Sacking Black Stars Coach, Kwasi Appiah, isn't right

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Ken Ntiamoa 11 years ago

One step forward, three steps backwards.

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah must be turning in grave. We sold our independence for a pittance.

Ken

One step forward, three steps backwards.

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah must be turning in grave. We sold our independence for a pittance.

Ken
GIRLS SP 11 years ago

Bokor since when could hypocrite Ewes differenciate right from wrong? Shut your bloody hypicrite Ewe mouth over there in New York before someone polishes it for you. You damn hypocrite Ewe idiot.

Bokor since when could hypocrite Ewes differenciate right from wrong? Shut your bloody hypicrite Ewe mouth over there in New York before someone polishes it for you. You damn hypocrite Ewe idiot.
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

This is an intelligent article for intellectuals to comment on not animals of your type who sees everything through tribalism.

Dr. Bokor is one of such intelligent writers and most of us enjoy reading his articles,yet 'ETH ...
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This is an intelligent article for intellectuals to comment on not animals of your type who sees everything through tribalism.

Dr. Bokor is one of such intelligent writers and most of us enjoy reading his articles,yet 'ETHNOCENTRIC RATS' like you tries to make him look bad, will you succeed, fool??
kwasi peter 11 years ago

What a shame to sack Kwesi Appiah, a katakyie, a dedicated Ghanaian soccer player who captained the Black Stars and until last week coached the team. The action of the authority involved in Kwes's sacking has disproved Dr. Nk ...
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What a shame to sack Kwesi Appiah, a katakyie, a dedicated Ghanaian soccer player who captained the Black Stars and until last week coached the team. The action of the authority involved in Kwes's sacking has disproved Dr. Nkrumah's contention that the blackman is capable ofhandling his own affairs. As ghanaians when are we going to believe in ourselves? Are we not competent to tackle our problems from within? If we believe that we are incompetent, then we must hire a president, cabinet, parliamentarians, judges, CEOs etc. from outside ghana. They may move Ghana forward better than us. What a shame.
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

The news about Akwesi Appiah's sacking was quite socking to most of my friends up here in 'LONDON'.

First his sacking affirms the fact that the BLACK MAN IN AFRICA and especially Ghana still has this slave-master mentality ...
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The news about Akwesi Appiah's sacking was quite socking to most of my friends up here in 'LONDON'.

First his sacking affirms the fact that the BLACK MAN IN AFRICA and especially Ghana still has this slave-master mentality and without them nothing good will germinate from the seed sown.

As you rightly put it, Akwesi Appiah has been sacked by the very people/person who actually needed to be sacked.
(KOLA outside LONDON) 11 years ago

BAD AND BOGUS EWE ENGLISH WRITTEN BY THE SILLY EWE, KOLA,LONDON PROPER

Author: KOLA ,LONDON PROPER
Date: 2014-09-13 07:34:50
Comment to: borborbor dance

The news about Akwesi Appiah's sacking was quite socking to most ...
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BAD AND BOGUS EWE ENGLISH WRITTEN BY THE SILLY EWE, KOLA,LONDON PROPER

Author: KOLA ,LONDON PROPER
Date: 2014-09-13 07:34:50
Comment to: borborbor dance

The news about Akwesi Appiah's sacking was quite socking to most of my friends up here in 'LONDON'.

First his sacking affirms the fact that the BLACK MAN IN AFRICA and especially Ghana still has this slave-master mentality and without them nothing good will germinate from the seed sown.

