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28 Benin Republic head coach Gernot Rohr has said new Super Eagles handler Bruno Labbadia loves playing offensive football.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) recently announced Labbadia as the new coach of the Super Eagles.
The German replaces former Nigeria international Finidi George who resigned after just two competitive games.
Labbadia’s first game as Super Eagles coach woukd be against Rohr’s Benin Republic on matchday 1 of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on Saturday September 7 in Uyo.
“Bruno Labbadia is a good coach with lots of experience and loves offensive football,” Rohr said on Brila FM.
“Congrats to Nigeria for getting a big coach and I hope he stays for more than five years like I did when I was Super Eagles coach and I hope he gets good results except against Benin Republic.”
Labbadia won the Bundesliga title as a player of Bayern Munich in the 1993/94 season and also won the DFB-Pokal with Kaiserslautern in 1990.
He was a former coach of Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Herha Berlin.
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