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The Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
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The editorial could have been written by you!
I am happy
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Taking this personal why now
What are your disagreements with the article?
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Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
...the editorial is beat about the bush.
Don't attack Rohr, rather attack the person or persons that gave him the job.
Rohr is a toddler asked to manage a giant in Nigeria SE.
If a toddler shoots and kill a person, do you attack the toddler or the adult person who made the weapon available?
Don't attack Rohr, rather attack the person or persons that gave him the job.
Rohr is a toddler asked to manage a giant in Nigeria SE.
If a toddler shoots and kill a person, do you attack the toddler or the adult person who made the weapon available?
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Too many absolute statements like,
It is one thing to complain about the direction the SE is headed, but another to not face
the reality of the whole situation. Except we want to deceive ourselves, Rohr made his
contributions and met his contract obligations. While those should not preclude his contract
termination, he is sitting pretty and laughing at the shenanigans of our 'wuru-wuru' NFF.
Only the naive amongst us would think Rohr is easily disposable.
plus a lot of wrong information and grammatical errors ruined the article.Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football
It is one thing to complain about the direction the SE is headed, but another to not face
the reality of the whole situation. Except we want to deceive ourselves, Rohr made his
contributions and met his contract obligations. While those should not preclude his contract
termination, he is sitting pretty and laughing at the shenanigans of our 'wuru-wuru' NFF.
Only the naive amongst us would think Rohr is easily disposable.
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Thr Editorial board is even dumber than the NFF. What a load of rubbish.
OCCUPY NFF!!
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Dammy,
Naa waa for you ooo!!! So you accuse me of being an agent and now I have become the Editorial Board of The Guardian. I must be all over the place, abi????
Bros, people have varying opinions and you must leave with it. I will continue to post those opinions wherever I can find them because members of this site deserve to read about these varying opinions. They shall never be muted.
The difficulties of statistical thinking describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events -- Daniel Kahneman (2011), Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Up until recently, anyone who critic Rohr is an agent according to Dammy.Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:33 pm Dammy,
Naa waa for you ooo!!! So you accuse me of being an agent and now I have become the Editorial Board of The Guardian. I must be all over the place, abi????
Bros, people have varying opinions and you must leave with it. I will continue to post those opinions wherever I can find them because members of this site deserve to read about these varying opinions. They shall never be muted.
Dammy is now a disgruntled agent himself, since he has turned on Rohr.
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LOL.So he has now joined us in player agency business?fabio wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:06 pmUp until recently, anyone who critic Rohr is an agent according to Dammy.Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:33 pm Dammy,
Naa waa for you ooo!!! So you accuse me of being an agent and now I have become the Editorial Board of The Guardian. I must be all over the place, abi????
Bros, people have varying opinions and you must leave with it. I will continue to post those opinions wherever I can find them because members of this site deserve to read about these varying opinions. They shall never be muted.
Dammy is now a disgruntled agent himself, since he has turned on Rohr.
The difficulties of statistical thinking describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events -- Daniel Kahneman (2011), Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Spot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
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Nope.aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pmSpot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
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THERE WAS A COUNTRY...
...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
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The Editorial Board along with some fans don't want Arsenal-type ambition for the Eagles... COP (Certificate of Participation).joao wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:15 pm Too many absolute statements like,plus a lot of wrong information and grammatical errors ruined the article.Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football
It is one thing to complain about the direction the SE is headed, but another to not face
the reality of the whole situation. Except we want to deceive ourselves, Rohr made his
contributions and met his contract obligations. While those should not preclude his contract
termination, he is sitting pretty and laughing at the shenanigans of our 'wuru-wuru' NFF.
Only the naive amongst us would think Rohr is easily disposable.
It is very okay to lack ambition but not for the Eagles. **** is better served coaching the likes of CAR or Madagascar... at least when we play them we will play them knowing that **** will tell them not to expect beating Naijaria with our cadre of players playing for clubs in the EPL.
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Write one na...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pmSpot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
THERE WAS A COUNTRY...
...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
This is what I meant by the subjective case against Rohr.Cellular wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:52 pmThe Editorial Board along with some fans don't want Arsenal-type ambition for the Eagles... COP (Certificate of Participation).joao wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:15 pm Too many absolute statements like,plus a lot of wrong information and grammatical errors ruined the article.Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football
It is one thing to complain about the direction the SE is headed, but another to not face
the reality of the whole situation. Except we want to deceive ourselves, Rohr made his
contributions and met his contract obligations. While those should not preclude his contract
termination, he is sitting pretty and laughing at the shenanigans of our 'wuru-wuru' NFF.
Only the naive amongst us would think Rohr is easily disposable.
