2022 World Cup Qualifiers: Rohr Gives Home-based Players Lifeline To Be Selected

2022 World Cup Qualifiers: Rohr Gives Home-based Players Lifeline To Be Selected By Sampson Adedeji Despite suffering heavy defeat against Mexico, head coach of Nigeria's Super Eagles Gernot Rohr has given some of the home based players a lifeline, BSNSports.com.ng can reports. The Nigeria side suffered a 4-0 defeat to El Tri of Mexico in an international friendly played at Collosiuem in Los Angeles in the early hour of Sunday. Rohr underlined the importance of the qualifiers and confirmed that some of the local lads will be given opportunity to compete with the foreign based. ”In September we will have the World Cup qualifiers and we will start at home against Liberia on the third in Lagos and few days later we will go to Cape Verde for the second game. “We have a group of four teams and we have to finish first in this group and then progress to the play-off where we will play against any team from the other nine group. “t is a long way to the World Cup but today’s match has given me the idea of some of the local players can be part of some of these big games.” “We want to qualify for the World Cup like the last time and then meet teams like Mexico who showed how good they are with their movement, speed, fitness and technique. So it was a good lesson for our local players today," he stated. Nigeria are in the same group with Liberia, Cape Verde and Central African Republic.