{"id":25788,"date":"2020-06-03T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25788"},"modified":"2020-06-03T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:14:30","slug":"nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA&#8217;S ROHR: NOBODY TELLS ME WHO TO SELECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr has made it known that he has a free hand to select his players.<\/p>\n<p>The Franco-German tactician, who recently extended his contract as the Super Eagles head coach, indicated that nobody can dictate to him on who to select for national duty.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching the West African giants comes with a lot of pressure and Rohr will not allow anyone to dictate how he picks his players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a part of my contract to take players who are not so good. I can choose my players myself. Rohr told Channels TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the most important [thing]. So, nobody can tell me \u2018You have to pick this one or that one.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old tactician explained that he critically looks at players before inviting them to feature for the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can take the best players and I don\u2019t do it alone. We have a team and our staff. I have my assistant, I have my analyzer,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach Monday we have our meetings and we speak about the games played at the weekend and what our players did.\u201cWe have to take the best ones no matter where they are coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rohr will be hoping to guide Nigeria to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and 2022 FIFA World Cup finals when international football resumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr has made it known that he has a free hand to select his players. The Franco-German tactician, who recently extended his contract as the Super Eagles head coach, indicated that nobody can dictate to him on who to select for national duty. Coaching the West African giants comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115,530],"class_list":["post-25788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports","tag-rohr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NIGERIA&#039;S ROHR: NOBODY TELLS ME WHO TO SELECT - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr has made it known that he has a free hand to select his players.The Franco-German tactician,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIGERIA&#039;S ROHR: NOBODY TELLS ME WHO TO SELECT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr has made it known that he has a free hand to select his players.The Franco-German tactician,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-03T13:14:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/gernot-rohr_cny2ytktbrpx1qedfuhk2c6j3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"NIGERIA&#8217;S ROHR: NOBODY TELLS ME WHO TO SELECT\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-03T13:14:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/gernot-rohr_cny2ytktbrpx1qedfuhk2c6j3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\",\"rohr\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-rohr-nobody-tells-me-who-to-select\",\"name\":\"NIGERIA'S ROHR: NOBODY TELLS ME WHO TO SELECT - 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