"You Don't Know What You're Doing" - Ex-Eagles Star Blasts Gernot Rohr

  "You Don't Know What You're Doing" - Ex-Eagles Star Blasts Gernot Rohr By Niyi Busari Former Super Eagles winger, Felix Owolabi has said that the Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, by now should have gotten his first team, BSNSports.com.ng can report. According to the 1980 African Nations Cup winner, his failure to have gotten his team ready by now shows he doesn't know what he is doing. "Now, all we see is test running. For how many years, its only a crazy coach that will be thinking of getting as many players as possible. Testing them one after the other, claiming that he is looking for players who will fit into his philosophy. That means, he doesn't know what he is doing." The 1992 CAF Cup winner said. He advised the Franco-German tactician to wake up and get Nigeria a solid and formidable team that is capable of beating any country in the world. "Gernot Rohr should wake up, enough of I am testing and testing. By this time, he supposed to have gotten his onions and get a solid team for us. He went to the world cup and Nations Cup, these are forums enough for him to have a team. He urged Rohr to look inward and build the foundation of his team on the home based players. "If we rely very much on the home front and build a team, make the home front very vibrant. Believe me sincerely, we will make more progress. But in a situation where you rely do much on the foreign based players and unfortunately they are not all playing in the same league. Some are playing in France, some in Italy, some play in England while some are in Spain. They play in different league with different style of play and even culture. It is difficult to bring them together within few day and make them a champion. "That is what we are saying. Let us depend much on the local league. So that we will be able to get solid foundation from there. "Now in the match against Algeria, if you look at it again, there was no character in the team, I could not find out who was the striker and midfielders. "You see, as a teacher, they say every average human being is a potential champion. It depends on who handle him. So, I saw potential players whose future is very bright but somebody who was handling the potential has no sense of direction for these players and that was why we saw that lackluster performance in the match against Algeria. Honestly speaking, the match against Tunisia was a bit better because i could see some level of dedication, determination and vibrancy in the team. We dominated the match from the blast of the whistle but unfortunately we fell back and they got the equalizer. It is not the result that I am talking about but I am talking about individual player's positioning on the field. They were not hungry." He concluded.