Ex Hearts captain sights indiscipline and frequent coach change for team's slump

Published on: 17 August 2012

Ex Hearts of Oak captain Jacob Nettey says the recent poor performance of the team is due to player indiscipline and frequent change of coaches.

Nettey who led the Phobians to their domestic and continental treble in 2000 bemoaned poor player attitude as a contributing factor to the downward trend of the Accra-based club.

The current Arouras coach also fingered the frequent change in technical direction in sharp contrast to their days when a coach could stay on for a longer time and build a strong squad am another major factor bedeviling the club.

"All the time there is a change in technical direction and this denies the incoming coach ample time to succeed, after he has done recruitments to build a new team,” he told Aseda FM.

"In our time Jones (Attuquayefio) was with us for more than six(6) years, hence the core of the team was intact, he just made some few additions to augment the squad.”

Nettey who recently undertook a FIFA Coerver coaching course at Football for Hope Centre in Cape Coast,  added that Arouras, the feeder side of Hearts has promoted three well-groomed players to the senior team and expect them to make a positive impact in the coming season.

He captained Hearts of Oak to defeat Tunisian club Esperance to lift the CAF Champions League trophy in the year 2000 which happens to be the last time any Ghanaian side won the continental competition.

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