{"id":736043,"date":"2022-01-05T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T12:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/2021-afcon-black-stars-technical-team-strengthened\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T12:43:43","slug":"2021-afcon-black-stars-technical-team-strengthened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/2021-afcon-black-stars-technical-team-strengthened\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Afcon: Black Stars technical team strengthened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-05-at-6.05.06-AM-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-05-at-6.05.06-AM\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association has made four additions to the Technical team of the Black Stars ahead of the Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a request by Coach Milovan Rajevac to strengthen the Technical team in the lead-up to Africa\u2019s flagship tournament which kicks off on Sunday, January 9, 2022, in Yaound\u00e9 \u2013 Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet includes Mike Stankovic \u2013 an experienced Serbian\/American football coach, Awal Salifu \u2013 a Video analyst of International repute and two scouts.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Stankovic is a former Yugoslavia defender who played in the Major League Soccer (MLS) for a period of 18 years before taking up coaching in 1991. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The former Dallas Tornado player \u2013 65 \u2013 served as an assistant to\u00a0Milovan Rajevac during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where Ghana exited at the quarter-final stage after losing to Uruguay on penalties. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Stankovich later joined Milovan Rajevac to manage the\u00a0Qatar national football team in 2011.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-05-at-6.05.05-AM-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Awal Kamin Salifu \u2013a young dynamic performance analyst was formerly attached to the Right to Dream Academy in Ghana and Nordsjaelland FC in Denmark as a performance analyst. <\/p>\n<p>He has varied experience in player performance analysis and monitoring and will be a top-quality addition to the Technical team.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-01-05-at-6.11.47-AM-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The four Technical brains have already started work with the team in Doha and are expected to bring their rich vein of experience to bear during the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars who take on African Champions Algeria in an international friendly on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, are housed in Group C with Morocco, Gabon and Comoros.<\/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=\"QLukCH4pdzA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Daughter Durga Chat Room on Adom TV (4-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QLukCH4pdzA?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>The Ghana Football Association has made four additions to the Technical team of the Black Stars ahead of the Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021. 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