The president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has again come to the defence of Super Eagles‘ head coach, Gernot Rohr.
Rohr has continued to work from outside Nigeria, despite a clause in his contract that requires that he stays in the country for a number of days.
Pinnick has now said Rohr has no choice but to be in Europe monitoring the players he plans to call up.
“Rohr is the head of the monitoring team and he has to constantly maintain a good relationship with the coaches of the various clubs of these players in Europe.
“He himself was a former international and a professional,” Pinnick said.
The Eagles top their 2022 World Cup qualifying group with nine points after four rounds of matches with Cape Verde second on seven points.
The final rounds of the group stage of the World Cup will be wrapped up next month with the overall group winners advancing to the playoffs in March.