Coach is the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has made some changes to the backroom staff of the senior national team of Nigeria that went unnoticed.
The coach who is still keen on having Salisu Yusuf back as one of his assistants presently has just three assistants as opposed to when he use to have four with him on the bench.
In the past Rohr use to have Jean Luc Royer as his fitness coach with Nabil Trabelsi doubling as his technical assistants and video analyst. Imama Amapakabo took the role of Salisu Yusuf as first assistant following his suspension over his involvement in a cash for spot scandal, while at the helm as coach of the Nigerian B team popularly called CHAN Eagles.
Alloy Agu and Enrico Pionetti who was appointed by Rohr before the World Cup were saddled with the responsibility of drilling the goalkeepers of the team ahead of game.
Checks by Owngoalnigeria.com revealed that Pionetti has since left the team with Agu with the sole responsibility of getting the goalkeepers ready for games while the appointment of Joseph Yobo has also cost him another option on the bench.
Yobo came in as a replacement for Imama who was taken out of the team months after his elevation to the role of first assistant from his role as second assistant. That role of second assistant now technically belongs to Yobo who now act as first assistant at lest till the appointment of another in that role of the return of Yusuf.
