JE Sarpong predicts doom for Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac

Veteran Ghanaian coach JE Sarpong has predicted doom for newly appointed Black Stars coach Milovan Rajevac.

According to the veteran coach, the Serbian trainer who has returned to the Black Stars after an 11-year absence following his departure in 2010 will fail in his second spell.

“He [Rajevac] can’t do anything for Ghana in his second coming,” Sarpong told Luv FM.

“He will be a failure. He is only coming to take money and go because he can’t help the country achieve success.”

Rajevac achieved significant success in his first Ghana spell between 2008 and 2010.

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During the time, he guided the Black Stars to the final of the 2009 African Nations Championship, the final of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the quarter-final of the 2010 World Cup.

“I am here to prove that narrative wrong. If I did not believe that, I will not accept this challenge, this job so I will try to do my best,” the 67-year-old said on Friday.

“The bar was set very high but we are here to make history. If you don’t believe that, you cannot achieve anything. I strongly believe in my players.

“I know how Ghanaians are talented and I know how much they can offer and if they believe in me the way I believe in them, we can achieve great things.”

The Ghana Football Association last Friday named Milovan Rajevach as the new Coach of the Senior National team, the Black Stars, replacing  Charles Akonnor. 

His immediate assignment is next month’s doubleheader against Zimbabwe. Ghana will take on the Warriors in Cape Coast on Saturday, October 9, before departing for the return leg in Harare three days later.

The coach meanwhile has announced a provisional 32-man for the doubleheader.