Sports: As Ghanaians Go To The Polls 4

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  Till now the fake columnist francis kwarteng has posted his cut and paste series of ..."As Ghanaians Go To The Polls 1-4" ...but as usual, all the 4 series are obviously garbage full and rubbishly useless.
  
  The whole of hi ...
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  Till now the fake columnist francis kwarteng has posted his cut and paste series of ..."As Ghanaians Go To The Polls 1-4" ...but as usual, all the 4 series are obviously garbage full and rubbishly useless.
  
  The whole of his 4 essays consists plain nonsense, he is cutting any garbage at all he comes across without relations and just paste them for publication. You can read kwarteng's crap from "A to Z" without deducting just a tincture of any sense making point.

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Readers,
  
  Correct name is CARL LEWIS, not CARLOS LEWIS.
  
  Thanks.

  Dear Readers,
  
  Correct name is CARL LEWIS, not CARLOS LEWIS.
  
  Thanks.

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  You better stop you cut and paste nonsense and go to School to learn proper English grammatical, so you can "may be" write on your own instead copying!

  You better stop you cut and paste nonsense and go to School to learn proper English grammatical, so you can "may be" write on your own instead copying!

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• Saint Ghfuo: Free Your Psyche!!! 9 years ago

  So instead of Carl, call him Carla and plus he was a known drug cheat. He failed drug test during the us national championships in 1988 but becos of cold war propaganda between America and Russia. Carla lewis was forcibly add ...
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  So instead of Carl, call him Carla and plus he was a known drug cheat. He failed drug test during the us national championships in 1988 but becos of cold war propaganda between America and Russia. Carla lewis was forcibly added to the track team. So, that 100m race was the most "juiciest" in track history. 90percent of the athletes were on drugs. But becos of cold war.politics and to have western influence in asia and specifically Korea..Canada gave the gold.medal to carla lewis.....this my friends is fact...

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• Foster D 9 years ago

  1. I don't think Ghana soccer is dying. The game is as alive as ever, if not even more so. What is happening is a change in the manner in which Ghanaians play and enjoy soccer. Any attempt to measure the "decline" of soccer i ...
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  1. I don't think Ghana soccer is dying. The game is as alive as ever, if not even more so. What is happening is a change in the manner in which Ghanaians play and enjoy soccer. Any attempt to measure the "decline" of soccer in Ghana must take into account it's changing nature.
  
  2. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the flight of top talent to other leagues. Indeed, it is this flight (the dreams of money in the big leagues) that is even keeping the game alive in Ghana. Our country is also not alone in this development since "first world" soccer nations like Brazil and Argentina are doing the same thing. What is most pertinent in the flight of talent is the manner in which this happens. Are the players being released at the right time? Are they being given poor contracts? Where are they heading to? When they go where-ever they go, do they become better and come back to perform for country? How does the flight affect the production of new talent that take the place of the departed ones? Methinks these, and many more, are the relevant questions, not the flight itself.
  
  3. This article is short - quite unlike you. It necessarily leaves out other considerations in our sporting activities. You barely touched on other sports whiles devoting too much time on the possible roles of the sports star in our popular culture.
  
  There is a lot more to this, but, well, this can serve as a starting point...

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Foster D,
  
  Thanks for your critique.
  
  I want to refer you to the Ghanaweb publication "Sexy Girls Can Boost League Attendance":
  
  mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/soccer/Sexy-girls-can-boost-Ghana-League-attendanc ...
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  Dear Foster D,
  
  Thanks for your critique.
  
  I want to refer you to the Ghanaweb publication "Sexy Girls Can Boost League Attendance":
  
  mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/soccer/Sexy-girls-can-boost-Ghana-League-attendance-380111
  
  I based some of my reservations partly on this. I also remember Stephen Appiah appearing before the Presidential Committee set up to look into the allegations and controversies surrounding the 2014 FIFA debacle.
  
  He too pointed out the "poor" state of Ghana's soccer and suggested to the Committee ways in which the game could be improved in the country. Other high-profile soccer personalities have made similar observations.
  
  The question is that part of the reason attendance has been steadily going down over the years could be partially attributed to falling standards in Ghanaian soccer itself. This is partly based on empirical evidence where revenue is steadily falling because of low attendance.
  
  What are the other reasons explaining why spectator attendance at stadiums is steadily falling? I have provided some possible reasons, though more research is needed explain why this is generally so.
  
  Or account for this negative trend. We have even been lying about players' age, another failure of Ghanaian soccer and a potential threat to the future of Ghanaian soccer.
  
  How about women soccer and the other sporting activities Ghana is not known for?
  
  Last but not least, I believe your position that our top-flight footballers benefit Ghanaian soccer has explicit support in my article. Other potential benefits are also implied in the article. I mean players' investments in the country and possibilities of skill and professional transfer.
  
  Finally, this is why I am saying we can prevent flight of players if we can give them what attracts them away in the first place. There is no reason for these men to leave if Ghana's soccer is in top shape.
  
  Our players are leaving to play elsewhere because the local league is not competitive enough (and for other major reasons some of which I briefly mention in the piece), neither is it getting any better.
  
  Even more importantly, the quality of Ghanaian soccer is far behind South America's. There are top and ordinary South America players who reject European offer just so they could play for their local leagues.
  
  The reasons for this are not always so clear. But almost every Ghanaian player wants to go abroad. And we all know some of the reasons. The primary reason is that local soccer has not been doing well. This is a view shared by some of the important personalities and experts in the field, including Abdi Pele, Stephen Appiah, Tony Yeboah....
  
  Thanks for reading and providing constructive criticism. I appreciate the assumptions underlying your reservations.

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• Foster D 9 years ago

  It's surprising that all these things are being said about our local league when today more Ghanaians are being drawn to football than ever. Of course, if all the players who have left Ghana had stayed behind, the quality of ...
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  It's surprising that all these things are being said about our local league when today more Ghanaians are being drawn to football than ever. Of course, if all the players who have left Ghana had stayed behind, the quality of the local league would've been better.
  
  But my point is that people leaving to play out there in Europe is the trend now and it's happening everywhere. This must be factored into any such discussions of the standard of the local league. Perhaps our league was more popular in the 70s especially but it is difficult to conclude from that that the quality of play was better in the 70s than today.
  
  Many other African countries have long caught up with us and we are not as dominant as we were in club and national levels. When others have caught up with us, it is not necessarily because the quality of our play has deteriorated.
  
  The local league may not attract many spectators because today people have other sources of entertainment and lots of foreign soccer on tv. I don't think they stay away because they've determined that the quality of the local league has deteriorated.
  
  And good players leave the league not because they've determined that the quality of the league has deteriorated. It's purely for monetary reasons. Some of them go to leagues where the quality of the game is not better than ours. I don't think the quality of the league in Congo is any better than ours in Ghana but there's a single team there that has a rich sponsor who is able to pay his players extremely well. That's why TP Mazembe (formerly Engelbert) has lured away all those Ghanaians.
  
  Having said all these, I wish to add that I agree with you that the local game is beset with numerous problems. Some of them may be linked to our other problems as a nation. I just don't seem to think that we can just simply say that Ghanaians are playing worse football than we did in the past.

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Forster D,
  
  Thanks.
  
  Have a great weekend. Please make time to read the next installment.
  
  Thanks.

  Dear Forster D,
  
  Thanks.
  
  Have a great weekend. Please make time to read the next installment.
  
  Thanks.

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