Rohr at loggerheads with NFF over Chile friendly

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Festus Abu

Gernot Rohr is allegedly at loggerheads with the Nigeria Football Federation over the proposed friendly against Chile ahead of the Super Eagles’ trip to Russia for the 2018 World Cup.

Nigeria, who begin their Russia 2018 campaign against Croatia at the Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad on June 16, have already secured six warm-up games ahead of the tournament.

The NFF announced last week that the three-time African champions  would  play  Poland (March 23), Serbia (March 27), DR Congo (May 28),  England (June 2) and   Czech Republic (June 6)  before  hitting  Russia  to make their six appearance at the world  football showpiece.

President of the federation Amaju Pinnick said the team would face a South American opponent in a friendly affair before the world’s football showpiece.

Our correspondent learnt on Tuesday that the NFF had allegedly sealed a…



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