Former coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has celebrated the milestone achieved by Nigeria international winger Moses Simon at French Ligue 1 side Nantes after he clocked 200 appearances for the club.
Simon who have been at the club since 2019 when he initially joined on loan before making a permanent switch the next season from Levante was once again pivotal to the club maintaining their top flight status.
He picked up a goal and an assist in the 3-0 win over Montpellier that kept them away from the drop zone and took his season’s tally to 10 assists and 8 goals. Only two players in the league had more assists than the 29 year old in the recently concluded season.
Looking back at his performance since joining the club, Rohr said no Nigerian player has stayed that consistent in the French Ligue 1 for a sustained period like Simon. A feat which made him to rank the Kaduna born forward as the best ever Nigerian player in the history of the league.
Widely expected to leave the club in the summer his goal tally of 79 in 200 games is something that Rohr sees as a huge feat, considering the size of the club he is playing for in the placement of French football.
” A lot of Nigerian players have played here and made really good memories but Simon is different. He will go down as one of the best ever in the history of Nantes and also to me the best Nigerian player ever in the history of Ligue 1″, Rohr told OwnGoalNigeria.com.
” He ( Simon) has survived so many coaches at the club and sources will tell you he is the best behaved in the team. The numbers are there and when you look at where Nantes were before he came then you will understand better. Remember he helped them to win the French Cup”, the coach of Benin Republic concluded.
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