George Afriyie - Photo Courtesy X (Twitter).
Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association, George Afriyie has slammed the current administration for engaging in “trial and error” with the national team’s coaching job.
Current FA President, Kurt Okraku has supervised the appointment of four coaches in the last five years yet none has achieve any decent feat with the four time African champions.
Ex-international, Charles Akonnor was named head coach of the senior national team but was far from impressive - recording four wins, four losses and two draws, scoring 13 goals with nine conceded.
There was a return for Serbian trainer, Milovan Rajevac whose second coming fell short of expectations. Affectionately known as “Milo”, he garnered eight matches with three wins and three losses and two draws in his short spell.
Veteran manager, Chris Hughton’s role with the Black Stars was nothing to write home about either. His 13 matches brought four victories, 5 draws and 4 losses leading to his sack after the rescheduled 2023 AFCON in Ivory Coast.
Current coach, Otto Addo is making a return to the west African nation after leading them to a group stage exit of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He has failed to qualify them for fhe 2024 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
A horrible performance in the qualifiers saw the side rake home a paltry 3 points in five matches with the final and immaterial game against Niger on Monday, November 18.
George Afriyie said: “Coach CK [Akonnor] was sacked, you brought in Milovan Rajevac, Milo was sacked and they brought in Otto Addo. Otto [Addo] said he was not ready for the job on the long term.
“He [Otto Addo] left the we brought in Chris Hughton, Chris has been sacked and brought Otto Addo again. “So if you are doing this within a space of five years, what are you doing, is it not true and error?”
“Look at Otto [Addo] being an inexperienced coach. We agreed that Otto until taking over this job has never been a head coach of any serious team before.
“Check his assistants, none of his assistants too are experienced. Elsewhere if you bring an inexperienced coach, you will get the coach bringing in very good people to be his deputies or his assistants. But in this case, the coach is inexperienced.” George Afriyie told Ghana Television.
“Otto Addo took us to the World Cup with Mas Ud Didi Dramani as assistant coach, Chris Hughton as assistant coach, George Boateng as an assistant coach, that was what we had before.” He added.
George Afriyie was the Vice President of the Ghana FA under the erstwhile boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi who steered the nation to several glories in his 13-year reign.
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