{"id":442214,"date":"2017-11-30T00:54:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/30\/lawyer-john-debrah-voted-ghanas-referees-association-chairman\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:54:59","slug":"lawyer-john-debrah-voted-ghanas-referees-association-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/30\/lawyer-john-debrah-voted-ghanas-referees-association-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer John Debrah voted Ghana\u2019s Referees Association Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday, 28 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Sammy Heywood Okine<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/99022239.295.jpg\" alt=\"Referees Ghana\" title=\"Referees Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghanaian referees<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1512003299_22_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Referees Association of Ghana (RAG) on Saturday, elected it\u2019s National Executives Elections at at the Conference Room of the Headquarters of the Ghana Football Association in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer John Bismarck Debrah was voted as the new Chairman for the Association when he beat his compatriot, Alex Quartey by 32 votes to 25.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming his desire to work, Referee Debrah expressed his appreciation to all those who voted for him during the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank all those who voted for me and I believe the people voted for me because they saw the good works I did as an acting Chairman, \u201dJoe Debrah told the media.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Debrah would be hoping to raise the bar in Ghana\u2019s officiating as the profession has become a subject of ridicule in recent times considering the poor performance of referees.<\/p>\n<p>Bismark Joe Debrah former vice chairman of the Referees Association of Ghana unseated Retired referee Alex Quartey who has headed the association over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The retired police officer addressing the media after the National executive elections promised to work hard with his new executives to address the negative perception of the general public against Ghanaian referees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people over the years have tagged our officiating referees as corrupt and unfair and my administration and I will work very hard to clear all this misconception. We have very competent officials in the country\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Other officials who were elected to work in the new administration are; Mr. George Saijah \u2013 National Vice chairman, Mr. Joseph Ayita Mensah \u2013 General Secretary, Mr. Kwao Sampson \u2013 Deputy General Secretary, Mr. Thomas M. Nunoo \u2013 National Treasurer, Mr. Joseph Wellington \u2013 National Instructor (Technical), Mr. Richard Thomas Attifu \u2013 Deputy National Instructor (Technical), Mr. Anthony Tetteh-Opai \u2013 National Instructor (Fitness), Mr. Isaac Effah Tetteh \u2013 Deputy National Instructor (Fitness)<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 56 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Tuesday, 28 November 2017 Source: Sammy Heywood Okine 2017-11-28 Ghanaian referees The Referees Association of Ghana (RAG) on Saturday, elected it\u2019s National Executives Elections at at the Conference Room of the Headquarters of the Ghana Football Association in Accra. 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