{"id":445488,"date":"2017-12-10T08:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T08:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/10\/former-sports-minister-reveals-why-ghanas-football-is-lacking-sponsorship\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T08:21:37","slug":"former-sports-minister-reveals-why-ghanas-football-is-lacking-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/10\/former-sports-minister-reveals-why-ghanas-football-is-lacking-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sports Minister reveals why Ghana\u2019s football is lacking sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/65006611.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nii Lantey Vanderpuye\" title=\"Nii Lantey Vanderpuye\" width=\"295\" height=\"211\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nii Lante Vanderpuye, Former Sports Minister<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512894097_348_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ex-Sports Minister, Honourable Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has revealed why sponsors aren\u2019t involved in our local football in recent times as there are no pragmatic programmes which could lure them in contributing to our game.<\/p>\n<p>The plight of Ghana\u2019s football is certainly a worrying phenomenon which has dwindled the fortunes of the game as sponsors are showing their disinterest in partnering Ghana\u2019s football considering the popularity of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Football Legends Night Show on GHOne TV last Friday, Honourable Vanderpuye revealed why the local game is unattractive to sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe sponsors are not coming because they don\u2019t see any pragmatic programmes out there, in order to induce them to come.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorship goes with marketing, so if you don\u2019t have a product that can market the sponsor, how do they come on board,\u201d Vanderpuye said on the Football Legends Night Show on GHONE TV.<\/p>\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>Nii Lante Vanderpuye, Former Sports Minister Ex-Sports Minister, Honourable Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has revealed why sponsors aren\u2019t involved in our local football in recent times as there are no pragmatic programmes which could lure them in contributing to our game. The plight of Ghana\u2019s football is certainly a worrying phenomenon which has dwindled the fortunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":445489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Sports Minister reveals why Ghana\u2019s football is lacking sponsorship - 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\/2017\/12\/10\/former-sports-minister-reveals-why-ghanas-football-is-lacking-sponsorship\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Former Sports Minister reveals why Ghana\u2019s football is lacking sponsorship - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nii Lante Vanderpuye, Former Sports Minister Ex-Sports Minister, Honourable Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has revealed why sponsors aren\u2019t involved in our local football in recent times as there are no pragmatic programmes which could lure them in contributing to our game. 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