{"id":416147,"date":"2017-09-08T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/08\/black-stars-abandoned-travel-arrangements-after-congo-win-sports-ministry\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:30","slug":"black-stars-abandoned-travel-arrangements-after-congo-win-sports-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/08\/black-stars-abandoned-travel-arrangements-after-congo-win-sports-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars abandoned travel arrangements after Congo win \u2013 Sports Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday,  8 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/83475702.295.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Dede Ayew Black Stars\" title=\"Andre Dede Ayew Black Stars\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana Black Stars<\/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=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504872030_75_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Ministry of Youth and Sports have dismissed the assertion that shirking their duties resulted in the Black Stars making their own travel arrangements from Brazzaville back to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Captain of the side Asamoah Gyan had to eventually rescue the situation by paying for a direct chartered flight back to Ghana after the emphatic 5-1 win over Congo after it emerged that government had allegedly failed to deliver on its promise.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged arrangement was to see government convey the players to Ghana by mid morning of September 6 after which they could depart for their various bases in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The story is however not corroborated by deputy sports Minister Pius Hadzide who insists that all necessary arrangements had been sorted out only for the players to take matters into their own hands for reasons unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArrangements were made to convey them back to Accra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur arrangement was that by this morning Air Ivoire will depart from Brazzaville and arrive in Ghana by 10:30 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are told that some of them may have wanted to arrive ahead of schedule. \u201cI don\u2019t know but for some of them they had just won a match massively and they were excited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know but I am told that one player or a couple of them got together to charter a flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat should not be interpreted to mean that the Ministry did not do its job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a plan and we were following through strictly with it,\u201d he told Citi Sports in an interview.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 62 updated by: 62 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 8 September 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-09-08 Ghana Black Stars &#13; The Ministry of Youth and Sports have dismissed the assertion that shirking their duties resulted in the Black Stars making their own travel arrangements from Brazzaville back to Ghana. 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