Olympic Bronze will motivate Super Eagles to qualify for World Cup campaign – Gernot Roh

The recently appointed Nigeria’s senior football team technical adviser Gernot Rohr, has disclosed that Nigeria super eagles now have the potential and moral to qualify for the  2018 World Cup, He said Nigeria success in the just concluded Olympic games in Rio is a major moral boost for the player to qualify for the 2018 world cup.

Speaking at the team’s media conference in Uyo, Gernot Rohr said;

”All the four teams in this group have equal chances of going to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. You have a big team in Algeria, ranked Number One in Africa at the moment. Everybody knows Algeria has great players, so it is going to be a big challenge in this group.

‘It is good we are going to Zambia first and don’t forget that Zambia is a big team too because they won the AFCON in Gabon in 2012. They have a big tradition as well. The group is open but I think the motivation of the Nigerian team is very, very high.

“All the teams in our group want to be at the World Cup in Russia but we have a bigger motivation particularly with the good performance of the Nigeria at the recent Olympic Games in Rio. We don’t have much time honestly, but it is possible to build a very good team.”

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