EXPLAINER: What would happen if the President intervenes in the Black Stars and GFA?

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Jack Sparrow 2 weeks ago

GFA should be resolved and do it olden days like CEO so that no GFA president again it should be appointed by the president

GFA should be resolved and do it olden days like CEO so that no GFA president again it should be appointed by the president
Cool 2 weeks ago

Just like the declaration of State of Emergency, President Mahama will never devolve GFA. It will affect the fortunes of NDC in 2028 elections that's according to Ernest Thompson & Nii Lante Vanderpuije. They've already turne ...
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Just like the declaration of State of Emergency, President Mahama will never devolve GFA. It will affect the fortunes of NDC in 2028 elections that's according to Ernest Thompson & Nii Lante Vanderpuije. They've already turned a football issue into politics so fans better forget it.
Christian 2 weeks ago

It will never affect their 2028 campaign it will rather help them believe me

It will never affect their 2028 campaign it will rather help them believe me
ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 2 weeks ago

We need a ban. Impact bstars shouldn't even compete in any afcon qualifiers. Put a freeze on all national teams until the elections for a new fa president..even the gpl ahould be on hiatus..mahama should assemble all club own ...
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We need a ban. Impact bstars shouldn't even compete in any afcon qualifiers. Put a freeze on all national teams until the elections for a new fa president..even the gpl ahould be on hiatus..mahama should assemble all club owners from gpl and div one and talk to them about the disgrace gh is going thru. You owners, is this what you like? The clubs are not performing. The National teams are a laughing stock. So we the ghana people need you to vote out okraku so dede ayew or whoever can take over..we have had enough of okraku the guy is totally clueless but greedy and selfish like a typical akyempanzee from abuakwa forest reserve deep inside the thick savanna bushy. Queiroz must be fired asap the Oldman can't do the job. Okraku must also go because he has been incompetent for too long nothing will change.
PITO 2 weeks ago

The solution is to DISSOCIATE club owners from running the national football apparatus. The club owners will then work hard on their clubs so that the national team apparatus would see the talent of their players in the local ...
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The solution is to DISSOCIATE club owners from running the national football apparatus. The club owners will then work hard on their clubs so that the national team apparatus would see the talent of their players in the local league or elsewhere and invite them which will improve the local clubs and improve the trust and merit of the national team callups.
PITO 2 weeks ago

We have already seen the problem root, it is offering our national football to club owners. I support the call to kick club owners out of the national football team management affairs. Is it possible that under the current ar ...
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We have already seen the problem root, it is offering our national football to club owners. I support the call to kick club owners out of the national football team management affairs. Is it possible that under the current arrangement, if foreign persons comes and open lots of clubs in Ghana, then without discrimination they may control GFA football leader selection or themselves one day come to be our GFA leaders and rule our national football? Taking national football away from club owners will make club owners focus on improving their clubs without offering them to use the national football as a simply a marketing platform. No wonder we are not performing well in an African club football anymore, because the club owners are not trying to improve their players to get a national Team call-up, since they are already in charge of the national team. The national team has lost value because the club owners are running it. Why will they not use it to enrich themselves and quickly market their players overseas instead? Whoever did this arrangement or system pulled a fast one on Ghanaians while we were asleep.
ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 2 weeks ago

I AGREE THAT CLUB OWNERS MUST NOT BE INVOLVED IN NATIONAL TEAM MATTERS. FOR NOW, IT IS THESE SAME GFA CONGRESS MADE UP OF Ghana Premier League Clubs: 18 representatives (1 vote each)
Division One League Clubs: 48 representat ...
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I AGREE THAT CLUB OWNERS MUST NOT BE INVOLVED IN NATIONAL TEAM MATTERS. FOR NOW, IT IS THESE SAME GFA CONGRESS MADE UP OF Ghana Premier League Clubs: 18 representatives (1 vote each)
Division One League Clubs: 48 representatives
Regional Football Associations (RFAs): Chairmen and Vice Chairmen (20 representatives total across 10 regions) ETC WHO VOTE FOR THE GFA PRESIDENT SO HOW DO WE GET THESE PPL WHO MAKE UP THE CONGRESS TO VOTE OKRAKU OUT? HOW CAN MAHAMA CONVINCE THE CONGRESS MEMBERS TO VOTE OUT OKRAKU? ONCE THIS GREEDY SELFISH IDIOT OKRKAU IS COMATOSE. THEN GFA CA CLEAN HOUSE BECAUSE EVEN IF DEDE WAS TO BECOME THE NEW GFA PRESIDENT HE ALSO HAS TIES TO NANIA FC OWNED BY HIS FATHER.
PITO 2 weeks ago

