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The clamor for more Nigerian born players to be co-opted into the Super Eagles set up reached a crescendo when Ghana and Senegal successfully adopted foreign born players into their squads which yielded tremendous results and improvement in the overall quality of their play. 9jafooty.blogspot.com combed Europe and other parts of the world for players with Nigerian blood who are eligible for any of our national teams. The list contains players who are either born in Nigeria, but bred abroad or have a Nigerian parent. In a four part special, 9jafooty.blogspot.com brings you some of the talented Nigerian-born players abroad who can do the business for Nigeria at different levels. BERNIE IBINI-ISIE Bernie Ibini-Isie (pix courtesy ccm.au) (Born 12 September 1992, to Nigerian parents, in  Rivers State, Nigeria ). He emigrated to Australia with his parents when he was a kid. He grew up in the suburbs of Wester

How i would line the team up. a 4-3-3 system with Kabiru Umar just behind Chikeluba Ofoedu and Sibi Gwar I haven't watched all the games, but from the what i have seen this season and reports from NPL bloggers and journos alike, i have drawn my NPL All Star team for the current campaign, bar any outstanding performance from any other player, this might be my team of the season, but hey, i could be wrong, let me know what you think and come up with yours so we can have a clean banter

  1. We are a work in progress, in fact we are just starting, we have a long way to go. The team needs a bit more tinkering, from the defence down to the attack. 2. John Utaka is not a winger, once again, Keshi decided to tow the line of various coaches, John has and will always be a central striker, that's how he started at UNTH and Ismaili, yes , he is versatile, but his best can only be gotten through the middle. 3. Steven Keshi is the ''boss'', yes i dare say, since Clemence Westerhof nobody,i repeat nobody has had the guts to play a decent amount of home based professionals in a competitive game, he must be supported by Nigerians. 4. There are no more small teams in Africa nay the world, yes, you must have heard such a cliche before, but it just became more apparent during the game, we need to push more and burn the grass more, no guts no glory. 5. Ahmed Musa is an impact player for now, playing him from the start won't play to his strengths, maybe lat