Gernot Rohr has criticised the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for sacking him as the Super Eagles coach, maintaining that the team’s performance under him was not below expectations.
The German, who is Nigeria’s longest-serving coach, was fired earlier in the week following some unconvincing results with the 1994 African champions.
But the coach has faulted the move, insisting that he met all targets set by the NFF upon his appointment in 2016.
“It was not necessary to do this so close to AFCON,” he told ESPN, saying the team had chances to score more goals in their last two matches – against Sierra Leone and Cape Verde but were unlucky.
“After what the team did, and after what the team had achieved with [reaching] the targets… but it happened, and we are realistic people.”
