The Ghana Football Association has recruited four additional technical brains to the Technical team of the Black Stars ahead of the Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021, the FA has announced.
The Black Stars will play in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Cameroon, and the FA has, upon request of head coach Milovan Rajevac, added four more technical persons to the bench to strengthen the Technical team in the quest to polish up Ghana’s performance in the continent’s flagship tournament which kicks off on Sunday, January 9, 2022 in Yaoundé – Cameroon.
The four added persons include Serbian/American football coach Mike Stankovic, Awal Salifu – a performance analyst of International repute and two scouts.
Mike Stankovic, a former Yugoslavia defender, played in the Major League Soccer (MLS) for Dallas Tornado between 1980 and 1998, spending a total of 18 years playing before taking up coaching in 1991. The 65-year old Serbian trainer served as an assistant to Milovan Rajevac during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where Ghana exited at the quarter final stage after losing to Uruguay on penalties. He also worked with coach Milovan Rajevac in Qatar when he managed the Qatar national football team back in 2011.
Awal Kamin Salifu on the other hand, is a hardworking performance analyst who was formerly attached to the Right to Dream Academy in Ghana and Nordsjaelland FC in Denmark as Performance analyst. He is expected to make his experience in player performance analysis to help the Black Stars during the AFCON in Cameroon in their quest to bring home Ghana’s long awaited fifth Africa Cup of Nations trophy.
According to the FA, “The four Technical brains have already started work with the team in Doha and are expected to bring their rich vein of experience to bear during the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon”.
The Black Stars will take on African Champions Algeria in an International friendly on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 before flying to Cameroon to make a statement in the tournament in where they begin as members of Group C with Morocco, Gabon and Comoros.
