Blogpay Ghana have turned us into a training horses - Nigerians slam Super eagles over Mexico friendly.
Nigeria fans have clearly not got over the Super eagles failure to qualify for the World Cup, following their elimination by Ghana in the playoff last month and have voiced their displeasure after the west Africans announced a friendly date with Mexico.
“Nigeria’s @NG Super Eagles with face the El Tri of Mexico in an international friendly game on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at the AT and T stadium, Arlington, Texas. #SoarSuperEagles, “the Nigeria football federation wrote on twitter on Tuesday, after which fans flooded their comments section to express their displeasure.
Ghana has turned Nigeria into training horses, now any country uses Nigeria as a rehearsal,” @sabutujoe began, in reference to the black stars, who put paid to Nigeria’s World Cup aspirations. “Lets hope this time they will not create the same mistakes they created against Ghana,” echoed wise - jgc Geoffrey Mhone on Facebook. “They will be enjoying watching the Black Stars representing west Africa at the World Cup.”
“While Nigeria will be missing out on Qatar, Mexico will be heading to the global showpiece after conquering from the concacaf region. “Now teams are using us to do training for the World Cup,” noted @teepheth, in response to the NF’s tweet. “As usual you will take five defensive midfielders without one creative midfielder and 10 strikers to go play the friendly.
You are not a serious federation.”
Other fans have taken things to heart. “When you have no plans for your life, people will always put you in their plans. Super Chikens the the guinea pig for World Cup board teams,” responded poco A poco, who feels the Super eagles are just being used by their would - be rivals. “They hope to bounce back and then get eliminated on the upcoming Afcon qualifiers by Sudan, or Comoros. Funny,” responded Hussaini Tijjani, who also seems to have faith on the team. However, not everyone has grown up on the Super eagles.
“I will be there to cheer the team on, it’s still our Super eagles no matter what. All we need now is good and competent foreign coach to bring back the lost glory,” said @Ayphilydegreat, who feels the team will regain it lost glory if an overseas manager is handed the reins. Ibrahim Abdulkadir Balarabe would like to be there and support the team, even if they won’t be heading to the World Cup. “Alright that’s very nice. I am wishing for the Super eagles victory in the friendly game against Mexico.
Please, can you take me to Arlington, Texas to watch and support super eagles,” he appealed.