Patience: Don"t Judge Coach Keni based On Pre-season Results - Ali

Give Coach Keni 7-Matches, Then … – Ali Jahra

Accra Hearts of Oak’s appointment of Kenichi Yatshuashi late last year has still not go down well with the Hearts faithfuls who believe the Japenese-American tactician is not competent enough to handle the team.

 

Coach Keni as affectionately referred to is yet to impress and convince the fans – with just one win under his belt in 6-matches that he’s been in-charge of the continental club masters hasn’t been a good start. Hearts lost woefully to fellow premier league side, WAFA in the clubs first game under the new coach and the club’s back-to-back defeat to Libyan side Al-Ettihad in Libya angered the fans who called for his axing as as soon as possible.

 

Ex-Black stars and Hearts goal keeper, Ali Jahra has called on the supporters to rally behind the embattled manager and support him as he tries to bring to live a youthful team that he’s in-charge.

In an interview with Kumasi based radio, Boss fm 93.7, the former Phobian number one said, “Hearts should have appointed Coach Keni earlier after the sacking of Herbert Addo and that would have afforded him time to observe the Ghanaian premier league before it ended. I’ll call on the fans to be patient with him (coach) and ask for him not to be judged based on his sides.”

 

“Hearts fans are used the seeing the best players sign for the rainbow club but the current Hearts players are very youthful and as such the team needs time to gel then after 5-7 matches we can judge the coach’s performance,” he added.

Hearts play Nigerian side, Ifeanyi Ubah in a club international friendly on Sunday at the Accra sports stadium but the game against the merged squad – the CAF champions league winners in 2000 and the CAF confederation cup winners of 2004 will precede that game.

Patience: Don"t Judge Coach Keni based On Pre-season Results - Ali