In the history of coaching super Eagles, only Westerhof and Late Keshi can be said to have a better turnover than Rohr yet Nigerians won’t stop disparaging this coach who gave them better experience of qualifying to competitions without heartaches the nation was used to in the recent years before his appointment.

Before 2013 Nations cup, super eagles failed to qualify for 2011 nations cup (losing a match at home in the process - Almighty Siasia was the coach if I am correct), I didn’t see Nigerians insulting siasia as much as they have done to Rohr.

In the process of wining AFCON 2013, Nigeria drew their first two matches (their opponents equalized in the dying minutes of both games), won Cape Verde with two penalties to qualify. So many Nigerians already wrote them off back then, only to start supporting them after they won Ivory Coast - a performance that boosted their confidence and propelled them to go on to win the competition. Yet Keshi resigned because of lack of appropriate support. Same Kesh would end up not qualifying Nigeria to the 2015 nations cup and he was sacked in the process. 2017 still no show for the super eagles at AFCON.

Come in Gernot Rohr, in his first assignment, qualified Nigeria to the World Cup convincingly, not losing any match - in a group that included Cameroon (AFCON 2017 champions), Algeria (Who went on to win AFCON 2019) and Zambia (AFCON 2012 champions). Qualified again for AFCON convincingly (still didn’t lose any match). 2019 Nations cup, beat the likes of Cameroon, South Africa and Tunisia to claim third place, losing to the eventual winners Algeria.

To those that want to hang Rohr because of lack of attractive football, tell me exactly, when last super eagles played attractive football (I watch super eagles very well - the last time they played attractively was during 2018 qualifiers and the 2019 AFCON).

Rohr is not the super eagles problem, the players attitude is mostly the problem, they don’t see qualifiers (especially against low ranked team) as something they need to pull their “all” in.

Rohr would qualify the super eagles for World Cup and also have a better outing at the AFCON but the NFF would be making a very grave mistake to relieve him of those duties.

Those calling for Rohr’s sack lack the ability to see through super eagles players mental and tactical abilities and how the competition they’re playing in affects these players. Rohr sure do have his incompetences but with all he has done calling for his sack is not the right thing to do now!

Good analysis.

You have simply expressed my thoughts in your write up...