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Why Ghana must hold on to Kwesi Appiah

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  • Kojo 9 years ago

    Title alone makes me vomit. For the sake of progress, Kwasi Appiah must go. He has no integrity. All other coaches with class resigned. What new ideas has he got?

  • Zee 9 years ago

    Kojo I agree with you 100%. He must leave or be fired. He is incompetent. I cannot believe Ghana lost to USA. USA doesn't have half of the quality of players we have but the beat us because their coach was smart. Appiah mus t ...
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  • KS 9 years ago

    Why did you write similar articles for the other coaches. why should we not treat kwesi appiah the same as his predecessors? We must be fair.

  • Ghfuo, What Is Your Purpose/Legacy? 9 years ago

    CHOBO 1,2 &3!...
    See wat happens when gfa wcup executives inflate budgets, cut corners, cut costs and expenses all in order to pocket free dough. See what happens when players and gfa executives engage in black magic/juju, s ...
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  • moyo 9 years ago

    Completely rubbish

  • Conqueror 9 years ago

    Hmm? This is absolutely rubbish! Unless there is something we have not heard yet, Appiah, his deputy and the GFA president Nyantekyi must resign their positions. All that we've been told and substantiated is proof of ineffici ...
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  • ATSU, HO 9 years ago

    THE GOOD REASON TO RESIGN IS THE FACT THAT HE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILURE AS YOU HAVE STATED.

  • WAB 9 years ago

    This coach needs to go, we don't need him. We need a competent coach, not someone who is clueless

  • MARK A. 9 years ago

    BRILLIANT COMMENTS, BRO!!

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Yes indeed, after all Fabio Capello receives $11million plus and Russia couldn't make it to the knockout zone. But Kwasi receives $250,000 a year which is less than weekly wage of Asamoah Gyan.How do you expect Prince what? t ...
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  • Cool J 9 years ago

    He was given the benefit of doubt when he failed woefully at AFCON 2013. His player call-ups and selection are all faulty; he is clueless when the going gets tough like in the US game, when the best he thought he could do was ...
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  • maubs 9 years ago

    yes greed and corruption continues. so called sportwriters calling players bench warmers, whizzkids, bad mindind and pulling us back everytime we try to move forward. shame unto you all. why reward mismanagement?triple nonsen ...
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  • jay 9 years ago

    pretty simple question I will put forward, if Kwesi Appiah were to leave the Black Stars, quit, fired or otherwise, would another team/or nation hire him as their manager? I strongly doubt it... if that is so, then why should ...
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  • Cool J 9 years ago

    Good question, my bro; I was thinking about the same thing, whether any serious football nation besides Ghana would employ him to handle eve their U-23 team. The likes of Somalia, Eritrea, Sri Lanka, India, etc who have no se ...
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  • Rastafara"I" 9 years ago

    He is corrupt and incompetent.

  • Cool J 9 years ago

    The writer says he is a slow learner and points to the team's performance after the US game; hmm, so Appiah went to the WC to learn? What were the friendly matches for? He was the only coach who did not even know his first 1 ...
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  • Rasta 9 years ago

    Nyantekyi and Appiah are no men at all GREEDY BASTARDS.

  • Mann 9 years ago

    MY BROTHERS GHANAIANS WHAT DO YOU WANT IN LIFE? YOU WANT A PERFECT MAN/COACH BUT THAT ONE DOES NOT EXIST SPAIN IS WORLD CHAMPION AND THEY ARE OUT BUT THEY ARE NOT CALLING THEIR COACH TO STEP DOWN, IT SEEMS GHANAIANS FIND IT H ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    Not a perfect man, just a coach who has a clue what coacing is about, and Appiah has shown to all, by his work, that he is not qualified to coach even a league team. Taht's why he must go.

  • kk 9 years ago

    good bro

  • NII OTU 9 years ago

    My friend please know your facts before you talk. If Bradly has not resigned, how would Jurgen Klinsman be appointed to deliver with such greatness?
    Don't think there are no solutions. There are always better solutions somew ...
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  • NII OTU 9 years ago

    Why was the GFA investigated during the tenure of the late Good President Mills and it became an issue?
    There have always been smokes of corruption activities around the FA. That is why the good professor ordered investigati ...
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  • Harrison 9 years ago

    AA is clueless, has no management skills and too low to the coach BSs. Get a foreign coach. Had it been a foreign coach at the helm of affairs, this calamity would not have happened at the BSs camp.

