Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo has, for the second time, assumed the head coach position of the Ghana senior women’s national team, Black Queens.
The ex-international, who moved into refereeing (at the Fifa Women’s World Cup 2007) after a decent football career veered into coaching a couple of years ago and currently holds a Caf License A certificate.
After a stint with Tema-based Division One side Amidaus Professionals, Tagoe-Quarcoo was handed her first national team job in 2017 as an assistant to Mas-ud Didi Dramani at the Black Queens.
She worked under Dramani for nine months before his decision to resign and take up a job at Danish side Nordsjaelland. The Black Queens was then entrusted into her hands and went ahead to guide the team win the maiden Wafu Zone B Women Championship in Ivory Coast February 2018.
But Tagoe-Quarcoo, preferring to be led by a more experienced tactician, relegated herself to assist coach Bashir Hayford at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on home-soil later in the year – but Ghana were kicked out after the group stage.
With a vacuum created by the departure of Hayford after the Wafcon disaster, the Normalization Committee for the Ghana FA has decided to call upon the 45-year-old to guide the Black Queens to the second edition of the Wafu Zone B Women Championship also in Cote d’Ivoire next month.
Coach Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo is expected to name her provisional squad for the sub-regional tournament after the final of the women’s Special Cup at El Wak Sports Stadium on Sunday. The Black Queens will then begin their preparations on Monday, April 15 at Cape Coast.
The draw for the upcoming Wafu Zone B Women Championship is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 16. Defending champions Ghana and hosts Cote d’Ivoire are expected to be seeded with six others – Nigeria, Togo, Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali – expected to be spread over them during the draw ceremony.
Revamped backroom
With Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo now in the helm of affairs, she has opted for Ampem Darkoa Laides head coach Nana Joe Adarkwa as her assistant while Raymond Fenny gets promoted from the U-20s – Black Princesses – as the new goalkeepers’ trainer for the Queens.
