Former Ghana coach, Kwesi Appiah has revealed that Dr Kofi Amoah threatened to sack him for not inviting Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng to the Black Stars.[ads2]
The two players were serving suspension then for an insubordination at the Black Stars camp during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Dr Kofi Amoah was heading a Normalization Committee after the Anas Aremeyaw Anas expose which saw the government seizing the operations of then Ghana Football Association headed by former CAF first Vice President, Kwesi Nyantakyi.
Before Dr Kofi Amoah took over, Kwesi Appiah who was appointed the Black Stars coach under the administration of Kwesi Nyantakyi in 2017, was serving the last term of his contract and had to work under the Normalization Committee.[ads3]
According to Kwesi Appiah, Dr Amoah attempted to interfere in his job by demanding the recall of Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng to the Black Stars of which he declined.
“He [Dr Kofi Amoah] suggested that [I bring back Sulley Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng to the Black Stars].”
“He thought Sulley and Kevin-Prince should be part of the team, but you have to ask yourself whether these players you are talking about, are they playing actively, and if they are, are they in top form to compete at that level?
“I think they were very good players, especially Sulley, any time he’s in the team, he gives out 100%, but you don’t tell me to go and bring them as if I don’t know what I am doing; if you are better than the coach, you should have been the coach and be coaching the team,” Appiah said to Joy News.[ads4]
“The moment he tried to stress that point more, it means you are trying to tell me I don’t know my job, and his posture showed he has no respect,” he noted.
“He threatened to sack me but I told him I am not afraid of being sacked. Those threats, I have heard them several times but I’m not the type that those threats get to me,” he stated.
Kwesi Appiah had his second term as the Black Stars head coach coming to an end in December, 2019 when Kurt Okraku took over as the new president of the Ghana Football Association.
Meanwhile, the Black Stars coaching job is currently vacant after the departure of Otto Addo following Ghana’s abysmal performance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
And according to the spokesperson of the Ghana Football Association, Henry Asante Twum, over 1000 coaches have applied for the Black Stars top job with Kwesi Appiah as the only local coach in the race.
The Ghana Football Association is expected to submit the report of the new Black Stars coach to the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif before the official announcement.[ads5]