It’s difficult monitoring Ghanaian players abroad - Oti Akenteng

The Technical Director of the Ghana FA, Francis Oti Akenteng, has admitted that the FA’s technical directorate lacks the right structures to facilitate the monitoring of Ghanaian players abroad.

The immediate past senior national team coach, Kwasi Appiah, had to be flown to Europe each time he made a request to monitor certain outstanding Ghanaian players. Some pundits have proposed that the FA renovate its technical directorate to have the monitors and the required video software to monitor the performance of players and track their technical abilities.

Several Ghanaian players, including midfielder Enoch Adu Kofi of Malmo FF, defender Daniel Amartey of FC Copenhagen and striker Elvis Manu of Feyernood have been making waves with impressive performances for their respective clubs in Europe but are yet to receive call-ups to the Black Stars.

Francis Oti Akenteng, in an interview, said “to be very honest i have to tell you, you know the directorate is not fully equipped, we don’t have the tables to be doing that”.

“If you are talking of monitoring the main Ghanaian players, we are also supposed to have the administrative desk for the coach because he also has to do some work, but at the moment, you know we have only the referees desk and we are yet to do a work on our own to be doing that on the women’s and the youth itself and so many things.”