Dede does not own Nania FC or he cannot own any shares in a local club while he is to lead the national football. It is a disclosure of possible conflict of interest not disqualification because everyone can have a potential ...
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Dede does not own Nania FC or he cannot own any shares in a local club while he is to lead the national football. It is a disclosure of possible conflict of interest not disqualification because everyone can have a potential interest but if not direct interest just declare the potential openly for sake of transparency and disclosure.
You how naive you can be 2 weeks ago

If GGA has paid you to write this, then Enfa

If GGA has paid you to write this, then Enfa
Kofi Badu 2 weeks ago

Ghana football, for that matter, the Black Star is where it is today because of political interference. The President of the nation linked the underperformance of the national team to the failures of the previous government. ...
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Ghana football, for that matter, the Black Star is where it is today because of political interference. The President of the nation linked the underperformance of the national team to the failures of the previous government.
I would have thought the President coming into office would have started the reorganisation of the Ghana football. It was political rhetoric during the election campaign period. Give us a break.

Christian 2 weeks ago

If kunt and his gang love mother Ghana and care for the hearts of millions of football loving people they should trouw in the towel.

If kunt and his gang love mother Ghana and care for the hearts of millions of football loving people they should trouw in the towel.
Joe 2 weeks ago

The association should be dissolved. Of what use is it now? Government should intervene and damn the consequences.

The association should be dissolved. Of what use is it now? Government should intervene and damn the consequences.
Kiki 2 weeks ago

The CORRUPT GFA has paid CORRUPT journalists to continue parroting this type of tripe about FIFA bans for too damned long. How can ANY agency or association be funded with millions of dollars from the Ghana taxpayers but hide ...
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The CORRUPT GFA has paid CORRUPT journalists to continue parroting this type of tripe about FIFA bans for too damned long. How can ANY agency or association be funded with millions of dollars from the Ghana taxpayers but hide behind FIFA and continue destroying our national team and squander so much of taxpayer money without ANY accountability? The GFA should be DISSOLVED and reformed to where NO ONE can be "president". Also no members should own clubs. National team players from the colts and youth MUST be SELECTED from LOCAL and REGIONAL COMPETITIONS like they used to do in the old days. That way, best players from all the regions can have a chance at call-ups even if they don't know any "big" person. Nkwasiasem kwa. The current GFA is being run like a gang of cartel by private people in the name of Ghana, which is UNACCEPTABLE. After GFA is DISSOLVED, all current members must be INVESTIGATED tried, jailed, and sentence to life with hard labor. Mboa!!!
Eric Aboagye 2 weeks ago

They r kidding behind those interference to destroy n corrupt the game Mahama can call on FIFA before dissolving it
Use FIFA n Government officials to restructure the system again nobody with a team should hold a position a ...
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They r kidding behind those interference to destroy n corrupt the game Mahama can call on FIFA before dissolving it
Use FIFA n Government officials to restructure the system again nobody with a team should hold a position at GFA
Kwesi 2 weeks ago

He can be persuaded to step down if he however and likely as expected refuse to heed, the government should take it up with FIFA. We have done it in the past. Even the ammendment of the GFA constitution will strengthen the go ...
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He can be persuaded to step down if he however and likely as expected refuse to heed, the government should take it up with FIFA. We have done it in the past. Even the ammendment of the GFA constitution will strengthen the government's case against him
K .Tsin. 2 weeks ago

It is not necessary for the government to touch gfa. All it has to do is to take control of all the national teams and it has a right to do so since it foots their bills. Gfa should be left to organize the local league but ha ...
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It is not necessary for the government to touch gfa. All it has to do is to take control of all the national teams and it has a right to do so since it foots their bills. Gfa should be left to organize the local league but have nothing to do with the national teams. A non partian management team should be set up composed of serious sports personalities who have the national interest at heart, and I tell you, there are many willing to help for no fee. I propose Herbert Mensah and Tony Baffoe as members.
Beau 1 week ago

Can GFA decide to stop all competition for atleast 2 years whilst it assembles a team,gets a new coach, then come back on the world stage.
I am not to versed in soccer matters and administration,however it truly is an anoma ...
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Can GFA decide to stop all competition for atleast 2 years whilst it assembles a team,gets a new coach, then come back on the world stage.
I am not to versed in soccer matters and administration,however it truly is an anomaly that we have Black Stars and a Sports Ministry,funded by State and our taxes etc but have no control.

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