There is no excuse for coaches to succumb to any form of pressure - Kwesi Nyantakyi
11th February 2022
President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi gestures as he gives an interview at the Rei Pele stadium in Maceio, Ghana's base training camp, on June 23, 2014. Nyantakyi says they will sue Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper over its claim he agreed for the national team to play in two proposed matches which he would "fix" after the World Cup. The allegations came after a joint undercover investigation by the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4 programme Dispatches. The investigation identified two people, one a FIFA licensed agent and the other a Ghana football association club official. The Ghana national football team will face Portugal in Brasilia on June 26, 2014 in their last first round group match of the 2014 FIFA World cup. AFP PHOTO / CARL DE SOUZA (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Ghana Football Association(GFA) President, Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi says no coach should succumb to any form of pressure to select certain players he does not like or want.
According to the former FIFA council member Black Stars coaches and all other coaches should not allow themselves to be made puppets as the axe will fall on them in case results go south.
There has been suspicions that players are imposed on a lot of coaches handling the national teams by members of the Ghana Football Association.
He was speaking in an interview with GTV Sports Plus on Thursday evening when he made the assertion that coaches should not allow themselves to be pushed around.
''For me, it's no excuse for a coach to succumb to any form of pressure,'' Nyantakyi spoke on GTV Sports Plus.
''Coaches are professionals just like any other professional who are employed to do their work just as architects, engineers, surveyors and teachers and their professionalism must be respected by all.
''Their independence of judgements must be respected by all. At the end of the day, if a coach allows the FA president or somebody else-even outside the FA- to influence him to take a decision which is not his, the buck stops with him. He takes responsibility for it" he added.