Opinions

News

Sports

Business

Entertainment

GhanaWeb TV

Africa

Country

An expatriate technical director for Stars?

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (69)

  • BJ 10 years ago

    We shall resist this if it's true. Are Africans mad or what?

  • DAVI 10 years ago

    WOW!Thank you for the write up,Patriotic Son of Ghana.Those trying to Sabotage Coach Akwasi Appiah will Never succeed.Replacing Appiah with Technical Director will be a big curse in Ghana's Football .WIN OR LOSE COACH AKWASI ...
    read full comment

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    HURRAY! HURRAY!! HURRAY!!! NIGERIA BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN COUNTRY TO QUALIFY FOR BRAZIL 2014. ALL JEALOUS GHANAIANS HATERS CAN GO BURN IN THE SEA.

    WE WON AFCON 2013 AND U17 SOCCER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, ...
    read full comment

  • bb 10 years ago

    Appiah the back is not good.so watch out.....it is not going tp be easy.

  • Krikri,, 10 years ago

    Several decades ago he proclaimed that the black man is capable of managing his own affairs and indeed, CK Gyamfi did it. For me the colonial mentality is GONE FOREVER

  • kofi 10 years ago

    Excellennt, It is not only colonial mentality, it is stupidity and lack of confidence in themselves and in other Ghanians. If AA needs help, there are many soccer brains in Ghana. Abedi, Polo, Osei Kofi, Ibrahim Sunday and ev ...
    read full comment

  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    Call Rijkaard to work with aa not Konadu. I once met him at school airport in Amsterdam in 94. I was with my dad needs Lil brother. Cool cat.....so nice too. He gave us his autograph...lol

  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    And Konadu...lol

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Success have many fathers,and failure is an orphan.
    Who thought you this wisdom key?
    KWESI APPIAH IN UNDISPUTED IN HIS POST.
    No one can take him from it,because he has already substantiate his fortress,after passing throug ...
    read full comment

  • Sikamanba 10 years ago

    No foreign anything.We can win the cup in our own way and with our own people.
    Bringing in foreigners is where the corruption starts and spread apathy through the team and everything collapses.

    The present technical team ...
    read full comment

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 10 years ago

    BASED ON HOW WE PLAYED TODAY. GH WILL GET SMOKED IN BRASIL.WE PLAYED TERRIBLE N STILL LOST. NOT A GOODLOOK. IF WE HAD FOLLOWED THE COUNTER ATTACK GAME PLAN, N LOST. WE WOULDNT BE TOO UNSATISFIED. AA NEEDS PROFESSIONAL HELP. H ...
    read full comment

  • 4-3-3 10 years ago

    The writer is saying we tried to play defensive by playing a high line?

    Also technical directors are not football managers. Appiah will still keep this job. Topmoller's role will be to take care of the football side of th ...
    read full comment

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    LOOK AT HIS RESUME AND COMPARE THAT TO RIJKAARD.

  • John,Tema 10 years ago

    Don't believe this those who wanted an expatriate technical director just wanted an opportunity to divert public fund.Just like how they have been stealing poor Africans money with so call whites thieves.

  • DAVI 10 years ago

    Please don't repeat the 1990s Ghana's Football(SOCCER)history.NO MONKEY DEY WORK,BAMBOO DEY CHOP BUSINESS IN 2013/14.COACH AKWASI HAVE BEING INSULTED AND CALLED NAMES,NOW HE IS WINNING,BECAUSE HE BUILD THE TEAM,TEAM BUILDING ...
    read full comment

  • Jason 10 years ago

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Stars-Brasil-2014/1398108700427583?skip_nax_wizard=true#!/pages/Black-Stars-Brasil-2014/1398108700427583

  • khodjo 10 years ago

    I agree with you whole totally that Kwasi Appiah got us there and he therefore deserves to manage the team in Brazil. We have a tendency to undervalue our own coaches even though they have produced results time and time agai ...
    read full comment

  • KAY 10 years ago

    ENOUGH ALREADY....
    GFA DENIED THESTORY. CAN YOU STOP THIS......
    LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE. ABA OHO....

  • Grandpa 10 years ago

    That is vintage Cameron, I miss you, bro!(Daily Graphic : 1960's & 1970's). Where have you been, and how is life treating you? Stay fit and strong.
    Peace and blessings!

  • Kente Warriors!! 10 years ago

    All this ejaculation to tell us that he owns a BMW.

