Remembering Nigeria's golden age
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- A Super Eagle in the heart of the great Nigerian teams of the 90s, Sunday Oliseh talks to FIFA Futbol Mundial about the dedication and talent of the team at two different FIFA World Cups.
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Why Nigeria always has the freshest jerseys?? 😲💯👌🏾
Fr, who’s their designer???
This is not just the best Nigerian football generation till date but the best African generation of all time. No disrespect to the Cameroon class of 1990.
Many may say am saying this because am Nigerian but that's not the issue here. These guys commanded and aura where ever they played on the planet and they practically opened the flood gates of an African exodus of football talent to the rest to the world (you can't talk about fellow African's like Asamoah Gyan, Mo salah, Didier Drogba or Mane etc. without a link to this 94 generation). Besides being a well represented team they raised many eyebrows putting African football on the map, giving respect to the African game that was previously seen as the perennial whooping boys.
So you can say what the Roger Milla generation Cameroon couldn't attain they went beyond simply world cup tongue twisters and shot for the stars. They built up international response to the African game beyond 1994.
Absolutely classy that's what the Nigerian Golden Age represents.
This generation of Nigerian footballers were amazing. Okocha, oliseh, finidi, amokachi, amunike, rufai in goal, west, babayaro, uche, siasia etc. Though I'm not Nigerian, I was a big fan of the super eagles then
Why every body seems to forget Tijani Babangida wasn't he one of the best wingers at his times ?
I absolutely loved that team!
Ended they were super eagle of African
It’s was sensational performance they all do
I always watch back on ...& on the old video
How they are so strong mentally..& physically & the have great chemistry all in all
People forget Garba Lawal. He was the mid field general...
♥️
As a moroccan following the african football for decades now..I am very disappointed of little progress, at the world stage, made by the african football since then..this DREAM TEAM was the pride of all african nations..we miss u dearly
dont forget ghanas run in wc2010
Morrocco has broken the jinx now!
I guess you would be super proud of them!!🥂
@@israeladekoya3839 yes of course ...but still that Nigerian team was the hall of fame ❤❤ the team that united the whole AFRICA north to south east to west . The only team that comes close is the Brasilian squad of 1982...so much talents in one team
your country unlocked new levels globally 3 years later bro lol. life is Crazy
I was 7 when i saw the 1994 usa wc, i'm from Italy and i'm pretty sure of 2 things
1 if we had not Baggio nigeria would have won and probably reach the final
2 if Baggio would have not exausted himself so much ( along with all the team) against the supereagles Italy would have probably won the 94 cup.
I always loved Nigeria's team since that times, i played football for fun and i was into athletic as a kid, so as a football player i had just 1 good weapon, my run. In Italy they say that without a great technique You can't be a decent player...Nigeria that day almost defeted one of the best italian team ever in wc history. I just fell in love with that team and Still a big fan . Cheers from Italy to all supportes of the great supereagles , and a big up for my two favourite players from nigeria amokachi 💪 " the bull" , and tijani Babangida ( all iss pro players must love them as much as i do probably) 😁
The love is mutual bro! Thanks for the amazing comment
I alway's signed Babangida, he was so fast! Really good player
i was 10
Badtothebone R quella Nigeria non era solo corsa ma anche molta tecnica...
I'm Nigerian and thr divine ponytail was a player indeed. One of the greats who have never won the WC ...
And yes that Nigerian team was special.
Man.. i remember this team. I am a fan of Nigeria's football since them (WC 94) when i was 10 years old. Sad that they don't keep this level.
Rashid yekini' may your soul rest in peace. African footballer of the year '94 and scored the first ever goal for the country in a World cup tournament despite all the odds and financial constraint. U and other members of the 1994 super eagles squad shall 4 ever live in my HEART.
I watched 1994 world cup and i remember this name till then, apart from many superstar on that event.
