Former Ghana International Sola Ayew believes selecting a captain for the Senior National team should not be based solely on seniority.
The Technical handlers of the senior national team, the Black Stars, recently maintained Swansea City star Andre Ayew as Captain of the side after leading Ghana to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.
Thomas Teye Partey and Richard Ofori will be his two vice-captains.
Since the announcement, a session of the people in the football fraternity, have suggested that the position should have been given to senior players like Mubarak Wakaso and John Boye.
But Sola Ayew, who is the uncle of the Ayew brothers, believes that the system used to appoint captains of the Black Stars should be changed.
”The country has suffered for far too long with regards to captaincy issues. I have followed Black Stars for long and you will realise our leadership role was selected based on seniority,” he told Hello FM in Kumasi.
Sola Ayew added that: ”But I think it’s time we change it. I think the current FA should make consultations about it. At times we go to certain games without our substantive captain as a result of maybe his age. We should look at that side.”
