GFA to meet Stevanovic over his future on Tuesday

Accra , Mar 12, GNA - The Ghana Football Association (GFA) would meet with Black Stars head Coach, Goran Stevanovic on Tuesday to discuss issues bothering on the Serb’s future with the country.

Stevanovic arrives in the country Monday evening ahead of the meeting fixed for Tuesday morning, for an encounter that would ultimately define his fate and enable the GFA communicate to the expectant nation the way forward.

By close of Tuesday, the Coach who received 200,00.00 euros as entitlement fee when he signed as Ghana's trainer in January 2011, would know if he would be shown the exit as speculated by the media or would be allowed to continue with the job that fetches him a 30,000.00 euros monthly salary which is net of taxes and all deductions.

Stevanovic missed out of a 100, 000.00 Euros reward from the GFA following his inability to annex Ghana a fifth Nations Cup trophy after a three decade wait at the just ended African Cup of Nations hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

The Coach per article (6.1.2.4) of the six-page contract with the GFA would have received the amount, twice what the players would have earned if he had won the trophy for the football loving nation.

If he is retained, the Coach per the contract would be rewarded with 100, 000.00 Euros if he wins the 2013 African Cup of Nations slated for South Africa and 250,000.00 Euros if he qualifies the Black Stars for the 2014 World Cup billed for Brazil.

Per the same article (6.1.2.4), the former Partizan Belgrade trainer would earn 500,000.00 Euros if the Black Stars qualifies to play in the final of the Brazil World Cup and a whooping 1,000,000.00 euros if they win the global tourney, which an African country is yet to claim, if he is allowed to carry on as the head coach.

The Coach who according to the contract has a ‘40-day paid holidays in each year of his employment’ with ‘not more than 20 days’ taken ‘consecutively on any occasion without the express written permission of the Association’, has a year left on his contract.

If the GFA terminates Stevanovic’s appointment, he would be authorized by the contract to keep secrets of the Association as spelt out in article 8.1 and 8.2 of the contract.

‘Except as authorized by his duties the coach shall keep secret and shall not use or disclose and shall use his best endeavours to prevent the use or disclosure by any person of any of the Association’s confidential information which comes to his knowledge during the term of this agreement.

‘The restriction in sub-clause 8.1 shall apply during and after the termination of the Coach’s employment without any time limit but shall cease to apply to any information or knowledge which the Coach establishes has in its entirely becomes public knowledge otherwise than through any unauthorized disclosure or other breach on his part.’

The GFA would for the first time exercise their powers as sole right holders of extending or terminating Stevanovic’s contract since his appointment a year ago.

In article 9.1 of the two year contract, the GFA insisted that ‘as stipulated at clause 2, herein the duration of this contract shall be for two years but the Association alone shall have the right to extend the contract after a period of two years but where the Association does not terminate the Coach’s contract after the first two years, the Coach shall be entitled to a 25 percent increase in his monthly salary.’

The Coach promised to end Ghana’s wait for a fifth Nations Cup glory when he was employed last year and has been under intense pressure after the Stars could only manage a fourth place finish at the tournament.