The best ever... Proud of you Nigeria football team... Best regards from West Papua
Ap YALI from indonesia
Born in 1990, I got to witness this age first-hand as a child in Nigeria. The best moments, we stopped everything to watch the Super Eagles play ❤
Nigeria had a sort of smooth and easy touch that even the likes of brazil couldn't produce. that game against Italy could have been the milestone to a new era in the history of African football had that game's result gone the right way.
I agree I wish Nigeria had beaten Italy, it was a pity they lost.
@@shervinbehrad1848 its realy paid of, when italy lost at the final, i expected nigeria could be at top 3 at 94 wc, but theyre not lucky, losing at round of 16.
I ran across the road celebrating this Oliseh goal against Spain in 1998. Thank God I was not hit by a car
They were the Brazil of Africa. If i were to describe everything about that team then i would need to write a book. Jay Jay Okocha would have a chapter of his own
The shot heard around the World, against Spain. Sunday Oliseh
You sure must be talking about Sunday Oliseh's missile strike against Spanish goalkeeper Zubizaretta. That was a shock!
oliseh almost broke zubizarreta s fingers 🤣
@@valentinospagnuolo6998 😁😁😁😁
@@valentinospagnuolo6998 😂🤣😂
This brings tears to my eyes. Oh i long for days like this. Days that my country will conquer the world again
I remember Sunday Oliseh and that shot! I screamed with unbelievable joy. The best match Nigeria has ever played. What a comeback! ❤️ Next world cup, we will carry the cup. My prediction.
Finidi, Yekeni. Peter Rufai, Okocha, amokach, Ikpebai! NIgeria had some great players between 94 and 98. Back then, those guys played for pride first beefore money. I'm cameroonian, but in 1998 during the world cup, I supported Nigeria with all my heart. I was crushed when Denmark beat them out.
Amonike, olishe, Kanu......
Adepoju
we love cameroon too...mboma..ndiefi...olembe......its all love bro
As a Nigerian, I must say that Denmark team was one of the most underrated National teams ever
The Golden Age. The most fearsome squad ever assembled on the African continent, that 94 Super Eagles team. Yekini, Amunike, Okocha, Finidi, Eguaevhon, Rufai, Oliseh, Amokachi, Adepoju, Okpara, Siasia, Uche, Lawal, Keshi, Babangida, Babayaro, etc. They could have gone all the way if not for man's jealousy towards his brother and the foolishness of pride and senseless ego of some so called professionals. Why did they scheme against Yekini and were not passing him balls after the first game? It pains me so much that this generation couldn't complete what Cameroon started in 1990.
Love from GHANA
I name you the wisest man watching african football teams ... you have great understanding of this game plus you are not bayas.. God bless you
If you noticed, that still happens within African national teams, selfishness, greedy, I must be the scorer, generally backward thinking just like their leaders too / politicians. Pls compare that to the Europeans or South American teams. It’s in the blood bro
I think Yekini was marked out by the opposition
@@hobbybear2585 Lazy Generalisation
another great african National team was Senegal of 2002... great players like diouf diop fadiga kamara cisse coly diao...they were very technical, too...
Respect to Sunday from Ethiopia!
Nigeria of the 90s is the best african football team ever...
The 1976-1980 Super eagles may have been the most talented Nigerian team with players like Segun Odegbami, Christian Chukwu, Muda Lawal, Adokie Amezemaka ,Felix Owolabi and many more.These guys were so talented and won championships even without the benefit of real professional training. For us who know though,they were a joy to watch.
Correct, sir.
MUDA LAWAL!!!!!
kansascityrocky true but their talented was not tested like the class of 1994 .. the 1994 eagles surprised the world but nobody knew the 1976-1980 eagle beyond the african continent and Nigeria .. talent not tested on international stage .. 1994 remains the greatest.. taking the Nigerian flag 🇳🇬 to the World Cup alone shows how special they were .. God bless them and their families ..
