The executive council of the Ghana Football Association on June 30, announced the decision to cancel the 2019/2020 Premier League season following a marathon meeting due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In an interview with GN Radio UK and Channel 7 TV, a vibrant African media in London, the President and the Founder of Elmina Sharks FC, Paa Kwesi Nduom said, "who is this that is canceling this league, and who is this that is considering the financial and the health impact of all of this. It is not the club owners, and strangely enough in Ghana, it is not the club owners who are calling for the cancellation. Nobody called me a club owner to ask me what is my opinion. We have people they're calling football administrators; a football administrator doesn't have a penny or a pesewa in the game. Somebody who is elected by people we have employed to work for us cannot tell me and shouldn't be put in a position to tell me what I should and should not do."
He also said, "it should not up to the government to tell a private enterprise what to do, except what the government is telling everybody else to do. It is about time that, the people who have invested in football as private enterprises that we should be the once calling the cancellation for football in Ghana, and the league should be owned, managed, and controlled by those who have invested Ghana football. This is what happens in the UK, and those administrators they're hired, they come and go, but it is the owners who make the decisions."
Dr. Ndoum added, "there's nothing that stops Ghana from doing that, there are financial considerations, it is the owners who should have sat down to decide how we can handle it this way or not, but nobody talked to us”.
The English Premier league a month before the restart held meetings with club owners, sponsors, players, managers, government and medical experts to discuss the league, and they concluded of playing the remaining games behind closed doors.
Dr.Ndoum said, "there's nothing that stops Ghana from doing that, there financial considerations, it is the owners who should have sat down to decide can we handle it this way or not, but nobody talked to us." l hear that there was a call among the managers of the teams, but the managers that I have recruited that l who pay, can not go and make decisions for me."
The GFA opted to nominate Asante Kotoko and Ashanti Gold for the 2020/2021 African club competitions as they were the representatives this season. Read Full Story
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