Former president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi has advised the current administration not to focus only on big names as they embark on the search for Ghana’s next coach.
The Ghana Football Association has recently announced a five-member committee tasked with finding a replacement for Chris Hughton who was sacked after Black Stars failed to progress beyond the group stages of AFCON 2023.
Mr Nyantakyi talked about the importance of considering talent over high-profile names in the coaching world to avoid a recurrence of bringing in recycled coaches.
“If we look at big names only, we will bring the same recycled people (coaches) here, and at the end of four years, we will be back to square one,” Nyantakyi said in an interview with GTV Sports Plus.
The search committee, chaired by Ghana Football Association Vice President Mark Addo, includes Legal Practitioner and law lecturer Ace Ankomah as Vice Chairman. Professor Joseph Kwame Mintah, Director of Coaching Education at the GFA, Ghana football legend Opoku Nti, and William Caesar Kartey, Chief Director of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, are also members of the committee.