With recent-years predicaments entangling the men’s football national team, stemming right from the respective youth level national teams to the pinnacle of Ghana’s senior national team football, kelvin Osei Asibey yearns to represent his nation.
From sweeping Ghana Premier League (GPL) fans off their feet right from his youth academy days with Ebony FC, securing his first club professional contract with Eleven Wonders and eventually attracting transfer interest from Accra Hearts of Oak in the topflight league.
23-year-old center-back, Kelvin Osei Asibey in his young Ghana premier League career is already making bold calls, confidently handing his curriculum vitae to the senior national team coach to be subsequently considered in call-ups.
Considering the underlying factors prevailing in the Ghana black Stars, with just Benjamin Asare regarded as the only domestic league player, regularly commanding a place in recent senior national team call-ups.
Does The Black Stars Need Kelvin Osei Asibey?
Tapping into our recent memories as GPL fans, the Ghana Premier League could boast of not more than five defenders securing direct senior national team call-up within the last five footballing seasons.
look, Ghanaians have seen flashes of former Nations FC defender Razak Simpson, Medeama SC’s Kamaradini, and Abdul Fatawu Hamidu chalked a faily decent stint at the Black Stars.
However, the graph determining the aftermath of these players performance since honoring their invitation to the senior national team always exhibit a half-unimpressive show on the field.
Vivid justification is the former Nations FC skipper Razak Simpson, before he exited the domestic scene, he had been on a downward slope in performance which seemingly corresponded to the entire team’s performance.
On the flip side, the Black Stars has had a very uncharacterized fluctuation in their central defense pairing, recording an inconsistent defensive pair in every game in the last two years.
Is Kelvin Osei Asibey A Fit For Black Stars Defense?
The Black Stars has seen Djiku command the right central defense position as the preferred starter for most coaches meanwhile, Jonas Adjetey has sparingly been called up to do a job in that role in the absence of the Spartak Moscow defender.
Clearly, there is a big gap to be filled. Hearts of Ook’s kelvin Osei Asibey ticked many of the boxed required to be a proper modern central defender – with his traditional ability to always come out victorious in one-v-one tackles, great in initiating attack from the defense.
Has the ability to drive the ball into spaces, aiding his team walk past first line of pressure with the ball at his feet to create numerical overloads at the center of the park. Plus, Asibey’s recovery pace and ability to accelerate back when playing in a very high defensive line or defending in transitions.
However, nuisances such as inexperience at the national team level is relatively questionable. The defender in his young career has not had any stint with any of the national teams of Ghana, not to even talk about the Under-23.
Certainly, leapfrogging him into the senior national team would be a daunting task, which could potentially derail his confidence as a player hence, the need to consider him clutching some youth national team football then eventually consider his future at the Black Stars.