Ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has stated that no new players would be invited to the national team.
Complete Sports are reporting that the Franco-German tactician, in a chat with a Lagos-based radio station, insisted that he will make do with the squad that qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations.
Nigeria qualified for AFCON 2021 scheduled to take place in Cameroon in January next year as they went unbeaten in the qualifiers.
And with the World Cup qualifiers starting in June, Rohr stated that it is too late to introduce fresh legs into the squad. Rohr said: “We cannot try new players now, it’s too late now. It is becoming serious world cup qualifications.
“The record of our result is very good and I know that we are unbeaten in away games in the qualifiers which is wonderful. “It’s a record and we will like to continue and we want to be always the best but some time the other ones also can make a result, you can’t always win your matches.”
Nigeria are grouped alongside Central Africa Republic, Liberia, and Cape Verde with only one team expected to qualify for the final play-off stage before the biggest soccer event holding in the oil-rich Qatar next year.
Meanwhile, the Super Eagles have been rated as the best third footballing nation in Africa in the latest FIFA ranking, with Gernot Rohr and his men occupying 32nd in the world.