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Akpoborie: Rohr can’t lead Eagles to the Promised Land

Former Nigeria international, Jonathan Akpoborie has said that Coach Gernot Rohr does not have what it takes to guide the Super Eagles to the Promised Land, Sportinglife.ng reports.

Akpoborie: Rohr can’t lead Eagles to the Promised Land

In an interview session on a social media platform, 9ja Footie Review, the former Hansa Rostock, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg striker said the Franco-German cannot give what he does not have as he lacks the technical depth to guide the national team to glory.

While setting targets for the team, the 51-year-old, who represented Nigeria in the junior cadre and earned 13 senior caps with the Super Eagles said, “Anything short of winning the Nations Cup for Nigeria is nonsense. The World Cup is something else. Unfortunately for Nigeria, I don’t believe our coach is good enough to take us to the Promised Land. He cannot give what he does not have.

“With a solid coach and given ample time, Nigerian players can surprise the world. We have the skill, the power, the fitness and the confidence, but the most important of all is the tactics and organization,” he said.

Akpoborie also opined that it will be difficult for the home based players to make the national team due to the present state of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

“For country like Nigeria that has actually put a big stamp on African football, our league has been very disappointing. I can’t take it on the quality of players because locally, we produce more than enough talents. The organisation has been O even when people call on the LMC. There was one headline I read. That day I was driving from Stuttgart to Zurich, I could not really get an answer. Can anybody tell me why the LMC or the NFF would sign a partnership with a club in Europe? What do you want to do with it?

“To be honest, there are so many things wrong in the league, from falsification of players’ ages to the playing turfs that the whole of Nigeria is running to get. The generation before me and my generation never played on Astro turf. The bounces differently and when you put the players on grass, their timing will always be off.

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“If I was coach, I would not be able to pick any player from the Nigerian league because the level is just too low. In the development of young players, you need to be moving the bar upwards for the young players every time you see it’s getting too easy for the player.

But in Nigeria the level has become so low, that the gifted players start to feel too big for the league and when that happens, he starts loosing the hunger to perform. Plus the home arrangement of the home team defeats all competition that is supposed to stretch the players to their limits,” Akpoborie said on 9ja Footie Review.

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