GHANA’S newly-signed Coach Milovan Rajevac should have hit the bottom operating by naming a pool of 32 gamers round which he needs to construct the Black Stars for the remainder of the AFCON and World Cup qualifiers, moments after he had put pen to paper to seal a two-year pact with the Ghana Soccer Authorities.
The search group have to be patted on their again for the swift motion in combing the market to get a replacer for CK Akunnor, who was given the exit after a string of unimpressive efficiency whereas on the helm of the senior nationwide group, the heartbeat of Ghanaian soccer followers.
It’s so refreshing to know that the Serbian coach was on standby to answer this significant nationwide name and with remuneration that appeared inexpensive to the pocket of the Ghanaian tax payer.
Certainly, the second coming of the ‘messiah’, popularly often known as Milo, can solely be described as a very good mixture of “Milo beverage, sugar and milk” to serve the Ghanaian soccer followers a greater breakfast.
As they are saying, “like two peas in a pot”,
it takes a very good coach and the mix of assist from the soccer controlling physique and the proper participant perspective to win video games and the assist and the proper perspective would function the “sugar and milk” added to the beverage (the efforts of Coach Milo) to get the Ghanaian soccer followers the proper style of the Black Stars on the second coming of the messiah.
Actually, the Serbian coach has unfinished agenda for Ghana soccer, particularly with the Black Star. He narrowly missed out annexing the African Cup of Nation for Ghana for the fifth time on the Angola2008 match, when the Stars have been edged out by the Pharaohs of Egypt on the finals.
Once more, Milo-led Black Stars have been an inch away from an unprecedented semi-final berth on the 2010 World Cup, when the prison hand of villain Luis Suarez stopped a goal-bound Dominic Adiyiah header from coming into the Uruguayan web, in one of many quarter-finals of the match.
Given these near-misses with the Black Stars, Coach Milo would courageous the storm to come back again once more to proceed together with his unfinished agenda, this time, maybe, a lot stronger!
However dangle on a second! The demography of the Black Stars has modified because the final time he left Ghana 11 years in the past. Skipper Andre Ayew of Al-Sadd and Jonathan Mensah of Columbus Crew are his previous boys who’ve made it to the squad he has assembled.
He has come again to satisfy largely new gamers with completely different mentality. It, due to this fact, means he has to work so much to get them aligned to his methods.
After all, getting the proper gamers who’re dedicated to his trigger, match his sport plan, and are very distinctive on the sphere of play quite than those that spend extra time within the saloon to fashion their hairs and have physique tattoos.
Once more, the historic development in soccer doesn’t favour returnee coaches. Just some to recall. The return of German coach Burkhard Ziese (now late) to Ghana in 2003 to deal with the Stars, after his exploits with the group from 1990-1992 was a catastrophe! So was the ill-fated return of James Kwesi Appiah to the Black Stars in latest previous.
We will additionally recall the disappointing second coming of Coach Jose Mourinho to Chelsea, after his preliminary blistering efficiency with the identical group.
Arguably, this will not be scientific sufficient to make it factual as there are definitely equally few coaches who had staged a greater “comebacks,” however suffice it to recall previous occasions for references.
A little bit of recall of historical past: After conquering Africa on the 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982 AFCONS, Black Stars’ subsequent performances have been strings of heartbreaks and disappointment for almost 40 years of their seek for AFCON title.
The group has misplaced the accolade “The Brazilians of Africa”, a becoming description earned once we have been the one group in Africa then (1978) to have gained the AFCON for the third time and for retains, simply as Brazil had gained the World Cup then for the third time.
Once more, quickly, we have been to lose the accolade of being the one nation to have gained the AFCON for the unprecedented fourth time in 1982 and being proud custodians of all of the AFCON trophies offered for the Confederation of African Soccer competitors, as Egypt now have surpassed the report, overtaking Ghana as seven-time winners (1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010) and Cameroon, who hitherto have been nobodies, now equal Ghana’s report, having additionally gained the trophy 4 occasions (1988, 2000, 2002, 2017).
Certainly, the stark actuality is that Ghana soccer is stripped bare on the African continent!
And can Coach Milo break the jinx of coaches not coming again a lot better?
Nonetheless, as we postulate, you will get a very good style of Milo, with added “sugar and milk.”
By Salifu Abdul-Rahaman
