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Dujkovic: Black Africans lack discipline
25/05/2006: Ghana coach Ratomir Dujkovic believes discipline is the key to the African nation's hopes in this year's summer showpiece and sees his tough treatment of Bayern Munich's Sammy Kaffour as a warning to other prima donnas.
Dujkovic left out the German-based defender for Ghana's World Cup 2006 qualification campaign after Kaffour had refused to play in some warm-up games.
The Serbian coach told Sport Bild: "He wanted to hold himself as a star. First of all he declined to play in my first match as coach against Ajax Amsterdam because he had to attend to his sick wife.
"Three days later he played in a fund raising match for the Tsunami victims in Barcelona.
"Against Congo he excuses himself for being sick and then issued a statement in the media labelling us as liars and that he was never injured."
Kaffour has now rejoined the squad, with the coach believing his treatment will act as a warning to others that only teamwork will bring out the best in Ghana's football.
"Discipline is the biggest problem with Black Africans. They have none. Africans have a different mentality from Europeans or the South Americans," he added.
"But as I sacked Sammy from the team everybody knew not to play with me. That it is only discipline and camaraderie which works."
Ghana will play a friendly against Turkey in the German town of Wurzburg on Friday before facing the Reggae Boyz of Jamaica at Leicester the following Monday. Their final warm-up game before flying to Germany will be against fellow qualifiers South Korea in Scotland on June 4.
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