“THE SCOUTS DID THEIR JOB WELL”-BLACK STARS COACH KWASI APPIAH

Head coach of the Black Stars, James Kwasi Appiah believes despite Ghana’s abysmal performance at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the scouts for the team did their job well by feeding him with the right information about his opponents.

The Ghana FA assigned three technical brains in the persons of Asante Kotoko head trainer Masud-Didi Dramani, former Black Stars player now Youth coach of Humburg FC Otto Addo and Inter Allies technical director Sam Addy to scout on Ghana’s group opponents USA, Germany and Portugal respectively.

Although many have attributed Ghana’s poor run at this year’s World Cup tournament to the chaotic incidence that happened in the team’s camp in Maceio [Brazil], some football pundits also believes lack of relevant information on the part of the scouts also accounted to Ghana’s terrible feat at the mundial.

But Kwasi Appiah who was hoping to better Ghana’s quarter final berth 4 years ago in South Africa believes his scouts did their work well by giving him the right information on his opponents.

“I will personally say that the scouts really did their job well. I had an analyst from Manchester City to be the team and I did send out scouts to monitor all the teams that we were playing”, he told the media in a press conference at the Alisa hotel.

“And the information that we had was really good. It was backed by video evidences. Whenever the scouts travel out they send information through the mail for the video analyst to also bring out the games that the scouts have watched, and they will pinpoint the areas that need to be shown for us”.

“So the analyst played a very big role to the extent that they were able to capture all the video evidences of our scouts in certain areas and it really did help”.

Ghana failed to go past the group stages for the first time at the World Cup after placing bottom of group G with only 1 point.

By Frank Darkwah

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