Black Stars coach Chris Hughton has distanced himself from making Trophy promise to Ghanaians, saying “Coaches cannot guarantee anything”.
He believes what is most important is to focus on qualification and aims to institute the right tactics, mentality and deploy the right personnel to achieve the team’s goals.
Ghana has been in trophy drought for the past 41 years and there are huge expectations as the country begins another exercise for Afcon next year,
But addressing the media at his unveiling in Kumasi on Monday, Hughton said what he can guarantee is to work hard to put the Black Stars in the best position to excel.
“Coaches cannot guarantee a trophy. There is no one, because we [coaches] cannot guarantee anything,” Hughton said.
“What we can guarantee is we will work as hard as we can to put a team together; to create the right tactics, the right mentality, the right personnel to put ourselves in the best position to do that. And the first that comes is qualification, so we will work as hard as we can.”
The 64-year-old also promised to spend more time in Ghana and to pay attention to players in the Ghana Premier League.
Asked about the seeming reluctance of recent Black Stars coaches to pick players from the local league, the former Brighton manager said things will be different in his time.
