Nigeria Doesn’t Have The Team To Win The World Cup – Rohr

Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr has come out to say that his team cannot win the World Cup. He recently revealed that it is impossible for that to happen right now because his players do not play in top clubs.

According to him, before a team like France could win the world cup 3 years ago, they had very good players performing in top football clubs across Europe.

He added that Nigeria currently has players in Fulham and West Brom, so it’ll definitely be hard to compete with the heavyweights.

His words, “We are not ready to win the World Cup, for several reasons,”

“France is the champions at the moment, where they are playing? They are playing in PSG, Bayern Munich. Four of them are world champions at their clubs also.”

“So when you have so many of your players from your countries playing in the best clubs, so the probability that you also have one of the best teams in the world is very big.”

“So what we have in Nigeria for example, we have our players in Fulham, in West Bromwich. It’s not Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Manchester United or Barcelona. But the other ones have their players there. So it would be a miracle if we actually win the World Cup.”

“We tried in the last few friendlies and even the international games in Benin City and in Freetown, we had some new players,”

“We had some players who decided to come with us, leaving, for example, Germany U20, U23 like Akpoguma who decided to come with us, it is fantastic.”

“But they need the time to come in and it’s not easy in a few training sessions only to find exactly the right way to play with the team, it’s easier for the other ones who were with us in the World Cup and played with us in the Afcon.”

“We have to try to invite better players, friendlies are good for that to see them. When they are friendlies it is not for the result we are playing, we want to see new faces.”