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Richard AnimamLagos

Nigerians are still celebrating with Superintendent Eagles captain and Portsmouth of England forward Nwankwo Kanu for making history with the Premiership side after lifting the English fa Cup a hebdomad ago and becoming the lone Nigerian participant to have got amassed respective award in his football game career.

One adult male who have cut shot his jubilation to offer the Abia-born ex Arsenal of England gem a acrimonious but matter-of-fact advice is Head Taiwo Ogunjobi, himself an ex Green Eagles participant and currently President Technical Committee of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria Football Association (NFA)

Chief Ogunjobi who was the NFA secretary full general when Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima was president advised the leggy participant to discontinue football game now that the standing standing ovation is still very loud for him and age is catching up with him.

"Kanu have done well for ego and state but honestly I will counsel him to discontinue playing now that the ovation is still very loud. There is nil more in the game for him to prove," Head Ogunjobi said, stressing that the Capital Of Georgia '96 Olympic gold medalist could no longer play top social class football game for 90 minutes.

The NFA Board member cited the last Africa Nations Cup in Republic Of Ghana where Kanu was only able to play one game, the gap lucifer against Cote d'Ivoire which the Eagles lost 1-0 as well as at the baseball club degree where he rarely plays a full game.

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Kanu claims he is 31 old age now but Ogunjobi experiences that age is not on his side even as his manager at Portsmouth, Harry Redknapp teased after Kanu's alone work stoppage earned the squad the 2007/2008 fa Cup statute title that the participant could be about 47 old age old.

Despite Ogunjobi's feelings and Redknapp's gag over his existent age, the former Ajax Dutch Capital participant makes not experience like quitting yet as he said during the hebdomad that he still have eyes on Thursday 2010 World Cup after missing out of the last edition in Germany.

Pleading with Nigerians to bury about the Eagles' failure at the Republic Of Ghana 2008 Nations Cup last February, Kanu said, "The contiguous challenge for us is the concerted qualifying political campaigns for the 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations. We missed out on the 2006 World Cup and it was painful. I am happy to have got won the fa Cp with Portsmouth but I can guarantee you that I will observe harder when we measure up for the World Cup."

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Former board member of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria Football Association (NFA) Mr. Toilet Fashanu believes Nigerian football game have been put back by at least 10 old age in the 11 calendar months Berti Vogts was in charge.

Fashanu, who was at the Ohen Djan Stadium, Capital Of Ghana Lord'S Day to watch the Eagles capitulate meekly to the Black Stars, also questioned the committedness of the participants wearing the once dreaded greenish jerseys.

"All the giant paces made in Nigerian football game from the clip Samuel Langhorne Clemens Westerhof was in complaint have got been thrown away by this adult male (Vogts). In fact he have got got put our football game game back by at least 10 years.

"The Superintendent Eagles have always been known for their offense football but conceive of through four games we laboured to mark goals!"

Fashanu, who was a member of the Wimbledon squad that disquieted fa Cup front-runners Liverpool in the 1988 final, also questioned the FA's determination devising procedure for hiring Vogts in the first place.

"I believe it was incorrect to have employed him (Vogts) in the first place. Being a German his first outlook will be defensive and physical football, which travels against the grain of Nigerian football game game which is more than skilful.

"And this clearly showed in our lucifer with Ghana. Despite being a adult male up rather than put option pressure level on the Black Stars rear, where they had a improvised cardinal guardian in Michael Essien we still sat back. Even when he was forced to do the first alteration (when Dickson Etuhu got injured) instead of using the chance to set on another offense player, he replaced him (Etuhu) with another defensive midfielder! How were we to mark the ends needed to take us to the semi-finals?

"We lost that lucifer not that Republic Of Ghana beat out us."

Fashanu, who was once invited to the national team, also took a swipe at the participants who were on show on Sunday.

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"They lacked commitment, but can you fault them? A participant earning $80, 000 a hebdomad will not be willing to give himself for one competition taking topographic point in Africa and thus lose his place in his club.

"Just wait and see the same set of participants who played without any hungriness on Lord'S Day will be a changed set of participants on show for their baseball clubs this weekend."

He advocated the demand for the national squad to look inwards towards participants yet to do it large abroad. "At least they will still demo a batch of committedness and because they to desire to do name calling for themselves they will be willing to put on the line organic structure and psyche for the Eagles.