Anytime our Senior National team, Blacks Stars go to a competition having a Ghanaian as their head coach, they come home with nothing but a disgrace to the nation. A typical example was what happened at the just ended, African Cup Of Nations, AFCON 2019 held in Egypt where our Black Stars was sadly kicked … Read more
Controversial Television/Radio sports show presenter, Patrick Osei Agyemang, also known as Countryman Songo will never stop releasing fire on the Black Stars head coach, James Kwesi Appiah. Countryman Songo even before our team went to Egypt for the AFCON 2019 tournament, kept hitting on how bad and weak Kwesi Appiah is. He even noted earlier … Read more
Our senior national team the Black Stars has been sadly kicked out by Tunisians in the round 16th of the ongoing African Cup of Nations being played in Egypt. Following our exit, social media platforms, especially on Instagram and Facebook, have sparked with controversies as angry Ghanaians continue to blast the head coach of our … Read more
The Black Stars of Ghana continue to plunge down the Fifa World Rankings as the second coming of James Kwesi Appiah continues to be a failed experiment. A limp 0-1 loss to Kenya in African Cup of Nations qualifying has seen the Black Stars go further down the Fifa log.
Former Black Stars manager and current head coach of the Sudanese side Al Khartoum, James Kwesi Appiah, has reportedly been reappointed to the post of Black Stars head coach, three years after he left the role following a disastrous world cup in Brazil.
According to numerous local media reports, the GFA has settled on Appiah and would hand him a two year contract in the job.
In his first game as a coach on the world stage, Kwesi Appiah led his Black Stars team to a 2-1 loss to the United States. Now in a group comprising of Germany and Portugal as well, most people saw this first game as our best chance for three points, yet it turned out not … Read more
When the Black Stars line up late tonight to take on the might of the United States of America, a little bit of history which is being threatened to be overshadowed by all the brouhaha of a world cup is going to take place. For the first time in the history of Ghana, the Black Stars are going to be led by a black man on the world stage, at the senior level.
Admittedly ours is a short romance with the world cup, this just being our 3rd tournament overall, but this does not in any way diminish the significance of the occurrence. Ghana’s first president Dr Nkrumah is amongst other things, famous for his utterance that “the black man is capable of managing his own affairs”. And after trusting in the white man to take us to our first two world cups, Kwesi Appiah was given the chance and has, rather spectacularly, led the team to the world cup in a manner more flamboyant than either of his predecessors could manage.
We have a rather unfortunate tendency in this country to dismiss the value of our own products, and this pertained to our choice of a national team coach for a long time. Which is why the exploits of Kwesi Appiah should not be glossed over, as in being successful he makes a case not only for himself, but for all local coaches and for our ability to perform just as well as the foreigner given the right conditions.
Kwesi Appiah’s initial appointment was met with incredulity and indifference by a large section of the Ghanaian public. There were those who believed a local coach was the way to go, but Kwesi Appiah himself was largely untested as a manager at the top level. Admittedly, he had been assistant coach of the Black Stars for several years prior; this did not however diminish the calls of his critics who felt he was entirely out of his depth.
