If there is
one thing that Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr regrets while taking stock of his
Super Eagles job so far, it is sickness that knocked former number one goalie
Carl Ikeme off the national team.
Speaking on
Monday Night football the German Tactician who has already pocketed a ticket to
the 2019 Nations Cup in Cameroon with a match against Seychelles to spare,
described the experience and quite painful and heart breaking.
"If
there is one thing I would say gave me the greatest headache, it was the sickness
of Carl Ikeme, it was very disappointing" he confessed.
The former
Niger and Burkina Faso coach apparently reflecting on all that has transpired
both off and on the pitch, since his arrival to the country, joined the football
house and other stakeholders to learn to the principle of working hand in hand
as that is the best way of achieving set goals.
He warned
against allowing politics over shadow efforts aimed at taking the nation's
football to the greater heights.
It will be
recalled that former Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Carl Ikeme contributed
in no small measure to Nigeria's qualification for the last World Cup in
Russia, putting up impressive performance in the qualifiers leading to the
world cup.
Unfortunately the 32 year old was diagnosed
with acute leukaemia just before the start of the World cup, forcing out of
both national and club assignments. Wolverhampton new goalkeeper Rui Patrício
left the number 1 jersey vacant in Ikeme's honour, choosing the 11 instead.
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