Former International, Etim Esin, has lauded the Federal Government’s marching orders handed to the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to hold Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr, to the higher standards as contained in his contract.
According to him, the mandatory inclusion of home-based players in the team, following the team’s dismal two-leg draw against lowly-rated Sierra Leone, in the 2022 AFCON Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, was also a good development, even though he wondered why a riot act needed to be read before Rohr would consider Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) players for international engagements.
Speaking to The Guardian yesterday, Esin said: “I believe this is a good development for our football, especially talking about growing our local leagues. Didn’t we all that played for this country come out of the local leagues? Sunday Oliseh came out of the defunct Julius Berger, Taribo West from Rangers, Austin J.J. Okocha from Rangers, Daniel Amokachi from Ranchers Bees, and Finidi George, from Sharks of Port Harcourt and so on.