As you rightly put it, Akwesi Appiah has been sacked by the very people/person who actually needed to be sacked.
DAVI 11 years ago

THIS IS AN ACT OF DESPRATION ON PART OF NDC AND YAMIN,TO USE FOOTBALL AS POLITICAL CAPITAL IN 2016 ELECTIONS. THE SPORTS MINISTER COMMENT AND SURPPORT OF THE COACH A.APPIAH SACKED WILL COMFIRMED IT.AS PER GFA'S COMMENT IN 27 ...
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THIS IS AN ACT OF DESPRATION ON PART OF NDC AND YAMIN,TO USE FOOTBALL AS POLITICAL CAPITAL IN 2016 ELECTIONS. THE SPORTS MINISTER COMMENT AND SURPPORT OF THE COACH A.APPIAH SACKED WILL COMFIRMED IT.AS PER GFA'S COMMENT IN 27 NOV.2013 IN GHANAWEB,"UNDER AKWASI APPIAH,THE BLACK STARS HAVE THRILLED WITH A MORE ATTACTING STYLE AND SCORING A LOT OF GOALS,A FAR CRY OF THE SITUATION WHEN THE TEAM WAS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF EXPARTRIATES"BY RANDY ABBEY OF GFA FAME.WHAT HAPPENED THEN?AKWASI APPIAH ANYWAY END HIS JOB IN HIGH NOTE BY BEATEN TOGO 3-2.THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME OUT.
Peps 11 years ago

I normally disagree with your write ups but as for this one, you are right. Something is wrong with GFA leadership and mgmt, as for the Minister of Sports who is in agreement with this asinine and backward decision, the least ...
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I normally disagree with your write ups but as for this one, you are right. Something is wrong with GFA leadership and mgmt, as for the Minister of Sports who is in agreement with this asinine and backward decision, the least said the better. Leadership gone to the dogs.
Mozato 11 years ago

I personally do not see where kwasi Appiah went wrong to deserve this kind of inhumane treatment from GFA and their backers. I blame every misfortune of the Black Stars on indiscipine and unpatriotizm on the part of the playe ...
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I personally do not see where kwasi Appiah went wrong to deserve this kind of inhumane treatment from GFA and their backers. I blame every misfortune of the Black Stars on indiscipine and unpatriotizm on the part of the players and also the greediness of the sports ministry. Those who think he deserve the boot may be suffering from psychosis.
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

Kwesi Appuah was brilliant. To play Germany the champions and almost beat them was in itself a big achievement.

All Akwesi needed was more exposure and time. You do not sack football managers within a short time but give t ...
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Kwesi Appuah was brilliant. To play Germany the champions and almost beat them was in itself a big achievement.

All Akwesi needed was more exposure and time. You do not sack football managers within a short time but give them time.

C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

I just want to register here that I fully agree with Dr Bokor and all of you who support his position on the sacking of Akwasi Appiah! The whole conspiracy stinks to the high heavens and shows that those in charge themselves ...
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I just want to register here that I fully agree with Dr Bokor and all of you who support his position on the sacking of Akwasi Appiah! The whole conspiracy stinks to the high heavens and shows that those in charge themselves deserve sacking rather.

Andy-K
A concerned citizen 11 years ago

Both of them are not good but if you put both of them on a performance scale Milo will outweigh Coach AA a little bit. Why can't the GFA look for other 'beverages' because this choco 'Milo'has expired.

Both of them are not good but if you put both of them on a performance scale Milo will outweigh Coach AA a little bit. Why can't the GFA look for other 'beverages' because this choco 'Milo'has expired.
Joe Turkey 11 years ago

Another idiot. Go and hire him. Frankly, I wont even bother to read this garbage.

Another idiot. Go and hire him. Frankly, I wont even bother to read this garbage.
STONER KOBYLYNTON 11 years ago

Mr. Bokor have expressed his point well on this issue. However, he must know that all 3rd world countries connect sports to politics to the point that, at a giving period if a national team under-performs in a tournament, it ...
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Mr. Bokor have expressed his point well on this issue. However, he must know that all 3rd world countries connect sports to politics to the point that, at a giving period if a national team under-performs in a tournament, it goes to hunt the government in power. AA did his best to qualify the Stars to the WC and with such cream of players who were among the best in the entire assembly, their failure to advance was some indecisions of AA. How on earth do you sit some of your experienced players on the bench at the commencement of the match with USA - who had vowed to revenge their previous defeats by the stars? Whoever ill advised him to do that has caused his downfall. On the other hand if it his own decision, then AA is not matured or qualified as a Head Coach. He needs to go.

