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‘I would never appoint a foreign coach for Kotoko if’…. Samuel Opoku Nti
Asante Kotoko legend Samuel Opoku Nti has vowed never to appoint a foreign coach for the club as they offer little or close to nothing.
Opoku Nti excelled during his playing days at the club and won many laurels, most notably the 1983 Africa Club of Champions Cup (CAF Champions League). The man nicknamed the ‘Lord of the Green Turf’ was also part of the glorious Ghana Black Stars squad at the 1982 Africa Cup of Nations tournament.
Upon retirement, Opoku Nti has also managed Asante Kotoko between 2013 & 2016 as its CEO in a spell that delivered a league and FA Cup.
In an interview with Kumasi-based Silver FM, Opoku Nti has advised that Asante Kotoko should prioritize hiring competent local coaches and giving them the needed support to succeed. Its an example he wants Ghana Football at large to follow.
“This is my personal opinion, I don’t think white coaches have helped Ghana, whether Asante Kotoko or Ghana or any other club. At the end of the day what happened,” Opoku Nti told Silver FM.
“Our terrain is not really suitable for the white coaches. So we the administrators need to seriously give this a thought. The kind of support we give these white coaches, our local coaches are deprived of such.
“But when things go south for the white coaches we fail to condemn them equally as we do to our local coaches in same or similar circumstances.
“But look at the working conditions we make for our local coaches. They are poor as compared to the white coaches but we criticize them more than we do the whites.
“Asante Kotoko should dive deep into their history, no white coach has won an African competition for the club. Even how many white coaches have won the local league for Kotoko. So let’s look at this critically and give our local coaches the needed support and respect
“The song that we keep playing, this is our own, let’s cherish our own, are we cherishing our local coaches. If I have power, no white man will Coach my team,” he boldly stated.
Source: footballmadeinghana.com
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