The Ghana Football Association in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports have settled on sending four coaches to Qatar as part of the Black Stars technical team to the World Cup on a working attachment.
The quartet include former Accra Hearts of Oak and Medeama SC coach, Samuel Boadu, former WAFA and Kumasi Asante Kotoko boss, Dr Prosper Narteh Ogum, Black Meteors Coach Ibrahim Tanko and head coach of Dreams FC Ignatius Osei Fosu.
A communique, according to the Ghana Football Association, the initiative forms part of strategies designed by the Ministry and the GFA to enhance the capacity of Ghanaian Coaches and to equip them with the modern trends of football.
It added that the trip “will give them an opportunity to pick useful lessons from the biggest global showpiece and learn from the black stars technical team.”
Justifying the choice of selection, the FA said, Prosper Narteh Ogum and Samuel Boadu were selected on the basis of their successes chalked with Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak, winning the 2021/22 Ghana Premier League and the MTN FA Cup respectively.
On their part, coach Ibrahim Tanko and Ignatius Osei Fosu had their selection based on their role as Technical Instructors for the Technical Directorate of the Ghana Football Association.
The four coaches will depart Accra next week with the rest of the backroom staff for the training camp in Abu Dhabi and later to Doha for the World Cup.
