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Dr. Kofi Amoah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Chairman of the erstwhile Local Organising Committee of Ghana 2008, Dr. Kofi Amoah says the Ghana Football Association must be put to task for the poor state of the local league.<\/p>\n

Ghana football has suffered a succession of failures lately with most of the national teams failing to perform on the international stage including the local Black Stars, the Black Meteors, Black Queens and Black Satellites.<\/p>\n

However, the senior national team, the Black Stars continue to receive rave reviews for their performances, the last of which saw them come back from a goal down to draw 1:1 with England in a friendly game at Wembley in March.<\/p>\n

The FA appear to be clueless to the exact cause of the recent poor run but many keen observers of the game have pointed accusing fingers at the FA for its failure to develop the local league.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to take this opportunity to encourage my friends at the FA, Kwesi Nyantakyi \u2013 everybody knows is my darling, I love him, I support him- but I think the FA must be put to task,\u201d Dr. Amoah said in an exclusive interview on E TV\u2019s Sports Lounge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are failing when it comes to the domestic league and it must be said in plain black and white.<\/p>\n

Dr. Amoah who was the chairman of the LOC which successfully hosted the African Nations Cup in 2008 decried the current state of the domestic league.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur local league is in shambles\u201d he said adding that \u201cnobody goes to the stadium to watch us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Players are focused on getting contracts elsewhere and fly out of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur coaches are underpaid and therefore yes, football and other sports are great assets of the nation that we must try to cultivate.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in cultivating it, we must understand the kind of investment that we have to make locally and begin to do things right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The accomplished Ghanaian entrepreneur also said that the FA cannot continue to take sole credit for the performance of the Black Stars since most of the players are trained abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must regroup and rethink through things properly otherwise we will continue to depend on them (foreign based players).<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though they are Ghanaians they are somebody\u2019s product. Once they fly out of here, it is somebody else who is nurturing them.\u201d
\u201cYes we are proud of them because they come from the soil of Ghana but we can\u2019t take the pride of their exhibition from those who trained them,\u201d Dr. Amoah stressed.<\/p>\n

Local coaches have been partly blamed for the dwindling fortunes of the game in some quarters but many keen observers have also laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of the FA.<\/p>\n

But Dr. Amoah, who is also known as Citizen Kofi, says there is an ever present need to inject fresh investment into the local clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery football club in the country must be required to have a certain minimum capitalisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBanks are required to pay $70million or GH\u00a270 million before operating in this country.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t squeeze blood out of stone. It needs resources to do things right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kwesi Nyantakyi administration has come under heavy public criticism in the wake of the country\u2019s abysmal performances coupled with the low standard of the league.<\/p>\n

Dr. Amoah though still believes the FA leadership has the capability to turn things around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have some experienced people at the FA but they must begin to do their work, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes Fifa regulation says there should be no interference but football is a passion of the nation and it is a part of the fabric of our society and we cannot sit aside and be quite if you are not doing the job right.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey must get up and do it,\u201d Dr. Amoah charged.<\/p>\n

\u201cKwesi Nyantakyi, you have the capability, we have seen you with your passion, you have done a lot of great work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow let\u2019s think inward, lets look back home. I have said we should put sports back in the schools,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Amoah is the second high profile personality to have directly critised the FA for its handling of the local league in recent times following that of soccer legend Abedi Ayew Pele.<\/p>\n

By Erasmus Kwaw<\/p>\n\n

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