SHOCKING!!! No Nigerian In The World's Best 100 Footballers List???

To many Nigerian soccer fans and even the media, the Super Eagles are loaded to the hilt with super stars most of whom are plying their trade outside the nation's shores.

But the world appears to see our players differently, if a recent rating done by a US based sports media outfit, Bleacher Report is anything to go by.

Bleacher Report's list of the world best 100 soccer stars did not include any Nigerian player as only the likes of Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o, Coted Ivoire's duo of Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure and Ghana's Michael Essien were the African stars that made the big boys list.
As expected, Argentina's Lionel Messi was No.1 on the chart alongside his Barcelona team mates, Gerard Pique, Xavi, Andres Iniesta and David Villa.



The other first XI that made the list from outside Barcelona's camp were Real Madrid's Christian Ronaldo, Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic, Man City's Carlos Tevez, Bayern's Arjen Robben and Arsenal's Robin Van Persie.
Some of the other notable players that got on the world's best 100 list include
Wayne Rooney (13th), Cesc Fabregas, Wesley Sneijder, Nani, Angel Di Maria, Gareth Bale, Diego Forlan, and Landon Donovan.

The goalkeepers that made the list were Iker Casilas, Van Der Saar, Manuel Neuer and Petr Cech.
The US media used the performance of the players (current form) for club and country to rate the players. Another factor that came up for consideration was the rating of the clubs, which the players are featuring for.
Asked to comment on the rating, Soccer Star Editor, Kunle Solaja said the fact that no Nigerian player made the list did not come to him as a surprise.

He noted that Nigerian players are playing for lowly rated clubs, even as he warned that Nigerian players would in the near future not be making the cut at the African level.“The rating is one that should make those running the game in the country realize that our football is not just there at the moment,” Solaja declared.
It would be noted that most of the regulars in Super Eagles are playing for clubs that are struggling to survive relegation in Europe. Obinna Nsofor's West

Ham is going down alongside Obafemi Martins's Birmingham, Ike Uche's Real Zaragoza and Kalu Uche's Almeria. The only Nigerian “star” whose performance has been heartwarming is West Brom's
Osaze Odemwingie. West Brom is also one of the lowly rated clubs in the Premiership, a situation that would make Osaze's heroics not to be acknowledged.


Source:
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/sportsonthehour/2011/may/13/sportsbreak-13-05-2011-001.html

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Posted: at 13-05-2011 12:54 AM (13 years ago) | Addicted Hero

USA is not known big time for soccer to compile any credible list

Posted: at 13-05-2011 02:42 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 13-05-2011 05:26 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

USA don't know anything about soccer, so this is not a big deal

Posted: at 13-05-2011 07:44 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Very soon they clinch to that position, now that will have Siasia incharge

Posted: at 13-05-2011 08:19 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

usa no sabi play football now,how many usa player dem nominate tell me

Posted: at 13-05-2011 09:52 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie

Are you kidding me?!Yakubu Aiyegbeni should be on that list.lol

Posted: at 13-05-2011 10:32 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

...Super vultures!

At least if they published the names of the most corrupt politicians
in the world, Nigeria would be on the top.

Posted: at 13-05-2011 10:47 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming

i pray 4 victory like this every time

Posted: at 13-05-2011 11:10 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie

Its true they don't play the game too well,.. cos they have priorities, but when its comes to analysis and statistics' trust me nobody can do better than them.
I HAVE HOPE WE'LL BE IN THE LIST OF WORST PLAYERS, HAVING THE LIKES OF SANI KAITA....... LWKMH

Posted: at 13-05-2011 11:34 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming