Former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation’s Technical and Development Committee, Chris Green, says Gernot Rohr, manager of the Nigerian national football team has turned the Super Eagles to an average team under his tutelage.
Green said this during an online television programme on Friday.
Rohr, 67, has been in charge of the three-time African champions since 2016. He led the side to the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, where the team placed third.
Green, who remains unconvinced by the Franco-German competence, said with the quality of players in the national team, the Eagles should be a force to reckon with globally.
He said, “We are far from where we are supposed to be and average in the sense that with fantastic and talented players we are not getting the best out of these players technical-wise. First and foremost, I do not know his philosophy, the technical prowess he could exhibit in a game when faced with very stiff opposition.
“Ordinarily, with the kind of players we have, we should be a hard nut to crack when it comes to playing in Africa and globally. We got our worst result at the World Cup during his time and we couldn’t get to the second stage. With due respect to the Argentines, we had a lame Argentine team to beat because they were there for the taking, but of course, technically we lost it.
“We came to the Africa Cup of Nations and we also saw it coming when Madagascar beat us but we struggled to get to the semi-final but we also lost it again because of lack of technical depth in our team.”
