Adwoa Bayor urges women to take up coaching

Former Black Queens captain, Grace Adwoa Bayor has challenged women especially ex. Queens Players to enroll in coaching courses to eventually take over the various female national teams in Ghana.

Bayor, who was a member of the FIFA Women’s under 17 world cup committee in Costa Rica, says she has already started a coaching course, after playing for the Black Queens for almost a decade.


“I am urging the ex-female players to go into coaching so that we take over from the men because sometimes they the men don’t really understand the ladies when they have problems,” she told Asempa Sports.


“The problems of women are many, the men coaches are always expecting the ladies to behave 100 percent forgetting that the body system can change at any time so the officials should let the women coach the women and let the men also coach the men.


“I have started it and very soon l will bring what I am studying in the coaching field to bear so I want to see most of my colleagues also going into it.”

Adwoa Bayor played for Ghatel ladies in Ghana before joining FC Indiana in the United States recently. She also captained the Queens in the 2007 World Cup in China.


She was voted African Women Footballer of the Year in 2003 by CAF.


In a related development, a member of the 1999 Black Queens squad, Mercy Tagoe, is already into coaching and is one of the assistants at Tema-based Amidaus Professionals who were relegated last season from the Ghana top flight league.


She is also a retired FIFA referee.