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  • Great Olympics fires Yaw Preko as head coach

    Great Olympics fires Yaw Preko as head coach

    Great Olympics, a team in the Ghana Premier League, has replaced head coach Yaw Preko due to the team’s dismal performance thus far this season.

    Yaw Preko was fired a few days after the Accra-based team’s 2-1 home loss to Nsoatreman, who were making their league debut.

    Five months ago, Yaw Preko joined the team when Annor Walker left.

    The 48-year-old leaves Great Olympics after managing 6 wins, 6 defeats and 5 draws in the Ghana Premier League.

    The club have appointed Isaac Armah and former Ghana goalkeeper, Richard Kingson as temporary coaches for the club.

    Great Olympics will travel to face Bechem United in week 18 of the domestic league.

  • No need to replace Otto Addo ahead of World Cup – Great Olympics coach Yaw Preko

    Former Ghana international Yaw Preko says there is no need to make changes to the Black Stars technical team ahead of the 2022 World Cup.

    Addo, 44, has come under criticism lately despite qualifying Ghana for the 2022 World Cup after beating Nigeria in the playoffs.

    The Borussia Dortmund trainer has been criticized over his tactics and team selection after Ghana’s two international friendlies against Brazil and Nicaragua.

    Several Ghanaian football fans have called for the replacement of Addo ahead of the Mundial in Qatar.

    Yaw Preko, reacting to the calls for the Black Stars technical team to be augmented or changed said there is no need to make changes to the with just a few days to the World Cup.

    He stated the technical team is capable of fixing the problem.

    “If you do changes at this time then you will mess up”, the Great Olympics coach said in an interview on Accra-based radio station Asempa FM.

    “It’s just 46 days to the World Cup and making any change now will be a problem. Otto Addo can get people to beef up the technical team if he requests it. The technical team is capable of fixing the problem”.

    Coach Yaw Preko added that Ghanaians will get a fair idea about Otto Addo’s squad in the last friendly game against Switzerland.

  • Inaki Williams is like Asamoah Gyan – Yaw Preko

    Yaw Preko, the head coach of the Accra Great Olympics, has compared the attacker Inaki Williams of La Liga team Bilbao to former Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan.

    Williams is similar to Asamoah Gyan, thus we should use him well and get more from him, Yaw Preko said on Angel TV.

    Williams entered the game after the break in Friday’s 3-0 loss for Ghana to Brazil at the Stade Oceane in Le Havre, France.

    On Tuesday night in Lorca, Spain, against Nicaragua, he got his first start for Ghana. Ghana won 1-0.

    Inaki Williams scored a goal and provided an assist in Bilbao’s rout of Almeria on Friday night.
    In the game, his brother Nico Williams not only scored but also picked up an assist.

  • It feels like a defeat – Olympics coach Yaw Preko on Hearts of Oak draw

    Accra Great Olympics manager, Yaw Preko was not satisfied with his side’s draw with Accra Hearts of Oak as he believes his side displayed superior footballing quality.

    Preko believes his side was the better side and deserved more than the one-all draw recorded in the local derby.

    Speaking after the draw, the former Hearts of Oak manager said the draw feels like a defeat.

    “A 1-1 draw personally looks like a defeat. Because after holding them from the first whistle to the last minute feels like a defeat,” he noted.

    “But we are playing away and we played against Hearts of Oak in a local derby, anything at all can happen. We take it like that, it’s a draw and we go back to work on where we fell short because this is our away match.

    He concluded that, his side will dwell on the positives and hope to come good in their next fixture against King Faisal.

    “We still have another match next week against King Faisal at home so we will build on the positives and we meet King Faisal.”

    Great Olympics following the draw sit 3rd on the log with 4 points after two matches.

    Source: Ghanaweb