  • A concerned citizen 9 years ago

    Why should we maintain an experimental coach? Then it means no trophy..no glory??? He should resign or be forced out

  • Ghanaboii 9 years ago

    Afcon he failed, WC is also failed. How long do you expect us to wait before he gets it right?For 10 months I watched my team (Man Utd)struggle because we had a clueless coach in David Moyes. Everyone knew he was struggling w ...
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  • mugu yaro 9 years ago

    I disagree with what this joker of a writer is saying. Milo got us to the quarter finals, but no one said we should give him another chance. Kwasi Appiah is a trial and error coach. Let's not waste time further-he must be fir ...
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  • Kojo 9 years ago

    The national interest should take precedence over all others. Anybody who loves to see Ghana soccer progress must call for the firing or resignation of Kwasi Appiah. Look at his record:

    1. Coach in 2012 African Cup - Ghana ...
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  • A concerned citizen 9 years ago

    Coach AA is a joker…But you experimental coach is still at post and talking??? “try and error” you must be out or be forced out. Audrey advise your dad to resign..you are looking at your lucrative contract money to make ...
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  • Otuo USA 9 years ago

    It would be the most mistake for FA to sack AA , to my opinion he has not done anything wrong ,look at the kind of recruitment he did, no white coach can do that. The blame should go to some of the players for their rudeness ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    Where have you been? What recruitment? LOL!! Like sending home defenders when one of our main centerbacks got injured, and keeping Adomah? Did you see his team selections, his substitutions, and how long it took him to make c ...
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  • Cool J 9 years ago

    Thank you KK, you spoke my mind.

  • THE TRUTH 9 years ago

    HE SHOT HIS OWN FOOT BY INVITING PLAYERS WHO WERE NOT DISCIPLINED BECAUSE HE WAS ADVISED BY MANY GHANAINS NOT TO INVITE PLAYERS LIKE KPB WHO IS AN OPPORTUNISTIC FOOTBALLER

    IT IS ALSO RECALLED HE BLINDLY FIELDED SOME PLAYER ...
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  • kwasi dee 9 years ago

    if AA is a good coach he would have learnt that team managers manages big players egos, young talents & exuberance employers greed and interference....THE SOLUTION DOES NOT LIE IN SACKING.

  • Koo 9 years ago

    8 years apprentice under Serbs, ...study trips to Man City, Liverpool football club etc, but still did not learn anything.

    1. Just before competition started, playing against Montenegro, and Holland - conceded goals within ...
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  • kwasi dee 9 years ago

    YOU SEE THE DANGER IS THAT HE THINKS HE CAN PUT TOGETHER SOME NAIVE SQUAD HE CAN LORD OVER. WE NEED A BRILLIANT GHANAIAN MANAGER AA IS A COLTS COACH SIMPLY PUT.

  • Mohammed Awuni 9 years ago

    Appiah has been to 3 world cups and 4 ANC. If he would have learnt anything he would have by now. we should not continue wasting resources on him

  • KK 9 years ago

    Did we all not see his work? His team selection (and the reasons he gave: waiting for the opposition to get tired before bringing on the experience players), his substitutions: who he took out and who he brought on, and how l ...
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  • ron 9 years ago

    DISAGREE: Even though I've been a big fan of AA, lets call a spade a spade.
    When AA was given the job,he was given 2 goals in order to continue as coach:
    Goal # 1: He was asked to take the mighty black stars to the final of ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    Enough said.

  • J.O 9 years ago

    It surprises me when Ghanainas think they have a world class team.
    We should stop dreaming. These players are just average players. No Suraz, Messy, Ronaldo, Abedi pele,stephen Appiah in the team. They are just average playe ...
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  • GC/USA 9 years ago

    YOU ARE RIGHT. THE REASON FOR A HIGH QUALITY COACH. LOOK AT THE AMERICAN COACH WHO MADE A GOOD TEAM FROM UNKNOWN PLAYERS.

  • GC/USA 9 years ago

    YOU ARE RIGHT. THE REASON FOR A HIGH QUALITY COACH. LOOK AT THE AMERICAN COACH WHO MADE A GOOD TEAM FROM UNKNOWN PLAYERS AND THE COSTA RICA SOCCER TEAM

  • J.O 9 years ago

    It is good you took all factors into consideration.
    Ghanaians have average players but think they are better than all teams in the world. We expect so much from the coach and team yet we have average players. Mention any sup ...
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  • DD.-Canada 9 years ago

    This is a well written piece which is a rarity on this site. Of course, the feeble minded folks on this site will not comprehend your much thorough analysis. They will just bark over your objective views. I often wonder the ...
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  • Akamai 9 years ago

    Is through peaceful demonstration!!!!

  • GC/USA 9 years ago

    THIS WRITER IS EITHER A FUNCTIONAL ILLITERATE OR WAS TAUGHT AT SCHOOL BY A SLOW LEARNER TEACHER . DO YOU WANT TO TELL GHANAIANS THAT THE BS WILL DO BETTER WITH A SLOW LEARNING COACH WHO DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A COACHING CERTIFICA ...
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  • Joe 9 years ago

    If he wasn't able to do it before, now that it's worse how would he be able to do it better? He is definitely not part of the solution! Wasn't he there when all these were occurring? Not once have I heard something along the ...
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  • Whatever 9 years ago

    I think we must give Appiah one last chance. We have invested a lot in him and can't just throw his experience away like that even though his inability to device pragmatic strategies for winning matches is a sources of worry. ...
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  • GC/USA 9 years ago

    WE HAVE INVESTED A LOT IN HIM AND WHAT DID HE ACHIEVED? DESTROYED THE BLACK STARS. JUST ASK YOURSELF WHAT PLAYERS IS HE GOING TO CALL TO THE BS; MPONG, A. SOLOMON, AWAL, ADOMAH, AFFUL, OPARE AND TEACH THEM WHAT? LET ME ASSURE ...
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