By: David Kyei, Zlatibor, Serbia

Date: 12-01-11

Kotoko’s pre-season training tour which is on-going here in Serbia has been given a shot in the arms by the addition of another technical hand to assist in the preparation of the team.

A Serbian coach, Nebojsa Petrovic, who holds a UEFA Pro License has been a long time friend of Bogdan Korak is offering his expertise free of charge to assist his colleague.

He had his first training session with the team on Tuesday and it was clear from all indications that he knew his job and also had a strong influence on Bogdan Korak.

Leader of delegation as at the time of filling this report, Benjamin Nti says Kotoko has not signed on any  additional coach apart from Bogdan Korak and Maxwell Konadu and so he was going to hold discussions with Coach Korak to ascertain the position of Coach Petrovic.

“I do not want to sound too hard on the issue because as a leader I need to take a closer look at issues before taking action”.

“Moreover, Kotoko is here in Serbia first to take advantage of their football facilities to better our lot and so if someone is offering a support for free, why shouldn’t we be happy and make the full use of the opportunity offered”.

Speaking to Bogdan Korak on the issue, he iterated that he chose to invite his friend and colleague to assist him at training because of the absence of his assistant, Maxwell Konadu who will arrive here in Zlatibor on Saturday due to travel difficulty.

“It is important that at training, our players get full attention. It is therefore important that in the absence of my assistant, I bring in somebody to come and help”.

“He is doing it for free so it will not cost the team money at all,” he added.