A former chairman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Herbert Mensah, has charged the current administration of the team to do their possible best going into the CAF Champions League.
He said while preparing for the continental challenge, the team must look beyond just building a team for the competition for the future that would aid them to reclaim the club’s lost glory in African’s club competition.
Mr Mensah’s advice came in a congratulatory message delivered to the team on winning its 25th Premier League title.
Delivering the message, the President of the Ghana Rugby Association (GRA), elaborated on the need to become a force to be reckoned once more in Africa.
“In order for you to become great, you have to change, you have to move with the times, you have to move with the future,”
“Now Kotoko has to consolidate, they have to look at Africa and look into the future to judge the present, and if you can do that, you can see the direction which is right” Hebert Mensah schooled.
To achieve the feat, the experienced sports administrator stated that winning should not just be the focus but to build a formidable team in the capacity to compete with the best.
“As an administrator, it’s not about winning today; it is about whether two or three years time, the standard of Asante Kotoko would be able to stand strong enough to be able to go and challenge the best in Africa.”
Herbert Mensah was appointed by the late Asantehene, Otumfou Opoku Ware II, and served at the Kumasi-based club as the Board Chairman from 1999-to 2003 before bowing out.
The team’s exploits under his administration both on and off the field, made celebrated sports journalist who is also the President of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), Kwabena Yeboah, regard the former as the “greatest leader” to ever chair the porcupine warriors.
Kumasi Asante Kotoku booked their place in next season’s CAF’s elite competition after emerging champions of the 2021/22 Ghana Premier League.
