Bribery Scandal In Iran

... Trainer Damba invited for hearing
The Ghana Football Association has upheld the decision of the Black Meteors management board asking the Olympic team’s goalkeeper trainer to step aside from his official duties as it begins a full-scale enquiry into allegations of misconduct.

Former national team goalkeeper, Abubakari Damba who occupies the goalkeeper’s trainer position within the Black Meteors technical set-up will appear before a panel to respond to the charge as a investigations into allegations of bribery levelled against him commences on Tuesday.


Abubakari Damba, prior to Ghana’s international friendly against Iran on 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.

The amount involved was supposedly to be shared by six members of the playing squad with each expected to have pocketed $1,000 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.