Rufai Critical of Regular Invitation Of New Players To Super Eagles


Legendary Nigeria goalkeeper Peter Rufai says Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr is ‘not getting it right’ with the regular invitation of new players to the team, adding that ‘the national team is not a place where you keep changing players’.

Rohr has struggled to present a familiar first team since taking charge in August, 2016 and has often invited new players – especially those born and bred abroad – to the team.

Ahead of last month’s friendly matches against African champions Algeria and Tunisia in Austria, the former Gabon and Burkina Faso coach handed fresh invitations to eight new players including Matthew Yakubu, Kevin Akpoguma, Chidera Ejuke, Zaidu Sanusi and Frank Onyeka. Lugano goalkeeper Sebastian Osigwe was also a fresh invitee as Nigeria drew two matches against Sierra Leone in a recently-concluded 2021 AFCON qualifying double-header.

But the 57-year-old ex-Eagles captain, who was in goal for Nigeria at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups, says Rohr is following a wrong path.

“At this point, we are really not getting it right when it comes to players that ought to be called to the national team,” the former Deportivo de La Coruna goalkeeper said.

“The national team is not a place where you keep changing players; one match, another player, next match, another player after two months, another player after three months. No.

“National team positions are positions given to the best players in such positions, and those players can be substituted only when there are needs. And before these needs arise, the coaches and technical team must have screened round the country to find alternatives and communicate with the coach who trains these players and collect a report of assessment from these coaches about these players, not about what he (the national team coach) is seeing.”


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At this point everyone is seeing the lapses of coach Gernot Rohr

We can't sacrifice Nigeria for the benefit of a German..... And amaju pinnick



The obvious should be done..... A coach is as good as his last game..



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'Gernot Rohr is the worst coach in Nigeria history' – Yakubu Aiyegbeni slams German tactician

After criticising the German tactician, the former Super Eagle believes many of the players in the team are just not up to standard
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Yakubu Aiyegbeni believes coach Gernot Rohr and a significant proportion of Nigeria's national team players are not fit to wear the famous green and white shirt in the wake of their outing against Sierra Leone.

In the recent Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against the Leone Stars, the Super Eagles surrendered a four-goal lead in the first leg to settle for a 4-4 draw, while the return leg in Freetown ended 0-0, with Rohr’s team looking off the pace in both games.

Even with the draws, the three-time African champions lead Group L with eight points from four games – although their qualification hopes for Cameroon 2020 is on ice.

Questions have been asked of those calling the shots in the Super Eagles squad and important decisions made on and off the field.

And Aiyegbeni, who is Nigeria’s third highest scoring player of all time believes the German tactician must take the brunt of the blame for the poor form.


“The coach is not good enough, let him go,” the former Maccabi Haifa, Everton and Portsmouth striker said on Lagos Talks.

“Some of the boys are not good enough, I don’t know where they are bringing them from. Who is inviting these players?

“Our football is getting worse every day. When I was there, people criticise us, but we’re way better than these ones.

“The coach is not good enough, no clue. Gernot Rohr is one of the worst coaches in our history. He is not good enough.”

Former Gabon and Etoile du Sahel manager Rohr replaced Sunday Oliseh as the country’s permanent handler in 2016. He led the Super Eagles to the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia, where they crashed out of a group that had Argentina, Iceland and Croatia.

He was also in charge when Nigeria placed third at the Egypt 2019 Afcon - where they pipped Tunisia 1-0 for the bronze medal.

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