Assistant coach of the Sudan national football team, Ignatius Osei-Fosu, says the Ghana Football Association's decision to sack Kwasi Appiah as Black Stars head coach in 2019 was 'wrong.'

Ghana exited the 2019 AFCON in Egypt at the one-sixteenth stage after losing to Tunisia under Appiah, during the era of the normalisation committee of Ghana football.

The committee headed by Dr Kofi Amoah maintained Appiah after the 2019 AFCON tournament, but when Kurt Okraku took over the running of Ghana football months later, he sacked the soft-spoken Appiah and appointed C.K Akunnor as Ghana’s new coach.

According to Osei-Fosu, who assisted Kwesi Appiah to qualify Sudan to the 2025 AFCON, Ghana should have sacked Kwesi Appiah immediately after the country’s exit from the Egypt tournament but not wait until he [Appiah] had played and won two 2022 World Cup qualifying matches.

The former King Faisal coach, who was a guest on Luv FM’s Kickoff show, insists it was wrong for Kurt Okraku to have sacked Kwesi Appiah when the Black Stars were in the middle of a qualifying campaign which had started off very well with two wins.

“In 2019 the standard Kwasi Appiah had set for the Black Stars after the Afcon in Egypt, I think that was below his level. That’s why I always say, right after the 2019 Afcon if we had sacked him, I would be okay with that decision as a supporter. But after the tournament, he wins two difficult qualifying games and then you say you’re sacking him, on what grounds? he quizzed.

“You don’t wait for a coach to do well and then you say you sack him. That is why for me Kwesi Appiah sacking in 2019 was needless. Now when you look at all the coaches that have after him, have not outperformed him then you notice that the decision then was not a good decision,” he said.