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| Kotoko Secures Foreign Coach |
10/31/2006 |
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The question regarding who lands the coaching job of Kumasi Asante Kotoko has finally been answered. The search for Coach Emmanuel Kwesi Afranie''s replacement is done and dusted.
After perusing the resumes of nine applicants, most of whom were expatriates, the five-member management board of Kumasi Asante Kotoko has settled on Turkish-born German based coach, Telat Uzum.
Uzum who boasts a relatively rich football background is expected to breeze into town next Thursday to conclude arrangements concerning his new working relationship with Asante Kotoko.
elat Uzum has had coaching stints with Bayern Leverkusen, Besiktas, F/C Grasshoppers of Switzerland and other European clubs, and he is highly expected to lift the perceived technical gloom the club seemed to be wallowing when the current management took over managerial responsibilities of the club following the truncated tenure of P. V. Obeng’s board.
According to the Communications Director of the club, Uzum would be at the helm of the club, technically for the current season, and based on his performance, a review for a longer period of working relationship would be conducted.
Uzum''s long period at the helm of the technical department of the team will thus be based on expression of mutual satisfaction by the two parties.
In the short term, Telat Uzum will be expected to qualify Kotoko to next year''s MTN/CAF Champions League.
He assumes duty at a time Kotoko perch second on the league table, four points adrift of leaders, Ashgold. If he concludes terms with Kotoko on arrival next Thursday, Telat Uzum''s first test in charge of Kotoko will be an expectedly uncompromising league game against city rivals, King Faisal at the Waterloo Park in Konongo, where they lost their last home game to Kpando Heart of Lions.
The Kotoko coaching job became vacant when the self-acclaimed King of Coaches, E. K. Afranie resigned ahead of an imminent firing by the management board of the club.
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