JOSE MOURINHO URGED GHANA TO RELY ON ;LOCAL COACHES- DR. KOFI AMOAH REVEALS
Chairman for the Normalisation Committee, Dr Kofi Amoah has disclosed that former Chelsea and Manchester United head coach Jose Mourinho once advised the country to rely on local coaches for the national teams and not expatriates.
Ghana over the years has hired expatriates coaches to end the country's trophyless drought but all effort has proven futile.
But according to Dr Amoah, when Jose Mourinho visited Ghana in 2008 during the Africa Cup of Nations, he advised the then President J.A Kuffuor to stick to local coaches for the national team job.
“I took Mourinho to President Kufuor when I invited him to Ghana in 2008. He became my friend through Michael Essien,” he revealed on Adom TV.
“When Mourinho met the then President of the country, he asked why we’re not using our own coaches but have been hiring expatriate coaches who can’t even get jobs in Europe.
“Our coaches can do the job so we must empower them,” he added.
Kwesi Appiah is currently coach of the Black Stars and has been tasked to win the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt this year.
Appiah has been handed a six-month contract extension ahead of the expiration of his contract in March.
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