Nigeria ordered to compensate fired coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been ordered to pay former coach Gernot Rohr $380 000 in compensation after terminating his contract. The country’s longest-serving manager, who took charge in August 2016, was sacked in December just four weeks before the delayed 2021 Africa Cup of Nations kicked off in Cameroon. BBC News reports that the NFF had agreed to pay Rohr's salary until the end of his contract, which expires in December 2022, but the Franco-German went to Fifa to demand an additional sum for breach of contract without just cause. Rohr had sought a total of £1m but a Fifa tribunal decided his claim was ‘partially accepted insofar as it is admissible’. The ruling by the Fifa players' status chamber added that the NFF would be sanctioned if Rohr was not paid in full within 45 days. The NFF was recently fined $154 000 for crowd trouble during a fixture against Ghana. The Premium Times reports that the NFF is planning to recruit another expatriate coach to take over the Super Eagles ahead of the qualifying matches for the 2023 Afcon tournament in the Ivory Coast.