{"id":1261985,"date":"2022-12-06T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T07:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/investigate-gfa-and-sports-ministry-over-world-cup-collapse\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T07:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T07:29:38","slug":"investigate-gfa-and-sports-ministry-over-world-cup-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/investigate-gfa-and-sports-ministry-over-world-cup-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigate GFA and Sports Ministry over World Cup collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"365\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Songo-696x365.png\"   alt=\"Countryman Songo\" title=\"Countryman Songo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Countryman Songo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Award winning radio and television personality, Patrick Osei Agyemang aka Countryman Songo, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to investigate the Ghana Football Association [GFA] and the Sports Ministry, led by Mustapha Ussif.<\/p>\n<p>His appeal comes following Black Stars\u2019 elimination from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, ahead of their final Group H game against Uruguay, needed a draw to book a place in the next round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, the Black Stars suffered a 2-0 defeat against the South American giants with Andre Ayew missing a crucial penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Asempa FM on the <strong>Ultimate Sports Show<\/strong>, the renowned sports broadcaster implored President Akufo-Addo to investigate what led to the disappointment in the Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Sports Minister [Mustapha Ussif] must be sacked for failing to do the right thing before the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, President Akufo-Addo must investigate the Ghana Football Association [GFA] led by Kurt Okraku and Mustapha Ussif, who is the Sports Minister,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriendly games were played before the World Cup and there was no accountability. EOCO and Auditor-General must investigate them. We were told supporters will not be taken to Qatar but over 3,000 fans were flown to Qatar and they must explain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sports Minister is involved in the activities of the Black Stars because there is money there and he is the bigger problem and he must be sacked by Akufo -Addo because he has no legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe led the team to the 2021 Afcon and he failed. He led the team to Qatar and he failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKurt Okraku appointed a part-time coach and now look at where we are today. We are out of the tournament and it is embarrassing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana exited the tournament with three points and finished at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Sports Minister in a statement on Sunday confirmed that the performance of the Black Stars will be reviewed.<\/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=\"ME69Nz2G4MQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ME69Nz2G4MQ?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>Countryman Songo Award winning radio and television personality, Patrick Osei Agyemang aka Countryman Songo, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to investigate the Ghana Football Association [GFA] and the Sports Ministry, led by Mustapha Ussif. His appeal comes following Black Stars\u2019 elimination from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Ghana, ahead of their final Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1324,262,1615,3112,459,871,784],"class_list":["post-1261985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-collapse","tag-cup","tag-gfa","tag-investigate","tag-ministry","tag-sports","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261985","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=1261985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}