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Former Ghana second team coach Maxwell Konadu accepts blame for the nation’s inability to qualify for the African Nations Championship in Cameroon.
The Black Stars are among the missing big names in the continental World Cup after finding Burkina Faso too strong during the playoffs.
The tournament is reserved exclusively for players who play club football in their home country.
“If Ghanaians blame me, I have to accept it because sometimes we also made Ghana great,” Konadu, who guided Ghana to the 2019 Wafu Cup of Nations final in Senegal, told Nhyra FM on Tuesday.
The 2021 failure is Ghana’s third consecutive absence from the meeting, the team also missing Rwanda 2016 and Morocco 2018.
“Not everything is negative, we reached the final at some point but it is as if we had not been able to qualify a couple of times and that is a disadvantage,” he added.
Konadu also spoke about his dismissal as head coach of Ghana’s Premier League giants Asante Kotoko in December after some upside-down results and the club’s recent turnaround in fortunes.
“It was a new team and the players will want to showcase their individual brilliance instead of playing as a team and that made it difficult for the team to consolidate. It’s the reason we started the season very badly, but I knew that over time, the team would. will. settle, “explained the coach.
“Since I left, the only Kotoko match I saw was against Aduana Stars and there have been no changes. The only difference is that, Fabio Gama has been cleared and is now actively playing for the team.
“I am not surprised that Asante Kotoko is playing football very well now because it was only a matter of time before the team came together well.
“When you gather too many stars at one time, it takes time for them to mature, so during my second season at Kotoko, I imagined that the team would take a while before they could play really well together as a team.”
Kotoko is currently seventh in the league table after seven rounds of matches.
