Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has called up 23 players for the Super Eagles of Nigeria AFCON 2022 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers games against Benin Republic and Lesotho respectively.
The coach made this known in an interview with Sportinglife newspaper while speaking for preparations ahead of the games which Nigeria need two points from a possible six to qualify for the tournament in Cameroon
He also confirmed that he will have at least five players on standby for the games as precaution in the event that any of the player in the original list is unavailable for the game.
“ We will have a list of 23 players with some standby players. You know it is difficult actually to make plans or programmes with this Covid 19 for traveling because of so many restrictions everywhere.
“ There will be standby players but we are sure there will be 23 players for the two games”, he concluded.
