GFA ExCo Member Hit Out At Sports Minister

An Executive Committee (ExCo), member of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Eddie Doku says he is ready to take on the Youth and Sports Minister, Hon. Nii Lantey Vanderpuije.

Mr Vanderpuije after his appointment as sector Minister, declared he would bring revolution into the running of football in the country.

He has cancelled the payment of honorariums to management members of the senior national team, the Black Stars.

And Mr Doku, Chairman of the local Black Stars has indicated that he would descend into the gutters with the Sports Minister should he continue with his posture towards the football governing body.

“Nii Lantey Vanderpuije talks by heart. As a Minister he needs to talk with decorum. He always talks well during meetings, but whenever he comes out he doesn’t say positive things about the GFA,” he said.

“It would be better if Nii Lantey Vanderpuije tells us our wrongs in our faces, but he doesn’t. However he always tries to wash our dirty linen in public. Everybody has a dirty linen, so I will also wash his if he continues to do that,” Mr Doku warned.

“He should remember that as a Sports Minister, he is supposed to serve the people and not to lord it over them, like what he is doing,” he alleged.

GFA ExCo Member Hit Out At Sports Minister

Gideon Baah Fits Our Style Of Play - Red Bulls Director

Major League Soccer (MLS) club, New York Red Bulls sporting director, Alan Curtis has showered praises on new signing and ex-Kumasi Asante Kotoko left Gideon Baah’s quality and revealed it was a contributing factor to the club’s decision to sign him.

 

 

The club the transfer of Ghanaian central defender Gideon Baah from Finnish side Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK Helsinki)on Tueday and the deal will be officially completed pending his (International Transfer Certificat (ITC) and P1 Visa.

Baah, 24, has experience in both the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, and made his international debut for Ghana last October – the former winner of MTN soccer academy will team up with Ghanaian international, Lloyd Sam.

 

“Gideon has all the characteristics we were looking for in a central defender,” said Sporting Director Ali Curtis. “He fits our style of play extremely well and we are anxious to have him get started with our club.”

 

 

The New York Red Bulls open the 2016 MLS regular season at home on Sunday, March 6, when Toronto FC visits Red Bull Arena.

Gideon Baah Fits Our Style Of Play - Red Bulls Director

I Left PLB Not Football - Abra-Appiah

Former Ghana Premier League Board chairman Welbeck Abra-Appiah says he only dropped his working of the premier league and not football.

Welbeck Abra-Appiah announced his decision to resign from the office of the Ghana Premier League Board after a decade of service to the country’s flagship club football.

According to Welbeck Abra-Appiah, he stepped aside to give the younger generation the opportunity to continue from where he left off, and to have time for his private business, family, as well as concentrate more on serving his creator.

But in less than a month after he honorably relinquished his position, the former financier and administrator of Okwawu United, has been named a member of the Black Stars management committee, and a member of the Ghana Football Association Match Review Committee by the Executive Committee of the GFA, which is contrary to what he told Ghanaians.

However, Abra-Appiah explained that he that he is yet to quit from football management.

“I haven’t retired from football administration, my announcement was that, I am dropping my working tools as chairman of the Premier League Board.

“I am not out football entirely,” Abra-Appiah, the longest-serving chairman of the Premier League Board told Accra-based radio station, Happy FM.

Abra-Appiah who was made chairman of the PLB by Kwesi Nyantakyi in 2005, has been questioned for resigning from his position as PLB boss, but has been linked to other portfolios at the FA.

Welbeck Abra-Appiah said he is yet to receive official communication from the FA, but reiterated that he has been misinterpreted.

“My resignation has been wrongly interpreted… and people who have misunderstood my position abuse me for nothing. I never said I am out football entirely.” He said.

I Left PLB Not Football - Abra-Appiah