Former Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has revealed that he could have been sacked by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) if he had stop the Sports Minister, Sunday Dare from showing up at the team’s training with 40 or 50 journalists.
Recall that the Super Eagles were preparing for a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone and former sports minister, Sunday Dare offered to take part in the training session.
The German tactician who is marking his 70th birthday today (Thursday), told FC Bayern in an interview his bitter experience he had while managing the team.
“Two years ago in Nigeria: suddenly, the Minister of Sports showed up at the training with 40 or 50 journalists and wanted to participate, “Rohr stated in an interview with FC Bayern.
“I was perplexed. My assistant told me that we had to let him participate; otherwise we would all be sacked the next day. Without further ado, we organized a rondo for him, and everything went well.”
Rohr is currently in charge of the Benin Republic national team.
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Hahaha, this is absolutely hilarious! I remember the look on Leon Balogun’s face when these jokers showed up for training. Dude was visibly perplexed. These guys just barge into training and constitute a total nuisance to team preparations for a crucial match! Jumping up and down like rabbit.
Me I no get problem with anybody going for training, but my own be say if you go training, you need to kit up and be available for selection on match day. Abi unu don see where person dey go training, but no dey go match? And Rohr is right. If he had refused, he and all his staff would have been fired.
We get wahala for this country, no be small one!
Hahahahaha…..I laughed my lungs to pieces while reading this interview Pompei.
Imagine the level of uselessness of our sports administrators.
And as for Rohr, the old willy fox, I guess he dodged a bullet there….LMAOoo. Maybe it was part of their ploy back then to frustrate him or push him to the wall to do something that would warrant a sack. And hell we would have been sacked.
If a whole golden generation of players could be disbanded 3 months before the 2022 world cup, simply because they told the minister and his entourage after 1 hr 45 minutes of useless talk talk on the training pitch to excuse them and allow them to train for an upcoming AFCON semifinals game vs Senegal, who you be wey dem nor go faya you on the spot ehn kwa Dee Rohr…..???
A beg rest. Pompei is not the best. There is nothing wrong with a sports minister dancing makosa with the players in order to show off their pot belly.
No be today, when it comes to football commentary, I own you.
Ego is a typical disease of African rulers- projecting and parading themselves like desperate prostitutes.
It is understandable that he remembers his time in Nigeria with nostalgia. It was his biggest job to date.
A few days after the claimed incident, he watched from the bench as Sierra Leone over ran us in the second half. Never seen anything like that in all my years of watching soccer.
Hahahahaha…..and after Sierra Leone overran you in the 2nd half, you failed to qualify for afcon like under the tutelage of your lousy incompetent guadiolas right….?? LMAOooo.
Vomit sewage all you want, that very AFCON qualification was and still remains the best and most successful AFCON qualification Nigeria has ever prosecuted since 1945 when NFF was founded.
Unless you and your cohorts can remind us of when the SE ever qualified for AFCON with 2 games to spare……LMAoooo.
Rohr’ SE still qualified for AFCON with 2 games to spare despite dropping 4 points against sierra leone…..Wow…!!!
We know those days when we wouldn’t qualify even when qualification went down to the wire till the very last match in the series on home soil….LMAooo
Well said @Tony. Rohr failed. Qualifying for tournaments with games to spare is no big deal. Even Peseiro qualified Nigeria for Afcon with minutes to spare. Lmaooo….
I’m sure Chief Segun Odegbami didn’t see anything wrong with what his kinsman Chief Sunday Dare did
OUR EGO IN THIS COUNTRY IS TOO MUCH, MOST ESPECIALLY SO CALLED LEADER. THEY ARE LEADERS TO BE BRAG, POMPOUS. NOT A LEADER TO SACRIFICE. I WONDER HOW THEY WILL MISBEHAVE, IF THEY ARE MINISTER OF FIFA.
LIKE THE MATTER OF SENATOR EKEREMADU. IT IS ONLY GOD WILL KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPEN TO THE BOY, IF THE MATTER HAPPEN IN NIGERIA.