Very touching!!! Hope i can represent Nigeria one day
Stevie Ojr
of course bro just bring it on
Follow your dreams...no one will stop you.
Keep dreaming ❤️
@@stephenchigozie7466 t frwsh
Okocha, amokachi, Kanu, my favorites, what a team... greetings from North Carolina.
In my opinion Nigeria '94 were the best African team to ever participate in the world cup. Even though they never made it to the quarter finals like Cameroon, Senegal or Ghana their game was far superior. Pele wasn't wrong when predicting that Brazil would play against Nigeria in the final match of USA '94.
Senegal 2002 was the best ever African team at a WC. Technique, physicality you name it.
@@lilmbaye29 It was a great team but not close to Nigeria '94 or Cameroon '90.
r.i.p yekini
Best nigerian squad ever with a balance between defense and offense, speed ,wing play and great strikers ikpeba amokachi and goal king yekini amunike and finidi on the wings solid midfield oliseh and okocha and defense with West okechukwu. Rufai the goalie was always our weak link. We could have won the world cup that year. We were on fire.2 mins away from defeating italy
You are absolutely correct. Nigeria could and should have played Brazil in the final match of USA '94.
Oliseh, Okocha, Amokachi, Babangida, George, Babayaro, Kanu...this was my favorite team to play in the old games like ISS Pro and PES later on on the PS1 :D. What a great team that was.
This team still gives goosebumps lol Hopefully we can get to this standard again.
LOVE NIGERIA-TOP TEAM AT THAT TIME IN AFRIKA
Top once again in africa after ending Cameroon hopes n qualifying first from africa...
I hope I'll play for Nigeria 🇳🇬🙏
what happened to Nigeria and African soccer a painful demise.
Nigeria will win afcon 2019
From kenya
the best Nigerian team till date. that group i pray one day Nigeria can produce a team like that again.
RIP Rasheed Yekini, Stephen Keshi and goalkeeper Wilfred 😭😭😭
I loved the super eagles from then till today.
Beautiful generation!!! Great and talented guys that changed the idea of the game play status back then!! Being Mexican, I always enjoyed and supported this crazy players with their revolutionary creativity to take the Ball and Respect it... Missing this African talents
Respect to Sir Sunday from Ghana
Yes .... That's what our present squad lacks. They think they're doing us a favor by representing us rather than a service.
Seyi 116 a few national teams are like that
That's the reality during those years the guys were covered up by pride Not money. All pledges n allegiance were directed towards their nation, people, n continent n not again money n myself.
Multiple blessing
This is the greatest team ever assembled by any Afrikan team and by right we were suppose to win this world cup 94. Though I was very young but I remember this tournament vividly and when we were knocked out of the quarter finals I was crushed couldn't eat and cried about a week.
Each time I see Sunday Oliseh, I am reminded of his debut against Senegal in 2002 African Nations Cup we co-hosted with Ghana. It was quarter finals' march, I suppose. We were a goal down. Prior to the match we knew Oliseh would not play because of Malaria fever. Well, the coach put his team captain in the bench. Seeing Oliseh in the sideline watching the game with all apprehension as most Nigerians do was adorable. In fact, he persuaded the coach, we hoped, to play in the last quarter minutes. In less than five minutes of his introduction Oliseh provided the genius long pass to Aghahowa who netted the equaliser. Thereafter we dominated the game with a winning goal. Oliseh marked out the best footballer ever in the annals of football in USA 94. And that his and colleagues' first world outing. Argentina could not score against us, except in a dead ball situation. If he had played in the semi-finals against Brazil in Atlanta '96, I'm convinced we wouldn't have gone that extra mile to beat Brazil.
Oliseh's generation of national players was Nigeria's best. They were world class players. Perhaps, Mikel would match, or better put surpass, the ranks if we qualified for the next world cup.
How could he have debuted for Nigeria in 2002 if he played in the World Cup in 1994?
