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Coach Bashir Hayford apologises to journalist over verbal row

By Haruna Mubarak
Black Queens coach Bashir Hayford
Coach Bashir Hayford apologises to journalist over verbal row
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Head coach of Black Queens, Bashir Hayford has candidly rendered an apology for his angry reaction to questions asked by a journalist during the press conference after Mali defeat.


Ghana shockingly lost 1-2 to Mali thanks to Bassira Toure's double on Tuesday at the Accra Sports Stadium at the ongoing 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations.

Meeting the press after the match, the Black Queens trainer was asked a sceptical question which indirectly placed his managerial competence into doubt.

He answered the Journalist saying “I want you to help me define tactically bankrupt, this phrase has been borrowed and you use it anyhow. How can you say that when you saw what the referee has done and how much we psyched these girls."

"When we say someone is tactically bankrupt it means they were not able to put a team together and played without any pattern but we dominated this game, so who is bankrupt.” He said angrily.

Read also:2018 AWCON: Bashir Hayford partly blames referee for Mali defeat

However, the former Ashgold gaffer apologized sincerely saying “I will like to apologize for what happened on Tuesday. Sometimes I become very irritating or emotional and it is natural because it is reflex action."

"When you want to sneeze, nobody can stop you to sneeze because it is a reflex action. I was very sorry for that but the words the guy used I checked again and I think you people should tell him I don’t deserve that word that he used on me."

"When you say a bank is bankrupt it means it’s empty so if someone who is about 26 or 30 years telling me who has coached for 30 years and in my fourth national assignment that I’m empty, naturally I will react,” says Coach Bashir.

The Black Queens of Ghana will face Cameroon in the last game of Group A on Friday, November 23.

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