Ghana FA to build capacity of local coaches - Kurt Okraku promises

Published on: 02 October 2020

Ghana Football Association president Kurt Okraku has disclosed that his outfit  will be building the capacity of local coaches to enable them compete with their colleagues in Europe.

According to him, the FA will do so by arranging attachment programmes for them with European football clubs and other well established football jurisdictions.

Okraku admits that coaching is a major problem in Ghana and to help these coaches, his administration will work tirelessly to upgrade the local coaches to help in the development of football.

"I think we are very clear as to where we want to take this sports, we know we have challenges by way of coaching for which reason we advertised for interested applicants for the portfolio of the technical director which we will soon announce" he told 3Sports.

"We know that we need to support our coaches and help them to create learning platforms to enable them enrich themselves and that is the only way they can also impacts on the players”.

"We are also creating opportunities for them to go on attachment in Europe and other well established football jurisdictions.

Kurt Okraku also stated that he wants all national teams to be very much competitive with a playing philosophy which will determined by the yet- to- be- appointed technical director.

"We are very clear that we want to be competitive from the youth level to the Black Stars. I will leave the playing philosophy to the technical director when he takes his post, having done all the analysis that one could think about, we are very clear in our minds how we want our games to be by way of philosophy," he added.

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