Gernor Rohr
The hope of getting a call-up into the senior national team as the country prepares for the 2018 world cup seams bleak for the Nigerian Professional League Players.
The Super Eagles Manager-Gernot Rohr- yesterday hinted that he was not comfortable with the age factor of the Nigerian home based players pointing that as the reason why they rarely get call up to the national team.
Though Rohr started by including at least one home based player in his squad but has failed to name any of them in the 3-1 win over Algeria and the recent friendly against Senegal in London.
Goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa was the only home based player to have find favour in the Franco-German coach, but even at that, he has found games hard to come by as the third choice shot stopper.
This does not in anyway mean the door is shot on best players in the league.
” The door is always open for the best players. The Nigeria League players must prove themselves with the CHAN team first, because at the moment we have a winning team, so the home based players must prove they deserve a place in the team”, Rohr said in an interview on radio.
” There is an existing problem with Nigeria based players. We cannot tell their real age.”
This has however generated hit up debate.
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