Keni is not my deal - Oti

Ghana football Association technical director Francis Oti Akenteng has quashed reports indicating he played a role in the appointment of new Hearts coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi.

Oti Akenteng has received massive bashings from the football public for allegedly selecting a “substandard” coach for the Ghanaian giants.

The former Heart of Lions coach who now works as a CAF instructor training local coaches is said to have recommended the Japanese to the Club.

He was further blamed for ignoring the local coaches to recommend a foreigner. The astute football personality in an interview with Ghana Sports Newspaper vehemently denied such reports.

“With this issue I don’t even want to talk about it because the more you talk about it the more people think is true,” he told Ghana Sports.

“As I speak to you the Hearts management have asked Gerald to come and apologize to me.”

“To be Frank I don’t know where this is coming from and I don’t know why someone will come out to say something like that.”

“It is true they contacted me that they wanted to choose a coach so I should help them and I gave them my consent.”But I didn’t recommend the Japanese coach for them.”

“Ask them if I even came for any of their meetings when they were selecting the coach. I never came to their meeting. They only contacted me on the Phone to tell me their intention that’s all. I never heard from them again.”

Kenichi has been heavily criticized since his appointment as new Hearts coach