Kwasi Appiah, Head Coach of Ghana’s senior football team the
Black Stars has been given the marching orders after a crunch
meeting of the top brass of the Ghana Football Association on
Thursday.
Reports quote a member of the GFA executive council; Fred Papoe as
saying the decision to part ways with the coach was reached following
his public disapproval of the FA's decision to hire a technical advisor
for the team. The FA had announced its decision to hire Serb trainer
Milovan Rajevac as technical adviser to the coach but Mr. Appiah
granted a radio interview in which he said he had not asked for a
technical assistant, contradicting the position of the GFA. “Kwasi Appiah didn’t want to go with the new direction of the FA about
hiring a technical advisor,” Mr. Papoe is quoted as saying.
Other sources however suggest the decision is as a result of the
team’s abysmal performance in the Nations Cup qualifiers against
Uganda and Togo. Ghana drew 1-1 at home to Uganda and struggled
to beat Togo 3-2 away in Lome.
Meanwhile Rajevac has been named to replace Coach Appiah as head
coach of the Black Stars, lending a degree of credibility to yet another
school of thought which posits that Appiah was shown the exit to
pave way for Rajevac who had reportedly refused to sign on as
assistant to Appiah and demanded a substantive position in the Black
Stars set up as a prerequisite to his working with the team.
Milovan Rajevac coached the Black Stars to their record quarter-final
appearance in the World Cup in South Africa 2010. Appiah, a former
captain of the Black Stars, on the other hand made a poor showing at
the Mundial in Brazil 2014. He is however the first indigenous coach
to have qualified the Black Stars for the World Cup.
The entire technical team of the Ghana Black Stars has also been
dissolved with the exception of assistant coach Maxwell Konadu, also
a former player.
Black Stars has been given the marching orders after a crunch
meeting of the top brass of the Ghana Football Association on
Thursday.
Reports quote a member of the GFA executive council; Fred Papoe as
saying the decision to part ways with the coach was reached following
his public disapproval of the FA's decision to hire a technical advisor
for the team. The FA had announced its decision to hire Serb trainer
Milovan Rajevac as technical adviser to the coach but Mr. Appiah
granted a radio interview in which he said he had not asked for a
technical assistant, contradicting the position of the GFA. “Kwasi Appiah didn’t want to go with the new direction of the FA about
hiring a technical advisor,” Mr. Papoe is quoted as saying.
Other sources however suggest the decision is as a result of the
team’s abysmal performance in the Nations Cup qualifiers against
Uganda and Togo. Ghana drew 1-1 at home to Uganda and struggled
to beat Togo 3-2 away in Lome.
Meanwhile Rajevac has been named to replace Coach Appiah as head
coach of the Black Stars, lending a degree of credibility to yet another
school of thought which posits that Appiah was shown the exit to
pave way for Rajevac who had reportedly refused to sign on as
assistant to Appiah and demanded a substantive position in the Black
Stars set up as a prerequisite to his working with the team.
Milovan Rajevac coached the Black Stars to their record quarter-final
appearance in the World Cup in South Africa 2010. Appiah, a former
captain of the Black Stars, on the other hand made a poor showing at
the Mundial in Brazil 2014. He is however the first indigenous coach
to have qualified the Black Stars for the World Cup.
The entire technical team of the Ghana Black Stars has also been
dissolved with the exception of assistant coach Maxwell Konadu, also
a former player.
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