Dr. Felix ‘Owoblow’ Owolabi spoke with Jacob Ajom on NFF’s contract extension with the national team manager, Coach Gernot Rohr, and the role of the media in the revival of sports in Nigeria. Coach of the national team Gernot Rohr, whose contract has just been renewed has consistently maintained that the local league was poor and players from the league could not fit into his team. Do you see it the same way? If I were the Nigeria Football Federation, his employers and somebody told me that I would sack him the next day. I would sack him for saying that. I wouldn’t know in the first instance, maybe that was why they decided to add some clauses in his contract. In the first place, before you contract the services of any foreign coach, that means you must have noticed you have some challenges local coaches could handle, so based on that you would tell the man look, these are the challenges we are facing and we want you to come and see how we can turn things around
If the man is now saying the local league is not good, then of what use is the LMC, the NPFL, why do you need to have the Nigeria Football Federation as an association? Why do you then have the LMC as a body controlling the league? In my own way and by my own understanding and estimation, he has rubbished the NFF and the League Management Company. He is telling us that they are not doing anything because they don’t know anything.
Source: vanguardngr.com