I doubt the sensibility of GFA Board having renewed AA's contract just about 10 weeks ago and axing him instantly to go for this Serbian traitor who showed a sign of discontentment as Head Coach when Ghana beat his home country in 2010 WC in South Africa. In coporate world, no former employer of the Serbian would even entertain him a second in their premises when he had walked over them when they had wanted to extend his services. If this Serbian have had longtime gainful employment since he quit his employment with Ghana, he would not have turn back again. He found Ghanaians in authorities to be corrupt and fools. Present day youths in authority are so dodos that, there is a big question with their brains processing power. I think GFA could look for a new Head Coach within or outside the country beside this Serbian traitor. He is not coming for the country's interest but just to fool around with the corrupt officials and make his money at the expense of the tax payer. EBE DII BI KEKE.
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

Well said Stoner Konylynton, this is certainly EBE DII KEKE contract and something looks fishy about this deal.

Well said Stoner Konylynton, this is certainly EBE DII KEKE contract and something looks fishy about this deal.
NON-ALIGNED 11 years ago

I wonder when we Ghanaians are ever going to get it??????

Our suppressive colonialists education system (based solely on someone else's 'lingo') we have in place, creates inferior complex towards other races.

It's reall ...
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I wonder when we Ghanaians are ever going to get it??????

Our suppressive colonialists education system (based solely on someone else's 'lingo') we have in place, creates inferior complex towards other races.

It's really sad to see how we teach OUR children in their formative years by subjecting them to languages that they do not understand..............And yet, we don't seem to understand that teaching and learning does not take place at all?????

It is not only about the 'lingo'...we are also taught throughout our learning years to believe how POOR we are, whilst we are literally sitting on some of the world's richest raw materials in the others kill for.

We are taught that they are of no value till 'they' add value to it, so 'they' determine the prices 'they' will buy them...............

Therefore, we grow up believing we are POOR at everything we do, till they add value to even our thinking.

Now, my point is, our citizens grow, believing and respecting other races, other than their own.

Kwesi Appiah was never respected by his players and those who appointed him. The players never respected his instructions not because he was a bad coach......but because of the MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT of our players due to the mind process of their formative years as humans.

Here we are again, going for a coach who walked out on us with no respect to us and was even paid more than any Ghanaian coach.......who also needed a translator (who was paid more than our own), because he could not speak a word of English??????????????????????????
(I HOPE YOU GET MY DRIFT SO FAR?)

So, the results of our MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT is there for all open-minded serious thinking humans to see........................As a result, many of our citizens get excited when they hear other races speaking our 'lingo' and even purchase their songs sang in our local dialects.
THAT IS WHAT HAS BECOME OF US.......

Now, to another point,....there were many problems caused by our players and officials in Brazil and yet, GHANAIANS get hoodwinked by the GFA by making Kwesi Appiah the scapegoat out all this debacle.............

OSAGYEFO, we have let you down indeed!!! HIS QUOTE: "We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our foundation - our own African identity." Independence Speech - 6th March 1957..........

Yes! Indeed! By making C.K. Gyamfi a success for Ghana and then came Sellas Tetteh's success.......when we had humans thinking on our behalf.

Fast forward to 2014 and we are still looking to other races to lay our foundations for us???????

NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!
GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

You are unfortunately using the same lingua-franca to express yourself here.

The problem we have is never using some foreign language/s but our own slave to master mentality where in our belief system, nothing is well don ...
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You are unfortunately using the same lingua-franca to express yourself here.

The problem we have is never using some foreign language/s but our own slave to master mentality where in our belief system, nothing is well done except it is through the white man.

