[ 2016-10-29 ]

GFA visits stroke-stricken Afranie
Ghana Football Association (GFA) Vice President
George Afriyie and a member of the association's
medical committee, Jonathan Quartey, have visited
former national team coach Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie
at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

The veteran coach has been admitted at the
hospital after suffering a mild stroke.

The visit was to wish him well on behalf of FA
president Kwesi Nyantakyi and the entire football
association.

Coach Afranie was assistant to the late Fred Osam
Duodu when Ghana hosted and won the 1978 Africa
Cup of Nations trophy. He was appointed
substantive head coach of the senior national team
in 1984.

Afranie led Ghana to the final of the 2001 World
Youth Championship, where he discovered players
such as Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, Derek
Boateng, John Pantsil, John Mensah, etc. who later
became the core players of the senior national
team, Black Stars.

At club level, he was head coach for a number of
Premier League clubs and won the league with both
Hearts of Oak in 1997 and Asante Kotoko in 2005

Source - Classfmonline

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