Osei Kofi Slaps Ghana Coach

Former Black Stars winger Rev Osei Kofi has launched a verbal attack on Black Stars trainer Goran Stevanovic, telling the Serbian to cut down on his travels outside the country and concentrate on hunting for local talents.

To the soft spoken 'dribbling wizard', the country is inundated with many soccer talents, but it will take the effort of the Serbian manager to travel to the various league centres to discover players, especially strikers, to feed the country's various national teams.

He said the rampancy of the coach's travel to Europe in the name of monitoring players is not helping the local league.

'Every coach can do what the coach is currently doing- that is inviting the foreign-based players a few days to matches,' Osei Kofi said at the Media Centre of the Accra Stadium yesterday.

'The senior national soccer team is bereft of strikers, and I expect the coach to tour all the league centres for more strikers.

'It will not come on a silver platter but he must start from somewhere. He can pick the strikers, polish them and turn them into heroes. It is only then that we can say that he is really working,' he added.

Striking has been the bane of the Black Stars after the era of powerful goal-poachers such as George Alhassan, Emmanuel Quashie, Prince Polley, Tony Yeboah, Sarah Mensah, Joe Debrah, and Ishmael Addo, among others; and to Osei Kofi, the earlier the FA finds a solution to the problem, the better it will be for the country's national teams.