It is very okay to lack ambition but not for the Eagles. **** is better served coaching the likes of CAR or Madagascar... at least when we play them we will play them knowing that **** will tell them not to expect beating Naijaria with our cadre of players playing for clubs in the EPL.
All about opinion.
Which is important too, but can easily be countered because everyone is entitled to an opinion.
If it’s a majority opinion, it usually ends up carrying the day regardless.
"Ole kuku ni gbogbo wọn "
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
For…?Cellular wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:57 pmWrite one na...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pmSpot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
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Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
The beauty of the Internet. You can write one even if it is for Cyber Eagles. Posterity will judge you kindly...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:59 pmFor…?Cellular wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:57 pmWrite one na...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pmSpot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
THERE WAS A COUNTRY...
...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Oga Cellular,Cellular wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:05 pmThe beauty of the Internet. You can write one even if it is for Cyber Eagles. Posterity will judge you kindly...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:59 pmFor…?Cellular wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:57 pmWrite one na...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pmSpot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
The Rohr debate don really taya me.
Contrary to what many have concluded, what drives me is people using ‘bad argument’ for what could be a credible case.
You know me, ‘Mr Where-is-the-proof’.
Just fact check and don’t spoil your case with insults, lies, half-truths and wild conspiracy theories.
I guess that’s what makes the place tick sha.
"Ole kuku ni gbogbo wọn "
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Is it your "spot on" ? I am an ordinary fan, not a tactical maestro like many of you here. In my "ordinary" native fan eye the editorial olis spot on. I'll leave you purists to analyse more.Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pmSpot on!!!Enugu II wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:31 amThe Super Eagles under Gernot Rohr
https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-super-e ... rnot-rohr/
By Editorial Board
05 December 2021 | 3:16 am
Rancorous debates over the continued relevance of Gernot Rohr as coach to the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national football team, reminisce decades of cock-ups and maladministration of the beautiful game in Nigeria.
The campaign of no love lost is a direct result of the sharp decline that football is undergoing in the country generally and particularly at the national level. It is shameful that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and its teeming lovers of the round-leather game are back at the same crossroad, which signposts the stagnation of football since the golden years of the 80s and 90s. While winning is important in sport, there should be more to it.
In football, Nigerians cherish an aggressive, enterprising and entertaining play pattern, all of which are missing in the current Super Eagles that are anything but super. To give the game its deserving status, football handlers in the country must learn to place the country first ahead of selfish interest; go local in sports development agenda, and explore the potential of indigenous coaches ahead of foreign opportunists.
The NFF, led by Amaju Pinnick, assumed the management of football with a pledge to do things differently and develop the game, beginning with the Super Eagles. After the unceremonious exit of the Sunday Oliseh-led coaching crew, NFF once again went foreign to appoint the German, Gernot Rohr. Rohr’s technical competence was suspect ab initio. In his three decades of coaching, he has not managed a Grade A team nor succeeded on the African continent. Yet, he was entrusted with the first-11 of the most populous Black Country in the world and a country with so much passion for football. Most unbecoming is NFF’s signing of an under the table contract with Rohr, details of which the public are not entitled to know. What has made its way into the media, and has not been denied, is that the National Team coach earns a whopping $55,000 (N22.6 million) monthly. Meanwhile, he is not duty-bound to live in Nigeria, and neither mandated to watch, develop, or utilise local content in games. Rohr only shows up about a week to games, and fields all foreign-based footballers. Many commentators have called the contract fraud against Nigeria, and the coach the laziest of all known national team managers. The present parlous state of the national team buttresses these notions.
Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football; rather, the brand has made a rapid decline. Recent Super Eagles games have failed to elicit passion and interest typical of Nigerian national teams. Without any pattern of play, tactic, discipline or coercion, the team, right before the home fans, scandalously lost to minions like Central Africa Republic (CAR), having earlier squandered a four-nil lead to Sierra-Leone. Most recently, the team of foreign-based stars in Leagues across Europe managed a lacklustre score draw with Cape Verde in Lagos! There is very little hope in the team going into African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in January, and playing a crunchy qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Much more than Rohr, Pinnick and co. should carry the can. Maestro of the game on and off the pitch, Segun Odegbami, has called the Rohr contract a “collective stupidity.” Seemingly motivated by corrupt selfish interest of profiteering from such appointments, or just suffering from the colonial hangover of foreign superiority, NFF overlooked the array of local coaches and competencies for foreign counterparts that will deliver less. The narrative is not any different in the female national football team, currently managed by the American, Randy Waldrum. Clearly, the basis of employing these foreign coaches have proven to be extraneous than logical against the development of football.
A bigger elephant in Nigerian Sports is the lack of developmental ideas and sustainable programmes across the board, which has reduced sports to attending competitions and attempting to win by hook or by crook. Three months after the local league came to a wrap, the 2021/22 season is yet to begin. Female football league has not had a calendar season in years. And where is school sport today? There is more to football than qualifying for World Cups and making up the numbers with foreign-based talents. Ideally, the sport should develop Nigerian youths and from the grassroots.
