Odegbami: Will The World End If Rohr Is Sacked?

In the aftermath of the two matches between the Leone Stars and the Super Eagles I have refused to make any comments. I have been besieged with questions about why I have remained silent. I am surprised that people are surprised that I have been unusually quiet. What more is there for me to say?

One year ago, or so, I was vehemently opposed to the renewal of the contract of Franco-German coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr. I screamed and shouted to the point where some people thought I had personal issues with the coach. My take was simple: the coach may have been good for the standards set for him by his employers, but surely he was not good enough for the vision most Nigerians have about the place of their national team in the world considering the country’s achievements, capacity and capability. I thought I must belong to a different planet from those that elongated our collected agony by renewing Rohr’s contract, because not only was extended by several more years they now offered him a contract so tightly legally put together that the country cannot sack him for the next 3 years without breaking the vaults of Nigeria’s Central bank.

The man became so comfortable that he presented us with the worst football match in our entire history against ordinary Sierra Leone and did not even apologise. He committed unforgivable blunders in the kind of substitutions he made. His entire attitude on the bench was unserious throughout the period of Nigerians’ pain and humiliation.



So, those who renewed his contract are reaping what they sowed. Period. Unfortunately, it is every single one of 200 million Nigerians that will have to pay the price in money and in failed expectations.

It is obvious that those in charge have set small goals for him because they too have such small dreams about Nigerian football.


The match was a test about the true character of Gernot Rohr and his competency as a football tactician. Once again he failed woefully.

I still cannot fathom the special job he is doing as manager of the Super Eagles that any number of Nigerians with better qualifications, but underrated by their own, cannot do better. If this is what he has to offer the country after 4 years, with the humongous wages he is being paid, then there is something wrong with who we are.

The matches against Sierra Leone are bereft of any tactical depth and understanding. There is no acceptable excuse for the result of the match in Benin City. It was such a bad advertisement for Nigerian football and Nigerian players, particularly those of them that are Diaspora born and bred. It is making us dream home-based players and domestic Nigerian football again.


My wonder is that after such a match any Nigerian would still be defending the coach. We had sacked several coaches and even administrators in the past for a fraction of what we all saw in the two matches. A Nigerian coach had even been sacked after winning the biggest football trophy in Africa. Yet, this man is treated with kid gloves, shoved in our faces in the manner of colonial enslavement and Nigerians are made to swallow the bitter pill, pain, humiliation and shame. Gernot Rohr has been given too much long rope.

He may be considered a good coach using some people’s standards, but by mine, I join with Aiyegbeni Yakubu, our celebrated football hero, who was quoted recently as saying that the German may be the worst coach in the history of Nigerian football.

Thank God, I am not in any position to influence anything. In the days of yore, a tsunami in football administration would have happened by now. Thank God we are in strange times. Coaches are overprotected.

I would have sworn that with the evidence of his capability laid bare by Nigeria’s failure at two critical moments during the World Cup in Russia and the AFCON in Egypt, the country will not be led by the nose again with the narrow sentiments of a few administrators and sports writers that stand to benefit from sustaining the vestiges of a colonial mentality that embraces everything White and condemns everything Black.

The rather ‘stupid’ question I have been asking myself in the solitude of my silence is this: will the world end if Gernot Rohr is sacked?

‘Abeg, make I remain silent o, and siddon look the drama of Nigerian sports administrators wey dey celebrate nonsense and some people dey clap hand’

https://www.completesports.com/odegbami-will-the-world-end-if-rohr-is-sacked/

Odegbami don't know anything about running of Nigeria football

I stopped taking the man serious when he threw in the towel during the bid for 2010 world cup , Nigeria dey ahead of South Africa , cos we already delivered the 1999 jnr world cup and about to host the under 17 world cup .

No Nigeria coach currently will perform better than rohr at the moment , unless we are going for another better foreign coach . They should use Yobo to test

What do I know about Football. I'll read comments.

Nigerians Generally are used to making excuses for failure.... Wether Abusive relationship, failed Goverment or Super Eagles



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majamajic:
Odegbami don't know anything about running of Nigeria football

I stopped taking the man serious when he threw in the towel during the bid for 2010 world cup , Nigeria dey ahead of South Africa , cos we already delivered the 1999 jnr world cup and about to host the under 17 world cup .

No Nigeria coach currently will perform better than rohr at the moment , unless we are going for another better foreign coach . They should use Yobo to test

Apart from Onigbinde nobody knows footballing apart from Odegbami the sport mathematician


Rohr is best suitable for a football managerial roles , like scouting players , team development.... His coaching skills and tactics are fuxking awful...

No permanent 11 since 5 years, No goal keeper no pattern of play, anybody and everybody who claims to be Nigerian even if there only ties is the parentage abroad gets to play and bench the patriotic ones




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majamajic:
Odegbami don't know anything about running of Nigeria football

I stopped taking the man serious when he threw in the towel during the bid for 2010 world cup , Nigeria dey ahead of South Africa , cos we already delivered the 1999 jnr world cup and about to host the under 17 world cup .

No Nigeria coach currently will perform better than rohr at the moment , unless we are going for another better foreign coach . They should use Yobo to test

Is that a joke or an insult?


When we have Amunike, Finidi, Amokachi and Oliseh etc even Siasia

If you are an experienced teacher and reside around ayobo, bada Lagos check my signature for my contact .Requirement O level ,OND or NCE

robosky02:


Is that a joke or an insult?


When we have Amunike, Finidi, Amokachi and Oliseh etc even Siasia

Before appointment of Rohr , we don miss 2 nations cup and one world cup , cos of these inexperienced local coaches

I don't know why they can't test their knowledge with a local club or another national team , their first appointments na super eagles

majamajic:



Before appointment of Rohr , we don miss 2 nations cup and one world cup , cos of these inexperienced local coaches

I don't know why they can't taste their knowledge with a local club or another national team , their first appointments na super eagles

I don't think you know football very well....

The rule in football is " a coach is as good as his last game"

We have had local coaches that have achieved a thousands miles what Rohr is still dreaming of.

Keshi qualified us for world cup and gave us a decent performance and even when to AFCON and won us the cup....can you compare 3rd place of Rohr to that?

But when Keshi began loosing focus ( I personally attribute it to him losing his wife) he was sacked

So why is sacking Rohr an issue?


Even Almighty Mourinho was sack when the result wasn't going his way. Why didn't they say leave him he has won Champions league and EPL in the past

Damnnn niggarrrr
Hell no

See as dem juz dey bleep Rohr raw

Hmmm, it's difficult to say

Good question

Chelsea sack Di matteo when help them win their only championship league trophy, World no end, na sacking of Rohr go come make the world end?

Nonsense, ONIONS and ingredient

Abobi
For were??

And which coach do you want to bring in,with the terrible situation and mess that this country is going through Right Now,









Let them give him another chance, at least he understands the country predicament.

Super Chickens

It’s expensive.

For a coach who just renewed his contract, sacking him would mean paying him for the remaining period of his contract for doing nothing, which I think is foolish.

If he had 1 year or less left on his contract it would’ve been cheaper.

That’s what I think.

Abobi
Those ones dont even have sense
Why can't they try a local coach