that AWCON with lots of infighting, non payment of bonuses, poor reception after returning home. The players even went on the streets to protest.

          The team was in limbo up till sometime in march 2018 when we suddenly heard a friendly has been arranged against France.

          Infact here is an excerpt from Daily Times.
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          “….Despite not having a coach at the moment Nigeria’s Super Falcons will play France in a friendly on 4 April in Paris. The African Champions are still searching for a coach after American Randy Waldrum rejected the opportunity to lead the team last month.

          April’s match for the Super Falcons will be their first since winning the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in December 2016.

          “We have signed a contract for a friendly match with the women’s national team of France for 4th April 2018 in Paris,” Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick confirmed in a statement.

          The match should prove a good test for the Super Falcons after France beat Ghana 8-0 in an October friendly.

          Pinnick also revealed that the NFF will announce a permanent manager in a ‘few weeks’ to succeed Florence Omagbemi in the role.

          “It is unfortunate that the coach (Randy Waldrum) we had contacted and approved for the Super Falcons’ job opted for something else before the contract was signed, but that is water under the bridge and we have moved on,” said Pinnick.

          “In a few weeks, we will unveil a highly qualified Coach for the team and we will then take it from there…..”
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          This is the comatose team that real lunatic wants a new coach to bring reorganization to in his very first meeting with the squad….LMAOoo….against a team like France that was going to be hosting the world cup the following year….LMAOoo

        • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

          @PAPAFEM, point is that you made it seem that Dennerby was NOT the coach for the 0-8 “humiliation” which probably set the RECORD for the GREATEST-EVER LOSS suffered by the Falcons in a friendly game (but then again our Oyinbo coaches seem to love to set records – such as Waldrum’s SIX/SEVEN CONSECUTIVE LOSSES…LOL!), and only his fabled “reorganization” saved us from a similar humiliation more than a year later, when he actually PRESIDED over said “humiliation” (and frankly with a squad that’d played together for years).

          PS: BTW, interesting how the fact that he’d only been at the job for about 4 months (appointed in January 2018) and had not previously coached the team would seem relevant and accord “context” to the HUMILIATION he presided over, but when another coach who had similarly never coached the team was hurriedly brought on board (ironically following Dennerby’s abscondment) with about 2 weeks to Olympic qualifiers and the team fell only on away goals rule, he was black- (no pun intended) listed by some CS forum numpties for eternity. SMH

        • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

          9jarealLunatic says does not want us to blacklist a coach who has failed to qualify for the Olympics twice and has got booted out of U20 WC right after the group stage 3 times in a row…..LMAOooo

          For someone who just talked about ‘perspectives’ in capital letters up there,

          He wants to equate Dennerby taking over a team, meeting them for the 1st time ever (nearly 18 months after the team last assembled) to go face a top 3 side in the world……with a serial failure former coach of the team (who had prosecuted the previous failed Olympics qualifying campaign in 2015 and was the incumbent falconets coach which had a number of falcons players) taking over the team just 2 weeks after they played their last qualifier game, ahead of facing a team that was barely in the top 70 in the world at the time.

          What a dumb way to put things in perspective…..LMAOooo

          You can see all see madness written all over him in capital letters.

          • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

            More Agbero WitchDOCTOR gibberish….LMAOOOO

          • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

            Hahahaha…..realLunatic has ran out of more imbecilic, Illogical and thrashy “perspectives” to drop on our doorsteps….LMAOoo

    • Some players have been setup to “fail’ so that in subsequent matches, full “home based” solutions might be involved. Glasshouse thinks we’re still in the 2000s. Anyway, it’s their business. I will not speak on their failing and crumbling plans for falcons again.

      We will get it right in soccer again, even though other African countries (thinking global progress is too far) would have since eclipsed us by then when senses return.

  • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

    Not a bad list, but…

    Presumably, Deborah Abiodun is unavailable for this game for some reason (aware she was exhausted and injured for a while post-Olympics) because she otherwise is key to the future Super Falcons that we should be starting to build from this post-WC and post-Olympics cycle. Meanwhile, while I assume there is probably a mandate to include some home-based players (which generally is not a bad policy, but IMHO not for this particular France game), I personally still would’ve found a spot for Esther Onyenezide (and arguably Suliat Abideen) instead of Josephine Matthias or Yina Adoo.

