The Sudanese Football Association(SFA) has appointed former Ghana coach James Kwesi Appiah as the country’s new head coach, Max Sports can reveal.
The 63-year-old tactician will lead the new technical team of the Sudan national team on a three-year contract.
Appiah has been attached to lower-tier Ghanaian club Kenpong Academy since leaving his post as the Ghana national team head coach in January 2020, having been in charge of a second stint since April 2017.
The former Black Stars skipper, before taking up the head coach for the second time, was coaching Sudanese side Khartoum Club from December 2014 to April 2017.
Appiah carved a niche for himself in Sudan, which he exploited with Khartoum Club, having led them to the CAF Confederation Cup.
Before his Sudan adventure, Appiah was head coach of the Black Stars, where he guided the team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
According to sources within the federation, majority of Appiah’s technical staff will come from Ghana. The assistant coach, fitness coach, goalkeepers’ coach, and physiotherapist will all be Ghanaians.
The Sudanese FA has decided that, due to the political unrest in the country recently, the national teams will play their home matches in Egypt.
Appiah was recently appointed as a member of the Asante Kotoko SC Interim Management Committee as the technical head and was also entrusted with player recruitment for the 2023–24 campaign.
