Trae Days

My fellow soccer freaks I hail oh! The 25th African Cup of Nations: Egypt 2006 is nearer than you think. And our dear own Super Eagles take the field for their first match against Ghana on January 23rd. As you must know the team list for the tournament has since been released. my prediction was 78% correct; 18 players I named in my list made the final 23 squad. Not bad hey?

Anyway the main gist for today is that we all should get ready for a 4-3-3 formation in Egypt. Because going by the team list released, that’s the formation coach Eguavoen is going to make the Eagles play. Traditionally the Eagles play a diamond 4-4-2 formation. However Eguavoen has switched to a 4-3-3 formation in his last two games against Algeria and Zimbabwe. The team list with the player’s squad number is like this:

1) Enyeama Vincent
2) Yobo Joseph
3) Taiwo Taye
4) Kanu Nwankwo
5) Odiah Chidi
6) Enakarhire Joseph
7) Utaka John
8.) Mikel John Obi
9) Obafemi Martins
10) Okocha Austin
11) Lawal Garba
12) Ejide Austin
13) Ayila Yussuf
14) Nsofor Obinna
15) Obiefule Paul
16) Oruma Wilson
17) Aghahowa Julius
18) Obodo Christian
19) Makinwa Ayodele
20) Odemwingie Osaze
21) Nwaneri Obinna
22) Kaita Sani
23) Aiyenugba Dele

Too bad Ifeanyi Udeze opted out of the squad. We’ll miss him; at least he would have been a good cover for Taye Taiwo. Paul Obiefule is the odd man out if you ask me, he’s a defensive midfielder! But sha i hear he can also function as a right back (he even played some games for Nigeria as an attacking mid-filelder), that means he’s a cover for Odiah. Over all the squad is great. In my opinion it’s the most talented Super Eagles squad that has ever been chosen for a tournament. Anyways this is how they’ll play. Against each position is the squad number of the player(s) most likely to play them.

–left wing forward(17,19)———-center forward(9,4,14)————-right wing forward(7,20)–
——-left attacking midfielder(10,16)———–right attacking midfielder(18,8)——————–
————————————-defensive midfielder(13,22)—————————————–
—-left full back(3,11)————————————————————-right full back(5,15)——-
————left center back(21,6)———————-right center back(2)———————-
——————————————–goal keeper(1,12,23)———————————————-

Some people think life is black,
Some people think it’s white,
We all know it’s black and white,
FORZA JUVE!!!

That goes out to c0dec and Chxta my Juventus FC crazy friends. I like Juventus too but only for one reason…They got Trezeguet (somehow he’s my namesake) in their team…and he dons the number 17 jersey (my favourite number)!

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