REPORTS: GFA and Gov't spend $8.5million on hotel accommodation for Black Star coaches
8th January 2021
The state has spent in excess of about $8.5million on hotel accommodation for expatriates who have over the past few years occupied the Black Stars coaching job since 2005.
Ghana has the past 15 years employed the likes of Ratomir Dujkovic, Claude Le Roy, Milovan Rajevac, Goran Stevanovic, James Kwasi Appiah, Avram Grant and Kwasi Appiah for the second time.
According to reports in the local media, the GFA and the state have spent in excess of $8.5million providing hotel accommodation for these coaches who were mostly foreign coaches.
Avram Grant was one of such coaches who for most of his three year spell as Ghana's head coach from 2014-2017 lived at the Alisa Hotel.
Even with that he barely stayed in the country and most often was in the UK doing football punditry job on Sky Sports.
The Israeli alone is reported to have cost the taxpayer $620,000 in hotel bills alone while he was coach of the Black Stars.
When the NPP government took over they allocated a three bedroom apartment to the Black Stars coach which was occupied by erstwhile trainer Kwasi Appiah during his second stint in 2017.
However, the current Black Stars coach, C.K Akonnor is believed not to be occupying the house allocated to the Black Stars coach.