Head coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has
insisted that it will be ‘very difficult’ for his team to win the 2021
Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, title because Nigeria is not number one on
the continent.
Rohr, who recently put pen to paper for a two-and-half-year deal with
the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been mandated to win the
African top-flight competition in Cameroon next year.
“My contract all the time is a risk because it is
finished when we are eliminated from a tournament whether the AFCON or
World Cup.
“I took the risk already when I arrived [in Nigeria], and it is still the same.
“But I am very optimistic because now we have a team which is playing good football and I have confidence in my players.
“We finished third in the last AFCON in Egypt, and everybody wants us to progress in the next competition [AFCON 2021].
“But we also know that it is very difficult to win the AFCON because
we are not number one in Africa, but it’s good to have these milestones
and ambition,”
The German tactician told BBC Sport.
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