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Tetteh is king of African coaches

03-12-2010

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Ghanaian coach Sellas Tetteh is currently on cloud nine after being crowd the best trainer on the continent.

The continental honour wraps a successful year for the soft spoken former footballer who snatched almost every silverware in sight as head coach of the Ghana U-20 team, Black Satellites.

From the regional level (WAFU Cup), to the continental level (African Youth Championship) to the global stage (FIFA U-20 World Cup) was enough to land him the ultimate honour.

Tetteh pipped T.P. Mazembe’s French trainer Diego and John Obuh of the Nigeria U-17 team fame to his major individual honour since joining the ‘bench’ profession.

Guiding the Black Satellites to the title at the last FIFA U-20 World Championship in Egypt to become the first man to guide an African team to that feat since the inception of the competition is no mean feat.

Being crowned the African coach of the Year will serve a great plus for the 50-year old, whose feat landed him a lucrative job as coach of the Rwanda national football team. He is expected to leave for Kigali after the ceremony to begin his new role.

Tetteh becomes the second Ghanaian after his “mentor” Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, who was decorated in 2001. Tetteh and Attuquayefio have things as the former was Head Coach of Liberty Professionals, and the latter Technical Director.

The newly crowned Africa Coach of the Year enjoyed stints in Ghana and Nigeria during his semi-illustrious playing career. In Ghana, he played Hearts of Oak and Zebi FC, but it was his performance in Nigeria with Julius Berger, Bendel Insurance and African Continental Bank that made him a household name in Africa’s most populous country.

He is credited with the rise to fame of several of Ghana’s top notch footballers including Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, Asamoah Gyan, Michael Helegbe among others.

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