Kumasi Asante Kotoko Assistant Coach Michael Osei has admitted that the Club’s technical team is having selection headache following the abundance of quality talent at their disposal.
The ‘porcupine warriors’ earlier this month game their fans so much to cheer about, by winning the G-6 Invitational Tournament. They also managed to assemble a quality squad that played two international friendly matches in Libya, an action that has been considered as a very positive exercise ahead of the new season.
Last Sunday the Kotoko G-6 squad and the Kotoko Libya squad played an in-house friendly match and there was so much quality from both ends of the pitch.
In all Kotoko registered 29 players for the coming season, and the coaches’ choices have been made more difficult due to the fact that all of these players have justified their inclusion in the team.
“It is true that we may have difficulties in selecting players for games. We will have to do some serious thinking before we can come up with the first set.”
“But this situation tells us we have a strong team which is better than last season’s and can also do better than we did last year” Michael Osei told the Club’s official website.
He said that having competition at every position of the team would force the starters to do extra work to protect it and that can make the team very strong. He said the coaching staff would eventually settle on a first team but at the same time be blessed with an equal depth of quality behind them.
“Of course there will be reserve players but even with them, the situation now is that we would have absolute confidence in every player we introduce into the game. So I believe we will get a better team this year than we had last season”.
“The competition for places was blown open when two sides did well in their respective engagements in Libya and in Ghana. People thought the G-6 squad was the second string but they showed today that they are good, particularly in the first half”.
Kotoko Assistant Coach Michael Osei Admits To Player Selection Headache
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