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Ghanaian soccer players to wear registered numbers

Sun, 4 Mar 2001 Source: GNA

Starting from this soccer league season, players in the premier league would feature in matches with permanent registered numbers in conformity with CAF and FIFA competitions.

This means that the players would maintain their numbers at the back of their jerseys through out the entire league season.

Mr Kwame Amoah Bosompem, Accra representative of Kumasi Asante Kotoko whose proposals were accepted at the GFA's extra-ordinary congress in Accra on Thursday cited reasons of health and easy identification.

He made reference to clubs which have only a set of jerseys and said this was unhealthy.

Congress also agreed that teams which would send more than the required five technical men to the inner perimeter during matches would be fined 200,000 cedis each for any extra member.

Clubs who which fail to honour their fines within 21 days would also forfeit their next matches.

The GFA would also send independent match observers to league centres in addition to the match commissioners who will submit separate reports. This is to avoid cheating and bad officiating.

The GFA also accepted a suggestion for regular doping tests for players

Source: GNA