Mr. Frank Nelson, a management member of premier league side Accra Hearts of Oak is proposing that the Ghana Football Association engage the services of a foreign coach to take over the Black Stars coaching job left vacant due to the departure of coach Milovan Rajevac. According to him, the foreign coaches are professionals who understand the game and command respect in football circles. He said he has always preferred a foreign coach to a local coach and believes if the job is given to another foreign coach it will help Ghana. Speaking on Asempa FM’s sports morning show on Wednesday, Mr. Nelson noted that although Ghana has a number of good local coaches, he does not see any local coach in the country that can be entrusted with the job. “If we want to enjoy the same football under the era of Coach Milovan then I will advise we go for a foreign coach and not a local coach. To be sincere the training that the foreign coaches go through are far from that of what our local coaches and in this instance, it will be very difficult to risk and appoint a local coach,” Mr. Nelson stated. He added that members of the Ghana Football Association should not rush into employing a coach but should take their time and be sure they are getting the quality because Ghana needs somebody who will understand the nation and deliver. “We should allow assistant coach Akwasi Appiah who has studied under Milovan to at least sit in for our match against Sudan next month and from then we can go in for a new coach”. In a related development, the Chairman of Neoplan Stars Football Club, Mr. Jonathan Pobi also shares the same sentiments with Mr. Frank Nelson in employing a foreign coach to take the Black Stars coaching job. “JHS and SHS students are taught by teachers and university students are taught by lecturers, this means that from under 17 which is the Black Starlets through to the Black Meteors should be given to the local coaches but the senior national team should always have a white coach”. Story by Benedict Owusu/Asempa sports