Ghana’s renowned Coach J. E. Sarpong has highlighted a lack of good player-coach connections for most coaches managing teams under the Ghana Premier League.
In a conversation with Bryt FM sports personality Sylvester Ntim, the veteran coach stated that derived from his personal experiences with several Ghanaian local team coaches, he has observed they have a very terrible relationship with their players both on and off the field.
Coaches, he claims, scold their players during training and worse including, causing them to have a poor emotional attitude which affects their performances.
“Most of the Ghana coaches treat their players like soldiers, shouting and getting them annoyed which is a very bad attitude to portray,” he said.
According to him, most players due to the “needless” reprimand usually fear opening up with their coaches thinking there are hatred and dissatisfaction with them.
“The players fear to approach their coaches in terms of needs and opinions which should not be the case. They have to be opened to the players. It’s called the coach-player relationship. Lacking that will go against you” he said.
He furthered that “analyzing the Accra Hearts of Oak coach, he is not so extraordinary. He has built better coach-player management in the team. He is so free with his players including dancing and eating with them and showcasing other positivity and that yield the good results.”
“That is how a coach should behave in this country or you will have a very bad result.”
J. E. Sarpong has coached many teams in the Ghana Premier League including Local giants Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak in his profession.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Ben-Dave Ardisson