It was 2000 African Nations Cup that we co-hosted with Ghana. Get ur facts right!
English ain't your first language I presume
Okocha,Amokachi,Finidi, Amunike,kanu,Oliseh,Rufai are some of our greatest ⚽
Thank you for releasing this :)
Wow! This is a memory. I was in secondary school that year we played Italy in USA '94. I still remembered it just like yesterday. I could not eat my food that night. It was just like the whole house lost someone. It took me some weeks before I could get over the shock because we are already celebrating our qualifications to the quarter-finals. Sooooo painful! But all is history now. Let the next generation learn from this.
I was born and raised
in Nigeria
bob bobson so!!!
Haha, truer words were never spoken by the sons of that great nation. :)
That Nigerian team made ma love football
Nigeria, football has been the only thing that unites us.
Godwin James Apuede and the Fulani Herdsmen!!
Una selección maravillosa
Thats why oliseh got 9/99 shot power in winning eleven
One of the best team in African history they qualified to round 16 in world cup 1994 and 1998
Nigeria is similiar to Norway then, in the aspect of having one golden generation of players in the 90's, and not being able to reproduce their success.
As well as Bulgaria and Romania
José María Gonzaléz and hungary and sweden
+mikhail rascalov specially Hungary,two times 2nd placers and then disappeared abruptly after the 1980's......who would have thought the would end like this.
José María Gonzaléz yeah unbelievable, Imagine a Brazil, Germany or Argentina living that problem
uberjens We had another great team from 1976 to about 1981. The only problem is that Africa was only allowed one team in the World cup back then. Nigerian players never went overseas to play professionally back then, but that team had some great players that you guys may never hear about today because of the poor quality of the video of those games. Their biggest achievement was winning the 1980 African cup of Nations trophy. Talent wise though that team stacks up equally, if not even better than the 90s squad.
Arguably the 2 most talented players in the '94 and '98 squads were Emmanuel Amunike and Findi George
Babayaro, Babangida, Ikpeba, West, Finidi,
tiago anibal joao kanu
Omeokachi & Amunike.
Let's go! 2018 is the comeback season.
NijaBoiTellEm Tyra lets go Senegal!!!!
Slim Pickens I'm for any African nation. Nigeria just comes first haha.
Toute me respecte le Nigeria de Rachid yekeni
I remember that oliseh strike like yesterday.
Best african team Ever!!!
I'AM A BLACK AMERICAN WOMAN
BORN AND RAISED IN NYC.
I KEEP ASKING THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE..........
COULD THEY PLEASE TELL ME IF THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA COULD EVER BE A POSSIBLE SITE FOR ...THE OLYMPIC GAMES? ....
I HAVE YET TO RECEIVE AN ANSWER😏
IS THIS ANYONE ELSE'S DREAM
TO SEE THE OLYMPIC GAMES HELD ON THE CONTINENT?.......IF IT IS.... I SUGGEST YOU START TEXTING AND EMAILING THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE.
IT'S ABOUT REACHING AFRICANS WHEREVER THEY ARE......
YOU FEEL ME?
PEACE
Belive me, organising such events like World Cup or Olympics Games is waste of money. I don't think it's good idea for african countries. And remember you can not force someone to organise OG, in whole history was only 2 candiate cities from Africa (Alexandria and Cape Town). Actually I think olympic games should be organised every 4 year in Greece nowhere else.
Carol Crowley It took like forever before the World Cup was hosted on African soil in South Africa. There are several countries that can host the Olympic Games conveniently in Africa but they'll never allow it.
Oluwaseun Adeleye hosting big events like the Olympics and World Cup is more often than not a financial disaster for the host country
this was when our super eagles lived up to their name, the present squad is terrible... I can't wait for our eaglets to replace them, they look like a more promising team.
