{"id":1173116,"date":"2022-08-10T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/betpawa-deal-will-not-affect-the-integrity-of-the-league\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:50:23","slug":"betpawa-deal-will-not-affect-the-integrity-of-the-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/betpawa-deal-will-not-affect-the-integrity-of-the-league\/","title":{"rendered":"betPawa deal will not affect the integrity of the league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image_2022-08-10_082157492.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"betPawa GFA\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association, Prosper Harrison Addo, says a deal with betPawa to become the headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League will not affect the integrity of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana FA last week announced a three-year sponsorship deal with the betting company as the league\u2019s headline sponsor ahead of the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<p>With recent incidents of match manipulation in the country\u2019s top flight, many have questioned the decision to bring on board betPawa.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Addo believes their introduction will not compromise football in the country.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetition sponsorship doesn\u2019t encourage betting and betting industries have their own way of marketing to their target market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cbetPawa is a regulated industry and the fact of the sponsorship does not encourage negative betting [betting which is not encouraged by the state].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the national laws which allow betting, people under 18 cannot bet, as well as footballers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will strictly monitor and sanction anyone who falls foul of the provisions we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commencement of the 2022\/23 campaign has been scheduled for the weekend of September 9 to 12.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"m1Qv23wJwUk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asante-Akyem Juaso citizens support Juaso Senior High Technical School - Premtobre Kasee (10-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m1Qv23wJwUk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association, Prosper Harrison Addo, says a deal with betPawa to become the headline sponsor of the Ghana Premier League will not affect the integrity of the game. The Ghana FA last week announced a three-year sponsorship deal with the betting company as the league\u2019s headline sponsor ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5281,689,807,9974,674],"class_list":["post-1173116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-affect","tag-betpawa","tag-deal","tag-integrity","tag-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}