{"id":400650,"date":"2011-04-26T23:32:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/26\/legend-polo-slams-ghana-youth-football-policy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T23:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T23:32:30","slug":"legend-polo-slams-ghana-youth-football-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/legend-polo-slams-ghana-youth-football-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend Polo Slams Ghana Youth Football Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"65\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/68fef376polo.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27913\" title=\"Legend Polo slams Ghana youth football policy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/68fef376polo.jpg.jpg\" alt=\" Ghana legend Mohammed Polo has slammed the policy structure of the Ghana Football Association after the country\u2019s U-20 side became the latest side to be bundled out of international competitions in the year.\" width=\"200\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Polo was a gifted player in his generation for Ghana and Hearts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana legend Mohammed Polo has slammed the policy structure of the\u00a0Ghana Football Association\u00a0after the country\u2019s U-20 side became the latest side to be bundled out of an international competitions in the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Satellite were kicked out of the ongoing 2011 Africa Youth championship in South Africa after one defeat and two draws.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat has compounded Ghana\u2019s misery on the international stage this year.<\/p>\n<p>Both the male and female Olympic teams bundled out of the 2012 London\u00a0Olympic Games\u00a0while the local Black Stars exited the Championship of African Nations (CHAN) tournament while the country\u2019s U17 side failed to qualify for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Ghana international dribbling wizard has questioned the structure of the Ghana federation accusing authorities of doing little to change the downward spiral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current situation is not only worrying but very sad and I think there is something wrong with our football structure at the FA and the earlier we talked about it and do something about it the better,\u2019 Polo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no proper planning and that\u2019s the result of what we see today. There must be concerted effort at addressing finding the problem and finding solutions to them now or it will hurt us for years to come. The FA must sit up because things are getting out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rampant defeats suffered this year have clouded the achievement chalked by the current FA over the past five years with the Black Stars and the other junior national sides.<\/p>\n<p>The federation elects it new President\u00a0on Thursday April 28\u00a0with incumbent Kwesi Nyantakyi going unopposed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/68fef376polo.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/04\/legend-polo-slams-ghana-youth-football-policy\/\" title=\"Legend Polo Slams Ghana Youth Football Policy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Legend Polo Slams Ghana Youth Football Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. Mohammed Polo was a gifted player in his generation for Ghana and Hearts Ghana legend Mohammed Polo has slammed the policy structure of the\u00a0Ghana Football Association\u00a0after the country\u2019s U-20 side became the latest side to be bundled out of an international competitions in the year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legend Polo Slams Ghana Youth Football Policy - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/legend-polo-slams-ghana-youth-football-policy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Legend Polo Slams Ghana Youth Football Policy - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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