We are also very excited to announce the guest appearance of “Coach Hene”, otherwise known as Coach Emmanuel Kwasi Afrainie. Coach Hene is known as the King of Coaches in Ghana where he currently resides. Coach Hene was the coach of the Ghana Men’s National Black Stars team and took the team to the African Cup of Nations in 1982 which took first place. He also coached the Black Stars at the African Cup of Nations in 1984 in Ivory Coast. In 1984-1987 he was the Technical Coordinator of the National Football Teams in Ghana From 1990 he was appointed to Head Coach of the National U17 Ghana team, qualifying for Italia’91 JVC Youth World Cup. In 1997 he coached the U17 Men’s National team to a silver place finish in the JVC World U17 World Championship in Egypt (97) losing only to Brazil in the final.  In 2001, in charge of the U20 National Men’s team, Coach Hene won silver in Argentina, losing in the finals to Argentina.  In 1999 Coach Hene also coached the Ghana National Women’s team which qualified for the first time for the Women’s World Cup in the USA. 

Coach Hene has served as the Chief Soccer Coach of the National Sports Council of Ghana, the General Secretary of the Ghana Football Coaches Association, and the Technical Director of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Government of Ghana.

Coach Hene is the grandfather of one of our very own U16 players on the CWSC Tier 1 Black Stars team.  Coach Hene will be stopping in Brazil on his way to Canada, to work with BFUT in July, and then will be guest coaching our CWSC BFUT Summer Camps from August 8-12. He will be staying on until the end of September to help with try outs and team formation, Individual Player Training, Pre-Season Training and our BFUT Coaching Level 4 course.

We would like to welcome Coach Hene to CWSC and hope that he will be making regular trips back to Calgary to support the development of our players and club.