I am as excited like Alex Ferguson jubilating over United’s local derby triumph over City.  My excitement is that the campaign I launched in September 2010 for my home country Ghana, to go for as many Serbian football managers as possible is yielding positive results.

As I write, there are four Serbian coaches working full time in Ghana and from all indications things look bright for Ghana football.

The Football Association  has listened to wisdom and  has contracted a third Serbian Coach, Garon Stevanovic for the senior national team Black Stars to follow trail blazers Ratomir Dujkovic and Milovan Rajevac who made Ghana proud in two successive World Cups.

Three top premier league clubs, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Accra Hearts of Oak, Obuasi Ashgold and Kumasi King Faisal Babies have also signed on Serbians.

Kotoko were the first to go to Serbia last November when the going was getting tough for them and they had  Bodgan Korak who is fast re-shaping the fortunes of the fabulous club of Africa.

Hearts of Oak, in one of their poorest seasons, have followed the trail and they recently outdoored Vucicenic Nebogsa as the new technical handler and. King Faisal have in their midst Drangan Popabic .

My campaign was triggered by a condemnation from a section of the media who launched a blistering attack on Serbian coaches that they come to Ghana ostensibly with weak backgrounds only to enrich their CVs and vamoose.

I described this as an interesting riddle. This is because if these so called second rate coaches are capable of transforming the local game and put Ghana on the world map then it should be a bonus for the country if you consider the type of money we can afford to pay for their services.

I am extremely delighted that Stevanovic has made a good start by leading the Black Stars to a convincing 4-1 win over Togo in that friendly match in Belgium. This should give the coach enough confidence to approach his next assignment with zeal.

Incidentally, Stevanovic’s excellent debut with the Black Stars coincided with the poor show exhibited by the home based Black Stars in the on-going African Nations Championships in Sudan.

Football historians will tell you that the three straight defeats suffered by the Ghana Black Stars that saw their early exit from the championships is the worst record for the national team in any continental competition since independence. It is that bad.

It is instructive to note that the team was handled by long-serving Ghanaian football tactician Herbert Addo who has publicly accepted responsibility for the Stars poor show. As if he had any other choice.

It is surprising that this Sudan fiasco has not resurrected the almost moribund national debate as to whether Ghana should stick to local coaches or go for foreign tacticians. The debate seems to be over by now.

The focus now seems to shift on the quality of the national league that is being blamed for failing to produce the top class performers fans are yearning for.  There is a school of thought that believes that the performance of veteran traditional clubs like Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak is inextricably linked to the success of the national team and that explains the low output at the national level since the two teams are not doing too well at the moment.

There is therefore the hope that with the acquisition of the Serbian technicians, Kotoko and Hearts would put up an improved show when the league resumes and competition will be keen with a lot of stars emerging.

Kotoko's  Bodgan Korak who has been in the country for a little over two months now met his match on Sunday when his Serbian counterpart steered  Africa Sports from Cote d'Ivoire to beat  Kotoko 3-2 in Kumasi in a friendly match that saw Kotoko taking a 2-0 lead. Korak deems it a good exercise for robbing shoulders with such a strong team that is in the thick of the CAF championship series. He hopes to reap the benefits in future.

Vucicenic of Hearts is yet to be tested  so is King Faisal's Popabic but they exhume so much confidence that  fans are convinced they would be able to make their presence felt in Ghana sooner than later. I think so too.

Personally, I have grown to have so much confidence in Serbian coaches that I would suggest Ghana should sign a bilateral agreement that would enable many more Serbians to come over and help build our various national teams and Ghana should send some of our up and coming talented to Serbia to polish up their notes.

The sages say we should strike the iron whilst it is hot. All hail Ghana -Serbia football solidarity.

Cheers everybody and keep loving sports.