    Again, I presume that Edo Queens players were deliberately left out (perhaps to rest after the exertions of the WAFU B, Betty Obaseki and CAF CL competitions, which means they had little or no off-season break this year), otherwise I would personally have tabbed Ijamulisi and Essien over Blessing Nkor (an ex-U20 Falconet, but whom IMHO is not Super Falcons’ quality and only seem to be benefiting from playing abroad). In fact, instead of Nkor, would’ve have personally called up someone like Joy Omewa (another ex-U20 Falconet) who led the Danish Super League in scoring this season.

    • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

      So after biting everyone for airing practically the same sentiments, what have you insinuated differently from others with this heap of verbosity….LMAOoo

      I can see how difficult you are finding defending these latest actions of your local god….LMAOoo

      • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

        WitchDOCTOR DREY, I see you’re still in the habit of spewing gibberish….A real job and a real life outside of CS forum might be helpful (albeit doubtful)….LMAO!

        • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

          You that has a real job and life outside CSN, how has it helped you to stop being a rabied dog that bites everyone only to come and vomit practically the same things they’ve said…..LMAOooo.

          If not an ego-crazed person with real mental problems, who attacks people for raising the same reservations he has…??? LMAOooo

          • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

            I long ago realized that logic and even basic comprehension is not on the Babalawo School curriculum…LMAO 

            This is a PUBLIC DISCUSSION forum (emphasis added), not an echo chamber. For your edification, the way a public discussion forum functions is that the PUBLIC you voluntarily address (or otherwise share your opinions with) has the unfettered right to DISCUSS (and even to DISAGREE) with you. 

            It merely betrays your CRUDE PERSONAL UPBRINGING that you’re always the first person to introduce personal insults and ad hominem attacks into discussions on the forum. Unfortunately, you jerked yourself off until you finally met someone that have put your driveling low self-esteemed Agbero arse where it firmly belongs. LMAOO..

          • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

            Hahahaha…quite fortunately, the garbage you just dropped is actually speaking back to you.

            Your biting people around for expressing their views on a PUBLIC FORUM, where in your own words people voluntarily address and share opinions with unfettered right to DISCUSS, only to come back and re-express the same reservations already gives you out as nothing but a tout with real mental problems.

            For someone who talks about LOGIC, please explain the LOGIC in that to the rest of the world….LMAOoo

            It shows you are too mentally unstable to comprehend basic conversations. And like I said before, whoever in this life has given you an impression of being a realist needs to go beg your creator for forgiveness…..LMAOoo

            If regurgitating what you are biting others for is putting my arse where it belongs, I agree with you. You have surely put my arse where it belongs, heads and shoulders above you.

          • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

            LMAO at our resident WitchDOCTOR….

            Dude, the fact that you hinge your worth, self-esteem and validation on purportedly being “heads and shoulders above” (as if) anonymous pseudonyms on an Internet forum is a sad self-commentary on your innate LOW SELF-ESTEEM (let’s not forget INFERIORITY COMPLEX…LOL!). Those who lack a real life and/or accomplishments in real life seek to compensate on the Internet. Explains why you’re camped here virtually 24-7 (and I bet you’re probably a short dude as well….LMAOOO)!

            Watch me now LEAVE you here and go enjoy real-life. LOL!!

          • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

            Why is real9jaLunatic who is so “superiorly complexed” on mediocrity and failure sounding like that child who is accusing his father of not closing his eyes during prayers….LMAOoo

            Lunatic say Dr.Drey is on CSN 24-7….LMAOoo. Someone should pls ask him how he got to know if he’s not also always on Csn 24-7….LMAOoo

            The one who claims to be accomished in real life idolizes a serial failure who has failed to qualify the super Falcons of Nigeria for the Olympics twice and been booted out right after the group stage of the u20 WC 3 times back to back….LMAOoo. Someone should pls make that make sense to us.

            If you had a settled life, you wouldn’t come on a public forum to bite everybody to raising their reservations only to come and re-press the same reservations….LMAOoo

            Common sense indeed is not common….LMAOoo.

            Yea you need to leave now and check straight into a mental asylum…LMAOoo

  • Is Justin Madugu’s Squad To Face France Strong Enough?

