{"id":1245953,"date":"2022-11-07T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/players-were-imposed-on-me\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:17:00","slug":"players-were-imposed-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/players-were-imposed-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Players were imposed on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"396\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CK-AKONNOR-ON-PRIME-TAKE-746x424-1-696x396.jpg\"   alt=\"CK Akonnor\" title=\"CK Akonnor\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CK Akonnor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Charles Kwablan Akonnor has revealed that\u00a0the leadership of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) many times\u00a0influenced national team call-ups during his stay as the Black Stars coach.<\/p>\n<p>Akonnor, in January 2020, was named as the new head coach for the side on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The former Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak boss replaced Kwesi Appiah.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, strings of undesired results led to his dismissal with Milovan Rajevac coming in as his replacement after 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Akonnor, speaking in an interview, revealed player influence was a key challenge for him during his time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is public knowledge,\u201d he told Joy Prime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people out there just talk but they have no idea what was happening inside. Apart from Covid, it was a challenge controlling player call-ups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old went ahead to claim the frustration he had to go through as a result of the influence almost forced him not to call some players again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Having a final say on player selection] was always a challenge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were times I was so frustrated and I didn\u2019t want to call certain players. It got to a point I wasn\u2019t going to call Emmanuel Lomotey again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Akonnor won four games and drew two, losing the other four during his tenure in the Black Stars dugout.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1A25E3JP87k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enchi Clash: There&#039;ve been eight attempts to assassinate paramount chief since enstoolment  7-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1A25E3JP87k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CK Akonnor Charles Kwablan Akonnor has revealed that\u00a0the leadership of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) many times\u00a0influenced national team call-ups during his stay as the Black Stars coach. Akonnor, in January 2020, was named as the new head coach for the side on a two-year deal. The former Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak boss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[11528,190],"class_list":["post-1245953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-imposed","tag-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}