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NFF offers Rohr fresh contract till 2020

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick on Monday announced new contract for the Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr, reports scorenigeria.com.ng.

The new contract given to Rohr will run till 2020 after the tactician guided Nigeria to win the ticket to next year’s World Cup in Russia.

Pinnick who announced the new deal at an event in Lagos also disclosed that Rohr has been paid his salary till December 2017.

Details of the new contract are yet to be made public at the time of this report.

The 64-year-old coach signed an initial two-year deal in July 2016 with the provision of an extension if he qualified the country to Russia 2018.

The Franco-German tactician has been widely credited with the country’s qualification from ‘The Group of Death’, which had African champions Cameroon, Algeria and Zambia.

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