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Momodou
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 Posted - 24 Mar 2007 : 15:42:45
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Warning!! Fitness and Determination or Out
Coach Alagie Sarr
By Modou Nyang
Scorpions’ step-in coach Alagie Sarr would not be swayed by star names when it comes to selecting his final squad to face Guinea on Saturday.
The senior National team emergency caretaker manager said his only loyalty in selecting the team against the Cyli Nationale, is the performance and level of fitness which will be assed during training and the will to sacrifice for the country.
Sarr said: “we will ascertain the level of their fitness [players] individually to determine who will make the team, “[Because] we do not know whether they were playing for their clubs or not. “We will only go those who are ready to deliver for the Nation, the interest of the country and not someone else’s, is what we are going to safe guard”.
The Scorpions has since started training on Monday with the arrival of the first batch of foreign based players on Sunday who joined the home based ones to prepare for the crunch Ghana 2008, Nations Cup qualifier. With the storming of camp of the troops, the recently reassigned gaffer for the Scorpions is not in the affair of allowing big names to influence his team selection.
And Sarr is not bothered by his emergency appointment to guide the Scorpions to glory after erstwhile Germen coach, Antoine Hey, went awol. He added: “I know [most of] the players in the team I was with the national team since 1997. “I served as assistant to Alagie Sarr and Sang Ndong, who handled the team during that time. “It is the same [crop of] players the only new one among them is Njogu Demba, [so] we will not have any problem of selecting the team. “The basis will be for those who are ready to deliver for the country”.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 34/2007, 23 – 25 March 2007
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