Soccer- "I did not sponsor Black Queens"-Maxbees

Accra, (Greater Accra) 21 July '99,

Mr Maxwell Sarfo (Maxbees), chairman of Maxbees football club, a second division club in Suhum, on Tuesday denied media reports that he sponsored the national Women's soccer team, Black Queens, to the United States for the Women's World Cup.

Speaking at a press briefing in Accra, Maxbees said what he and other two colleagues Richard Atto Okine and Augustus Odoom (all businessmen based in the U.S.) did was to host the Queens and made them feel at home.

He said, he was surprised when he heard later that his name was advertised on an Accra Television station that he together with the friends single-handedly sponsored the Queens thereby discrediting the government.

Maxbees apologised to the government, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ghana Football Association of the damage the report might have caused them.