Former coach Michael Osei rekindles the ‘eventual-dying’ tension in Asante Kotoko after lamenting painful exit by DR KWAME KYEI’S administration
Ghana Premier League giants Asante Kotoko have been in bunch of tussles in recent times ranging from loss of star striker Songne Yacouba through paying compensation to former managers Kjetil Zachariassen and now Black Stars coach C.K Akonnor to clearing Esperance de Tunis debt in an imposed FIFA ultimatum.
In any of the problems accompanies with further entanglement of problems, leading to apportion blames and resignation of some management members in the last few months.
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It was understood that club Executive Chairman Dr. Kwame Kyei is on potential sack having Manhyia, the headquarters of Asante Kotoko, enrolled a three-member committee to scrutinize Kyei’s three year administration and to provide recommendations for the way forward of the Ghanaian outfits.
Things appear to returning normality, and one important harnessing step is Kyei’s clearing of $240,000 Esperance debt earlier this week.
However, former assistant coach of Asante Kotoko Michael Osei has emerged through the ranks to rekindle the gradual and eventual-dying tension in Kotoko.
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Like many other officials or players who have passed served Kotoko Sporting Club have a story to tell, Osei who won the Ghana Premier League title, FA Cup, Ghanaian Super Cup and the President Cup with Kotoko has revealed his abrupt sack form post at the Baba Yara Stadium.
What is been described to pain Osei a lot is when he was never given a chance (a full season) mandate at the touchline for Kotoko after picking the club from bottom of the Ghana Premier table to a ‘strong finish’, later demoting him to the youth side before he was finally shown the exit door by Dr. Kwame Kyei’s administration.
“I was handling the team and New Management took over and look at the problems they had with me, they called me one day and said I should go and head the technical director position at U20 team”, Michael Osei told Accra-based Angel TV.
“A first team coach that has managed to finish stronger in the league after picking the team from 15th Position, instead of giving me the opportunity to start new season and build from on the previous season, you tell me to go to U20.
“They didn’t consider that I am one of the many coaches that won trophies for the Club. I won the President Cup, G6, and when I was assistant to Didi [Dramani] we won the League, Super Cup, then FA cup, even with the FA cup, Didi [Dramani] was out of the country with the national team so I sat at the bench and won it.
‘‘I learned a lot and deserved a chance to coach the first team it but somebody like Lawyer Boafo attacked me like we were fighting over something, it was shocking. I was not treated fairly,” Osei concluded.
Michael Osei started his professional career as a footballer at Okwawu United before he joined Asante Kotoko in 1989.
After three years at the Garden City of Ghana, he moved to Vorwart Steyr in Austrian before joining Kotoko as assistant coach in 2015.
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