Attram: Ghana should recall Kingson

Accra Great Olympics skipper Godwin Attram has emphasised that his team-mate Richard Kingson still has what it takes to fix Ghana’s goalkeeping problems.

Kingson, who featured for the Black Stars at the 2006 and 2010 Fifa World Cup, now plies his trade at Accra-based Great Olympics after more than two decades of professional football abroad. He has not earned a call up to the national team since 2013.

With Ghana’s current goalkeeper Razak Brimah facing criticisms after the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations where the team lost the final on penalties to Cote D’Ivoire, Attram believes 36-year-old Kingson should be given another try.

“Kingson can solve the Black Stars goalkeeping problems. There is no doubt about that. Keeping the post is about experience. Even if you are 50 you can still be a goalkeeper,” Attram told Goal.

“Goalkeepers are not like we midfielders, defenders and attackers who roam about on the field. Basically, goalkeepers reserve lots of energy and their experience also counts. Kingson can be useful again for Ghana if he is called up.

“We have to change the mentality of our league. Ghana football has to improve and I will entreat other footballers who are reaching the twilight of their career in Europe and elsewhere to come and play in the Ghana Premier League,” the 34-year-old former PSV Eindhoven player said.

Attram captained Ghana team to the 1997 Fifa U-17 World Cup in Egypt and was also part of the squad that qualified for Ghana’s first World Cup in Germany in 2006.