Razak To Quit Kotoko?

The man who guided Kumasi Asante Kotoko to its first league title in 10 years; Abdul Karim Razak is still contemplating resigning from the club. Razak might have performed his last assignment for Asante Kotoko when he led the team to Burkina Faso at the match is at the behest of Blaise Campoare to play the Dragons in an international friendly on Thursday (Kotoko lost 2-3).

The league success delighted coach Abdul Razak who proved with this title win that he is worth enough respect as a coach. After title wins in Benin and Burkina Faso, Razak made the most of his opportunity with Ghana’s biggest club to win a title that had eluded several high profile local and foreign-based coaches in the last ten years.

The 1978 African footballer of the year is reported to be uncomfortable with media reports that some members of the new Board of Directors do not think highly of him.

Razak has won four league titles in as many years in Benin and Mali and successfully ended Kotoko’s ten year-long spell without a league title.

But all that may not be enough to secure his job. Razak is reportedly also disturbed by news that current Hearts Of oak coach Herbert Addo could be on his way to Kumasi to replace him. Addo, despite not winning the league went 30 games without defeat and is understood to be the preferred choice of some of the members of the new board of Directors.

But Herbert Addo himself is tightlipped over the issue. He has not reported to the Hearts training grounds for three days because he is ill.

Asante Kotoko legend and 1978 African player of the year, Abdul Razak, accepted the Kotoko job after the clubs Life Patron of Kotoko Otumfuo Osei Tutu had made overtures to him to take over as coach.

Razak helped Kotoko win the African Cup in 1983 as a player and has since gone on to achieve relative success as Coach in Benin and Mali where he won league titles.

His appointment as Kotoko coach effectively signaled the end of his dream to coach the senior national team the Black Stars in the immediate future.