Former Nigerian goalkeeper, Peter Rufai has called on the Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr to beef up the team with some crop of home base players with the withdrawal of some of the foreign-based players from the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin and Lesotho.
Recall that Almeria’s Umar Sadiq, FC Leganes defender,Umar Sadiq, and Nantes winger, Simone Moses have been prevented by their respective clubs to honour the make or mar games due to the Covid-19 travel ban imposed by some countries in Europe.
With just a few days to the crucial games against the Squirrels of Benin and Crocodile of Lesotho, Rufai in a chat with Completesports stated that the withdrawal of some of the foreign-based players should signal the need for Rohr to focus more on Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to search for quality players.
“It has gotten to a degree where the Super Eagles have to take note of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to discover gamers that he feels may be true for the crew.
“The surprising withdrawal of some of the overseas-primarily based players because of covid-19 tour ban is not their doing but a sign that the German tactician need to awareness on our league. Don’t be amazed if extra players withdraw from the video games because of this reason and we are able to be left with few gamers to prosecute the Benin and Lesotho video games.
“I am pretty overjoyed that he has invited a few players from the league but I simply wish he will study from this and try to include the home players in his group. I without a doubt consider Nigeria will qualify for the bi-annual event.”
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