Ex Black Stars player, Kuuku Dadzie, has waded into the debate over the future of Black Stars coach Avram Grant and said the coach must be judged based on his performance after next year’s African Nations Cup (AFCON) tournament.
According to Kuuku Dadzie, systems of play do not win matches and, therefore, a lot also depends on the players to apply those principles of play to win matches.
Sharing his thoughts with the Graphic Sports, particularly after the Stars recent lucklusture performances, the former Black Stars captain noted that sacking Grant now would have a psychological effect on the country’s World Cup qualification.
“As it stands now, Coach Grant has already qualified the team for next year’s AFCON in Gabon and we have a contract with him until after the AFCON. We are also not playing any World Cup qualifier until after the AFCON and so we can only assess his performance after the tournament”, Kuuku Dadzie stated.
He said: “ There is no bad coach and that every professional coach is a good coach but how the systems of play are applied by the players on the field of play is what matters”.
Therefore, he said for a coach to win matches much depended on the players.
Explaining further, Kuuku Dadzie said, for a World Cup qualifier where the coach had just about three days to prepare a team, there was not much he (Grant) could do in terms of tactics, technique and physical conditioning and blamed some players of the senior national team for not doing enough to be in the best of shape physically.
On Coach Grant’s continued stay outside the country, Kuuku Dadzie said “I do not blame Grant because most of the players he uses are plying their football trade outside the country”.
However, he said, he expected Maxwell Konadu, the assistant coach who is also in charge of the local Black Stars, to do more of the domestic monitoring while he assisted Grant with much information about the potential local talents he identified.