Ghana: Sellas Tetteh Knighted
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The sheer brilliance exhibited by Sellas Tetteh, the Satellites coach in the U-20 World Cup, which recorded his name in the FIFA history books as the first African coach to win gold, has motivated veteran coach Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio to confer the title 'Sir' on coach Tetteh.
In a multihued award ceremony at the Crown Liberty Hotel at Bortianor, a suburb of Accra, at the weekend, Coach Attuquayefio gave his full consent to give the title 'Sir' to his former student.
"Not only has he made history as the first African country to win the U-20 World Cup, but has made a strong case for black coaches in general and local coaches in particular," said coach Attuquayefio.
In his acceptance words, he noted: "I have many titles and nicknames, but I think the title "Sir" surpasses them all.
I will respect it, it's so special to me, and I think it will spur me on to strive for greater laurels."
According to Sir Sellas, he consulted the seasoned coach before embarking on the just-ended Egypt championships, where the Satellites team made history by emerging as winners, saying "I consulted coach Attuquayefio before going to Egypt, he prayed for me and gave me his blessings."
The management of Liberty Professionals, Ghana's WAFU representatives last Saturday honoured Sir Sellas and three key players of the victorious Satellites team - goalkeeper Daniel Adjei, Latif Salifu and Kesenu Ghandi, by presenting trophies to them for making the club proud by their exceptional performance.
Coach Sellas, also referred to as 'Bobor', joined Liberty in the '90's. He won last year's WAFU tourney with the Satellites and extended their dominance to the African Youth championship by lifting the ultimate.
He led the U-17 side the Starlets to finish as losing finalists in the South Korea World Cup competition two years ago, and was the man who began the Black Stars' World Cup success story, bagging nine points before Serbian trainer Milovan Rajevac took over.
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