Kwasi Appiah: to plunder or not to plunder

Sports Characteristics of Sunday, July 21st, 2019

Source: jeromeotchere.com

2019-07-21

Very typical of us, we are back from another disappointing outing at an international football competition, and the debate has not, as usual, been finding what did not go. We have discussed and launched misleading allegations without any prudent attempt to solve the problem.

You can be sure that we will come back after another competition to get through this unholy circus. It is not that, we do not know what the problem of our football was and why, for example, the Black Stars continue to be disappointing despite the huge expenses they incurred.

The problem is that, we have always chosen the easy way out, playing the blame game cheaply without accepting it, our football lacks a fundamental ingredient, which it needs terribly to turn into something good and 'attractive. The missing ingredient is leadership.

At the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the leaders were absent from the Black Stars board of directors, the technical team and the players. If there had been and had there been serious leadership at the GFA, for example, the whole discussion about firing or keeping coach Kwasi Appiah would not arise.

We would have known what we want and now a decisive position would have been taken. The example that some countries have fired their coaches immediately after their unsatisfactory performance and their departure to CAN 2019 is not by itself deficient, but also short-sighted. This conversation does not fully appreciate the essential point that football in these countries has had its head intact.

Our football has been headless and even worse over the last year. Coaches are hired to be fired. Rejecting Kwasi Appiah will not be new. I will not be opposed to such a decision of principle. However, I consider that the clamor of his dismissal is a waste of time. If we have some energy, we should use it to tell the Standards Committee to stick to its mandate, to see the election of a substantive football administration, which will breathe life into our sport.

Ghanaian football needs a new set of hands – ideas and projects – for better leadership to redefine its future and get it out of the mess that has characterized it. I would prefer a substantive GFA making bold decisions about the Black Stars and the entire technical team as well as the generality of our football, rather than having the Transitional Standards Committee, which plays with the country's pbadion.

Ghanaian football is facing real problems. Kwasi Appiah staying or leaving is not one. The standardization committee that leads to Congress and sees in the election of a new executive committee, which must come, with short and medium term strategies and later, long-term plans to radically change our football, are the issues that should be addressed. of serious interest.

Post-AFCON discussions should not depart from the real state of Ghanaian football. He should look at the biggest problems. Our discussions should focus on the important issues of giving Ghanaian football new and better leadership – lest we do a disservice to Ghana. Sacking Kwasi Appiah, whether right or wrong, will not redefine Ghanaian football now or in the future.

Only new leadership with better plans can do it. We must insist on this.