Rohr New Deal: We Want Equal Opportunity For Local Players - Dikko

Rohr New Deal: We Want Equal Opportunity For Local Players - Dikko

By Sampson Adedeji

The chairman of League Management Company ( LMC) Mallam Shehu Dikko has opened on reasons why the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) want the Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr to reside in Nigeria.

The President of the Federation Amaju Melvin Pinnick last week highlighted some conditions that will be included in the new deal of the Franco-german gaffer, BSN Reports.

One of the vital one among them is for Rohr to stay in Nigeria and watch league games in order to give room for local players to compete with their foreign based counterpart .

“Honestly to demand that Rohr as the head coach of the national team spend more time in Nigeria by living here as the contract envisaged should be a win-win situation for both parties and indeed Nigeria football,” explained Dikko.

The objective is, once he is here, he should be able to go round along with his assistants to see as much as possible the domestic matches and properly document the best players he can see.

The NFF will once in a while, be able to arrange a camp for him where he can bring in the best players he has documented and work with them for some days where he can be able to asses them closely as well as impart some his ideas to build confidence and trust in them.

For example if we play a league games by weekend, we can be able to get the players to camp by Monday and work with the coach till Friday and then return to their clubs for the next weekend. So at least they have like five good days of intensive work.

If say we do this every four to 6 weeks, the coach will be able to find a lot of decent talents which will give him more options when putting together the main squad.

"We are certain there would be surprises once the domestic players know that they have equal opportunity to compete for shirts against their foreign counterparts; this will also help us to have a decent CHAN team available," he told Nation.

The current deal of Rohr will end by June 2020.