The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has added two players to the Black Stars’ technical squad ahead of the Total Energies Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon in 2021.
Coach Milovan Rajevac requested that the Technical staff be strengthened in the run-up to Africa’s premier competition, which begins on Sunday, January 9, 2022 in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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The quartet includes Mike Stankovic, an experienced Serbian/American football coach, Awal Salifu, a video analyst of international repute, and two scouts.
The former Dallas Tornado player – 65 – served as an assistant to Milovan Rajevac during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where Ghana exited at the quarter-final stage after losing to Uruguay on penalties.
Mike Stankovich later joined Milovan Rajevac to manage the Qatar national football team in 2011.
Awal Kamin Salifu, a young and dynamic performance analyst, was formerly attached to the Right to Dream Academy in Ghana and Nordsjaelland FC in Denmark as a performance analyst. He has varied experience in player performance analysis and monitoring and will be a top-quality addition to the technical team.
The four technical brains have already started working with the team in Doha and are expected to bring their rich vein of experience to bear during the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
The Black Stars, who take on African Champions Algeria in an international friendly on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, are housed in Group C with Morocco, Gabon, and Comoros.
