GFA will appoint a competent headcoach for the Black Stars – Mustapha Ussif
Minister for Youth and Sports Mustapha Ussif has revealed that the Ghana Football Association is tirelessly to appoint a highly rated coach for the Black Stars.
The team is without a head coach after Otto Addo resigned after the World Cup in Qatar.
The GFA has started the process to appoint a new coach with reports of three coaches shortlisted from the over 60 applicants.
“The country should be rest assured that the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is working to ensure that we get a replacement for Coach Otto Addo,” Mustapha told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Tueday.
Asked whether the coach being considered was local or foreign, the minister said what the country needed was a very competent coach who would deliver according to the expectations of Ghanaians and that the choice was really about nationality.
According to him, he had has thorough discussions with the FA which is in charge of recruitment of a coach on the matter.
The Member of Parliament for Yagaba-Kubori also added that the GFA will submit its report to the ministry after the selection is done either by the end of this week or next week.
“The Ghana Football Association is in the process of hiring a new coach and I have personally engaged them and they have indicated that a final report will be submitted to the Ministry possibly this week or next week,” he said.
“I know we have an assignment in March this year and we need to have a new head coach, so he can start preparing for the AFCON qualifiers.”
The immediate task for the new head coach will be the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers double header against Angola in March.
