Top Ghana FA official Wilfred Osei claims no-home grown coach can handle Black Stars

Ghana FA Executive committee member Wilfred Osei Kwaku has sparked controversy likely to incur anger after claiming no-home grown coach has the gravitas and competence to handle the Black Stars.

The highly-touted intelligent football administrator believes it will take major changes at all levels of Ghana football to spark an improvement in the quality of home-grown coaches, describing the current structure as 'broken'.

Kwesi Appiah is the only local man to have had a shot at the Black Stars since 2005 with five expatriates given the nod without any desired results.

The Ghana FA are back in the market scouring for a new man to replace former Chelsea coach Abraham Grant.

Appiah, who handles Sudanese top-flight side Khartoum SC, is back in the fray with widespread media reports claiming he will be handed the job for the second time.

The perennial debate about the choice of a coach for the national team has re-surfaced in the West African country with a perceived groundswell of support tilting in favour of a local man.

But Former Ghana FA boss Nyaho Tamakloe has kicked against the re-appointment of Kwesi Appiah, claiming the ex-national star, was a complete failure during his spell in charge of the team.

And Tema Youth chief Wilfred Osei Kwaku has doubts about the competence of a local man for the Black Stars job.

'We know it's been a while we won the Africa Cup of Nations trophy so we don't have any excuse than to appoint a competent coach who can satisfy the need of the Ghanaian people because I don't think we will like to only participate in the AFCON 2019 in Cameroon,' he told Accra-based Asempa FM

'It doesn't necessarily mean that we should give the job to a Ghanaian but if we have a Ghanaian coach who has positioned himself over the years that he needs the Black Stars job I think he should be given the role.

'I am told that after Osam Duodu finished his course in Germany, the country spent on him to become a well-groomed coach and we saw the impact he brought into our league and the national team.

'The question is, do we have a coach who has gone through that processes Osam Duodu passed through? And for me we don't have any local coach that can handle the Black Stars.

"We have the likes of Ibrahim Tanko and Otto Addo who are qualified to do the job but in terms of experience they are nowhere near Osam Duodo and other coaches that have passed away."

There are many who believe there are Ghanaian coaches capable of blazing the trail if they are given the right opportunity.

But it appears the FA has an insatiable thirst for a non-Ghanaian for the job with the country's government reported to be breathing down the neck of the federation to appoint a local tactician - amid an intransigent from the FA  .

The Ghana FA six-man search committee will start interviewing the shortlisted coaches this week, it has been claimed.

By Patrick Akoto