Ibrahim Sunday defends Ghanaian coaches despite national teams failure

Published on: 19 July 2023

Ghana legend, Ibrahim Sunday has defended Ghanaian coaches despite the recent poor performance of the various national teams.

Ghana FA boss, Kurt Okraku during the 29th Ordinary Congress highlighted coaching and refereeing as major problems for Ghana football.

“People think we don’t have good coaches. But I believe we have good coaches,” Sunday told Citi Sports.

He went on to suggest that the problem might lie with the resources and materials available to these coaches.

While acknowledging that they have materials available, he raised the question of whether those materials are the ones they need to work with.

He also proposed that the selection process for national team and club players could be a contributing factor to the perceived coaching challenges.

“Maybe the materials they are working with are the problem. They have the materials, but [are they] the right materials?

"Maybe selecting the players for the national team or [from] the clubs is the problem they have. We have to encourage and support them.

"They will do better in the future," he remarked. The Black Stars, Black Meteors, Black Galaxies, and Black Satellites have all failed to glitter in major tournaments, exiting at the group phase.