The head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has told sources close to Owngoalnigeria.com that he will continue in his role as coach of the team for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.
Rohr’s position as head coach was verbally terminated by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) but failure to reach a compromise on the financial terms of his disengagement made the football house to put the brakes on officially severing terms with him.
Now with the Africa Cup of Nations around three weeks away, the NFF have told Rohr that he should continue as coach of the team for the tournament with a target of winning the tournament as contained in his contract.
Failure to lift the tournament or get to the final will see his role as head coach come to an end but that too isn’t a guarantee because the play off for the final round of the World Cup qualifiers will be played one month after the tournament.
The NFF might decide to stick with the German for the two legged play off due to time constraints just as they have done now in letting him take the team to the Africa Cup of Nations ” Three weeks ago NFF told me to stop but now they requested that I should continue”, the coach was quoted as saying by a source very close to him.
