Leave the Black Stars Alone and Attack the bureaucrats!

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• Sammy the Sheriff 11 years ago

  Sorry, that is the problem. The amount of $8 million in 2006 and $11 million in 2010 are the wrong figures.
  
  In 2006, one million was given earlier to Ghana towards preparation. The Blackstars reached the round of 16 and ea ...
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  Sorry, that is the problem. The amount of $8 million in 2006 and $11 million in 2010 are the wrong figures.
  
  In 2006, one million was given earlier to Ghana towards preparation. The Blackstars reached the round of 16 and earned $9 million, so FIFA gave Ghana $10 million in 2006.
  
  In 2010, FIFA again gave Ghana one million for preparation. We reached the round of 8 and earned $14 million. Therefore we earned $15 million not the $11 million GFA and the Minister of Sports declared.
  
  All the above information are on the FIFA site.
  
  In 2014, FIFA increased the preparation amount to $1.5 million which the GFA has received already. The team is guaranteed $8 million more already even if we lose all three of our group matches so that is $9.5 million coming from FIFA and the government has also given $9.5 million so that is $19 million.
  
  From this amount excluding what has been contributed by corporations and individuals, your BROKE government is giving some so called CELEBRITIES$20,000 each free to go and watch soccer mzatches in Brazil and paying $10,000 each to 500 Ndc foot soldiers to go and watch soccer matches.
  
  There are more than 5000 Ghanaians in Brazil, government could have spent less than half a million to buy tickets for at least thousand Ghanaians to be at the stadium each time Ghana plays a game.

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• king bee 11 years ago

  hahaha then the players should quit national assignment if they don't want insult . what fun are they talking of when they play or not we have our own fun in the world cup ever since. if they think someone is using them to s ...
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  hahaha then the players should quit national assignment if they don't want insult . what fun are they talking of when they play or not we have our own fun in the world cup ever since. if they think someone is using them to spend they should make their intentions clear to Ghanaians and they will stop. the players demand too high an amount

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• mensah abrampa 11 years ago

  You don't understand what professional sports is all about. It has nothing to do with patriotism. In the US and elsewhere some professional sportsmen earn more than the president. It's an honor to represent one's country but ...
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  You don't understand what professional sports is all about. It has nothing to do with patriotism. In the US and elsewhere some professional sportsmen earn more than the president. It's an honor to represent one's country but they're always paid their due. What you call patriotism in sports is the situation where monkey dey work but baboon they chop and don't have to account to anybody. Your sports patriotism produced paupers and mediocre performers.

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• Fiifican 11 years ago

  Good point, Mensah.

  Good point, Mensah.

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