Cyberbullying, threatening to kill Nigerian players after release in AFCON | Football Stories

Yaounde, Cameroon – The elimination of the Nigerian Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in the last 16 by Tunisia has been a huge blow to the team’s fans.

The Super Eagles were not only interested in winning the tie, but also going to the final, where the prospect of a game against the hosts Cameroon was imminent.

The basis for that confidence was a very good team campaign – the Augustine Eguavoen team had picked up nine possible points and scored two goals in each game.

But the 1-0 defeat of 10 Nigerians was the team’s first failure to reach the eighth AFCON final since 1984.

What he did was evidently hot. In particular, the two men were selected to commit the most heinous crimes, most of them in abomination.

Apparently seduced by Youssef Msakni low, a 16-match winner, goalkeeper Maduka Okoye was mixed with Nigerian fans on social media with comments from viewing his appearance to the death of him and his loved ones.

One comment announced his death in a plane crash within a month; another posed a hidden threat if Okoye returned to Nigeria.

One of the users asked God to guide the ball family and accused him of making matches.

Okoye had no choice but to block comments on Instagram posts.

Alex Iwobi, a substitute for the second half, was shown a red card within five minutes of launching an unknown stamp. He also faced many challenges online. In response, she kept all of her Instagram posts.

The response to the hostility and violence that took place within the Nigerian camp was immediate and unacceptable.

“People need to be prudent and not turn their frustrations into hate speech and intimidation of other players,” coach Eguavoen told Al Jazeera.

“These players gave everything and there is no way you can call them guilty. Playing in Nigeria comes with a lot of challenges, but you can’t harass, intimidate or harass someone for protecting the country’s reputation because you have the opportunity to visit. This is wrong and wrong. ”

Nantes winner Moses Simon, who was the target of comments not related to the game at AFCON, highlighted a memorable aspect of the story: players read these comments and it affects their heart and emotions.

“The players are people too,” said Simon. “When you insult or intimidate someone, it weakens them and stops doing bad things. I have also been subjected to insults and abuse. But as a player, you can continue to give your best all the time. “

I predicted that Nigeria, Cameroon and Senegal would go far. As it stands, two of them have made the final. Nigeria came out. # AFCON2021

-JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) January 30, 2022

At the heart of that concept is the perception that players are either less careful and less money in the team.

This seems to be part of the atrocities that befell Okoye, who was born in Dusseldorf and had just started in the world at the end of 2019.
Reports from the locker room indicate otherwise.

A day after the crash, photographers spotted Ola Aina staring at her hotel porch.

“He [Aina] he was devastated by the defeat and torture he received. But I told him ‘you have had an amazing race’, “defender Kenneth Omeruo, who plays Okoye at the game, revealed.

Disabling their online social media accounts as a way to save negative thoughts is the only way players seem to have it.

“One of the things I do after such competitions is to stop my social media because you find people who, some of them don’t even know football,” added Omeruo.

This brutality in the Nigerian exit was a bit strange, especially considering the prospect of coming to the race was low.

A home defeat against Central African Republic number 124 in October was followed by a draw against Cape Verde a month later.

Former coach Gernot Rohr, who has been in charge for more than five years, was removed from his post in mid-December and accepted by the club at a much lower level.

But after the technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Eguavoen was given the role of head of AFCON, fans prepared for the crisis.

What he found instead was a quick, successful ball – especially in the team, with the Super Eagles working diligently with seven African African champions Egypt, beating Sudan for sure and turning Guinea-Bissau into the second round.

As the system improved, expectations and expectations grew again.

Nigeria has performed very well this year # AFCON2021 the more we watch the more we realize that the game against Tunisia we lost is a big problem, I feel a lot of pain. That team would have won. #TimuNigeria

– Xceptional Jhydefash ⛑ 🦅💡🦍 (@ jhydefash78) January 30, 2022

The depressing description painted a picture of the culture of Nigerian fans and the general public.

There are no strong laws to protect people from cyber bullying in Nigeria. Cyberstalking is a case against the Nigerian government and the practice of cyberbullying, blackmail / seizure and retrieval of pornography.

Former Nigeria international Yakubu Aiyegbeni is the third-highest scorer in the world.

His open-air missions against South Korea at the 2010 World Cup tarnished his image in front of Nigerian fans until last year.

“Sometimes when I sit in a restaurant, people always do the same thing,” says Aiyegbeni. “I have to tell them, ‘Please, let’s all eat and go home, we can’t talk about what happened 11 years ago’.

“I have received threats and sometimes very powerful ones. I have been doing all I can to help my country, but this is amazing. ”

In 2018, former Watford and Manchester United player Odion Ighalo was about to leave international football after receiving death threats – targeted at himself and his family – online.

It was followed by Nigeria’s defeat to Argentina in Russia in 2018, when Ighalo missed out on a 1-1 draw.

Eguavoen himself admitted in 2019 that fans are still pressuring him to receive an extra-time penalty against Italy at the 1994 World Cup that saw Nigeria eliminated.

Following Tunisia’s defeat earlier this month, Eguavoen tried to calm down by picking up some of the mistakes in selecting the team and asking for some of the referee’s choices.

But he knows that such thinking does not really affect people’s thinking.