Ghana needs selection criteria for Black Stars - Nana Agyeman

UEFA-licensed coach Nana Agyeman has said one of the biggest problems confronting the country’s senior national team, the Black Stars, is a lack of selection criteria for fielding players on the team.

Speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Friday, 12 June 2020, the ace sports journalist noted that the GFA needs to develop comprehensive selection criteria for call-ups to the senior national team so as to ensure that the Black Stars produce results.

“Look, we don’t have selection criteria for the players anyway. This is one of the key factors. On what basis do we select players to represent Ghana? What is the basis? And I’ve always talked about this: we must have selection criteria – comprehensive selection criteria that’s based on a number of factors on the individual players and their performance in their respective clubs”, Nana Agyeman asserted.

He also explained that when players are called up to the national team based on their names rather than performance at their various clubs, it does not yield the desired results.

“We have called players to represent the Ghana Black Stars that are not even playing football in their respective clubs. They’ve been sitting on the bench but because they have heavy names, we have called them. They can’t perform on that basis because if you train, train, train, but are not playing any matches, all that training, too, is futile because you must utilise all that training in the final exams; which is the match. We haven’t had comprehensive criteria for decades, they don’t even know what it is. They have no idea what it is and I’ve been knocking on their doors about this for 20 years”, he emphasised.