    Though I have never been a fan of Gotham City American born centre forward, it was reassuring to see that Coach Justin Madugu hasn’t made a mass clear-out of prayers favoured by the previous manager.

    This sense of continuity is most welcome.

    I haven’t always disliked her game. I just felt her deployment as a winger was the worst example of round peg in square hole under Randy Waldrum. Her strongest position is a centre forward where she shone like a million stars for the team.

    I had thought another player to be excluded was Houston Dash winger cum Super Falcons right fullback whose social media proficiency is not matched by her on-field productivity for the Super Falcons. Perhaps she will be a player re-born under Madugu.

    Rinsola, who scored in a recent league match, is a much welcome accoutrement. Fans are itching for her to come alight in the Super Falcons.

    This roster has an impressive curb appeal to be honest.

    You can’t go wrong with the intensities up front.

    The midfield has heavy-hitters who bring solidity to the proceedings. With a stellar backline, the defence is sturdy.

    It’s great to see fresh pair of hands complement Nnadozie in the goalie dept.

    All in all a solid set-up that can produce a powerhouse starting 11 and decent substitutes.

    Some exceptional players missed out on this occasion but they will get their chance.

    For now, it’s just to wait for how Coach J will blend this group into a cohesive unit capable of utilising physical/functional football to overcome a formidable foe.

  • I was thinking that I was the only person that have been seeing this Nasarawa (both men and women) clubs having players in the national teams for some time now. It good that people here are beginning to see that too.
    There must be someone within the NFF or an agent affiliated to that club that is pulling the show. Funny our so called sports blogs, newspapers are not picking this out (not surprised most of them are compromised).
    The NFF like self destruct button (out of greed) and will not be surprise they already place their hand on it, about to be pressed.
    Coaches like Madugu have no balls to tell NFF off (like Waldrum in players selection), he will always bow to their demands. I guess he really needs the job permanently and he will just flow along with NFF crooks.

    • Dr.Drey 1 week ago

      When asked if he goes round the country the monitor local league games, the Technical Director of the NFF say he often goes to lafia (obviously, Lafia is only 1 hr plus drive from Abuja) to watch Nassarawa Utd and Bendel Insurance anytime he’s in Benin for holidays.

      Ladies and gentlemen, make of this piece of information whatever you can.

  • I have a feeling Madugu will elect for a 4-3-3 formation.

    Our local coaches play a brand of football built on largely formulaic and predictable individual play coalescing into decent team routines (physical/functional football) rather than a well calibrated, highly refined and supremely coordinated group dynamics leading the charge and devolving into unpredictable movements.

    Functional football is easy to the eye and very plain. With players who know what they are doing and are very professional, it can cause problems even the most technical team on the planet.

    And Madugu has highly competent players who are well versed in the job description of their roles and can raise their individual performance to make functional football effective. The traditional roles of wingers, midfielders, defenders and centre forwards (the cornerstone of physical/functional football) can be performed with class and effectiveness by most of the players invited.

    After following closely the outputs of local coaches particularly in the last 5 years, I have come to perish the expectations of seeing tactical football in play. We simply do not have the infrastructure to produce this sort of football. So, hopefully our local coaches can enhance the possibilities inherent in traditional football of the 1970s 80s/90s and select players capable enough to bring modern interpretations to bear.

    So, I am looking to see how things play out.

  • You look at the TP Mazambe vs Edo Queens game, you see tactical football vs functional football as obvious as possible.

    One of the best ways to neutralise any Nigerian team managed by a local coach is to isolate the players. The Nigerian players are always well drilled in their individual job descriptions and how executing these responsibilities effectively can combine with the activities of their team mates to produce success.

    The problem with this is, isolate the Nigerian winger, crowd out the midfield and overload pockets of the defence and you will bring that Nigerian side to heel (i.e. you will defeat that Nigerian side).

    Hence, after an emphatic victory in their first game (a common theme for most Nigerian coaches) Edo Queens started finding it more difficult as the tournament wore on. Our local coaches start well but fizzle away once opponents discover that functional/physical football is the only thing they have to offer.

