…Oleley adds voice to local coach’s advocates
The extempore exit of Black Stars’ Serbian manager Milovan Rajevac vis a vis the
team’s Nations Cup qualifiers has left the senior national soccer side in an
‘Orphan’ state.
Milovan’s departure has created a vacuum, and that has incensed Ghana’s football
governing body the FA to embark on yet another coach shopping spree.
Names like David Duncan, Sellas Tetteh, Herbert Addo, Marcel Desailly have emerged
as probable candidate for the vacant Stars coaching job.
But Stars’ goal stopper Richard Oleley Kingson has expressed optimism in Milovan’s
lieutenant Kwasi Appiah as the best candidate to continue from where the Serbian
manager left.
His endorsement stems from the fact that coach Appiah has been there before and has
what it takes to handle the team saying, “I think he is the best person to take over
from Milo, he has been there before so he would be able to tell us what accounted
for their failures and successes as a player.”
Oleley added that: “it is not true that we don’t respect local coaches, in the case
of Kwasi Appiah, we don’t call him coach, we refer to him as ‘Capito’ because of
how he contributed to the team as captain in his days.”
According to Kingson, the coach-player respect between the playing body and coach
Appiah is par excellent he revealed on Happy FM yesterday.
He pointed out that should coach Appiah get the not as the head coach, the FA,
government and all stakeholders of the game should throw their weight behind the
soft-spoken coach to take the team to greater heights.
Oleley said that the Serbian coach’s exit saddened the playing body but they wished
him well in his future endeavours.
