The new Super Eagles boss got off to a winning start
in Uyo, and would do well to build the national team around his captain
and Manchester City's precocious hotshot
The larger significance of Gernot Rohr
’s first game in charge lay not in what transpired within it, but in
what appeared to be churning underneath-the sense of underlying
mechanics. It was a luxury not afforded to either of Sunday Oliseh or
Samson Siasia, both of whom were thrust into the deep end straightaway.
Neither negotiated the choppy waters of qualifying particularly
artfully.
Their inefficiencies may have rendered this game a dead rubber, but
within a wider context, the visit of Tanzania was pregnant with meaning
World Cup qualifying begins in October with a visit to Zambia who,
like the Super Eagles, have floundered somewhat since an unlikely
victory at the Africa Cup of Nations a few years ago.
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