Despite being club captain at Hearts of Oak, having helped the Phobians to Premier League title and two FA Cup glory, Gladson Awako was chased out of the team due to the leadership role he was accorded to.
Awako has told Asempa FM of how his working relationship with some people at the club began to break down: “Hearts of Oak and Olympics are two different clubs. One of the clubs is political and the other is not. It got to a time they thought I was becoming too powerful so they had to get rid of me but there was no problem with me," he says.
Awako, who was working on a GH¢10,000-a-month contract, added on eventually being ushered towards the exits and a September 2023 move back to former club Great Olympics: “The leadership roles I got from the coach [Slavko Matic] gave me power and they felt if they should allow me, it wouldn't help most of them so they got rid of me.”
Great Olympics briefly returned Awako to Ghana football in the autumn of 2023, but he is now in Division One with Oly Dade while Hearts of Oak are yet to find an Awako-like silky playmaker that can help them to get over the line in a Ghana Premier League title bid – following one near miss for Togbe Afede XIV side in that department.
By: Pascal Amoah
