Stars coach hopes to control exodus of local players

Ghana?s new national team coach, Millan Zivadinovic, has expressed his desire to control the exodus of local players to European clubs at relatively give away prizes.

Speaking to the press, the coach said Ghana's local players do not wait to develop their potentials to the full before leaving to join the professional wagon hence they accept everything thrown at them which results in their warming benches.

"It is my wish that any player who leaves the shores of Ghana to play outside would command respect and have the same transfer fees as South American players." "To this end I would make sure that every member of my team who desires to leave for any foreign club would have to do with my recommendation without which the player would not be allowed to move out"

He said he would do a lot of monitoring of all local players and liaise with their coaches as a way of making sure that they are seeing football regularly. "I would keep a file on every player that comes into my team and monitor how he responds to training at his club level."

On the foreign-based players, Zivadinovic said he would personally travel to their foreign clubs and discuss their performance with their coaches and have a first hand look at their performance instead of relying on others for information.

"With this the issue where foreign based players complain that the proper channels are not used when inviting them to play for the national team would not arise again since there would be a good rapport between me and their coaches.

"We would also have regular camps in Europe when time permits and play international friendly matches for the players to get the needed exposure and big match temperament."