{"id":205379,"date":"2014-07-23T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/coach-appiah-needs-further-training\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:00:30","slug":"coach-appiah-needs-further-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/07\/23\/coach-appiah-needs-further-training\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Coach Appiah Needs Further Training&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0d47223695771_473944.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">A former member of the Ghana Football Association Management Board (GFA), Dr Kofi Amoah, has stressed the need for Coach Kwasi Appiah to have the highest form of training to build his capacity to make the Black Stars a world beater.<\/p>\n<p>He said such top-level training was a sure way for Appiah to rub shoulders with the best coaches across the globe and enhance Ghana\u2019s chances in major tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to become a part of the global football knowledge that is now at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to compete with the top soccer nations then our coaches must also have the same level of knowledge as that of the top countries,\u201d Dr Amoah said in an interview with the Graphic Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Amoah, a strong advocate for an indiginous coach to handle the Stars, said despite his delight when Appiah was handed the tough task of leading the national team, he still thought just appointing local coaches for the senior national team without enhancing their competence was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough it is a good thing to have our own handling the Black Stars, we must train them further. We must give them the highest form of coaching training,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving our own person do the job isn\u2019t enough. It is a necessary condition but not sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled how legendary Charles Kumi Gyamfi was appointed and equipped by way of foreign attachments in Germany to handle the Stars during the Kwame Nkrumah regime, and recommended same for coach Appiah to upgrade his knowledge in the modern game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to invest some resources to train our people and send them on attachments; not only Kwasi Appiah but there are some young coaches who can also be sent on attachment with foreign clubs,\u201d Dr Amoah pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The business mogul said he saw nothing wrong with sending local coaches on attachment abroad since it was a necessary requirement for them to compete favourably with the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should give ourselves between five and 10 years to train our coaches and we shouldn\u2019t be ashamed of learning from somebody because that somebody also learnt from somebody,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to send more local coaches on attachment to increase their knowledge so it can enhance our local game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the Ghana Football Association Management Board (GFA), Dr Kofi Amoah, has stressed the need for Coach Kwasi Appiah to have the highest form of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}