Former Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah has advised prospective coaches to be wary of the pressure associated in coaching the Ghana senior male national team.
According to the 61-year old, the pressure associated with the Black Stars coaching job is unbearable and very severe that he won’t advise any coach to occupy the position.
Kwasi Appiah had two spell with the Black Stars as the head coach, with the recent ending after an abysmal display at the AFCON 2019 where Ghana was eliminated in the knockout stage.
“When I used to be up there, as I am sitting with you now chatting my mind will be somewhere else. You don’t get the time to concentrate on the things around you. You are always planning tactics and how to beat an opponent. It’s not something I will advise someone to get there” Kwasi Appiah told Untold Stories TV Gh as quoted by Ghanaweb.
“People sometimes think the National team is easy and they can just walk. There are so many pressures you deal with at the National team level; some with the GFA, clubs, agents, the players themselves coming with their egos and so if you don’t take a break and you want to stay under this pressure, you will die.” He ended.
Kwasi Appiah wrote his name in the history books of Ghana when he became the first local coach to qualify the country to the 2024 World Cup.
Meanwhile, Ghana is currently without a substantive head coach after Otto Addo’s tenure expired after qualifying the country to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The former Ghana international was handed the Black Stars job on interim basis after the sacking of Serbian tactician Milovan Rajevac.
And after qualifying Ghana to the mundial in Qatar, reports have it that the Borussia Dortmund assistant could be leading the Black Stars to the tournament in Qatar as the permanent head coach.
