The Nigeria Football Federation has handed Mr. Gernot Rohr a two-year contract as Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles.
The German coached Bordeaux to the UEFA Cup final in 1996, where they
lost to Bayern Munich over two legs. Bordeaux’s run to the final
included a famous 3-0 win over AC Milan in the quarter-finals, his
records sourced by our correspondent showed.The German was also the Sports Director of Eintracht Frankfurt from October 1998 until April 1999.
Rohr has also worked with Étoile Sportive du Sahel and FC Nantes. He replaced French coach Alain Giresse as the coach of Gabon.
He managed Niger from September 2012 to 2014 before taking up a job with Burkina Faso but was sacked by the West African country later.
He was short-listed for the Guinea national team job in July 2016 before the Nigerian offer came up.
The NFF confirmed this on their official twitter handle this afternoon.
Mr. Rohr signed a two-year contract to work as the Technical Adviser of
the Super Eagles he is tasked with helping the Super Eagles qualify for
the 2018 Russia World Cup.
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