Okyeame Kwame, who prides himself as the Rap Doctor, is calling on the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to give local coaches the chance to head the Black Stars team.
He resented the perception that local coaches are incompetent to handle the Black Stars to ensure victory for the team. He expressed disappointment about the manner in which coaches in the country are abandoned for foreign coaches, especially at the national level.
Okyeame Kwame cited the Under 20 World Cup in Egypt which saw Ghana take home the trophy with a local coach; a justification that the Local coaches are equally up to the task.
Award Winning coach, Selas Tetteh, broke the silence about the unprofessionalism of the local coaches when he secured victory for the Black Meteors in the Under 20 World Cup in 2009.
He became the first Ghanaian-African coach to attain the top spot in the Under 20 World Cup.
It is on this premise that Okyeame Kwame asserted the local coaches will best manage the national team and called for an opportunity to be created for them.
He emphasized that “because of the whole Ghanaian-ness” of the coaches and their “willingness to make a point”, the Black Stars would have won the trophies during the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.
Though he wouldn’t underrate the prowess of the foreign coaches, he stated that with proper orientation and recognition by the Ghana Football Association, the local coaches will become the bedrock of the national teams.
Touching on the match between Ghana and Guinea in the African Nations Cup on Wednesday, he advised players against complacency hoping that they will improve in the subsequent matches.
He commended the players for qualifying to the quarter finals and was optimistic the Stars will emerge as champions in the 2012 African Cup of Nations.
Story by Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/X fm 95.1/Accra/Ghana
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