Respect
African Coaches – GEORGE
WEAH
By Bruce Wiah – Liberiansoccer.com
Liberia’s former captain and Technical Director, George Weah, is
calling on African football administrators to trust and respect
African coaches as a way of developing the game on the continent.
Weah whose guidance nearly sealed Liberia through to South Korea/Japan
in 2001, said there are a lot of competent African coaches but neglect
and nonchalance pit them at the shadows of expatriates.
“We feel African coaches are not good but that is not the case. We
need to trust our coaches for them to deliver as it should be”, Weah
told Ghana Graphic Sports.
He made the call in Ghana recently feting players of FC Midtjilland, a
first division side, which he helped to a 1-0 win against a Benin
national select team in Accra.
The 1995 World Best outlined the lack of respect and trust as factors
hampering the success of African coaches, adding, “African coaches
understand the African football terrain”.
“If African coaches are afforded the same and basic facilities as the
expatriates why wouldn’t they deliver”, the former AC Milan celebrity
wonder.
The legend who turns 37 years on October 1 retired from professional
football lately following a two-year stretch with Al Jazirah of the
United Arab Emirates.
In another development, George Weah has formally inaugurated his newly
built mansion in Eastern Legon, a residential enclave in Accra, Ghana.
The ceremony lured former African stars including Abedi Pele and Tony
Yeboah of Ghana and Coach Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, Benin national
team coach.
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