{"id":446710,"date":"2017-12-13T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/mohammed-polo-hits-out-at-unbalanced-black-stars-technical-team\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:00:31","slug":"mohammed-polo-hits-out-at-unbalanced-black-stars-technical-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/mohammed-polo-hits-out-at-unbalanced-black-stars-technical-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Polo hits out at &#8216;unbalanced&#8217; Black Stars technical team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/63572802.295.jpg\" alt=\"Black Stars Technical23\" title=\"Black Stars Technical23\" width=\"295\" height=\"210\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Black Stars Technical staff<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513184431_383_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ex-Ghana international Mohammed Polo says he has reservations about the number of recently retired ex-internationals on the Black Stars bench.<\/p>\n<p>According to Polo, there are too many ex-internationals without the requisite training surrounding the team.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Kwesi Appiah, himself an ex-Ghana captain, is surrounded by assistants Maxwell Konadu, Ibrahim Tanko who all played for the Black Stars in the late 90s.<\/p>\n<p>2016 FIFA World Cup captain Stephen Appiah is the team coordinator and Richard Kingson has been the goalkeepers&#8217; trainer since Appiah returned as coach of the side.<\/p>\n<p>The 1978 Africa Cup of Nations Cup winner believes it is a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;There are some areas which need to be looked at and that is what is missing &#8211; the players in the time of the 70\u2019s, 80\u2019s and even 90\u2019s are not coming into the system,&#8221; Polo told the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We have Kwesi Appiah, Maxwell Konadu, Ibrahim Tanko and Stephen Appiah at the same place [Black Stars]. This is an area that needs no special training. You just select them [players] and [they] go and play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about those who are coming up? We parade all of them [Appiah and co.] at the [senior] level and leave the U-17 and U-20 for who to do that?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [youth teams] need to be trained and we go and gather all these people at the senior level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All these people should be training players in the league because that is where the standard is coming from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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According to Polo, there are too many ex-internationals without the requisite training surrounding the team. 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