Audio Attachment:Listen to remarks made by the chairman of the NDC,Dr. Kwabena Agyei,suggesting that coach Milovan Rajevac should be retained as coach of the Black Stars despite his performance at the Nations Cup
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The National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Agyei, has thrown his weight behind Milovan Rajevac, Head Coach of the Senior National team, the Black Stars, to be retained as the head coach.
According to the recently re-elected Chairman of the NDC party, he has never supported the idea of frequent sacking and changing of coaches of the national football team, adding that there was a need to maintain the coach.
“I detest the idea of sacking the coach or disgracing him on media platform when we go and lose a match....If he has brought the players to this level and has performed so excellently, why change him? He should continue,” he stated.
Speaking in an interview just after the final of the epic encounter between the Black Stars and the Pharaohs of Egypt, he said the Stars needed to be congratulated for their sterling performance and reaching the final for the first time in 18 years, since 1992.
Though he recounted instances where the coach could have made changes early to save the team, he opined that the coach knew best.
He added that coaches should be given the necessary room to perform without any interference from the public.
“You don’t know how coaches do their things, I don’t usually interfere. But I think that the timing of changing some of the players was a little bit too late, because he could have injected some new blood into the boys soon after the first half,” he said.
He however insisted that the coach knew better.
“He knew better, so we can’t complain much.” He believes that the Stars have the potential to lift the trophy two years from now. “The performance of the Black Stars, the very young ones, was excellent; they did their best, they have shown that they have come of age,” he added.
The Pharaoh’s of Egypt proved they are masters of African football when they beat the young determined Black Stars of Ghana 1-0 to win the African Cup of Nations for the 7th time and thrice in a row, at the November 11 stadium in Luanda, Angola on Sunday 31st Jan 2010.
Five minutes to the end of regulation time, the Stars rear was broken, and that presented substitute, Gedo the opportunity to strike home the opener and winning goal, after the defence failed to clear their lines.
Dr Kwabena Agyei led a 200-man contingent on a government sponsored return trip to Launda to cheer the Stars in the Sunday final with the Pharaohs of Egypt.
