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Don’t use kids against Cameroon – Mgbolu tells Rohr

Former spokesman of the Nigeria Football Federation, Austin Mgbolu, has cautioned the Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr, against using inexperience players when his side confront the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon in the back to back World Cup qualifiers next month.

Mgbolu said there was nothing wrong in injecting new players into the national team, but that shouldn’t be done in major matches.

“Playing against Cameroon is not going to be easy and besides our state of readiness calls for concern. Don’t forget we have lot of hurdles to cross particularly the complex issue after losing to South Africa in circumstances that appears not to be ordinary.

“So by virtue of the palpable fears in the air anything can happen. Don’t forget that this form of spell has been dogging the present administration overseeing our football in the sense that it has not been able to qualify Nigerian teams for any major championship in recent times.

“It is a very big set back, but let us believe we will be able to rise up against this,” Mgbolu said.

He said Rohr was not doing badly but had lots of problems to deal with, adding that unless the Nigeria Football Federation puts it’s house in order, there are tendencies that Eagles might miss the ticket to the World Cup.

“A situation where there is squabble and division may not do the team any good.

“Rohr is new and he ought to work with the Technical Committee of the NFF who knows the dynamics of the game here. I was alarmed when I learnt that Rohr had not held a meeting with the committee since he resumed. Which means he is not working in tandem with the members of the committee.

“Such action is a credible and repeatable recipe for failure. As a visitor, the best bet is to report to the people who know the terrain, no matter what he thinks about them,” he said.

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