Career Decision: Ghana U20 Players Make Wrong Career Moves

Ghanaian Players Choose Money Over Career Success

 

Former Black stars coach, Emmanuel Akwasi Afranie, has slammed players who after successful stint with the U-20 side join teams solely for “monetary” reasons and not to develop their potential.

 

Coach Nana Akwasi Afranie who won Ghana’s first World Under 17 trophy in 1991 and guided the Black Satellites to a runners-up place at the World Youth Championship in 2001 observed that majority of the youth have

declined in their progression to the Black stars level and this he has also attributed to the hasty decisions these players make in their career path.

Dominic Adiyiah who won the golden boot and best player award during FIFA U-20 world cup in Egypt springs to mind. The talented Ghanaian striker was tagged to shine for the senior national team but a move to AC Milan after the tourney begun his fall from grace to grass.

Recent U-20 stars notably Moses Odjer and Yaw Yeboah have failed to make the mark and grow the household name they have been nursing for a while.

 

Coach ‘Hene’ as he is affectionately referred to at times said, “Some of these boys, when they finish the U-20, they rush, chase money and go to wrong teams. When you know you are going to a team where you will not have playing time, you don’t need to go.”

 

He told Accra based Starr FM, “If you look at the boys I sent to Argentina, they were the ones who helped Ghana qualify to the Germany 2006 World Cup, because they were all poached by top teams and were playing regularly.”

Career Decision: Ghana U20 Players Make Wrong Career Moves