{"id":154790,"date":"2019-09-24T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=154790"},"modified":"2019-09-24T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:55:17","slug":"brazil-vs-nigeria-rohr-speaks-on-inviting-tammy-abraham-fikayo-tomori-hints-on-super-eagles-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=154790","title":{"rendered":"Brazil vs Nigeria: Rohr speaks on ‘inviting’ Tammy Abraham, Fikayo Tomori, hints on Super Eagles squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has disclosed that it would not be possible to have Chelsea duo of Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori in his squad against Brazil next month.<\/p>\n

The German pointed out that it is a long process before the players can make the expected switch having featured for England junior teams.<\/p>\n

The former Burkinafaso\u2019s manager used former Chelsea star Ola Aina as an example of how difficult it was to change nationality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two players (Abraham and Tomori) have already played with England and there is a long process to follow before they can feature for Nigeria,\u201d Rohr said in a chat with NationSport.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took NFF one year before we could get Ola Aina to play for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cMy squad has already for next month\u2019s International friendly between Nigeria and Brazil has been submitted to the NFF.<\/p>\n

The Super Eagles will face the five-time world champions on October 13 at the National Stadium in Singapore.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has disclosed that it would not be possible to have Chelsea duo of Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori in his squad against Brazil next month. The German pointed out that it is a long process before the players can make the expected switch having featured for England junior teams. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134766,"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":[2658,7480,4046],"class_list":["post-154790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154790","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=154790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}