‘I don’t know Andrews Appau’- Karim Zito on Kotoko defender’s omission from Satellites squad

Ghana U-20 head coach, Abdul Karim Zito, claims Asante Kotoko’s centre-half, Andrews Appau was excluded from the Black Satellites call-ups on the account of the former having no knowledge about the young defender.

Appau who joined the Porcupines in October last year broke into the starting lineup during the second round and kept a consistent performance, becoming one of the revelations of the 2020/2021 Ghana Premier League term.

The 19-year-old missed out in the 35-man-squad called up for early camping ahead of their upcoming international assignment.

In audio aired on Oyerepa FM, Karim Zito said the GPL was not part of his circle of monitoring and thus doesn’t know the Kotoko defender who seemed to have impressed many on his debut season.

“Which Kotoko player? I don’t know him and I don’t watch Kotoko matches, I don’t usually watch matches. I was involved in the Division One, the area which Kotoko is in was not part of my duty, you get it. So the player you are mentioning I don’t know him. But this is not the end.

“There are people who have played in the under 17 and are no more eligible so now we are going to try those who played U-20 and still qualify to play again.

Therefore, I have put them together to do the screening and the rest will follow. Now you made mention of Kotoko but unfortunately, the league is over…The last time I got only Amin-Cudjoe from there(GPL). Kotoko is not interested in these youth, they are interested in those who can play now so I never knew but I will also watch and see.”