{"id":409812,"date":"2017-08-06T20:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/06\/coaches-taking-bribes-from-players-muntari\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:10:35","slug":"coaches-taking-bribes-from-players-muntari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/06\/coaches-taking-bribes-from-players-muntari\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaches taking bribes from players \u2013 Muntari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday,  6 August 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-08-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/19343263.295.jpg\" alt=\"Muntari Starrfm\" title=\"Muntari Starrfm\" width=\"295\" height=\"145\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sulley Ali Muntari<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=150106940086186\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=150106940086186\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1502050235_65_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana international Sulley Ali Muntari has alleged that national youth coaches extort money from young footballers before offering them a call up.<\/p>\n<p>The issues of coaches allegedly demanding money before selecting players into the various national youth teams is not a new scandal slapped on the face of Ghana Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana has raw and amazing talents but then most of them have to pay through to get up there\u201d he claimed on Football Legends Night Show on GHOne TV, adding \u201cbut when I was picked to join the national U-17, I didn\u2019t pay for one penny at that time, so I was just picked because they liked the way I played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we should go back to how it was back then and not about who you know but it\u2019s your talent that will make you move forward and that is what we can do to bring the generation up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the players that have played at the youth level in the past, we don\u2019t have them anymore. 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