Nigerian journalists are easily corruptible. 40 to 50 journalists came to watch the minister disrupt the Super Eagles training and none wrote about it up until now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENERAL ROAH!!
I PRAY BENIN REPUBLIC QUALIFIES and I PRAY they PAIR US (SE) together so that you can use all the ILL TREATMENT you received from the NFF to WHOOP our ASS….
It’s Rohr, knucklehead.
Dreamers continue over rating Rohr. Until Nigeria appoints someone like Mosiame we will continue to hire average coaches that will qualify for tournaments but never win a major title. Both Rohr and NFF are nonsense!!!
How many major tournaments did he participate in? One AFCON, where he came 3rd after Nigeria missed out on the 2 previous Afcons, and one WC, we all know what happened. The guys met his targets!
Hypocrites in self denial continue to malign Rohr, a man who met all targets he was given. These hypocrites religiously avoid the fact that Rohr was owed almost a year’s worth of salary, AND YET CONTINUED TO DELIVER.
If I compare Rohr to Pep or Klopp, that qualifies as over rating. But if I deny that Rohr tried his best given the horrible circumstances he had to work in, that would be incredibly unjust. Some here form Christianity, but when it comes to practicing it, you see another thing. How can you in good conscience condemn this man?
If he had failed to qualify for any of the major tournaments, they would have sacked his white butt on the spot. They couldn’t touch him because the man was delivering on deliverables.
Let’s do the man justice. He did well. If we wanted a Guardiola, we should have spent the money and got one in the first place, and Rohr would never have entered the picture!
Rohr must be really useless. Nonsense coach. He no sabi anything!
Meanwhile, Rohr critics skillfully ignore the elephant in the room, once again.
Rubbish, useless, tactically inept Gernot Rohr just held Senegal to a 1-1 draw. THE SAME SENEGAL THAT THRASHED BRAZIL 4-2 LAST WEEK. When he was Nigeria coach, this Rohr also held Brazil to a 1-1 draw. Agreed, football no be mathematics, but there is a discernible pattern here. Rohr delivers results. Credit must be given where it is due. You can’t give credit only when it suits your narrative or agenda. That’s hypocrisy.
The bible says THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE. Rohr critics, tell yourselves the truth, AND BE FREE!
A beg rest with all this Rohr matter. He was Belmadi’s boy simple.
Notice that Rohr said he had to organize a rondo for the sports minister at the SE training. Not just for the minister, but also for the then NFF president, who was also present at the SE training.
A rondo is when players form a circle, and 1 or 2 players in the middle try to get the ball. Whoever loses the ball goes into the middle, and the middle guy who got the ball goes into the circle.
Now, imagine a SE player trying to get the ball from the sports minister or from the NFF president!
Dem no born am well.
Just imagine the distraction and disturbance to players who should be focused preparing for an upcoming game. You just can’t make this up. This is the comedy that was going on in an SE training session in preparation for a crucial international match!
The result of the match says it all
I have said it and I will say again that I’m not new to progress so qualifying for tournaments and then not winning it is nothing new. Qualify and win should be our dream and criteria in rating a coach. Since the ERA of Bonfere jo all the coaches I’ve been seeing by NFF plus Rohr are all trash. I can not join a band to celebrate average achiever plus his political masters. Thunder fire all of them!!!
See somebody who openly confesses Christianity wishing thunder to fire other human beings, just because they have a different football opinion! Chai, as the bible says, BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM!
@pompei, u know we have a lot of pretenders here and that guy up there is one of them. Just imagine the nonsense. Any person that doesn’t condemn what mr sports minister and his cohorts did is evil and would never see anything good in his life. The story sounds incredible but it is true And it can only happen in Nigeria where some people hate anything good. After they tried everything they could just to make the man fail , he kept on soldiering on, churning out results to their amazement. Now, they had to take the battle to him in his own office and at the end of the day, the wise fox as usual skipped over their snare and they made a fool of themselves. And mr ex cricket international (ode) did not see anything wrong with that!!!! I’m sure, he would have been among the 40 fools that the stupid ex minister took to the pitch.
