The Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) says it won't be held to ransom by the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr whose contract will expire next year. Rohr signed a contract extension last year keeping him in Nigeria till June 2020 but that coincides with when Nigeria will ... Read more...
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has told Nigerian players at the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations to give their best as a place in the senior national team could be available. Rohr paid a solidarity visit to the camp of the national U23 team in Ismailia, Egypt, where they are preparing for the tourname... Read more...
Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr will hand future call ups to promising winger Viv-Efosa Solomon-Otabor. The CSKA Sofia forward was given a debut Super Eagles call-up to replace injured Samuel Kalu for the friendly game against Brazil. He was very impressive during the few days in trainin... Read more...
Coach Gernot Rohr has dismissed suggestions that he instructed the Super Eagles players to throw away their final 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Group B game against Madagascar. With the Super Eagles already through to the knockout rounds following wins against Burundi and Guinea in their opening tw... Read more...
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has frowned at English Premier League club Chelsea for not letting defender Kenneth Omeruo leave with ease. Rohr said Chelsea is demanding €8m for Omeruo, which he believes it's too much. Omeruo joined Chelsea in 2012 but has not played a competitive match for... Read more...
Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr intends to honour his contract with the Nigeria Football Federation , though the German has acknowledged “ both parties need to be happy ” according to a top source, Sports Extra has gathered . Rohr guided the Eagles to a third -place finish at the 2019 Af... Read more...
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has described the retirement of both Captain Mikel Obi and striker Odion Ighalo from international football at the close of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as a bitter pill to swallow, even as he commended both players for their meritorious services to the Supe... Read more...
Despite the hues and cries by many Nigerians to the Nigeria Football Federation NFF to relieve Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr of is duties, there are indications that the federation might not bow to the pressure as the NFF President, Amaju Pinnick has stated that the German coach will not be sacke... Read more...
Super Eagles Coach Gernot Rohr has admitted that his team lost to a better side in the semi-finals of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Egypt on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Riyad Mahrez’s goal from a free-kick at the edge of the box, with seconds left to pla... Read more...
By Segun Odegbami Let me recount the last sentence in my diary posting yesterday concerning the match last night between Nigeria and Algeria: ‘There is only a single warning for the Eagles – take very good care of a left-footed player playing on the right side of the Algerian atta... Read more...