  • Jason 10 years ago

    https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Black-Stars-Brazil-2014/1398108700427583

  • Johnny Walker 10 years ago

    Kwesi Appiah don`t need any technical director. It`s all waste of our scarce foreign exchange. Leave Appiah alone.

  • mma 10 years ago

    "Operation win the world" has started in Germany, so all these guys are not coming to help but to study our style of play and send information back to their countries. In short to spy. GFA beware!

  • Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

    Some people have enough time to keep writing nonsense..

  • Prof Ato Azumah 10 years ago

    This is first-class nonsense. GFA must think again. Any attack on Appiah's career will open a can of worms. Journalists, housemothers, kids in nursery, taxi drivers and even the players themselves will boycott Topmoeller. He ...
    read full comment

  • Ampong, USA 10 years ago

    I think the timing of this article, right before the second leg against Egypt, is very bad!,

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    Mr. Duodu, you made your point quite well, when you stated that...."if ain't broken don't try fixing it". Yes! Ghana does not need any technical director....especially an expatriate for that matter.

    We can handle our own a ...
    read full comment

  • gabi 10 years ago

    that's extremely true...we need our own for self-respect.

  • Aksum 10 years ago

    What about the argument for positive improvement? Did you consider that?

  • MAKA 10 years ago

    WHY REPORT THIS

  • seini 10 years ago

    I thought C. K. Gyamfi played for Accra Hearts of Oak and wore jersey No.8. He also played for a top Germany club before moving on to coaching, the most intelligent and successful coach Ghana has ever had, apart from George A ...
    read full comment

  • pala 10 years ago

    the writer i think is a staunch kotoko man or an npp MAN. yes CK Gyamfi played for Hearts. unlike the braggart osei kofi, CK dogged kotoko for Hearts. as for osei kofi unable to put up with city life both in accra & london do ...
    read full comment

  • OBIBINI 10 years ago

    The usual ever ingrained neo-colonialist attitude at work.Appointing a whiteman to be a technical director of the Black Stars for what? ?
    Because of his colour or inferiority on our part as blacks? Why can't we do things our ...
    read full comment

  • NAT 10 years ago

    WE DON'T NEED ANY TECHNICAL DIRECTOR FOR THE STARS.

  • GC/USA 10 years ago

    THIS IS A DIFFERENT LEVEL AND ALL HANDS SHOULD BE ON BOARD. AFTER ALL IT WILL BE A COVER AND LEARNING PROCESS FOR APPIAH WHO HAS NO WORLD CLASS COACHING CERTIFICATE. GHANAIANS MUST THINK THAT WINNING AGAINST AFRICA TEAMS DO N ...
    read full comment

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    To whoever you are....I doubt you are even a Ghanaian in the first place. Who was the coach for Ghana, in the South African world cup and most of the African Cup competitions in recent times????

    Was it a Ghanaian or your s ...
    read full comment

  • GC/USA 10 years ago

    I HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE MEDIOCRE COACHING DISPLAYED BY THE RESULTS OF THE GHANA- EGYPT GAME. I

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    GC/USA......Which of the games are you referring to? We won the first game and any nation on earth will do all they can to contain the Egyptians as we did today, to go through to the world cup. Either way we did a professiona ...
    read full comment

  • GC/USA 10 years ago

    MR. NON-ALIGNED, YOU MEAN THE 6-1 AGAINST EGYPT WAS BY LUCK. WAKE UP. THE COACH HAS NO TACTICAL OR COACHING SKILLS. WHAT YOU SAW TODAY WAS INDIVIDUAL TALENT DEFENDED THE 6-1 ADVANTAGE. REPLACE THE COACH OR PROVIDE A HELPER BE ...
    read full comment

  • Peepe 10 years ago

    Nonsense!!! What certificates do the Milos and Co have? Where did they take us to? Stupid myopic mentality. Who started this stupid expatriate technical Nonsense? Enough of this stupidity and rally behind the one you have. Go ...
    read full comment

  • Paapa B 10 years ago

    It couuldn't be better analysed. GFA take note. There are enough Ghanaian talents to support Akwasi if the need arises. But even more important is the fact that too much emphasis is being placed on an event for which we hav ...
    read full comment

  • wilson 10 years ago

    kwesi appiah must stay in the helm of affairs but his assistant, team manager & goalkeepers trainer must be changed. none of them ever got a call up into the national team.
    the GFA has done very well by introducing professo ...
    read full comment

  • IK 10 years ago

    Why are you bringing this article at this time? do you want to detract us from going to the world cup? this is not the time to bring this story, in as much us you want to make your money, think about the interest of the peopl ...
    read full comment

  • Abongoman 10 years ago

    What is this distraction about.Ghanaians are our own enemies.

