Super Eagles Coach, Gernort Rohr has expressed satisfaction with the African Blind Football Championship which kicked off in Enugu on Monday.
Rohr, who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Enugu on Monday, praised the organiser, Bina Foundation for staging a championship of such magnitude.
”I am satisfied with the organisation and they are doing a great job and I already find possibility in the visual impaired.
”To host teams from all parts of Africa is not an easy thing coupled that Blind Football is a wonderful institution so I can see great exhibition in the championship.
” I am looking forward to seeing goals in the match and you can see how the old and young among them are ready to play football.
” I had a lot of inspiration from the little I watched at my arrival in Enugu. It was a thing of passion for the players,” he said.
He said that all the teams are playing to win and he wished them success in the championship.
” It is nice to have a Blind Football academy in Enugu and also a team for Nigeria known as ” Star Eagles,” Rohr said.
The championship will serve as qualifying to the 2020 Paralympics.
Already in Enugu to compete in the African qualifiers are Cameroun, Morocco, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Mali, Niger and host Nigeria.
