Former Samartex head coach Amadu Nurudeen laments how Ghanaian coaches are treated compared to foreigners

The Ghana Premier League has few foreign coaches, but it appears they are well-treated compared to their Ghanaian counterparts. The 2023-24 Ghana Premier League winning coach, Nurudeen Amadu, has revealed that Ghanaian team owners tend to respect and listen to foreign tacticians more than they do to him and his Ghanaian colleagues.

“Sometimes when you are very firm as a Ghanaian coach, you are shown the exit door, but if it’s an expatriate who is very firm, they say the expatriate is strict”, Amadu said.

Ghanaian coaches who have been instilling discipline in their teams have always been described as arrogant, contrary to the foreigners who are strict.

Nurudeen also lamented how club owners interfere in the selection of players. “If a club owner wants a player to play, you as a coach have to let him play because he pays you; it is how you manage it as a coach”, Amadu said in an interview on Radio Gold.

Nurudeen Amadu was sacked by Samartex in the middle of the 2025-26 season when he failed to repeat his 2023-24 winning title heroics.

Currently, he is the tactician for Karela United, where he helped them avoid relegation in the 2024-25 season.