Confirmation has been made by Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr, that he has been presented with a new contract offer from the Nigeria Football Federation. The contract, if accepted, will extend his tenure with the African nation’s football team from 2020 to 2024.
The NFF President, in an interview earlier this month, mentioned that the new contract would be offered to Rohr, with the addition of three new clauses, causing discussion and debate among football enthusiasts and analysts across Nigeria.
Rohr, who has been working in Nigeria since 2016, expressed his desire to continue working with the Super Eagles and has acknowledged the receipt of the new NFF contract, stating that he will carefully consider it.
“Personally, I discuss with my President about the future since my current contract ends on June 30. I have just received a proposal for an extension. We will also have to look into this,” Rohr, the Franco-German tactician, said in an interview with the French publication girondins4ever.com.
“But it is especially the health of the players, of everyone, right now, that counts. In Nigeria, there are not a lot of cases, but there are some too. We are afraid for Africa, that it could worsen because the habits of life there make confinement very difficult. So I’m hearing from players from Nigeria.”
Rohr also mentioned that he and the Super Eagles players have been analyzing the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations matches in preparation for the resumption of international football after the pandemic.
“We are not idle, there are a lot of calls to make to get news from our players. They are all healthy already. Not a single Nigerian international has been affected. We take news, not phone, by written message, by spoken message. We also have matches to review.“”
“Currently, on a large international sports channel, we see the matches of the African Cup. We can review our matches that we were able to play in Egypt last summer, where we were able to bring back this bronze medal,” he concluded.