I started watching the SUPER EAGLES of Nigeria officially in 1994,.after the team triumph in 1994 nations cup. We went to USA world cup under the Care-taker of Clement Westerhof.,it was our debut though but remains our best world cup so far. Rasheed Yekini scored our first ever world cup goal against Bulgaria,.Daniel Amokachi scored the second and Emmanuel Amuneke completed the three zero bashing..what a memory..How can i forget Samson Siasia goal against Argentina before bad officiating cost us the game..no thanks to Diego Maradonas trickish free kicks. We finally topped the group with Finidi George and Amokachis goals against Greece...1994 was when Men were Men,.the likes of Rufai,Equavoun,Iroha,Oliseh,Uche okechukwu,Chidi Nwanu,FINIDI,AMOKACHI,YEKINI,OKOCHA,AMUNENE,SIASIA,ADEPOJU,KESHI,UCHE OKAFOR,MICHAEL EMENALO,EKOKU,ALLOY AGU and a host of others. Eyaa,.we later lost out to ITALY in the 2nd round,.no thanks to ROBERTO BAGGIOs after Amuneke had put EAGLES ahead.... #FRANCE 1998,...After clinching football gold medal at Atlanta 1996 olympics,...we went to the world cup well prepared with Men & youths mixed together,..the likes of KANU,ORUMA,BABAYARO,OPARAKU,TIJANI BABANGIDA,GARBA LAWAL,IKPBEBA,TARIBO WEST have grown of age to join the likes of RUFAI,ADEPOJU,YEKINI,OKOCHA,OLISEH,AMOKACHI etc.,BORA was the coach then. After destroying Spain with goals from Adepoju,Lawal and Oliseh,.we followed it up with a win against Bulgaria,.goal from Ikpeba..,having already qualified,we lost by 3goals to one against Paraguay,.Oruma was our scorer. Every Nigerians was anticipating a quarter final meeting against Brazil...hahaha...the worst happened,we lost 4goals to one against Denmark.,consolatory goal by Tijani..... #2002 world cup....,after Amodu had qualified us for the world.,Nations cup problem with NFA then made some big boys to back off....ADEGBOYE ONIGBINDE was brought as coach...what a poor world cup! We had the likes of SHOROMU,YOBO,UDEZE,EFE SODJE,WEST,ISAAC OKORONKWO,OKOCHA,KANU,BABAYARO,UTAKA,OGBECHE,AGHAHOWA,IKEDIA,JUSTICE CHRISTOPHER etc. We lost to Argentina and Sweden,with a draw against England to exit the group in the first round..we scored only one goal by Aghahowa... #2010...,all of us knew what happened...,lost to Argentina,lost 2...1 to Greece.,no thanks to Sani Kaitas red card,..finally drew 2...2 with South Korea.,no thanks to Yakubu Aiyegbenis open miss...the likes of Enyeama,CHIDI ODIAH,TAYE TAIWO,YOBO,DANNY SHITTU,ETUHU,KALU UCHE,OGBUKE,MARTINS,HARUNA LUKMAN,AYILA,OSAZE,KANU,IKE UCHE etc...LARS LAGERBACK was the coach..... #lesson....,#1994..inexperience.....#1998 underrating.....#2002 bad preparation.....#2010 technical and tactical errors.... #2014 BRAZIL WORLD CUP....BAD SELECTION.... #JIMMY CARTER NNEM
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