Real Madrid Academy thrills Gernot Rohr, NFF Technical Director
The Real Madrid Academy in Port Harcourt played host to Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr and Nigeria Football Federation Technical Director, Augustine Eguavoen could not contain their excitement as they hailed the vision behind the Real Madrid Academy in Port Harcourt.
Gernot Rohr
says the infrastructures are high level and can be compared to one of the best
academies in Europe.
“The infrastructures
are high level, is like in Europe, and you can compare it to one of the best
academies in Europe like they have in Spain; Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, in
France; Paris, in Germany; Bayern Munich, so I think they are ready to start
this programme, it’s a wonderful structure also a good pitch and we will be
very interested to see what they can do,”
“What I like is that,
is not only football but also the school side; teachers are coming because you
are never sure to succeed in football, and if you don’t succeed in
football, there can be injuries and
other programme, is always good to have the school side, they did not forget
that,”
Speaking further,
Gernot Rohr commended the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike for embarking
on a great work that will groom future stars into the Super Eagles.
“I think the Governor
did a great work and now they have to select the best players to bring some
players in few years into the Super Eagles,”
“The best country in
football, like Spain, France, Germany they have very good academies, and if you want to have a good A team, you need to
work a lot with the young to give them the possibilities to be educated in
football at first but also in school,”
“For the future of the
country, is very important to have this kind of infrastructure I think is an
example for other states perhaps, for the federation,” Gernot Rohr concluded.
Speaking to www.kelvianomedia.blogspot.com.ng
on his part, the Nigeria Football Federation Technical Director, Augustine
Eguavoen tips the Real Madrid Academy structure as top notch in the country,
not to be compared with other academies that are not standard.
“What
we’ve come here to see today is wonderful and excellent, hopefully we will gain
from this in time to come,” Augustine Eguavoen echoes.
“We
cannot compare Real Madrid with Villarreal, So you can’t compare this academy
structure to some academy we see all over but that’s not to say we’ll talked
them down we will find a way to encourage them and see how we can help one
another because football is collective,”
“Hopefully,
we will benefit from this, because of the passion and the talents we have in
the country, academy are been open all over but many of them don’t make it
standard,”
“The
bottom line is about football to start with, Rivers state government have
committed so much and thanks to Real Madrid also for partnering with us”.
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