Former Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah has urged national team coaches to maintain their autonomy in selecting players and resist external interference.
Under the leadership of Kurt Okraku, the current football administration has faced scrutiny and allegations of meddling in the process of player call-ups for national teams.
Nonetheless, the veteran coach who led Ghana to the 2014 World Cup emphasises that coaches should exhibit resolute decision-making and should not succumb to any external pressures or influences.
“If you are a coach and you allow yourself to be dictated to then, I will have a problem,” the Asante Kotoko technical director told Asempa FM.
“It is not appropriate for anybody to do that but if it happens and you the coach bow to that, from that time, I will not respect you again and I will conclude that you don’t know your job because once you accept the influence, the player call ups will be determined by them.
“As a national team coach, the coach must stand by his decision. We see that at the club side because that is a developing area but not at the national team,” he added.
Appiah, who now heads Asante Kotkok’s technical team as the technical director is the coach of the Sudanese national team and serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).