One of Accra Hearts of Oak’s finest midfielders Edmund Copson has blatantly
disclosed that he had regretted serving the “Rainbow family” as a player.
The light-skinned gentleman, currently domiciled in the UK stated that the
successes the team chalked in 2000 did not in any way reflected in the pockets of
the playing body saying, “It was all over the place that each player received
$25,000 for winning the Champions League. If a player like Jacob Nettey received
such an amount, I have no idea, as far as I concerned, I did not receive such money
from any body.”
And to Copson, that and many other factors compelled him to leave the shoes of this
country for greener pastures in the Queens land.
He revealed to Happy FM’s morning show host Charles Osei Asibey that some
dishonest top officials of Hearts put impediments on the way of players which makes
them frustrated, and eventually leave with bitterness.
The challenges which led to his exit notwithstanding, the brilliant midfielder has
given the assurance that he was putting pieces together and that he will bounce back
in the next few months.
Copson revealed that he was considering a comeback, and ready to re launch his
career with any club, even a Division Three side just to launch sharpen the edges
in him tactically.
To the midfielder, football is an art and with the combination of good training, one
is bound to excel , and therefore does believe in the use of ‘foreign substances’
as energy booster in games.
Nicknamed “Ginseng”, he busted out with laughter in explanation saying, “I heard
that name once on the field of play. I do drink occasionally, but I do not drink
Ginseng liquor.”
He recalls his wining goal in the Hearts of Oak- Liberty Professionals 2-1 with
nostalgia.
