We brought our future stars to a car-boot sale and rightly got nothing! Ghana’s contribution to this tournament can only be described as miserable and laughable (IF you can see the funny side).
I warned you last time that the GFA had decided to use only local boys for this tournament. I wondered why? I now believe I know why. Remember this quote? "Something is clearly wrong here! The excuse the Ghana FA gave was that they had decided to use local boys instead. Fine! The question therefore is that why the promise to include some foreign base players? Why the sudden change of plan? Something sucks!!" It dawned on me as Ghana's participation came to an end that our young stars had been assembled for one purpose only! They were on a commercial expedition. The main aim was not to win the tournament BUT to bargain for contracts! We all saw the matches in which Ghana played. Ghana played football as if we had just come out of the stone-age! Nevertheless I will not be too harsh on the players for I believe they had RAW talent in them BUT for some strange reason our Technical staff seriously misused the players. If this is what we teach our boys back home in regards to basic footballing etiquette then I am afraid the next Essien is about 100 years away. It is no wonder that only a tiny fraction make it to contract level when it comes to trials in Europe. The sad thing is that IF the ambition of the handlers and agents was to try and flog our boys then they still made a real dogs-dinner of things. In the game against China I felt no less that 4 players should have been sent off for very NAÏVE (and I hate this word being used on Africans), and basic stupid challenges. There was no cohesion, no control nor simple pass-and-move within the team. Their whole approach was simply "too local". Our handlers should learn one thing and that is IF the local boys are blended with their foreign based colleagues, the local boys tend to raise their game and learn quickly from the body language of the abroad based lads. This reaction in turn benefits the whole team greatly! Don’t forget that these local boys are also eager to win contracts and therefore they tend to assimilate more from the foreigners than what the coach teaches them. At times I felt pity for the players because it was evident that the 'agents' were controlling the game and not the players. These lads were asked to do a specific job to enhance their sale and that is exactly what they did!! Kick and chase and chase again! According to the commentator (for Eurosport) Ghana made 6 changes for the China game! He was baffled and even went on to say that he was not sure what formation Ghana was playing!! That was the extent of our shoddy participation in this tournament!!
We brought our future stars to a car-boot sale and rightly got nothing! Ghana’s contribution to this tournament can only be described as miserable and laughable (IF you can see the funny side).
I warned you last time that the GFA had decided to use only local boys for this tournament. I wondered why? I now believe I know why. Remember this quote? "Something is clearly wrong here! The excuse the Ghana FA gave was that they had decided to use local boys instead. Fine! The question therefore is that why the promise to include some foreign base players? Why the sudden change of plan? Something sucks!!" It dawned on me as Ghana's participation came to an end that our young stars had been assembled for one purpose only! They were on a commercial expedition. The main aim was not to win the tournament BUT to bargain for contracts! We all saw the matches in which Ghana played. Ghana played football as if we had just come out of the stone-age! Nevertheless I will not be too harsh on the players for I believe they had RAW talent in them BUT for some strange reason our Technical staff seriously misused the players. If this is what we teach our boys back home in regards to basic footballing etiquette then I am afraid the next Essien is about 100 years away. It is no wonder that only a tiny fraction make it to contract level when it comes to trials in Europe. The sad thing is that IF the ambition of the handlers and agents was to try and flog our boys then they still made a real dogs-dinner of things. In the game against China I felt no less that 4 players should have been sent off for very NAÏVE (and I hate this word being used on Africans), and basic stupid challenges. There was no cohesion, no control nor simple pass-and-move within the team. Their whole approach was simply "too local". Our handlers should learn one thing and that is IF the local boys are blended with their foreign based colleagues, the local boys tend to raise their game and learn quickly from the body language of the abroad based lads. This reaction in turn benefits the whole team greatly! Don’t forget that these local boys are also eager to win contracts and therefore they tend to assimilate more from the foreigners than what the coach teaches them. At times I felt pity for the players because it was evident that the 'agents' were controlling the game and not the players. These lads were asked to do a specific job to enhance their sale and that is exactly what they did!! Kick and chase and chase again! According to the commentator (for Eurosport) Ghana made 6 changes for the China game! He was baffled and even went on to say that he was not sure what formation Ghana was playing!! That was the extent of our shoddy participation in this tournament!!
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