Veteran Ghana coach, Bashir Hayford has implored the Ghana Football Association to tap into his experience before he passes on.
Hayford has a rich experience that has spanned three decades in Ghana and beyond.
His club activities in Ghana include stints with record premier league holders, Asante Kotoko, now defunct AshantiGold, Medeama SC, Ebusua Dwafs and Legon Cities after cutting his teeth with Power FC and Hearts of Lions.
His national team experience only comes with Ghana’s U-17 Women and the senior national female team, the Black Queens.
Hayford applied for the technical directorate position of the Ghana Football Association but was overlooked.
Bashir Hayford told Radio Gold Sports: “The experience I have is enormous, nobody can take it from me.
“Maybe it is in my head when I die, they will write tribute.
“I wish I will be alive to listen to those things they will write about me, the grammar, the adjectives.
“When they prepare your brochure they say they are reading tributes.
“I wish I will be alive to see, maybe when I’m dead I can hear, you will see the rich grammar, achievements of coach Bashir Hayford, Bashir Hayford was this and that.
“That will be when I’m dead but when I’m alive and the experience you are going to talk about is in my head, I’m not incapacitated, not that I’m bedridden or maybe I have been hospitalized no.
“And I thank God that nothing is happening to me but only that I am growing everyday with experience.
“So my doors open, very very open. The days left with me I don’t know when God will kick me away but still I planned to be a coach and I am a coach.” Bashir Hayford told Radio Gold Sports.
Bashir Hayford has previously handled the Somali national team where he resigned due to conflict in the country.