Uplift yourselves from mental slavery and never bow to the chicken feed.You are eagles not chickens culled, Dr. Kwegir Aggrey.
(KOLA outside LONDON) 11 years ago

THE STUPID EWE FOOL KOLA IS BACK TO DISPLAY HIS BOGUS ENBLISH SKILLS. STOP WRITING THAT SILLY EWE ENGLISH AND DO IT IN A PROPER ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ARE YOU SURE YOU INSANE REALLY STAYS IN UK? I GUESS YOU ARE IN AFLAO !!!

REA ...
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THE STUPID EWE FOOL KOLA IS BACK TO DISPLAY HIS BOGUS ENBLISH SKILLS. STOP WRITING THAT SILLY EWE ENGLISH AND DO IT IN A PROPER ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ARE YOU SURE YOU INSANE REALLY STAYS IN UK? I GUESS YOU ARE IN AFLAO !!!

READ YOUR FOLLOWING SILLY ENGLISH, "KWASEA" YOU THINK WRITING AND SPEAKING ENGLISH IS JUST LIKE STEALING A CAT!

Author: KOLA ,LONDON PROPER
Date: 2014-09-13 08:48:54
Comment to: THE MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT AT WORK AGAIN!!!

You are unfortunately using the same lingua-franca to express yourself here.

The problem we have is never using some foreign language/s but our own slave to master mentality where in our belief system, nothing is well done except it is through the white man.

Uplift yourselves from mental slavery and never bow to the chicken feed.You are eagles not chickens culled, Dr. Kwegir Aggrey
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

My Paddy, just stay away and find your class mates or better still, look for your seat.

My Paddy, just stay away and find your class mates or better still, look for your seat.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

Oh! my, Oh my! What has Kola's supposed bad English got to do with his being an Ewe? The writer of this article is also an Ewe and he writes flawless English and teaches same to even white people in the US! So why bring your ...
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Oh! my, Oh my! What has Kola's supposed bad English got to do with his being an Ewe? The writer of this article is also an Ewe and he writes flawless English and teaches same to even white people in the US! So why bring your ethnocentric prejudices into judging what one particular Ewe writes in English, as if only Ewes write poor English on Ghanaweb?

Check even what you write yourself, and if you really can write English, you'd notice lots of typos!

What is actually wrong with you "These Akans"? I am serving notice that I shall unravel that pretty soon; as soon as I am done with the intellectually bankrupt Ghanaians, home and abroad.

Andy-K

NON-ALIGNED 11 years ago

Absolutely! If I was educated in my own 'lingo', I would have been expressing myself in it as well......

That is the point I'm making KOLA! Don't you get it? That is why we should make our own mistakes, learn from them and ...
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Absolutely! If I was educated in my own 'lingo', I would have been expressing myself in it as well......

That is the point I'm making KOLA! Don't you get it? That is why we should make our own mistakes, learn from them and correct them.......just as all developed nations have been doing to succeed.

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

Non-Aligned, if it was possible to use our own Languages, it would have been done long ago.

Which Language to use, consider the numerous Languages in Ghana.Is it Possible to use each to publish say math books in all over 1 ...
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Non-Aligned, if it was possible to use our own Languages, it would have been done long ago.

Which Language to use, consider the numerous Languages in Ghana.Is it Possible to use each to publish say math books in all over 100 languages in Ghana?
NON-ALIGNED 11 years ago

KOLA.....an African language would have been appropriate for all but firstly an attempt for each tribe to learn to write their own and then each others.

Almost Ghanaians can speak one particular language fluently plus thei ...
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KOLA.....an African language would have been appropriate for all but firstly an attempt for each tribe to learn to write their own and then each others.

Almost Ghanaians can speak one particular language fluently plus their own dialects. Forgive me for not mentioning that language to prevent the tribal bigots to jump on the STUPID tribal band wagon.

Please research on how AFRICANS from all walks of life studied at the first ever university in the world, sited in Timbuktu then. And the language used to teach them to grow to start the African Civilization.

If you can do so, then, maybe....you will understand where I am coming from.

