Sellas Tetteh Is Poised To Take Black Queens To Greater Heights

Newly appointed coach of the Black Queens Sellas Tetteh has declared his readiness to lead the team to achieve its ambitions.

Tetteh, who guided Ghana's U-20 team to lift the 2009 FIFA World Cup tournament in Egypt, has been appointed as the coach of the female senior side, Black Queens, following the departure of substantive trainer Mas-Ud Didi Dramani last month.

The appointment of the 61-year-old experienced gaffer was met with divergent opinions from some top football aficionados in the country as some believe his credentials in the beautiful game is way beyond coaching the women's team.

However, the former Sierra Leone coach has laughed off those suggestions, claiming that football speaks no gender language and so his new responsibility as the Black Queens coach will be to bring his technical expertise to bear on the team to build a team capable of winning laurels.

However, that statement was taken off the FA's website yesterday and the Graphic Sports learnt it was because the Executive Committee of the GFA had not given the final approval while talks with, particularly, Borbor has also not concluded.

'Football is a universal language. It is the same set of rules and regulations so that should not be a problem," Tetteh told Graphic Sports.

'I think it is more important to have the experience which I do. With regard to my knowing all the players, I frankly admit that I don't but I think I have a capable assistant who will help very much in that regard. Once we get the players for the roles, we set to work on the technical bit. That is the most important."

Tetteh is the 11th coach to handle the Black Queens, since they were formed in the early 1990s following coaches such as Anthony Edusei (1993), Jones Ofosuhene (1997), Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie (1998-2000), Okoe Aryee (2000-2004), John Eshun (2004-2005), Isaac Paha (2005-2007), A.K Edusei (2008-2011), 2012 - 2014 - Kuuku Dadzie, Yusif Basigi (2014- 2016) and Mas-Ud Didi Dramani (2017).

His first assignment will be to lead the Queens to the inaugural West African Football Nations (WAFU) campaign in Cote d'Ivoire from February 14 to February 26, to be followed by the preparations for the 2018 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) which Ghana will be hosting in November.