{"id":1245943,"date":"2022-11-07T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/nyantakyi-fires-muntari-over-needless-attack-on-gfa-official\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:02:45","slug":"nyantakyi-fires-muntari-over-needless-attack-on-gfa-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/07\/nyantakyi-fires-muntari-over-needless-attack-on-gfa-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyantakyi fires Muntari over &#8216;needless attack&#8217; on GFA official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"434\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NYANTEKYE_Ghana_news-696x434.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"NYANTEKYE\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwesi Nyantakyi, former GFA President<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has described Sulley Muntari\u2019s physical assault of Moses Armah Parker during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil as \u2018unwarranted and needless.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the former Black Stars midfielder\u2019s decision to attack the then-management member of the senior national team embarrassed the team on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuntari and Kevin were not kicked out of camp for technical reasons; they were kicked out of camp on disciplinary grounds,\u201d Nyantakyi said in a Joy Sports\u2019 Prime Take interview.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fight broke out and I remember begging Sulley to stop, but he wouldn\u2019t listen to me,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fight was uncalled for and the fight was unwarranted; it was needless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe embarrassment that it brought to the whole team was just unbearable so that was the best decision to take at that time,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Nyantakyi, who led Ghana to three World Cups, revealed he has begged twice for Sulley to be taken to the 2010 Mundial in South Africa because players sometimes have to be managed, but this one escalated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn many occasions, there have been times players have done certain things that we have forgiven them or overlooked them, but this was something we could not overlook,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari recently apologised to Parker for the embarrassment he caused him and his family eight\u00a0years\u00a0ago.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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