Uzoamaka Joe-Nkamuke lol, Eaglets like Francis Uzoho? 😂
This was good team. Jjj okocha
One day. I know I'll represent this country Nigeria. So help me.God
The greatest Nigeria's WC team (A) : 1 Rufai - 2 Yobo, 5 Uche, 6 West, 3 Babayaro - 15 Oliseh - 7 Finidi, 10 Okocha, 11 Amunike - 4 Kanu, 14 Amokachi. team (B) : 16 Shorunmu, 22 Enyeama - 21 Okpara, 12 Keshi, 17 Eguavoen - 8 Adepoju, 18 Oruma, 19 Lawal - 13 Babangida, 9 Yekini, 20 Ikpeba.
Lawal would be in team A. He is the mid field workhorse...
The French say “Il faut cadrer”...LOL
No doubt, this was a strong squad but The 2002 Senegal squad & 2010 Ghana squad were also great...Now which African squad will emerge this year 2018? Egypt, Nigeria or Senegal?
dossube France?
Sunday’s strikes was like a anti air missile
They were the team to use in video games
That Celebration of Yekini in the net.....pure passion
I still remember that strike
Sadly didn't seen them play, born in 96
Nigerians are still holding on to this after all these years
The best of Nigeria still.....
1980s camaroon 1990s nigeria after 2000 ghana
Politics and corruption killed what the team could have accomplished at the end. Still the greatest ever. 🦅
How so?
Typical African excuses
Peter Rufai!!!!!!!!
Nigeria master race!
Skrax The Fulani Herdsmen!!!!
من پلی استیشن بازی میکردم و تیم نیجریه رو بر میداشتم فقط به خاطره شوتهایه قوی اموکاچی و روزی که شنیدم همه این بازیکنا بجز یک نفر داشتن واسه مسابقات میرفتن و هواپیماشون سقوط کرده و همشون جونشون رو از دست دادن خیلی ناراحت شدم 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 از خداوند میخوام که روحشان در ارامش باشه
The Super Eagles👍🏽
It is time for Nigeria to reach the world Cup Quarter final
Time for Nigeria to win world cup
Okocha was accused of too much dribbling 😂and was always on the bench didn't solidify his spot in the team until the 1994 round of 16 against Italy where he recorded the most successful dribble ever by a single player in a world cup match.i miss watching okocha I no go lie.
Rispect all pleyres
The best ever
🤗🤗🤗
Those days playing for Nigeria meant something.
nigeria.gode.taim.je.me.rapel.de.ca.je regarde.c.matche.a abdjane.diallo.le.guinene.de geneve.suisse.bravo.
Tijani babangida speed 97 😁
It was avery very ammazing generation
Nigeria was so close to beating Italy in 1994 but was unlucky. Nigeria were also unlucky to draw Italy in the first place, every single team in Italy's group finished on 4 points and the same goal difference.
beautiy , king realey African in Nigeria
respect to d death Sunni Abacha Single handedly Destroyed Nigeria Football it's a fact
Kola,
I want to ask the same question. Is it a coincidence that the Eagles performed very well during the Abacha rule?
Yes, I agree... The ban on the Super Eagles as a sanction for General Abacha's draconian rule kinda dampened the transition of the team to the France '98 World Cup.
Wasky Henry Westerhoff deserves a lot of credit. He gave the players believe.
I am from Nigeria 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Victor Ikpaepa and captain sunday oliseh
The best african national team in history....
RIP Rashidi Yekini 💔
Amokachi
🇳🇬
There was a generation.
Today they were playing like they came to a concert for wizkid. No passion.
Hoping nxt week would be different
duduoshunn they really tried
duduoshunn wiz who???
That's the attitude about everything in the country generally. You have workers both private and public acting like they are doing you favors in the course of performing their duties. Also politicians see the citizens as nuisances preventing them from stealing . And whenever they give crumbles in public or social services they act as if there are helping them.
times when football was still football
That's a missile from oliseh....
Super Eagles before but now super chickens
Chijioke Eze what?!
Can we make this great country better again?