  • GYAN is STUPID 10 years ago

    Asamaoh GYAN said anything can happen in CAIRO today!!

  • carlous dunga 10 years ago

    Why always we blacks we have problems to suport our own brothers,One the man who are coming as a technical director is not more than our's, F A Boss shoul look sharp.Good Luck Blarck Stars

  • YAW ASARE LONG ISLAND NEW YORK 10 years ago

    it is greediness that is worrying these ghanians so called good for nothing politians.they want to find a way to make money out of these foreign officials.why cannt they be proud of their own people coach Appiah we GHANIANS i ...
    read full comment

  • Asafo Kwame Sowah 10 years ago

    As usual we Ghanaians misunderstand everything because we’re too book long. A technical director is not only an experienced coach but an administrator. He overlooks all categories and levels of football, does the national p ...
    read full comment

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 10 years ago

    we need TEK DIRECTOR. THE NEXT STAGE IS NOT MEDIOCRE. AFCON S3F AA NO SEE TOP. HOW MUCH MORE WCUP? GIVE AA A TEK DIRECTOR LIKE RIJKAARD. AA MUST TAKE A PAY CUT BUT HVE VETO POWER.

  • YAW ASARE LONG ISLAND NEW YORK 10 years ago

    IT IS GREEDINESS that is worring our ghanian officials the so called good for nothing politicians.They want to get something out of these transactions of gething foreign advisers.Oh God help them.Mr Appiah we are behind you 1 ...
    read full comment

  • YEWUOOO 10 years ago

    oooh My brother is it not simple logic that when we bring foreigners we are able to get kick backs easily. thats why we've collapsed all our factories. after dealing with a foreigner makes it easy to enrich our pockets with t ...
    read full comment

  • Sundiate Kurumanguru 10 years ago

    Low self esteem Africans

  • Nana Kwame Antwi 10 years ago

    When did Toppmöller taste the World Cup, where and with which Country? Come again with tangible reasons(which u dont have) to take him as Technical Director. He has been in Deutschland Wehen Rudi Völler , Jürgen Klinsmann ...
    read full comment

  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    True say. And an excellent journalist piece at that. Ghanaian journalist, especially the writers on ghanaweb platform can learn from this writer.

  • nobody 10 years ago

    they want to chop heavy euros by bringing Topmoller.shame unto them ,they are thief in the Government

  • Nana Ansu 10 years ago

    As the saying goes, the black man can manage his own affairs. Pleas sikadicious people, leave Akwasi Appiah alone. If Ghana loses or not we prefer our own man. Why giving all credits to the whites as if blacks are jackass? Ak ...
    read full comment

  • Nii Aryee 10 years ago

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it!”

    Are you pretty sure it's the way they say it ???
    If it ain't broke or if it ain't broken ?.....The second one is the right expression

  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    WHAT IS ALL THIS NONSENSE ABOUT A TECHNICAL DIRECTOR. CAN WE STOP PROMOTING THIS INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND BELIEVE IN OURSELVES.

    ALL THE TROPHYS THAT GHANA HAS EVER WON WAS WON BY GHANAIAN COACHES, SO WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABO ...
    read full comment

  • concern ghanian 10 years ago

    TO SHOW YOU WE WASTE OUR MONEY CELEBRATING INDEPENDENT

  • concern ghanian 10 years ago

    WHY GERMAN NOT PICK HIM TO THE WORLD CUP?

  • Bright Simulele 10 years ago

    Instead of wasting money on a foreign Coach, why dont ghe FA send Coach Appiah to Barcelonia to join their Coach to lean something from him

  • concern ghanian 10 years ago

    BLACK NATION, BLACK STAR, BLACK COACH

  • concern ghanian 10 years ago

    OURSELVES THINKS WE`RE BRAINLESS

  • Pinkus 10 years ago

    I was against a technical director until we played in Cairo. Whether we like it or not Appiah needs help. We can only ignore this reality to our own peril.

  • maame 10 years ago

    Expatriates? they are immigrants, just like you are not an expat when you go to their country.

  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    that is a great name for my generation...Denizens of Street author?

  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    kudos for illusterious career..

  • Alexander Obeng 10 years ago

    technical what no way

  • Juno 10 years ago

    It is well known that Coach Kwasi is not very experienced with soccer outside Africa but he needs help in the form of an adviser not a director. Coach Appiah should be the only boss and he should have an advisor (of his choos ...
    read full comment