Rohr was sacked to avert a disaster in Nigeria’s future outing at championships, says NFF President, Amaju Pinnick
By Uzor Odigbo
Moments after the official termination of the contract of Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr, President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, has revealed the reason he was sacked.
Rohr was shown the exit door on Sunday by the football body after spending 5 years in charge of the team.
Pinnick said on Sunrise Sports on Channels television on Monday that they sacked Rohr to avert the disaster that was waiting to happen.
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” It wasn’t an individual decision; it was a collective decision from the committee.
“We didn’t want a disaster to happen before taking the decision,” he said.
Nigeria’s Super Eagles next competitive game will be against Egypt at the 2021 African Cup of Nations in Cameroon
NFF still owing Gernot Rohr
Pinnick has also confirmed that the Federation is still owing the former head coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles Gernot Rohr few months salaries.
After weeks of speculations, the football body on Sunday confirmed the sacking of the Franco-German gaffer as the coach of Super Eagles.
While speaking about the recent development on Channels television on Monday, Pinnick said they will pay the debt in the next few months.
” We are owing him a couple of monies and they will be cleared off (in) five months,” he said.
Rohr spent 5 years as the coach of Super Eagles and led the team to two major tournaments; World Cup in Russia 2018 and AFCON 2019 in Egypt
Rohr, born June 28, 1953, is a German professional football manager and former player who until his sack, was the manager of the Nigerian national team.
In 1996, he managed Girondins de Bordeaux to the UEFA Cup final, where they lost to Bayern Munich over two legs, 0–2 away and 1–3 at home. Bordeaux’s run to the final included a famous 3–0 win over AC Milan in the quarter-finals. From October 1998 until April 1999, he was sports director of Eintracht Frankfurt.