    The Moroccan coach of Mazambe was wise and cunning. Playing a more tactical approach, she set her team up in “groups” (rather than individuals) to block
    Nigerian passing routes from midfield; force them too wide to stop or limit Edo Queens threats from the flanks; and cleverly draw Nigerian defenders out of shape at the back.

    This (well drilled and intelligently coordinated) group-approach-devolving (breaking down)-into-(clever) individual-movements, rather than Nigeria’s (raw, speedy one dimensional) individual-movements-building-up-to-(often predictable)group-dynamics was the game changer for TP Mazembe.

    Under Nigerian coaches in recent seasons, time and time I have seen how our players have been frustrated individually when their individual skills aren’t allowed to shine by opposition players that are not better than them, just better coordinated as a unit intent to thwart, dis-stabilize and dismantle the individuality that has come to be the hallmark of the physical/functional football that Nigeria played.

    Against Ghana in Abuja in the 2022 world cup qualifiers, once the Black Stars changed their tactical approach, the threats that Ademola Lookman posed on the left flank was effectively dissolved. Urban legend has it that it was the players, not coach Eguavoen, who discovered this tactical switch that had nullified our functional/physical approach.

    Rather paradoxically, I have come to like physical/functional approach. There is a simplicity in seeing players perform traditional roles in traditional ways particularly before other teams catch on to our strategy ( 🙂 ) and subsequently render it obsolete.

    Seeing Moses Simon “express himself” in the group stages of the 2022 afcon; seeing Flourish Sebastian “express herself” in the group stages of the U-20 Women’s world cup in 2022 will forever stay with me as wonderful and fabulous moments. It wasn’t that wonderful though when, on both occasions, we crashed out at the first hurdle of the knockout stages after flawless group stages.

    Which for me suggests that, functional football is not the problem per se. Being shrewd, savvy and dynamic, even within the framework of functional football, might just do the trick. But again, what do I know, never been a caoch, never been a player, just a fan wishing our local coaches can be that bit more creative with an approach that manages to bamboozle teams before being decoded.

    • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

      LOL!!

      Whenever an indigenous coach loses a game, the Internet-Certified “tacticians” rush out – after keeping mute when the same coach was winning. When Edo Queens won the WAFU B, we were lectured to wait until they meet Mamelodi Sundowns. When they met and beat Sundowns, crickets….SMH.

      Even the best coaches lose games (the same Mazempe coach seemed clueless for almost 90 minutes until the last minute equalizer and in the first game versus ASFAR – and vice versa for the ASFAR coach). Anyway, while at it, feel free to share Pep Guardiola’s limitations as his expensively-assembled team falls to its fifth consecutive loss!

  • pompei 1 week ago

    I guess your tv was not working when she struck the woodwork of the English at the world cup with that thunderous left footer.
    Although we have talented players, one area we are weak at is shooting from distance. This is something Plumptre excels at. She shoots very well with both feet. Being a tall player, she’s also a threat aerially, and can be very useful for cornerkicks and freekicks. That’s what I referred to as goal threat.
    You can call Saudi Arabia a backwater league, but I’m talking about what the player called Plumptre is capable of.
    Her long range shooting with good technique to boot could be a nice weapon for us.

    • 9jaRealist 1 week ago

      So, hitting the bar in ONE game out of the 17 games she’s played constitutes a “goal threat”?! SMH

      She can be “a threat aerially” (on set plays and corner-kicks) while playing as a DEFENDER – which is the current case. There’s no need changing her role to a “more offensive role” because she scored a few goals playing in a football backwater league. 

      • pompei 1 week ago

        Yes ke. It constitutes a goal threat, in my opinion.
        I wish for her to have a more offensive role, not because of her goals in the Saudi league, BUT BECAUSE OF HER CAPABILITIES AS A PLAYER.
        She’s got that technique down of shooting effectively at goal. With both feet, I might add. It’s always good to have a player that has the ability to work the opponent’s keeper. She could score directly, or she could set up tap in opportunities for her team mates, when she shoots and the keeper spills the ball. Besides, she also has good passing range.
        With Plumptre possessing these offensive capabilities, it might not be such a terrible idea to deploy her closer to the opponent’s goal.

  • Francis Obiakor 1 week ago

    This is a strong list.

  • Segun West 3 days ago

    No, you are right. It is a strong one.


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