The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has stated that the head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has breached his contract with them.
This was after Rohr, whose contract ends in 2020, made claims that the NFF owed him an outstanding $100,000 bonus package.
Reacting to Rohr’s claims, NFF advised he focus on his good works because his words are doing damage to the Federation’s image.
Prominent among the clauses in his contract the NFF claim Rohr has broken is that “coaches must not by their actions or inaction cause NFF or the Federal Government of Nigeria any harm, reputational damage or embarrassment, nor do anything directly or indirectly to undermine their contract with the NFF” and another which states that “coaches must not misrepresent the NFF or distort information to the media. They are precluded from imparting unauthorized information to the media.”
“In as much as we appreciate the work that Mr. Rohr has been doing with the Super Eagles in the past 40 months, his recent penchant for breaching provisions of the contract he signed with the NFF and the Code of Conduct for coaches is not good for the relationship”, NFF Technical director Bitrus Bewarang said to reporters in Abuja on Wednesday evening when questioned on Rohr’s claims.
“The NFF wishes that Mr. Rohr continues in the job because of the team he is building for Nigeria which looks promising and has earned some good results since he took charge, but he cannot continue to nonchalantly cause the NFF as a body, and Nigeria as a nation, reputational damage through his utterances and actions.”