Rohr speaks on 2017 CAF Awards

Super Eagles foreign coach, Gernot Rohr, has talked about the 2017 CAF Awards.

Rohr additionally knocked out by Hector Cuper for Coach of the Year Award, while there was no Super Eagles player on the list of three of the CAF Player of the Year Award.

The coach, believes this would make his players do well at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, so as to compete in the next years honours and awards.

"We have a good squad to compete with other good teams at the World Cup

Also, I am confident that the players might want to be the best African group this year,"

"I am additionally glad to be among the three candidates for African Coach of the Year.

"Egypt, their best player (Mohamed Salah) and their mentor (Hector Cuper) merited the honors.

"They made a decent AFCON (Africa Cup of Nations 2017), while Nigeria didn't play."

Egypt national group was named group of the year similarly as its star, Mohammed Salah won Footballer of the Year in front of his Liverpool partner, Sadio Mane and Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.