Re: African Football Discussion Thread Current Topic: 👉 AFCON's Championship.

The Super Eagles has always been like this. There is never a time when they did perform to impress Nigerians not even goals or match that is worth celebrating about them. Always poor outing and funds are being spent on them without anything to show for.

This tournament was for home based African players, so this was not the "main" Super Eagles as we all know it. I also disagree with you that the Super Eagles never impress in tournaments, that is completely wrong, we have always been a competitive team in African football and even finished as runner-up in the last African Cup of Nations.

That said, i understand that we have had our own fair share of heartbreaks from the Super Eagles, but i still think it is unfair to describe them the way you just did.

Even if this tournament is for home based African players, the super eagles should have played well like the other African home based teams, and they should have at least qualified for the next round of this tournament, but the super eagles performance wasn't impressive and they were eliminated in the group stage of this tournament. Despite the super eagles finished as runner-up in the last African Cup of Nations, i wasn't impressed with their performance because they struggled to qualify for the final and they couldn't beat Ivory Coast in the final.

The home based super eagles didn't perform to expectation, we expected them to proof to us that they are worthy to be called up when the complete team wants to play. This will put to rest the agitation by some analysts that home based players should be given more chance to play in the super eagles, clearly the foreign based are preferable. Let us not forget that other national teams in Africa, also fielded their home based players so it's quite unfortunate that the super eagles home based is not a team to be reckoned with in Africa. Let us hope that they can get their acts together before the next tournament and make us proud.

Don't blame the home based guys too much, a monkey doesn't give birth to an Elephant. Let us look at the league where this home based guys are playing and you will agree with me that they don't have to be blamed too much, our local League at the moment might not even be ranking among the top five in Africa, this might be as a result of poor sponsorships and renumeration for players which at the end the players might likely not give in their all, so you don't expect a local league that is not performing to an average level to give you the best result in terms of players.