Nothing in this world is IMPOSSIBLE!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Agya Yaw Bantama 11 years ago

My brothers unless we ask DCOP Kofi Boakye to send his troops to the FA and eradicate the armed robbers there, we are joking, the Mafia would continue to rob the nation with their new tactics

My brothers unless we ask DCOP Kofi Boakye to send his troops to the FA and eradicate the armed robbers there, we are joking, the Mafia would continue to rob the nation with their new tactics
frankly 11 years ago

All GFA GUY they dont know what they are doing

All GFA GUY they dont know what they are doing
Airdhem Baku Presher Kingsford 11 years ago

is right to sack him because i can see he is not using the right players to start the games. And even he is not respecting the views of the players for the playes too to respect him. I think ghanaian coach is not good for bla ...
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is right to sack him because i can see he is not using the right players to start the games. And even he is not respecting the views of the players for the playes too to respect him. I think ghanaian coach is not good for black star. Milo should come back and continue what he started last 3 years back.
mensah abrampa 11 years ago

Bokor, after all your biased vituperation against everything that smells like Akan, do you find this as your most treasured opportunity to fool those you love to hate that you're not what your writings betray you to be ? You ...
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Bokor, after all your biased vituperation against everything that smells like Akan, do you find this as your most treasured opportunity to fool those you love to hate that you're not what your writings betray you to be ? You need to prove your loyalty more to Ghana than to a tribe and political party.
I agree that the circumstances leading to Coach Appish's sudden axing are very bizarre and replacing him with the Serbian who broke our hearts and walked away from the job 4 years ago is the dumbest thing to do. I supported the hiring of an indigneous coach but Kwasi Appiah has failed to prove himself as the substantive coach and well deserving of this challenging job. Even the blind could read the ominous writing on the wall that his stint with the Black Stars was over. Much as some of us prefer a local coach that's not enough reason to retain mediocre performance from one of our own. We must either hire a more competent, results oriented local coach who exudes confidence and is professional in his leadership style or spend big and hire a top class foreign coach. Axing Appiah and replacing him with the renegade half baked Serbian coach is not a step forward but two backward steps.
JAMBO 11 years ago

We always encourage the people of Ghana to patronize made in Ghana good as our reliance on imports is killing our already sick economy.This admonition is good for us as a people but when it comes it comes to using home breed ...
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We always encourage the people of Ghana to patronize made in Ghana good as our reliance on imports is killing our already sick economy.This admonition is good for us as a people but when it comes it comes to using home breed personal,our politicians behave with disdain.In Ghana it is not uncommon for people to surbone against their own people for the betterment of a foreigner.The pull him down attitudes which have crystalised into the termination of Akwasi Appiah is case in point.We hate our own and do not lend our support to nurture home human resources.In so far us we keep on depending on imported human resources at the expense of locally trained ones,we have a long way to go.Political hypocrisy should give way to reality.A nation that depends on imports alone stand to lose!Those in authority should wake up from their agoe long slumber.Sacking Akwasi Appiah is a palliative rather than remedy.
Victor 11 years ago

I agree 100% with Dr. Bokor.

Coach Appiah did very well to qualify Ghana for Brazil 2014.

He did make a big mistake in the first match against the USA, and didn't help matters with his post-match interview.

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I agree 100% with Dr. Bokor.

Coach Appiah did very well to qualify Ghana for Brazil 2014.

He did make a big mistake in the first match against the USA, and didn't help matters with his post-match interview.

However, he led the team to play brilliantly in the match against Germany, and were at one point leading the Germans by 2-1. In fact, they almost won that match. Ghana was the only nation that drew with Germany in Brazil! That showed the quality of the team under Coach Appiah.

What happened up to the match with Portugal is largely public knowledge. How much of this was Coach Appiah's fault?

Why should Mr. Nyantakyi and other members of the GFA stay at post and have the moral courage to sack the Coach?

Let's stop treating each other this way! This is SHAMEFUL!
waxbeero 11 years ago

Ghanaians are not greatful

Ghanaians are not greatful

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