Thunder fire them will always be a slang that the average Nigerian uses and if you have never used it before they cast the stone before you use it to judge me just because I can not accept a coach that no serious country accepts. If he was excellent for Nigeria how come Egypt and other big nations didn’t hire him. Besides how many trophies did he win per attempt? If na Bronze wey him win how many bronze has Nigeria won before he was hired and shey na Bronze we never see before? Not to forget his terrible decline into some worst football performances I’ve ever witnessed at the latter stage of his time with Nigeria when mediocre teams has always had the better of a more accomplished Nigeria team putting us on the back foot for major part of games. Rohr was part of an object used to hurt Nigeria sports house. When we had more intelligent coaches to employ at that point…. I vividly remember Renard been available and less popular those days but silly football administrators went for some nonsense that they can control for their personal gains and some naive fans bought into the Rohr crap.
Imbecile….useless hypocrite…I thought you claimed you are set apart by the holy ghost and you are of the kingdom…? Why are you joining “average Nigerians” in using their carnal slangs…..LMAooo.
You are still hallucination of NFF not hiring Herve hire Renard who commands upwards of $1m per month salary when Rohr was owed $45,000 (from which he pays 5 assistants) per month for 8 months and Peserio is currently being owed $70,000 per month since the last 9 months.
I can see you are still as daft as you have always been…!!!
For a $ 45,000-per-month coach, Rohr was an awesome bargain.
The results and records speak for themselves.
The only SE coach who has ever been fired because the NFF and Sunday Dare your tin-god knew he was going to win the next AFCON and become difficult too sack…..LMAOooo.
Boy you’re sick there’s no need going back and forth with you I’ve grown past your ignorance.
Hahahahaha…..Pompei….let dem continue to chew their cud all they want, Its still a fact, and on record, that Rohr remains the only coach in the history of Nigerian football to be sacked because the NFF knew he was going to meet the target they gave to him to win the next AFCON and become “difficult to sack”….and that’s a FACT.
A top NFF official openly confessed that. “…. we sacked him because we were afraid, he would do well in the AFCON and become difficult to sack…”
Incredible……!!!
That’s a lie. The average Nigerian does not say thunder fire you. That’s not part of our regular every day vocabulary. If you go out and tell somebody thunder fire you, that’s never normal or average.
Thunder fire you means you wish thunder to strike someone dead. You can twist it all you want, but that is the basic meaning. If you wish someone dead because they disagree with you in football, that makes you a very dangerous, sinister person. It’s much better for you to accept the error of your ways and change, than to be justifying the use of words that wish death on other people.
So I did not judge you. You judged yourself with your own words.
I hear you.
Nigerian sports journalist whether in the print or electronic media are part of the reasons our football and all other sports are dying in our beloved motherland. They have abandoned their role of exposing the ills in our football administration. For example during the just concluded electionary campaign no one among them thought it wise enough to make sports industry as one of the major topics of discussion, infact sports was never mentioned throuhout the campaign season. The football administrators at the NFF glass house and the staff of the ministry of sports especially the department of “YOUTHS AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT” needs to be constantly quizzed and exposed by our sports media to keep them on their toes.Unfortunately, the sports media in Nigeria would rather dwell in the irrelevant than attend to real issues that will affect our football positively. I do not see any reason for carry Gernot Rohr’s story of no substance when you guys ought to have been concentrating on stories that can move mountains in our sports generally and football in particular.
Na lie o no be wetin happen,no be wetin happen rorh dey talk o.
He wasn’t perplexed anything,how can you be perplexed when na your arrangement in d 1st place,I no understand again,and he no ask any assistance anything o so if I no dey dia as one of the journalists na so so lie lie oga rorh 4 tell us abi na politics him wan play.i dey laugh una wey go believe dis story.