Stop-gap coach of the senior female national team, Mercy Tagoe Quarcoo, has expressed shock at the team’s defeat to Ivory Coast in the Womens’ WAFU opener.
It was her first game since she took over reigns of the team after head coach, Mas-Ud Didi Dramani had resigned to pick up another coaching job in Norway and she says she is disappointed her charges could not utilize the many chances they created.
“I was very surprised we trained so hard and could not translate all we learnt into to the game yesterday. We had so many chances, especially in the first half but we just couldn’t score”, she fumed.
The former FIFA referee could not hide her dismay, given all that the team had gone through before playing the Ivoirians.
She said the team revisited the entire training regimen she took the team through but accepts football is a game of chance, assuring that the team will bounce back in their next game.
The black queens will, tomorrow, at the Robert Champroux stadium take on Niger in their second group game hoping to record her first three points.
Abigail Sena Sosu
