Kotoko’s IMC member is possibly the next coach for the Stallions of Burkina Faso

Lazare Bansse, the president of the Burkinabé Football Federation (FBF) and the Executive Council, have had an agreement with James Kwesi Appiah.

Burkina Faso sacked coach Brama Traore after their last-16 exit at the Africa Cup of Nations. Traore, 63, had taken his side to second place in their group, but they were easily trounced 3-0 by Ivory Coast.

Mr James Kwesi Appiah led the Sudan national team to the last AFCON in Morocco, where they qualified for the knockout stage. At that stage of the competition, Sudan was ranked 117th in the latest FIFA rankings to make the qualification.

The Executive Council of the Burkinabè Football Federation are convinced that the former gaffer for the Black Stars of Ghana did incredibly well at his previous appointment, citing Sudan’s war-torn but proved his standards in performances in the CHAN and the AFCON.

Kwesi Appiah revealed during the CHAN that his players were in two thoughts, their family safety during the war in Sudan and competing well at the championship.

“Most of the time, we receive messages that one of the boys has lost a relative but I always remind them: you are the ones who can bring smiles to your people. Even when the fighting continues, when we play, sometimes the guns go silent for a week or two,” Kwesi revealed.

The reports indicated that Lazare Bansse was personally convinced that Kwesi Appiah, with enormous experience on the continent, was the right person to head the Stallions of Burkina Faso, especially following a modern state-of-the-art facility in Ouagadougou, Koudougo and Banfora.

The current member of Asante Kotoko’s Interim Management Committee, Mr. Kwesi Appiah, has been criticised in Ghana for a low concentration on the portfolio he has been assigned to by the Life Patron of Asante Kotoko, His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.

Story by Atakorah (Pramaso)