The Nigeria Football Federation has handed Mr. Gernot Rohr a two-year contract as Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles.
The German coached Bordeaux to the UEFA Cup final in 1996, where they lost to Bayern Munich over two legs. Bordeaux’s run to the final included a famous 3-0 win over AC Milan in the quarter-finals, his records sourced by our correspondent showed. The German was also the Sports Director of Eintracht Frankfurt from October 1998 until April 1999.
Rohr has also worked with Étoile Sportive du Sahel and FC Nantes. He replaced French coach Alain Giresse as the coach of Gabon. He managed Niger from September 2012 to 2014 before taking up a job with Burkina Faso but was sacked by the West African country later. He was short-listed for the Guinea national team job in July 2016 before the Nigerian offer came up.