Ex-Ghana International, Anthony Yeboah has chastised the Ghana Football
Association (GFA) for selecting a mediocre coach in the person of
Serbian Milovan Rajevac to handle the senior national team.
Without
mincing words, Yeboah emphatically stated that he was not content with
the fact that the GFA had named unknown Rajavec as the Black Stars
Coach.
Considering Ghana’s pedigree in international soccer
circles, Yeboah nicknamed ‘Yegoala’ in his heydays due to his ability
to score goals, said the Black Stars deserve a well renowned coach to
win laurels for the country.
Speaking in Kumasi, Yeboah suggested that instead of
Rajevac, the GFA should have given the vacant Black Stars job to a
local coach.
He insisted that to him Mr. Rajevac was not
better than the local coaches in the country, saying, “Picking Rajevac
ahead of our local coaches is an insult to Ghanaian coaches”.
In
spite of these criticisms, the two-time German Bundesliga Goalking
showered praises on the Kwesi Nyantakyi led GFA for introducing modern
system into Ghana soccer which has helped put Ghana at the highest
level in world football.
The former Black Stars hitman said he
really appreciates the kind of motivation the GFA is giving to the
players of the Black Stars and urged them to sustain it to take Ghana
soccer to new heights.
He attributed his generation’s
inability to chalk more significant success for the nation to lack of
better policies and motivation on the part of those that handled the
GFA at that time.
Yeboah revealed shockingly that “during our
time we used to buy our own air tickets for Black Stars matches and
sometimes we would wait for a long period before getting our monies
refunded. This among other setbacks affected us negatively”.
