Brown Ideye has reacted to the home-based Super Eagles elimination from the 2024 African Nations Championship, reports Completesports.com.
The Eagles lost 4-0 to Sudan in their second group game at the Amman Stadium, Zanzibar on Tuesday night.
The West Africans are yet to score in the competition, while they have conceded five times.
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Eric Chelle, who is the head coach of the team has been widely criticised following the Eagles poor showing at the competition.
Ideye believed the players are not good enough, and can’t perform on the bigger stage.
The former West Bromwich Albion star expressed his view in a post on X.
“Let’s keep lying to ourselves and keep blaming someone else every time we fail. We’re not good enough that’s the bitter truth. It’s what you have the coach will work with period. And we don’t have what it takes to compete on the bigger stage,” Ideye wrote on X.
By Adeboye Amosu
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In obodo Nigeria, we need a revolution, and if it can’t be peaceful then let it be bloody!
Heads must walk otherwise they must roll!
We need a completely new generation of leaders and administrators of the law in this useless country and they will have to start from scratch!
Forget about winning anything or being called the giant of anything and go back to the square one – the blasted drawing board.
Reset to zero and start like new born babes! And the first law to pass must be the death penalty or at least life in prison for any type of corruption, or appropriation crime.
I’m talking, bribery (either offering or accepting)talk less of armed robbery or kidnapping.
!0 years minimum prison and huge fines for stealing, fraud, falsification of anything be it school certificates or any kind of qualification.
Minimum 5 years for littering, loitering or jay-walking. And more – this is not an exhaustive list (not by any means)
To alleviate the harshness of these new laws, and give people a way not to fall foul without any choice (entrapment) – start working night and day, at a relentless pace and with the utmost dedication, application, determination, and relentless integrity and honesty on building infrastructure! I cannot stress this enough!! – I’m talking firstly – battle and eradicate the power (electricity, Nepa, however you want to describe it problem)- start here as it is the easiest and most necessary foundation on which everything else can and must be built!. Next work on the country’s internet so as to be able to encourage our brilliant yet restless youth and not just youth but every interested party and also so that we can leverage the advantages of AI – Build roads, homes, physical amenities that leverage connectivity like trains, transport systems and actual transportation – Nationalise all these things to begin with and introduce a comprehensive taxing system to produce needed funds, create jobs from blue collar to white collar, re-open the apprenticeship systems that were so prevalent and successful in the 70’2 and 80’s, reintroduce farming from small individual scales to large , even national scales and encourage farming, trades like car mechanics, open factories and encourage multi millionaires, companies, conglomerates and every interested stake holder to go into manufacturing, regardless of what it is they are interested in manufacturing and provide substantial govt subsidies and conducive governmental systems to encourage these activities, this list goes on and on and on and I cannot list it all here, but anyone of sound mind, tasked with the duty of re-building Nigeria will no doubt realise these things, so really it’s just a case of getting the right people into the right jobs and responsibilities – we have no shortage of good people if the basic ground work is put in place to encourage honest and dedicated work – through the harsh legal systems and punishment including those listed already (above)
We must undertake rigorous re-tests for every single person claiming to have any current qualifications because our education system has gone to shit! Even so called “graduates” do not know what a primary school child should know as a given! And we need people who can actually do their jobs! Not the spineless charlatans, liars and thieves who we have currently occupying our essential roles in the country right from the very top down!
Get serious on our vehicles, road rules, including motorcycles and even keke’s (bicycles) etc etc etc….there are too many things to be listing without it being for an actual intervention – at this point, I can list everything and it will be nothing but a totally pointless exercise and I have no time to be writing an essay for crooks who will not see that value in the information
I remember when the current Government first entered (like in the first few weeks and months) they declared an operation to focus on our internet capabilities and AI but for where?? They made a song and dance of it for about a month and then everything went deathly silent lol, Nothing, Not a single thing has been done about any of their so called promises – meanwhile, some thieves got paid free money from the so called funds that the minister in charge announced – I’m sure all that money was awarded and then promptly shared with the minister and other “stake holders” as is the case in Nigeria – and as it has always been ever since the first few (maybe 10 years) at most after independence!
Which way Nigeria?? Ha!! Omase o!
WE NEED A REVOLUTION!!
Be ranting like a loose mad dog!! Ọmọ ale. Beratting your country. Are you Kemi Badenoch? Or is it the president’s fault that your league is a total mess? Did it become a total mess today?
Ideye just said a bitter truth and you are here calling for a revolution of which you will run away when it starts!
When the Falcons won WAFCON for the 10th time, you didn’t call for a revolution, when the Tigress won Afrobasket you didn’t call for a revolution.
Listen to Ideye and learn the bitter truth! The home based players are not just good enough.
