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Eneramo a Super Eagle After All?

January 14th, 2009 | By: Rami | 31 Comments »

The Michael Eneramo debate took on a new dimension today as the leading scorer of the Tunisian league (13 goals in 15 games) has been called up to represent Nigeria when they face off against Jamaica on the 11th of February. With Obafemi Martins and Yakubu both out for a considerable amount of time, its no wonder that the Super Eagles are calling on some untested talent to shore up their squad.

The selection does beg the question of whether or not the Nigerian Federation went ahead with this simply to rule out the possibility of him ever playing under our colors. It’s not certain but definitely within the realm of possibility. Our failure to convince Hatem Ben Arfa notwithstanding, we’ve become pretty good at this ourselves. It’ll be interesting to see how Eneramo reacts to this after assuring the Tunisian public that he would accept a call up from the FTF as soon as he received it.

Meanwhile, if he accepts (which I expect he will) and Nigeria’s injury woes at striker continue to mount, our boys could very well be facing Michael in our crucial home and away qualifiers against the West African outfit. Will this be an advantage or a disadvantage? On one hand, Eneramo knows our style of play, mentality, language, and players. On the other, we know his strengths and weaknesses.

Whatever the case, it definitely adds to the storyline. Speaking of Eneramo, check out this nifty move he pulled against Hammam Sousse.

Geste Michael Eneramo contre Hammam Sousse de pret
Uploaded by hamma2b4u

In Other News

Amine Chermiti seems well and truly liberated by his first goal for Hertha as our youngster added another one in a friendly versus Freibourg. His was the only goal for Hertha on the day as they ended up tying 1-1 off his equalizer. Let’s hope this continues!

Tags: Amine Chermiti, Esperance, FTF, Group H, Michael Eneramo, Nigeria Football Federation, Super Eagles

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By Abdullah | January 15th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

http://africanfootball.mtnfootball.com/live/content.php?Item_ID=17660

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By Achraf | January 16th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Good News today everyone for our national team. Karime Haggui is back to his team and participated in his first match in a friendly in a long time and played very well. Very happy to hear this because we will need him.

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By Abdullah | January 16th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

they won 6-0

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By Rachid | January 17th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Tunisia, the only Arab country to win during the second day of the Handball WorldCup in Croatia!
http://www.kooora.com/default.aspx?showarticle=45246&obj=0

By thamer | January 17th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

it wasnt against strong competition, if they can beat russia, germany or poland, then we can celebrate

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By Yassine | January 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

Germany 26-24 Tunisia
Painful to watch, especially when Tunisia lead 6-1 in the first 10 minutes.

By Abdullah | January 18th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Let’s hope they do better against Russia

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By Skander | January 19th, 2009 at 8:38 am

I live in a place where there’s a lot of trees (a small forest) haha and i can only watch tv7 tunis in astra, neither nilesat or hotbird?

Do anyone of you know if there’s a livestream on the game today?

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By Skander | January 19th, 2009 at 9:24 am

so please can anyone post a link, myp2p works but the picture goes off after a while..

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By Rachid | January 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am

Thamer, You did not think Macedonia was strong competition, but they just beat Poland. I’m hopeful about our chances. No matter what happens, though, Tunisia can be considered to have same qualities as advanced, European teams! The numbers strongly suggest that. Let’s hope one day we can say the same thing about their football counterparts!

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By Yassine | January 19th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Skander DSF will certainly air the game

By thamer | January 19th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

poland had a bad game against macedonia just like germany had a bad game against us. i agree with you that tunisia can give top european a run for their money, but tunisia losing to the world champions by two goals was an accident and isnt likely to happen again. i hope im wrong, but i just prefer not to get my hopes up.

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By Skander | January 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am

thanks yassine, can anyone tell me where Sahbi Ben Aziza is?, have he quit playing hanball, cause he didn’t play in 2007 and not now either???

Thanks

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By Skander | January 20th, 2009 at 8:23 am

And is it the top 3 teams of the group that qualifies for the next round?

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By Yassine | January 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am

Yes the top 3 teams of each group qualify. Qualifying became more difficult after yesterday’s loss but it’s still possible.
I don’t know if ben Aziza has quit playing but he isn’t included in the team
http://wch09cro.ihf.info/exchange/croatia/pdf/TUN-R.pdf

By tounsi | January 20th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

stop talking about handball please:D

i have a question..who can tell me about chikhaoui’s knee injury ?
is he going to make it on time for the match against Holland??
even if he does..i dont think he’ll be that good as we would expact him to be..but thats normal

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By thamer | January 20th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

he wont be picked, i can tell you that much.

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By Yassine | January 21st, 2009 at 6:27 am

Thamer why are you so sure that Chikhaoui won’t be called up for the Holland freindly?

By tounsi | January 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am

yeah why are u so sure?? even if he plays only 30 minutes that’s no problem:)

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By Rami | January 21st, 2009 at 9:35 am

I’m leaning with Thamer on this one. I haven’t seen him play any part in any competitive match yet besides the training with his team. Some are even saying he got reinjured (just rumors so don’t freak out… yet) The match is in 3 weeks and if he doesn’t play in a real game from here on out then I seriously doubt he’d be taking part in such an important friendly. As much as I love Chikhaoui, I only want him back if he’s 100 percent and ready to go all out for us. Coelho is all for competitive players, unfortunately for us Chikhaoui does not belong in that category right now. Inshallah he returns to full health in due time.

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By Skander | January 21st, 2009 at 11:22 am

inchallah he does, beside that, anyone got a working link for Tunisia – Poland livestream.

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By thamer | January 21st, 2009 at 12:32 pm

what rami said, plus, zurich isnt going to allow him to play a friendly for tunisia when he they wont even let him play a friendly for their own team.

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By Abdullah | January 21st, 2009 at 2:24 pm

here skander http://www.atdhe.net/live-tv-2449.html

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By Achraf | January 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Here is who I think Coelho will call up
F- Allagui, chermiti, jemaa, essifi, santos
M- Belaid, Khallfallah, Ragued, Ben Yahia, Ben Saada, Darragi, Camus
D- Ben Freg, Boussaidi, Ghzal, Haggui, Mikari, Felhi, Ifa, Hammami
G- Mathlouthi, Khalloufi, Bejaoui

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By Achraf | January 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pm

oh yea I forgot Namouchi, I would replace him with Darragi.

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