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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Super Eagles winger, George Finidi, has criticized coach of the national team, Gernot Rohr, over the list of players invited for this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho.<\/p>\n

Finidi, who specifically singled out captain Ahmed Musa, said players who are not playing regularly should not be invited ahead of those who are fit.<\/p>\n

He further questioned why Paul Onuachu does not get game time in the national team despite his form for his club.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoaches should be made to defend their list when they come up with names that are questionable. Coaches should not be left alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should be made to explain how they arrived at certain decisions on who they invite. Journalists should question the names on the list,\u201d Finidi said according to SportingLife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former Super Eagles winger, George Finidi, has criticized coach of the national team, Gernot Rohr, over the list of players invited for this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho. Finidi, who specifically singled out captain Ahmed Musa, said players who are not playing regularly should not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[3344,1570,2140,2547,3151,254,530],"class_list":["post-38750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-afcon-qualifiers","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-benin","tag-lesotho","tag-nigeria","tag-rohr"],"yoast_head":"\nAFCON qualifiers: Rohr under fire over players invited for Benin, Lesotho games - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Super Eagles winger, George Finidi, has criticized coach of the national team, Gernot Rohr, over the list of play ...\" \/>\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\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON qualifiers: Rohr under fire over players invited for Benin, Lesotho games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Super Eagles winger, George Finidi, has criticized coach of the national team, Gernot Rohr, over the list of play ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T14:07:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-6048bb9a35c95.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AFCON qualifiers: Rohr under fire over players invited for Benin, Lesotho games\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-10T14:07:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games\"},\"wordCount\":148,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-6048bb9a35c95.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON qualifiers\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Benin\",\"Lesotho\",\"Nigeria\",\"rohr\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-qualifiers-rohr-under-fire-over-players-invited-for-benin-lesotho-games\",\"name\":\"AFCON qualifiers: Rohr under fire over players invited for Benin, Lesotho games - 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