{"id":134315,"date":"2019-07-09T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134315"},"modified":"2019-07-09T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:01:29","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-rohr-reveals-headache-ahead-of-quarter-final-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134315","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Rohr reveals &#8216;headache&#8217; ahead of quarter-final tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1562074805_2019-AFCON-Ex-international-advises-Gernot-Rohr-ahead-of-next-match.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has admitted having a selection headache ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against South Africa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press briefing ahead of the match, Rohr disclosed that all his 23 players were fit, after struggling with injuries and illnesses at the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This means the likes of captain John Obi Mikel, Shehu Abdullahi and Jamilu Collins are available to face Bafana Bafana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a selection headache after starting this tournament with plenty injuries and illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the full 23 players train yesterday and that gives me a selection headache for tomorrow,\u201d Rohr said.<\/p>\n<p>The German also said his squad has to adapt to Cairo, after playing their last four games in Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to adapt because it is hotter and different from Alexandria here in Cairo and we have just one day to adapt. But we will be ready,\u201d Rohr added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has admitted having a selection headache ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against South Africa on Wednesday. Addressing a press briefing ahead of the match, Rohr disclosed that all his 23 players were fit, after struggling with injuries and illnesses at the start of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}