London, Aug 17, GNA -- Stephen Appiah, skipper of the senior national team, the Black Stars revealed after Ghana's international friendly match against Togo that even though everything worked out as planned there was a weird feeling in camp as they played for the first time without their former coach, Ratomir Djukovic.
The Skipper said even though the players understood that there is nothing permanent about football and people go and come, they really missed the coach.
"Football is a difficult business, but that is the way it is in this game, people go and come every time"
"If for nothing at all, we can all say that he is the main architect behind the performance of the team, so to loose such a person immediately after the World Cup is quiet a change nobody expected".
Appiah added that "We can cry over the past but it is gratifying that we all came together under our new coach to continue from where we left off".
He said to beat Togo, a team the Stars have found difficult to beat in recent years is a manifestation of the hard work of the technical team and the players who are prepared to go the extra mile every time they don the national jerseys.
The Fenerbarche midfielder, a subject of many transfer speculations this summer to the English Premiership this summer, said even though the encounter as a difficult one, the Stars deserved their victory as they dominated the game from the start to the finish.
Appiah said the Togolese came into the match with the notion that their past record in matches against Ghana will goad them to victory, hence they were prepared to sit back and punish us on the break, forcing us to take the ball to them every time.
"From now we have no option than to build on every match to be at our best when the country hosts the rest of Africa in two years time at the CAN 2008=94, he added.
