The Super Eagles Team That Could Win The World Cup.

The World Cup will be starting in Brazil in 2014 and in terms of preparations for the African Champions ,Super Eagles of Nigeria, it has been so far so good. The qualifiers have provided a sturdy test and judging by her performance with a depleted side at  concluded Confederation Cup showed that , with her best players, the Super Eagles can compete with the world's greatest teams.

Nigeria surely can what no African nation has done: which is win the World Cup.  But they need to have the right blend of players. With hordes of players scattered across the globe,  it would not a mean feat to select the best to spear head the challenge for the World soccer title.That is what I have a taken the liberty to compile - The Team list of Nigerian players that could win the world cup for her.

Goal Keeper
Enyeama Victor

Since 2002, he has played for the national team of Nigeria. He currently plays for Lille OSC who he signed for in June 2011.Enyeama was selected for the 2002 World Cup as a cover for Ike Shorunmu. He only played one match in that tournament, keeping a clean sheet against England, and took over the spot after Shorunmu's international retirement. Since then he has been the first-choice goalkeeper for the national team, playing in the 2004 African Cup of Nations, 2006 African Cup of Nations, and indeed all African Cup of Nations till 2013 except for the 2008 edition in Ghana where he lost his position to Austin Ejide. In the 2006 CAN, he stopped three penalties in the quarter-final against Tunisia, but could not prevent a loss to Côte d'Ivoire in the semi-final. Goalkeeper Enyeama turned out the hero for the Nigerians as he saved Thomas Nyirenda's spot kick after both teams had scored their previous three kicks. He put his own kick past his opposite number Mweene in a battle of the goalkeepers, after Mweene had scored his seconds earlier, to set up a semi-final clash with Ghana, which Nigeria lost 1–0 only to end up settling for the third place by beating Algeria by a slim 1–0 victory margin.

Vincent Enyeama justified claims as one of the best shot-stoppers in football at the moment, with a defiant display to restrict Argentina to a 1–0 win in their Group B 2010 FIFA World Cup match.

Echiejile(Defender)
Echiéjilé simply known as Elderson, is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for S.C. Braga in Portugal, as a left defender.Elderson was a member of the Nigerian U-20 team at the 2007 World Cup in Canada, playing five matches and scoring once. Having made his debuts for the senior side in 2009, he was picked for the following year's FIFA World Cup in South Africa, appearing in two group stage matches in an eventual group stage exit.

Ambrose(Defender)

 plays as a centre back or right back for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Nigeria national football team.Ambrose has represented Nigeria at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup, the Summer Olympics and at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Omereuo(Defender)

On 9 January 2013, at the age of 19 he played for the senior team for the first time in a goalless draw against Cape Verde. He then went on to play in all of Nigeria's matches at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations as Nigeria went on to win the competition for the third time

Sunday Mba (Central Midfielder)
He was a member of the Nigeria C team that won the 2010 WAFU Nations Cup. He made his senior debut in the Eagles' 0–0 tie against Angola in January 2012. He scored a brace against Liberia in his next game.He was called up to Nigeria's 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.He scored the winning goal in Nigeria's 2–1 quarter-final win over Côte d'Ivoire. On February 10, 2013, in the final against Burkina Faso, he scored the first and only goal of the game, to hand Nigeria their third Africa Cup of Nations title.

Nosa Igiebor (Central Midfielder)

commonly known as Nosa or Nosa Igiebor, is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Real Betis as an attacking midfielder.He was called up to Nigeria's 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.

Musa Ahmed

Musa represented the Nigeria national under-20 football team in the U-20 World Cup held in Colombia, where he scored three goals in five matches. Musa was included by FIFA in shortlist of 10 candidates for the Adidas Golden Ball, which was awarded to the most outstanding player of the FIFA U-20 World Cup.On 7 December 2011, Ahmed Musa was one of the four nominees named for the Confederation of African Football Most Promising Talent Award, however the award went to Tottenham Hotspur's Souleymane Coulibaly. He was called up to Nigeria's 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.He was selected for Nigeria's squad at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.

