{"id":166068,"date":"2019-11-07T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166068"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:15:01","slug":"rohr-admits-it-is-difficult-to-convince-players-to-represent-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166068","title":{"rendered":"Rohr admits it is difficult to convince players to represent Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nigeria-vs-Algeria-Rohr-reveals-favourites-to-win-AFCON-2019.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has admitted it is difficult to convince players born outside Nigeria, to play for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr stated this against the backdrop of QPR midfielder, Ebere Eze, turning down the chance to feature in the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>Few weeks ago, Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori also opted to represent England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe door to the Super Eagles is always open to the best players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many players to choose from, but the media sometimes insist they must come. But they don\u2019t want because they can play for England and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it is not always easy for the players to decide and it\u2019s never good to put pressure on them,\u201d Rohr said according to SportingLife.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has admitted it is difficult to convince players born outside Nigeria, to play for the country. Rohr stated this against the backdrop of QPR midfielder, Ebere Eze, turning down the chance to feature in the upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163432,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7480],"class_list":["post-166068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-gernot-rohr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166068","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=166068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}