Experienced Ghanaian coach J.E Sarpong has hit hard at Black Stars coach C.K Akonnor for his role in the hiring of an expatriate coach as his assistant.

The Ghana Football Association on Monday appointed Dutchman Patrick Greveraars as the second assistant coach to the Black Stars.

It came as a surprising news to most football enthusiast and most people in Ghana when the news came out.

According to the GFA's statement, Akonnor suggested two names one of which was the Dutch man who was eventually appointed as the second deputy Black Stars coach.

Patrick Greveraars is a UEFA A-License holder with over 25 years of worldwide top football experience.

The 45-year old previously worked with PSV Eindhoven, FC Porto, Vitesse Arnhem, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Anorthosis Famagusta and Al Shabab Dubai.

He is to help strengthen the technical team ahead the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the 2020 Africa Cup of Nations.

The decision to appoint a second deputy coach has been met with a lot of disdain especially among the fraternity of local coaches .

Coach J.E Sarpong believes that Akonnor has stabbed local coaches in the back by recommending an expatriate as his assistant upon all the human resources available in the country.

“If CK (Akonnor) is the one who recommended this foreign coach to work with, then I’m highly disappointed in him,” Coach Sarpong told Asempa FM in an interview.

“We all agreed in principle that we don’t need an expatriate coach here in Ghana (national team). It is through this that CK got the opportunity to assist Kwasi Appiah and eventually became the boss when Appiah left.

“Now he wants to tell us that we don’t have any capable Ghanaian coach to be his assistant at the Black Stars?

“All the local coaches have supported you. The Head of State even said he doesn’t want a foreign coach we should go for one of our own, and that’s more reason you got the job. And today you’re recommending the bringing on board of a foreigner…. it’s a stab in the back of Ghanaian coaches. He hasn’t shown us respect and I’m disappointed in him,” he concluded.