Wizard Maxwell Baakoh set sight on CAF Inter Club competition triumph with Asante Kotoko
Dribbling wizard Maxwell Baakoh has set sight on wining the CAF Champions League or Confederation Cup with current cub Asante Kotoko.
Baakoh joined Kotoko in November 2018 and had his first experience in continental football with Kotoko when the Ghana Premier League record holders made a splendid campaign in the 2018-2019 CAF Confederation Cup.
The Ghanaian giants eliminated Kariobangi Sharks from Kenya and Cameroonian giants Coton Sport de Garoua in the second round and play-off stages respectively, before forming a difficult group C alongside Al Hilal Omdurman and Zambian duo Nkana Reds Devils and Zesco United in the Confederation Cup.
Entering the group stage presented a mixed experience for the two times CAF Champions League winners as on a more positive one, that was their first group stage campaign in 10 years since their last one in 2008, and on a sad note, the Porcupine Warriors slipped their qualification to the quarter-finals of the competition after drawing their last home game against Sudanese Al Hilal.
Kotoko opened a new chapter in their continental campaign in 2019-2020 season but saw Tunisian side Etoile Sportive du Sahel and San Pedro preying their CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup triumph ambitions this season respectively.
Baakoh, was not part of the latest campaign due to a sustained injury but has set his eyes on the next campaigns where he hopes of winning either the Champions League or Confederation Cup with the Kumasi based club.
“I want to win an African trophy for Asante Kotoko either Confederation Cup or Champions League. If next season we get the ticket to play in either competition, we should go all out to the finals”, Baakoh told Light FM.
“I want to leave a legacy there that this squad won an African trophy for the club, that’s the most important thing.”
It is 37 years when the Ghanaian giants last won any CAF Inter Cub title, in particular, beating Al Ahly 1-0 at Kumasi after the first leg in Egypt have ended 0-0, to lift the 1983 African Cup of Champions Clubs, now the CAF Champions League.
Since then, they have played two finals in CAF Inter Club competitions in 2002 and 2004 losing all to Wydad Athletic Club and Hearts of Oak in the African Cup Winner’s Cup and CAF Confederation Cup respectively.
