[ 2021-03-16 ]

Clubs owe coaches five months’ salary
The Director of Coaching Education for the Ghana
Football Association (GFA), Professor Kwame
Mintah, has recounted with displeasure how some
clubs have reneged on their financial obligations
towards their players and coaches and which is
having adverse effect on their performance.
He said unlike the expatriate coaches who were
given the best of treatment, managers of locals
clubs had often given Ghanaian coaches the short
end of the stick and sometimes treated them with
contempt.



He explained that the Ghanaian coach had the
capacity to perform much better than some of the
foreign ones who were engaged by the local clubs
but often the poor treatment and lack of support
from club owners did not make their working
environment conducive.

Speaking to the Graphic Sports in an interview
last Thursday on the impact of foreign coaches on
the local league, Prof. Mintah made reference to
how some coaches were allowed to work for several
months without salary and wondered how they could
perform under such treatment.

According to the GFA director of Coaching
Education, who is also an Associate Professor of
Physical Education and Sports Psychology at the
University of Cape Coast, some of the local
coaches had confided in him about the failure of
their employers to remunerate them in the last
five months.

''I can say that there is not much of a
difference; the difference is what support you get
from your club. Some of these coaches haven’t
even been paid for the past five months but if
it’s a foreign coach, maybe that will not be the
story. You end up paying the person (foreign
coaches) every month and paying what the players
are also qualified to receive.



"So, it’s us and it’s our approach and the
support that we give to them. I am saying that the
Ghanaian coach is equally competent as any other
foreigner who comes here,” he said.

He averred that despite the preferential treatment
that was often given to the foreign coaches, they
ended up not surviving the local terrain and had
to be kicked out while their local counterparts
continued to win laurels for their clubs.

''We have seen many foreign coaches coming in and
they couldn’t survive. They have all been kicked
out and the Ghanaian coaches are still here
performing, winning medals and trophies for us”,
he noted.

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Asked whether he does not believe the foreign
coaches make any impact in the league. Prof Mintah
said: “As for impact, it is relative. Everybody
who comes will make an impact and whether the
impact is sustainable or not depends upon the
structures that they have in place and those
structures are what we have to focus on”, he
said.

Source - GraphicSports

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