Ex-Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah to join Khartoum SC next week after successful negotiations

Published on: 24 November 2014
Ex-Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah to join Khartoum SC next week after successful negotiations
Kwesi Appiah is set to join Al Khartoum after successful negotiations

Ghana’s 2014 World Cup coach Kwesi Appiah has completed successful negotiations with Al Khartoum Sporting Club and is expected to join the top-flight Sudanese side next week, GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.

The 54-year-old, who parted ways with Ghana as coach of the national team in September this year, has signed a pre-contract agreement with the side after spending two days in Khartoum.

Appiah has now returned to Ghana after completing the negotiations in Sudan and he is expected to return to the country next week to start work.

He will sign a bumper contract on a monthly salary of about $40,000 next week with the ambitious Sudanese side who placed fourth last season.

The Khartoum-based side have tasked Appiah  to revive the side to make them giants on the continent, Ghana’s leading football website, GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm.

Ghanasoccernet.com exclusively revealed last week that the North African side have opted for the ex-Ghana international due to his expertise having coached the Black Stars at the highest level of world football.

Despite doubts about his competence among a section of Ghanaians, the Sudanese side have realized his assertiveness and given him the chance to return to the pitch.

Appiah travelled to Sudan to acquaint himself with the club before being offered the contract.

He was in charge of the Black Stars when the game between the Africans and Germany was adjudged as the best match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil in the summer.

The former Kotoko great will be keen to silence his critics who doubted his competence during an ill-fated time with the Black Stars in which he put his name in the history folkore.

He became the first indigenous coach to qualify the Africans to the World Cup after previous feats were achieved by Serbians but row over appearance fees wrecked what could have been a historic campaign.

Al Khartoum SC are owned by the military and finished fourth in the just ended Sudanese Premier League to secure a slot to play in Africa.

Appiah will get the chance to lead the side in the 2015 CAF Confederation Cup qualifiers.

According to GHANASoccernet.com sources, renowned Ghanaian FIFA agent Oliver Arthur is brokering the deal.

Arthur, who owns ArthurLegacy Sports, is currently in Sudan negotiating a deal for his client Augustine Okrah to giants Al Merreikh.

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