Super Eagles’ Technical Manager, Gernot Rohr has revealed
his plans to build a formidable team before the Russia 2018 World Cup.
The coach believes some of the current players in the Super
Eagles are not the materials he would rely on for a successful campaign in the
World Cup finals in Russia, adding that he has the ambition of surpassing Nigeria’s
previous performance in the event.
Although the 64-year-old Franco-German was delighted at the
Eagles’ qualification for the global showpiece, he said the team needed a major
surgery before the FIFA World Cup finals.
“Players in the mould of Zinedine Zidane and Thiery Henry,
who once played under me, are the calibre of stars I would want in the Super
Eagles to execute the World Cup finals in Russia,” Rohr said.
Insisting that he has not yet assembled his choice World Cup
team, Rohr was emphatic that he would parade his best players in the group
final game against Algeria in Constantine on November 6.
Remarkably, Nigeria is making her sixth FIFA World Cup
appearance since its debut in USA ‘94. The Eagles were at France ‘98,
Japan/Korea 2002, South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
Sources close to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said
the German is expected to disclose to the federation his World Cup programme
before he travels to Europe. These will include plans for grade A friendlies
and training tours to prepare the players for the Russia 2018 World Cup
campaign.
Meanwhile, Algeria has parted ways with their manager, Lucas
Alcaraz following the team’s elimination from the race to Russia.
Superdeporte.es reports that the coach, who has a win record
of one in four games since taking over from George Leekens when the Belgian
resigned in February, has already returned to Spain.
Algeria are out of the race to qualify for the World Cup
after picking up just one point in five games, in a group where they were
viewed as favourite to qualify when the draws were made. They lost 0-2 to
Cameroon at the weekend.
It has been a disastrous campaign for them as Alcaraz only
took charge of the team in April following the resignation of Leekens in
February before their reverse tie against Nigeria.
They are now searching for their fifth coach in just over a
year since the start of the qualifiers for the World Cup 2018, where they are
rooted to the bottom of group B.
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