{"id":1247419,"date":"2022-11-09T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/money-from-fifa-contributed-to-our-problems-former-sports-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:11:09","slug":"money-from-fifa-contributed-to-our-problems-former-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/money-from-fifa-contributed-to-our-problems-former-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMoney From FIFA Contributed to Our Problems\u201d &#8211; Former Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has attributed Ghana\u2019s 2014 World Cup fiasco to FIFA\u2019s monetary increment that period.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Afriyie-Ankrah, stated that players demanded an increase in qualification bonus because they realized that head of footballing governing body had increased the mundial\u2019s money hence incited an idea of increment from the state.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/4af4f653dffc46e68f15e042a92c93ac\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my case, what happened was that; the government, I think that was when we were preparing to go for the IMF\u201d, he told Gold Talk Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo government said they were gonna give them the $75,000 they got in the previous World Cup\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players also felt that FIFA had increased the amount of money they give to every participating country and since they were playing, they deserved more so they asked for $100,000\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Ghana exited the competition from the group stages after failing to pick a win in all three group games.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nElvis Afriyie-Ankrah<br \/>\nFIFA<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGold Talk Sports<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has attributed Ghana\u2019s 2014 World Cup fiasco to FIFA\u2019s monetary increment that period. Hon. Afriyie-Ankrah, stated that players demanded an increase in qualification bonus because they realized that head of footballing governing body had increased the mundial\u2019s money hence incited an idea of increment from the state. \u201cIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1304,779,1223,383,1261,871],"class_list":["post-1247419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-contributed","tag-fifa","tag-minister","tag-money","tag-problems","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247419","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=1247419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}