Former Nigeria international defender Celestine Babayaro says the coach is the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr got it all wrong with his list of players for their upcoming AFCON 2022 qualifiers.
Rohr named only one home base player in his list of players for the games against Benin Republic and Lesotho respectively but following a spate of withdrawals he has now called up two more.
Babayaro while reacting to the games where Nigeria need just a point out of a possible six points said the coach should have named more players playing in Nigeria domestic leagues and around the African continent.
He said in the past , previous managers of the senior national team of Nigeria have used opportunities like this to create competition in the team to keep the foreign based on their toes.
“ Maybe we have lost a thing or two about trusting players playing at home because they should dominate the list per the nature of the games. The coach don’t need that high amount of foreign based players particularly with the travel restrictions in some European countries”, he told Mowiz.
“ Back then coaches use games like this to give the home lads a chance to push the foreign based for a spot and that in turn keeps everyone on their toes. Maybe that would have been better”, he concluded.