Kickoff (Cape Town)
18 August 2008
Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantekyie has challenged local coaches to work on improving themselves as the fallout over the appointment of Milovan Rajevac continues.
The GFA's decision to hand the Black Stars to the unknown Serbian with no previous national team experience and no African coaching experience, has riled the pro local coach support base who says the GFA's decision makes a mockery of its insistence that one of them is not ready for the job.
The GFA president says while a few local coaches have worked hard to improve their skill level, too many others have not done enough to stay on top of the game.
The GFA recognises that at the moment there does not appear to be anybody capable of coaching the national team.
In a staunch defence of the association's decision to appoint the Rajevac as national coach, Nyantekyie insisted the GFA had taken a decision based purely on competence.
"First of all let me state in clear unambiguous terms that neither me as an individual, nor the GFA as an organsation, has anything against a local becoming a national coach.
"The sole criteria is competence and under the umbrella of competence we have others like personality traits, compensation package, experience and others. If any Ghanaian satisfied us none of would have hesitated at all in giving him the job."
The GFA president added, however, that there does not appear to be any local coach prepared to do the job now.
"The GFA recognises that at the moment there does not appear to be anybody capable of coaching the national team. But, in the long term, some arrangement should be put in place to prepare Ghanaians for this position and we have worked in the past and continue to work at that.
"So we are not unmindful that we need local expertise for that position but we can not just give the job to someone because he is Ghanaian. We have to give the job out because he is competent and most people have not done enough to improve themselves," he said.
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