By Kitson Evans
By now, every Ghanaian
football fan knows that Ghana finished runners-up in the just ended African Cup
of Nations. In my opinion, this is an
anathema for Ghana football. The history of Ghana football does not call for Kwame
Nkrumah’s Black Stars to finish second in a Nations Cup to any nation on the
African continent. Finishing second for the
Black Stars is unacceptable!!!! We did not accept that when we used great and
legendary coaches like C.K. Gyamfi and Osam Duodu to capture the ultimate prize
for the nation. These are patriotic Ghanaians
who coached the Black Stars to African glory and were paid meager sums.
Fast forward. Now Ghanaian
Football Administration does not think that out of 23 million Ghanaian
citizens, not one of them is capable of coaching football sense into players of
the Black Stars (Kwame Nkrumah is tumbling in his grave). Instead, we have to
import a football coach from any other nations besides Ghana. I strongly oppose
this notion that a Ghanaian
paid $45,000 a month like the Serbian coach we have now, with the right
environment and resources cannot achieve the same results like a non Ghanaian.
Those who have accepted this notion have given up on Ghana as a nation and have
set the wrong example for the youth of the nation. Stop killing the self of
esteem of our people by indicating that our people are not good enough.
Now, African Cup 2010,
inexperienced Ghanaian squad battled a very experienced Egyptian team and after
80th minute, the game was scoreless. At this moment, since the
ultimate prize was on the line, the coach who believes in winning the ultimate
prize has to go for the win. The Egyptian coach brought on an offensive player
to close the deal, but the Ghanaian coach of Serbian origin adopted a
clotteyian defensive strategy and brought on a defensive player Eric Addo. The
Egyptian’s Mayweathian strategy won the day and Ghana sadly finished second in
the 2010 African cup of Nations.
In the 2010 World Cup, let’s
hope that when the time comes to close the deal, Ghana’s Serbian coach will
adopt a Mayweathian strategy instead of Clotteyian one and close the deal for
Ghana during transformative moments in the game. This is what we Ghanaian
football fans want; a gold medal winning Black Stars team. Milo, be brave in
the transformative moment in the game!! In soccer, defense can sometimes
prevent the other team from scoring and wining the game, but our coach as to
realize that the ultimate objective of soccer is to score goals and win the
game. Having a strategy to prevent the other team from scoring does not win
major championship like the World Cup. We were too defensive against Egypt in the
African Cup final game. To win the World Cup, we have to know how to defend as
well as score goals to win games. We must close the deal, a Mayweathian strategy
instead of Clotteyian will get the job done.
Good luck to Ghana Black
Stars!!!!
Ghanaian Patriot
Kitson Evans
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constructive thought and reasoning, and not those whose mental ability
is limited to baseless insults.
