Former Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah has insisted that the pressure alone of coaching the senior national team can lead to ones death.
Appiah is famously remembered after engineering the country’s 2014 World Cup qualification to Brazil.
Despite his success with the Black Stars, Appiah says that the pressure is too strong to contain, adding that the Black Stars coaching job is not something that he will urge anybody to take it up because “there are so many pressures you deal with at the National team level.”
“When I used to be up there, as I am sitting with you now chatting, my mind will be somewhere else. You don’t get the time to concentrate on the things around you,” he told Untold Stories TV Gh.
“You are always planning tactics and how to beat an opponent. It’s not something I will advise someone to get there.”
Kwasi Appiah added that while thinking about the tactics he will deploy for a game, he also had to deal with the pressure from the GFA and player agencies.
“People sometimes think the National team is easy and they can just walk in there. the pressure in it is not advisable.”
“There are so many pressures you deal with at the National team level; some with the GFA, clubs, agents, the players themselves coming with their egos and so if you don’t take a break and you want to stay under this pressure, you will die,” Appiah, who was Black Stars assistant coach during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa added.
Kwasi Appiah was shown the exit door by the Kurt Okraku-led Ghana Football Association after failing to win the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.
Source: Modern Ghana
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