The correct thing to say is to call for a total over hauling of the local league.
And for your information, I never once mentioned the President. You are the one who did. Everyone can see that he is trying and doing some wonderful things – we all saw his recent generous and wonderful awards to the country’s sports men and women, is that not a good thing? When have we ever seen such a gesture which will inevitably encourage more of the same kind of excellence in our representatives in the sport arenas?
All we are calling for is no more false promises – and more of an honest will and determination to actually do things to improve the country –
We have all seen it done in Rwanda, it is currently being done in Burkina Faso, none of these countries are as blessed as we are in natural resources or manpower.
Even a journey of a thousand miles invariably has to start with a single step.
It is tiny drops of water that make a mighty ocean.
Even the little gestures matter in the overall scheme of things my friend.
Let’s all come together and work together to make this country great again. It is possible, it just needs willing hearts and minds.
I am nothing if not a patriotic Nigerian who only wants the best for my country. There is no sense in castigating me, because any one who wants the best for Nigeria, will also want these same things! It is only someone who does not want to see Nigeria great that will have a reaction like yours to the general drift of my comments.
So I ask, who are you and what are your motivations?
We must all work together with a singular determination – It is us and our future generations that will benefit in the bigger picture – No more disrespect and cruelty towards us and our people and children from the likes of Ghanaians, South Africans and the rest of the world who seem to enjoy scapegoating Nigerians at every turn and in every situation simply because of the state our country is in – no light, no jobs, no infrastructure, no food, nothing – just poverty, suffering and pain.
Let’s build our own country – We can become a strong and powerful nation and be able to hold our heads up now and into the future.
How can any patriotic Nigerian not agree with that??
So again I ask, who are you and what is your own agenda??
LMAO!
See an absolute raving lunatic calling someone Omo ale – Beratting my country?? Oh, you mean Berating? hehehe, haba, I was surprised o, thinking that where is the rat ke? I don’t kuku see any rats lol.
This is the first time I am ever seeing you commenting on here and from the way my comment has riled you – that tells me only one thing – you are one of the thieves causing this country’s problems abi? And who stand to lose, or you are sponsored/employed by one of them – Ehn, don’t worry ke, whether by hook or crook we will get you people out by God’s special grace! You cannot hold on to something that is not yours forever, and that you are not even qualified to have in the first place, (and I am not talking strictly about educational qualifications, there are also other human qualifications required to be trusted with a whole nations fate).
You and your kind or your ogas are committing atrocities akin to a violation of human rights by running this extremely blessed country into the ground and not only prolonging, but also causing (yes, causing) the suffering of 100’s of millions of people.
There is nothing wrong with my suggestions ke – Yes they are extreme, (and I already acknowledged that in my initial comment), but is Nigeria not going through extreme hardship? Have you not heard that extreme situations call for extreme actions? Also, my comments were more or less hypothetical, and were only meant to convey a certain strength of feeling – Most of the suggestions would of course have to be brought within the realms of common sense and other human and humane considerations were I to be actually able to put them in action in reality. So not to be taken literally, if you didn’t get that.
Yes I took it out of the realms of our football, but if you think I or the other Nigerians like me can be bamboozled like those “others” who you are keeping preoccupied through your wicked tricks of “sleight of hand” then you are even more myopic than you realise.
Is it not the overall state of the country that is the root cause of the problems we have in our football as well as in every other sector and sphere of life??
Or are you trying to suggest that you believe that in a chaotic environment like Nigeria, you can suddenly have one sector that flourishes?? Because if you are, then say so.
I dare you to admit that you truly believe that we can suddenly have a football ecosystem that rivals those of the best in the world out of a country where there is zero infrastructure to speak of – no electricity, no stadiums, just hunger and and suffering in every sphere of life for the majority of the population (98%) and of the remaining 1% are legitimate self made millionaires and the final 1% -crooks, thieves and robbers(figuratively speaking) because that’s not what they are officially called – No, their official titles are govt officials, ministers, heads of local governments, and other “high level” officials – of which I have no doubt you or your sponsore are a part of.
So why won’t you be mad at me speaking the harsh truth? They say the truth hurts, but it only hurts people who are benefitting from the lies ke, abi na lie??
A beg leave me alone! You cannot stop me from expressing myself and neither can you tell me how to think or what to say! Thank God we live in a free country where even if there is hunger and suffering, we still have our rights to free speech!
This is not Chairman Mao’s China or Putin’s Russia! So just clear out and be counting down the clock because the time for you and your likes is coming to an end! And I for one cannot wait! You say I will run fa? LMAAOO – Oya, let’s see who will run between you and me Mr or Mrs ITK! Olosi Oloriburuku! Barawo Banza!