 

Mikel Obi (Attacking Midfielder)

In the summer of 2005, Mikel played for Nigeria at the FIFA World Youth Championships held in the Netherlands. He had an excellent tournament until Nigeria reached the final, where they lost 2–1 to Argentina. Obi won the Silver Ball after being voted the tournament's second best player.

Victor Moses (Attacker)
plays for Chelsea. Moses can play in a variety of positions, but in the first-team games he has taken part in so far, Moses has mostly played as a winger. Born in Nigeria, he has represented England at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels, but opted to play for the Nigerian national team as opposed to being fully capped for England.

Uche Nwafor (Attacker)
Is a new comer to the scene .Scoring a brace in Nigeria victory over rivals, South Africa,in the Mandela Challenge 2013.Nwofor also announced his arrival in Europe by scoring on his debut for VVV Venlo in a thrilling 3:3 home draw with PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch top-flight. 

Emmanuel Emenike (Attacker )

He scored in Nigeria's opening AFCON match against Burkina Faso in a 1-1 draw. He also scored the first goal in the quarter final match between Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire which Nigeria won 2-1. On 3 February, Emenike scored a 30-yard free kick giving his country a 2-1 win over Côte d'Ivoire in the African Cup of Nations.

In 2013, he became part of the third Nigerian team to win the African Cup of Nations - Nigeria's first continental victory since 1994. His four goals proved crucial to Nigeria's progress through the tournament, and he was named to the team of the African Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament.However, Emenike wasn't included in the final, due to thigh injury.He also received the Pepsi Tournament Top Scorer, with four goals, along with Ghana's Wakaso Mubarak. This secured him the Pepsi Tournament Top Scorer with four goals and three assist, having played fewer minutes than Mubarak, who also had three goals and no assist.Emmanuel Emenike was also part of the Nigerian team that won the tournament in 2013.

                                          

      The team will be spotting a 3-5-2 formation.

                                        Emmanuel Emenike                               Uche Nwafor  
                                                                             
                                 Ahmed  Musa                      Mike Obi                 Victor Moses

                                                                       
                                                Nosa Igiebor                       Sunday Mba

                                   Echiejile                             Ambrose                      Omereuo

                                                                Enyeama Victor

Subs:Onazi,Ejide,Osaze,Oboabona,

Sources:Wikipedia

Football Gone Mad part 2

Rumors has it that Real Madrid is trying to sign Gareth Bale for $105million to kick a round leather ball. If all goes according to plan,then it will certainly be the world record for the highest transfer fee for a soccer player. Which begs the question, is Bale really worth that much or in fact is any player worth that much? Obviously not!
One factor responsible for the high transfer fee is the escape clause in Bale's contract.Since his contract expires a long time from now, Tottenham are in no hurry to sell. And would love to hold on to their star man for a while longer in their quest for a top four finish.
But that does not fully explain why a Real Madrid would need to cough such an astronomical amount of money for a player. It is Real Madrid and not some newly bought small club with a sugar daddy looking to increase their profile? Juxtapose that with Barcelona's bid for Fabregas where Barca's clout reduced the true cost of their target man.  Real Madrid have the same clout if not more. The desire of any player to play for such an illustrious club, should surely trump over a quick pay day?

Besides Uefa's financial fair play has been thrown out of the window. As wenger described it, a joke. The laws due to start next year, was put in place to curb this sort of reckless player purchases. And if nothing is done ,it will only confirm what it felt in some quarters that it was meant to stop the dominance of English clubs.

Ronaldo could be making his way back to Old Trafford for $80 million. Thereby offsetting the cost of the Bale transfer. This is unlikely since Ronaldo is part of Real's per-season tour and he has been their highest goal scorer since his arrival at the Bernabeu. Madrid need for a marque signing after losing out to perennial rivals Barcelona for Neymar's signature, might also have instigated this move now. There is nothing the Bernubeu faithfuls would love more than getting one over the catalans. Makes one wonder where Bale will fit in a crowed team where the likes of  Kaka, Modric and Ozil struggle to find playing time.The Galatico bug seems to be catchy as Baracelona have now followed the same model in their $60 million pursuit of Brazilian star man Neymar.

Either way, Bale is an asset for any team and in a Galatico-studed side,could very well provide the missing piece in Real's jigsaw quest for the elusive tenth Champions League trophy.