ADJOA BAYOR REVEALS DESIRE TO COACH ANY NATIONAL TEAM

Former Black Queens captain, Adjoa Bayor has revealed her desire to start understudying some top coaches in her quest to achieve her dream of handling any of the national women’s football teams in the next two years. “For now, I don’t have much experience in coaching so I have to learn from someone. I have to learn it well and then when I am perfect, I can handle the national team,” Bayor told Accra based radio station Starr 103.5FM. The 2003 Africa Women’s Football of the Year has began picking her coaching badges after enrolling for some FIFA coaching courses after she was overlooked by the technical team for national team call-ups.

WOMEN SOCCER NOT NEGLECTED

       

       

The technical director of the Ghana Football Association Francis Oti Akenteng has told Starr FM Sports that numerous policies have been put in place to uplift the image of women’s football in Ghana and to make it a model in West African. The FA has come under a lot of flak in recent times following the failure of the Black Queens to qualify for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Canada after a disappointing showing in Namibia. Over the years some pundits believe the FA has over concentrated on the Black Stars to the detriment of the other national sides. But Coach Oti Akenteng, tells Starr FM Sports that several grass root courses have been undertaken to train the ladies in both technical and administrative areas.

LEAGUE FORMAT NOT FAVORING WOMEN FOOTBALL

The vice chairman of L.A Ladies football club, Mr. Osena Odotei has attributed the dip in women football in Ghana to the change of the league format and this according to him has developed less room for competition in the women’s team killing the interest of many young women footballers.

He also noted that the recruitment of good players into the civil service is not helping the women soccer because the other clubs are left with no good player to learn from and to compete with.