Ghana’s head coach, Kwesi Appiah is impressive with the standard of competition for places in the Black Stars team and foresees difficulties in picking players for national assignments in the near future.
The brand new Black Stars continued their fine form with an emphatic 3-0 win over 2018 FIFA World Cup bound Saudi Arabia in Jeddah on Tuesday night in an international friendly without the core of the team.
According to Appiah, the return of the core team will make selection into the team a headache for him.
“It’s always good as a coach to have sleepless nights in the sense that once you have variety of players to pick from, it shows how strong the team will be and if you have a strong team even though you’ll have headache with selection but at the end of it once there is victory your headache will come down,” says Appiah after the game.
“So, in a way I think is a national team because if it’s a club you are only limited to few players you’ve registered but this is a national team and it’s important we stretch our hands. At the end of it all it is the nation that will benefit in the long term. When you start any project, automatically there will be lapses and some few issues but I believe that’s how you become strong and that’s how you develop and get a better team.”
Meanwhile, Appiah has reckoned that qualifying for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will not come cheap.
Source:Ghana/Starrfmonline.com
