NFF to pay ex Super Eagles coach Rohr

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF agreed to pay Super Eagles ex coach, Gernot Rohr, a major chunk of the money it owes him before FIFA’s intervention.

It also said that part of the money would be used to pay Rohr’s assistants’ bonuses.

The NFF Director of Communication, Ademola Olajire stated this while explaining why world body FIFA ordered the Nigeria Football Federation to pay Rohr, compensation after the federation parted ways with the Franco-German last December.

Olajire made this known on a WhatsApp platform, ‘Family United By Sports.’

FIFA had on Monday ordered the NFF to pay the former Eagles coach $377,879.46 (N157m) in compensation after he was shown the exit door just a month before the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon in January.

Despite moves by the NFF to pay his salary until the end of his contract, which should have expired in December 2022, Rohr, took the case to FIFA, demanding an additional £1m for breach of contract “without just cause” but FIFA instead approved $377,879.46.

“The $300,000 was his six months’ pay that the NFF had earlier agreed to pay him, even before he went to FIFA. The remaining $78,000 was the bonuses due his assistants, who were not paid when he (Rohr) got his,” Olajire wrote on the platform.

Rohr was the Eagles’ longest-serving coach.

PUNCH/ Mercy Chukwudiebere