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Former Ghana Premier League champions Wa All Stars have appointed Bosnian-German Goran Barjaktarevic as their new head coach.
His appointment was announced on Monday, four days to the start of the new league season.
He takes over from John Paintsil, who has been assigned to a new role as scout.
Paintsil was dropped because he doesn’t have the required CAF License A certificate to coach a Ghana Premier League side.
Barjaktarevic is expected to be in the dugout when Wa All Stars start their campaign against Liberty Professionals on Saturday.
Brief facts about Goran Barjaktarevic
Barjaktarevic is a former Yugoslav soccer player and DFB soccer teacher with German citizenship.
He started his career as a football coach in Germany in 1998 as a DFB-B license trainer in the youth department of VfL Oldenburg.
In 2000 he received the DFB-A license. and took over the A-youth of VfB Oldenburg in the Regionalliga Nord, at that time the highest division of the A-juniors. He held this position until 2005. In the same year, it received its DFB soccer teacher license from the German Sport University Cologne (Hennes-Weisweiler-Akademie).
His last coaching job was in 2018 when he took over Thai top-tier side Chonburi FC.
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