By: Jerome Otchere

Date: 14-04-11

Kotoko’s Serbian trainer, Bogdan Korak, has expressed his satisfaction with the strength and mental attitude of his players in recent matches.

According to the coach, there has been a significant change between the situation he came to meet and what pertains at the moment.

The 51-year-old technical handler who has been in-charge of the Porcupine Warriors from November 2010 told Kotoko Express in an interview earlier this week that he is very happy with the kind of support he has received from the players as well as the performance they have shown lately.

“Kotoko is doing well. When I came, we were 13^th on the table. Today we are at 2^nd position. Everything is good and I am happy,” said Coach Bogdan Korak.

In the match against King Faisal, Kotoko shot into the lead in the second half of that thrilling game but King Faisal cancelled to draw level following a bad goalkeeping error 8 minutes from full time.

A stupendous long range bullet from the foot of Ivorian striker, Ahmed Toure however saw Asante Kotoko clawing back into the game to send thousands of their followers at the stadium into euphoric mood.

A similar situation had been seen four days earlier in the Kotoko-Aduana Stars MTN FA Cup match where the fabulous boys this time went down by a goal but equalised and jump into the lead and sadly surrendered their slim lead courtesy a misjudgment on their goalkeeper.

They however emerged triumphant with after an 11-10 marathon penalty shootouts.

Addressing these developments in a question posed by the paper on how his players have managed to deal with all the seemingly difficult situations in their last two matches, Coach Bogdan Korak pointed out that the players have been working very hard. The coach said the team has been told not to give up until the game was finally over.

“They work hard.  Though they sometimes are tired, you still see them continue to press hard. That is good for me, good for the team and good for the supporters and everybody,” he said

On the obvious errors committed by his goalkeeper, he first described the one in the King Faisal clash as catastrophic adding that he has been advising Isaac Amoako to be alert and calm at the same time while in post.

He nonetheless maintained that his goalkeeper has been fantastic on most occasions and that the best thing to do to get the best out of him is to speak to him.