{"id":16413,"date":"2020-05-28T14:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T14:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16413"},"modified":"2020-05-28T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T14:28:12","slug":"our-football-will-never-fall-ogu-excited-as-rohr-remains-eagles-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16413","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our football will never fall\u2019 \u2014 Ogu excited as Rohr remains Eagles coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Rohr.jpg\" alt=\"Gernot Rohr\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu has expressed his delight over the news of team coach, Gernot Rohr extending his contract as Nigeria manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogu, who has been with the national team since the 2016 arrival of Rohr, is confident that the Franco-German technician can move football forward in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohr on Wednesday agreed with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to continue in his job, according to the NFF president Amaju Pinnick in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And reacting to the news, Ogu wrote: \u201cWoke up to the news from @thenff that Mr Gernot Rohr remains our National team coach . Great news for our country Football .. . Our Football will never fall. Moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>66-year-old Rohr was first appointed Eagles coach in August, 2016. He qualified the team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, where they exited in the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also qualified the Eagles for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, where they finished third after losing to eventual winners Algeria in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu has expressed his delight over the news of team coach, Gernot Rohr extending his contract as Nigeria manager. Ogu, who has been with the national team since the 2016 arrival of Rohr, is confident that the Franco-German technician can move football forward in the country. Rohr on Wednesday agreed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Our football will never fall\u2019 \u2014 Ogu excited as Rohr remains Eagles coach &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16413\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16413#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sports\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=8\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"\u2018Our football will never fall\u2019 \u2014 Ogu excited as Rohr remains Eagles coach\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u2018Our football will never fall\u2019 \u2014 Ogu excited as Rohr remains Eagles coach &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16413","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16413#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sports","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=8"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"\u2018Our football will never fall\u2019 \u2014 Ogu excited as Rohr remains Eagles coach"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu has expressed his delight over the news of team coach, Gernot Rohr extending his contract as Nigeria manager. Ogu, who has been with the national team since the 2016 arrival of Rohr, is confident that the Franco-German technician can move football forward in the country. Rohr on Wednesday agreed with&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}