{"id":38868,"date":"2014-08-13T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=38868"},"modified":"2014-08-13T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T10:40:08","slug":"technical-director-will-be-on-six-month-probation-gfa-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/08\/technical-director-will-be-on-six-month-probation-gfa-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"“Technical director will be on six-month probation” – GFA sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
Citi Sports<\/strong> sources in the Ghana Football Association say the new technical director to be appointed will not be hired on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n FA officials tell Citi Sports<\/em> that Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah himself will have a hand in who is chosen and subsequently, his scope of work.<\/p>\n Public opinion has been split on the necessity of the position, with many feeling an undermining of Appiah’s role is on the cards.<\/p>\n But Citi Sports<\/em> understands that the new technical director will assist Appiah only for the duration of the Afcon 2015 qualifiers – where Ghana play Uganda, Guinea and Togo in Group E.<\/p>\n After the qualifiers are done by late November, there will be an assessment to determine if the technical director will be needed further.<\/p>\n The technical director will be on an initial six-month deal, sources say.<\/p>\n No fears<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, a member of the three-man committee set up by the GFA to look for an occupant for the newly created position Fred Pappoe has been speaking to calm fears.<\/p>\n “Kwesi Appiah is the boss of the team so he must definitely have the last say on decisions,” Pappoe told supersport.com on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The decision to set up a committee was taken at the Executive Committee meeting on Monday following a review of the technical direction of the Black Stars.<\/p>\n But on a continent where history shows that technical directors typically contrive to evict incumbent coaches, it is understandable that Ghanaians remain wary of the whole arrangement.<\/p>\n “The coach had already told us he will like to have some sort of technical assistance,” Pappoe also told Metro FM in Kumasi.<\/p>\n “So the GFA is merely responding to the request made by the coach.”<\/p>\n The three-man committee, due to send its report to the Executive Committee next week, is headed by the GFA vice-president Fred Crentsil who will work with Pappoe and Francis Oti Akenteng.<\/p>\n Security of Appiah’s job<\/strong><\/p>\n The cost of this technical director appointment is expected to be borne by the FA and the government but a key question has been how Appiah will be evaluated.<\/p>\n Citi Sports<\/em> understands that Kwesi Appiah will lose his job altogether in the unlikely event that Ghana fails to qualify for Morocco 2015.<\/p>\n Kwesi Appiah is currently on a new two-year deal agreed to before the World Cup, which pays him $36,500 a month. Should the FA decide to fire him before that time, he would be entitled to compensation.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n