‘Super Eagles Can’t Win World Cup For Now’

Nigeria national team Coach, Gernot Rohr, has expressed his pessimism about Nigeria’s chances of winning the World Cup with the current players at his disposal.
The Super Eagles’ best outings at the global tournaments were in 1994, 1998 and 2014, when they reached the Round of 16.
Rohr led the West African side to their sixth appearance at the 2018 edition in Russia, where they crashed out at the group stage.
The German tactician was recently handed a new two-year deal and could lead the three-time African champions to their next outing at the global tournament.
Rohr, however, believes the Super Eagles cannot win the global tournament because many of the players are not playing in top clubs.
“We are not ready to win the World Cup, for several reasons,” Rohr told Tidesports source.
“France is the champion at the moment, where are their players 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.”
Rohr also revealed newly invited players like Matthew Yakubu and Sebastian Osigwe did not get a chance to feature in their 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sierra Leone in November because the games were competitive.
The German tactician, however, handed debuts to Frank Onyeka and Kevin Akpoguma, who switched his allegiance from Germany to Nigeria.
“We tried in the last few friendlies and even the international games in Benin City and in Freetown, we had some new players,” he continued.