Former Black Stars player supports Serbian Coach

Kumasi, Jan. 9, GNA - Dogo Moro, a former defender of the senior National Team, the Black Stars and Kumasi Asante Kotoko, has re-echoed suggestions to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to give the vacant coaching job to Serbian Goran Stevanovic for the accelerated development of the sport in the country.

He said he was optimistic that giving the job to the Serbian was crucia= l in fostering continuity and consistency in the development of Ghana footbal= l as 93Coaches from that part of the world tend to understand better the philosophy and culture of our own brand of football". Goran, Portuguese Humberto Coelho and Ghanaian-born Herbert Addo are th= e short-listed contenders for the coaching job following the departure of Milovan Rajevac.

Making the suggestion to the GNA Sports in Kumasi on Sunday, Dogo Mor= o pointed out that his support for the Serbian as Coach of the Stars emanated from the sterling performances by Ratomir Dujkovic and Rajevac who guided the Stars to the one-sixteenth and quarter final berth at the 2006 and 2010 World Cup Championships, respectively.

Dogo Moro cautioned the GFA against what he described as attempts to scoop in Ghanaian-born French International Marcel Dessaily as coach of the Stars, saying even though he achieved a lot as a player his 93credentials as a coach is nothing to write home about and as such we need not experiment with him".

An eight-man search team of the GFA is said to have completed its analysis on the credentials of the three coaches who were short-listed from amongst about 100 applicants with Goran expected to be given the nod for th= e vacant job.

Touching on juvenile football, Dogo Moro expressed worry at the poor management of colts football in the country, saying this could eventually deny Ghana the opportunity to raise talented stars for the nation. Dogo Moro therefore urged the GFA to collaborate with corporate bodies in improving infrastructure at the juvenile level for the sustainable development of Ghana football.