Fianoo: Schäfer should lead Black Stars temporarily

With the clock ticking and the World Cup on the horizon, a former Black Stars Management Committee member is urging the Ghana Football Association to make a pragmatic decision, hand the national team to Technical Director Winfried Schäfer temporarily while a permanent solution is found.

Kudjoe Fianoo made the call on Kessben Sports in the wake of Otto Addo’s dismissal, which followed a string of disappointing results capped by a 2-1 defeat to Germany in an international friendly in Stuttgart, a loss that proved to be the final straw for the GFA.

For Fianoo, the answer to Ghana’s immediate coaching crisis is already within the building. “The technical director at the GFA understands the Ghanaian terrain, so I’ll suggest we give him the national team to handle on an interim basis while we take our time to look for a new coach,” he said.

He was candid about the urgency driving his thinking. “My fear is that we don’t have enough time on our side. So my advice is that we have a technical director who, some few years ago, was interested in the Black Stars coaching job, but we ended up giving Otto the job and gave the current technical director the directorship role.”

Beyond the immediate fix, Fianoo used the moment to flag a deeper structural concern, Ghana’s tendency to cycle through coaches without the patience or planning needed to build something lasting. “I think we should give him the job and take our time to do due diligence and find a coach who will take us through the short, medium and long term, because we’re becoming a country that appoints a new coach every year,” he said.

The GFA is expected to unveil a new head coach in the coming days, but with competitive fixtures approaching, the pressure to get the decision right and quickly has never been more apparent.

Source: myjoyonline.com