Rohr is currently the highest-paid public officeholder in the country. Yet, he has failed in his remit of managing the Super Eagles well enough to play enterprising games. For all practical purposes, he is the last manager that Nigeria needs; and it is safe to assert that Nigerian football will go no places as long as he remains at its helm as manager. The country should let him go and replace him with a more promising coach. It is time for football administrators in the country to look inward given the country’s weak finances, and at a time when most footballing nations and football clubs are assigning teams to their ex-stars. Nigeria cannot be treating its own with reproach and hope to develop. Successful football teams require their own philosophy that is best nurtured by those within the rank over time. Moreso, it makes no economic sense to pay a football coach such humongous sum in a country that has pressing existential needs and borrowing to augment the national budget. That the private sector foots Rohr’s bill is a miserable excuse that only enables corruption and grounds accountability of the handlers.
The highest stage in the football world today is the FIFA World Cup and, as unlikely as it is that Nigeria or any African country will win it anytime soon, fans nevertheless want the country to give a good account of herself, not to simply make up the number of participants. If ever an African country will win the World Cup, it should by now be exhibiting that potential. Nigeria has what it takes to lead other African countries to achieve this feat, but clearly not with her current dependent syndrome on a lack-lustre coach with minimal ambition. Nigeria will do well now to increase her local content (coaches and players) in footballing. The late Steven Keshi deployed local league players in 2013 to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, and more importantly, the team gave a much better account of itself in the tournament than the Super Eagles have done in six years under Rohr. If the current crops of local coaches are accorded equal patience and respect that the Pinnick-led NFF has accorded the rambling foreign coach, Nigerians can expect better performance from their FIFA-licensed indigenous coaches.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Which place you see me doing analysis?aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:32 pmIs it your "spot on" ? I am an ordinary fan, not a tactical maestro like many of you here. In my "ordinary" native fan eye the editorial olis spot on. I'll leave you purists to analyse more.Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
Ask Cellular wey ask me kweshon about Rohr’s ‘tactics’.
I tell am say I be ordinary fan.
Na una antiRohr pipul dey scatter ground with tactical analysis satay my computa sef confuse…
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Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
I axed you bicos I no know am...Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:47 pmWhich place you see me doing analysis?aruako1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:32 pmIs it your "spot on" ? I am an ordinary fan, not a tactical maestro like many of you here. In my "ordinary" native fan eye the editorial olis spot on. I'll leave you purists to analyse more.Damunk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:45 pmNope.
One side of the story which you simply agree with in totality.
A ‘fair and balanced’ article would at least examine the counter view.
To do so wouldn’t take anything away from their case, but to not do so indicates a poor harnessing of the facts. That is because there are very few hard ‘facts’ that can be made to work in this direction of the debate.
‘The Case Against Rohr’ is largely a subjective one.
I can write an equally impressive counter using opinion and hard facts, whilst still acknowledging the arguments against Rohr.
That wan no hard at all.
Ask Cellular wey ask me kweshon about Rohr’s ‘tactics’.
I tell am say I be ordinary fan.
Na una antiRohr pipul dey scatter ground with tactical analysis satay my computa sef confuse…
I even ax ATF the self-professed Football Royalty and Professor of Football.
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...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
...can't cry more than the bereaved!
Well done is better than well said!!!
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Very good points and a good question as well. Thx, bro.mcal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:25 am ...the editorial is beat about the bush.
Don't attack Rohr, rather attack the person or persons that gave him the job.
Rohr is a toddler asked to manage a giant in Nigeria SE.
If a toddler shoots and kill a person, do you attack the toddler or the adult person who made the weapon available?
And the BIBLE says: The race is NOT for the swift, neither is the battle for the strong nor ... but time and chance makes them all.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Re: Editorial Board of the Nigerian GUARDIAN: On Gernot Rohr......
Here we go again with 'grammatical error' and 'correct English language' wahala. I thought we have out-grown such in this Platform?joao wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:15 pm Too many absolute statements like,plus a lot of wrong information and grammatical errors ruined the article.Rohr has rarely contributed anything significant to Nigerian football
It is one thing to complain about the direction the SE is headed, but another to not face
the reality of the whole situation. Except we want to deceive ourselves, Rohr made his
contributions and met his contract obligations. While those should not preclude his contract
termination, he is sitting pretty and laughing at the shenanigans of our 'wuru-wuru' NFF.
Only the naive amongst us would think Rohr is easily disposable.
And the BIBLE says: The race is NOT for the swift, neither is the battle for the strong nor ... but time and chance makes them all.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.