Every job has its own set of pressures, but former Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah feels that coaching the Black Stars might lead to death.
Kwesi Appiah was a coach and assistant coach for the Black Stars for nine years, from 2008 to 2014, when he was fired. He returned in 2017 to take over the Black Stars job, but was fired again in 2020.
Mayele, as he is known, has represented the Black Stars in two World Cups and four African Cup of Nations. Many football fans and connoisseurs criticized the former Ghana international when he was in command of the Black Stars, claiming that he was incompetent to coach the national team.
Kwesi Appiah acknowledged in an interview that the strain of playing for Ghana’s national team is difficult to deal with.
“When I used to be up there, as I am sitting with you now chatting, my mind will be somewhere else. You don’t get the time to concentrate on the things around you,” he said.
“You are always planning tactics and how to beat an opponent. It’s not something I will advise someone to get there.
He added, “People sometimes think the National team is easy and they can just walk in there. the pressure in it is not advisable.”
“There are so many pressures you deal with at the National team level; some with the GFA, clubs, agents, the players themselves coming with their egos and so if you don’t take a break and you want to stay under this pressure, you will die.”
Kwesi Appiah is the Kenpong Football Academy’s assistant technical director, a division two club situated in Winneba.
