Team resumes training on Wednesday

By: Jerome Otchere

Date: 02-08-11

Players of Kumasi Asante Kotoko are scheduled to resume training sessions at the Adako Jachie Wednesday to start preparation for this weekend’s impending trip to the Eastern European nation, Serbia.

As the team returns to the training field, some of the questions and issues that have engaged the minds of most supporters and observers alike have centred mainly on the team for the 10-day tour as well as how their scheduled will be during the all important European tour.

Discussions as to who will make or will not be on the list of players for the tour started late last within the supporters’ rank and as expected some Kotoko fans have been heard on radio phone-in programmes making their own selection based on the performance and commitment of the players while others also premise on their selection purely on preferences and admiration for those players.

These fans however are in total agreement that the tour of Serbia is helpful as it would get the team in the right form ahead of the 2011/2012 season.

“I expect a series of training sessions and trial matches but I do not think it will be the type that will overstretch the players. That will defeat the purpose of the organising the tour” said National Circles Council spokesman, Nana Kwame Dankwa who along with Circle 117 member Veronica Afia are part of the 35-man contingent that will leave Accra this weekend to begin the tour.

Assistant Coach Maxwell Konadu in a brief interview on the resumption of their training sessions vis-à-vis the tour of Serbia has told Kotoko Express that their schedule would be a “combination of the pre-season and in-season” exercise.

According to the Kotoko assistant coach, the team’s training programme would be aimed at conditioning and preparing the players for the upcoming season.

“I am not sure but league is expected to start late September or early October. We will train and play matches and ahead of the new season, we will give some key players in the team rest while we incorporate the few new players into the team”said Maxwell Konadu.