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Rohr opens door to Flying Eagles ahead AfCON 2019

Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has said he would be encouraged to invite any player from the U-20 national team that impresses at next month’s Africa U-20 Championship in Nigeria in Niger.

 

The Eagles coach made the disclosure when he visited the team just to offer pep talk before their departure for Niger on Thursday for the tournament which begins on Saturday.

Rohr who was impressed with the level of preparations at the team’s training in Abuja told the players that they must be ready to fight for a place in the senior team ahead of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

“I watched the team’s training session and I see they are good. They are ambitious and I will be in Niger Republic to see some of the matches.

 “I have decided to pick one or two of them, the best ones, to give them a chance when we regroup for the matches against Seychelles and Egypt in March,” Rohr, who watched the Flying Eagles train on Tuesday, told thenff.com.

Nigeria are drawn in Group A against Niger, Burundi and South Africa, and they kick off their campaign on Sunday against Burundi.

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They are eyeing qualification for the U-20 World Cup in Paraguay and also a record eighth continental crown.

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