Gernot Rohr Explains Why He Doesn't Invite Home-based Players

Gernot Rohr Explains Why He Doesn't Invite Home-based Players By Admin Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has said that players agents and scouts discouraged him from inviting Home-based Players because they use national team invitation of Nigeria Home-based players as an avenue to send players for trials abroad, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Rohr when answering journalists in Lagos in a media chat sponsored by Peak milk insisted that he has not shunned Home-based Footballers. Asked why he has shunned home-based players from his shortlist for matches, Rohr said it wasn’t quite correct to say he doesn’t like home-based players, insisting that since he joined Nigeria as the country’s chief coach, he has invited 20 players from the domestic league. Unfortunately, according to Rohr, not less than 10 of them are currently in Europe playing in some leagues which he has been monitoring. ”I do not know if some agents and scouts are always waiting for us to invite the home-based to the Super Eagles camp or playing them before taking them to Europe. No less than 10 out of the 20 that I have invited are in Europe,” Rohr joked during the Peak Breakfast with Rohr session in Lagos on Friday.