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Former Ghana international Augustine Arhinful has called on the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to put an end to appointing club-affiliated coaches to lead national teams.
The GFA has recently leaned toward selecting coaches from the Ghana Premier League and Division One League for roles with national youth and senior sides.
But Arhinful believes this approach compromises the development and independence of the national teams.
He is urging the GFA to rethink its appointment strategy to ensure coaches are fully focused on the job at hand when representing the nation.
"National team coaches must not be allowed to coach club sides. If we allow that, I am sorry to say that corruption will rise in our game," Ahinful told Asempa FM.
"If a coach is handling a club side and he task to announce a squad, how will he be able to go around and scout for the right players?"
"This system will not work, and so the government and the GFA must work on this to solve the situation. The GFA must be able to able to employ coaches and pay them every month as they work for the various national teams, but the system where a coach is coaching a club and will have to leave his team and come to a national team camp is not the best," he added.
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