Coach Damba Fired

The Ghana Football Association announces the immediate termination of Abubakari Damba’s appointment as goalkeeper’s trainer of the male Olympic team, the Black Meteors.

Abubakari Damba who occupied the goalkeeper’s trainer position within the Black Meteors technical set-up appeared before a panel to respond to his role in a bribery allegation.

However, after the preliminary hearing on Tuesday, the FA has terminated his appointment with immediate effect.

Members of the FA Emergency Committee studied a report submitted by the head of the management team of the Black Meteors, Randy Abbey and also heard accounts from the accused, Abubakari Damba and players (Jonathan Quartey, Eric Nii Baah, Sampson Cudjoe, Tuaha Khamix, Emmanuel Allan and Kennedy Korli) whom he made overtures to at the sitting.

The goalkeeper’s trainer, prior to Ghana’s international friendly against Iran last Thursday in Tehran was axed from camp by the management board after some players of the team had reported his alleged cash proposal to them to play a game of convenience.

Two players who were approached by the goalkeeper’s trainer subsequently reported his overtures to the team’s head coach, Cecil Jones Attuquayefio with proof of a sum of $6,000 supposedly to be shared by six members of the playing squad as it was claimed the money was from player agents interested in signing them on.

However that claim was realised to be untrue as the source of the money was traced to betting syndicates.

Ghana lost 4-2 to Iran on Thursday at the Azadi stadium in Tehran.