Amputee Players Apologize To Management

Some players of the Amputee Football National Team, the Black Challenge, whose acts of indiscipline attracted the wrath of their management, have apologized to their leaders, asking for clemency.

In a letter written to the President of the Ghana Amputee Football Federation, Mr. Francis Adjetey Sowah, and through phone calls, they expressed regret at their action and pleaded to management to show mercy unto them and accept them back into the team.

In an apparent response to Mr. Sowah’s recent press conference in Accra, during which he called for dialogue and negotiations over the issue of government’s failure to pay the players bonuses for placing second at the 3rd Cup of African Nations for Amputee Football (CANAF 2011) tournament in Accra, the players indicated they were ready to work with management to seek solutions to their problems.

They said they would submit themselves to management and work in tandem with them to achieve set goals and objectives in projecting the image of Ghana through Amputee Football and other means.

Though management is yet to formally respond to the letter, there are indications that this turn of events would mark the beginning of a new era in the annals of Amputee Football and disability sports and set the stage for a better management- player relationship that would inure to the benefit of all stakeholders in the sector.

Some players of the Black Challenge recently embarked on some negative media publicity that tended to mar the image of the Federation. The latest was a threat on radio to embark on a demonstration to draw government’s attention to its promise to pay them bonuses for their participation in the CANAF 2011 tourney.

Ghana placed second at the competition organized in Accra in November, 2011when six nations contested for the coveted cup. Liberia beat Ghana 4-2 to win the cup after a pulsating 3-3 draw.