Nii Odartey Lamptey, a former international for Ghana, has expressed his belief that Chris Hughton will guide the Black Stars to their first major championship since 1982.
Since the Black Stars’ previous AFCON victory 41 years ago, Ghana has been without a trophy.
Odartey Lamptey is optimistic that Chris Hughton, a former Irish player, would guide Ghana to victory at the upcoming AFCON now that he has been named the new coach of the Black Stars.
“We may be right that he [Chris Hughton] is the coach we have been looking for for the past 40 years that the Afcon trophy has eluded us,” he told Asempa FM in an interview.
According to him, the GFA made the right decision to appoint Chris Hughton as Black Stars’ head coach.
“It could be that Chris could be the person to lead us to win the trophy but with his appointment, I don’t think it’s a bad decision,” he added.
“If someone else was appointed, I am sure questions will be raised but for the past year, Chris has been with the team as the technical advisor and even when Otto Addo was named as the head coach of the team, many people felt he should have been given the job but now, he has the opportunity,” he added.