Former Ghana Football Association president, Awuah Nyamekye has revealed why then head coach of the national team, Otto Pfister chose Abedi Pele as captain of the Black Stars at the expense of Kwasi Appiah who was the skipper at the time.
A session of Ghanaians has attributed the Black Stars inability to end the 38 years trophy drought to captaincy row.
Prior to the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal, substantive captain of Ghana, Kwasi Appiah was stripped of the captain’s armband as coach Otto Pfister opt for Olympic Marseille icon, Abedi Pele to lead the team.
Rumour had it that, Kwasi Appiah was stripped of the captaincy because of his inability to speak the French language.
But the former FA President explaining why Abedi Pele was made the captain downplayed such assertions as he strongly believes his scintillating performance at his club and also appearing consistently on FIFA’s world 11 at the time won him the armband.
“If you read magazines at that time, you will see that Abedi Pele was consistent on the FIFA World 11, so the coach said with such a player in the team he cannot give the captain to any other person than him,” he told Don Summer of Angel FM in Kumasi.
“So before we went to Senegal for the tournament, the coach had chosen Abedi Pele as his captain,” he said.
Source: Sylvester Ntim
