Ghana coach Goran Stavanovic confirms sack

Posted On Monday, 19th March 2012

Goran Stevanovic claims he has been told he cannot continue as Black Stars coachakyi

Goran Stevanovic has confirmed it will be ‘impossible’ for him to continue as coach of the Ghana national team.

The Serb and his legal representative met official of the Ghana Football Association on Monday to negotiate his severance package and entitlement.

His future has been hanging by a thread following his inability to win the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

Although the Football Association is yet to officially announce the divorce, the former Partizan Belgrade boss claims he is on his way out.

“I asked them if it is possible to stay and they said it is very difficult. Now we have started to negotiate,” Stevanovic said.

“I am satisfied here and I want to stay but obviously it is very impossible.”

The 45-year-old’s current with Ghana will end in February 2013 after agreeing a two-year deal last year.

Stevanovic led Ghana to finish fourth at the just ended Cup of Nations finals.

He played 17 matches; won nine, four draws and four defeats.

Source: MTNFootball.com

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koo says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:02 pm

Mmmmmmmmmm

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kwame says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:06 pm

Good news. No more serbian coaches.

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Boro says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:06 pm

I hope the GFA will do their home work well and will not hire a new coach whose performance will be worse than Plavi.What Ghanaians want is a coach who will qualify Ghana first to AFCON 2013 and win it and then to the world cup in 2014 in Brazil and go past the quater-finalsm period. Anything short of this will see the wrath of Ghanaians ok!

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Yuri says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:12 pm

better go away come no more.

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Alex says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:28 pm

Good riddance…The coach shot himself on the foot by his promised to Ghanaians and GFA to fire him should he failed to bring the Afcon cup home. Moreover, I do not know how he’s would’ve related to the players after his bombshell reports of the usage of black magic “JUJU” by some players against others. His posturing, refusal to listen or heed to advise and tactics was also a concern to many footbal lovers and particularly, the GFA. Many folks who went to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea were not satisfied with the coach’s attitude towrads both the playing body, some tech-team member etc. His inability to listen to advise played a major factor to continue as the Black Stars coach.

President Kwesi Nyantakyi and his commitee must as a matter of urgency, appoint a competent and a discipline coach to fill the void that has been created. There’s no time to waste on appointing another coach to take over. My only candid advise is that, the GFA must strongly consider employing a local/Ghanaian coach…i.e. Marcel Desailly, Abedi Pele will bring new dynamics and energy to the team. They’re well respected and positivie minded coaches who understands and posses the management and tactical discipline to overhaul the team for the better. One would argue about the experience of this aforementioned coaches…but I’d always wondered why many folks look for experience rather than career records and coaching abilities. In my honest perspective, Desailly or Abedi would a sense of decency, discipline and improvement into the team. I tip one of this guys to suceed Plavi.

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Tardi boy says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:29 pm

What Ghanaians want is a local coach,
B/S failed to beat Sudan at KSI under AA
B/S beat Sudan in Khatoum 2:0 under Plavi
we live to see, no further comment.

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jamal says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:34 pm

I hope now most of u are happy about Plavi decision to quit.the coach had a future but just that things did not go as planned for him n his team.bring a new coach will take much time for him to build a better team for world n African qualifiers.if Plavi had stayed he would have brought continuity in the team rather than the new coach.

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Abeiku, Berlin says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:36 pm

Ghanaians have set the bar for future Coaches. Now it would be very interesting to know the CHOICE of those who strongly advocated for the sack of the coach and whether their CHOICE would perform better! To GFA, make sure you sign a contract with the following condition; “WIN AFCON 2013 OR BE SACKED TOGETHER WITH THE GFA EX CO” ! By the way who is bearing the cost of PLAVI’S SACK ? Another case of “causing financial loss to the state” !!!

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Eddie says:

March 19, 2012 at 1:41 pm

I bet to differ if Plavi was the stumbling block to Ghana’s success in AFCON 2012? Do Ghanaians who are yelling for the sack of Plavi think that Jesus Christ will be the new coach? It’s high time we learn from the Germans who have only hired only ten coaches since 1926 to date.

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Carl jnr says:

March 19, 2012 at 2:07 pm

Who is next!!!! Go and come no more plavi.

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bebe says:

March 19, 2012 at 10:11 pm

Why are people saying the coach did not listen to advice???After all, he is the coach and should take the final decision.Now this is result of his decision which i think is good.No interference,period.I think Anagla whatever he is called should become the coach since he knows everything about football.Ghana will forever be changing coaches every year with this unprofessional attitudes of those GFA members,interference,imposing players on coaches and telling coaches which players to select for matches.You cannot employ coaches like Fabian capello and think you can manipulate him.

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