{"id":759449,"date":"2022-01-20T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/i-will-not-resign-gfa-boss-speaks-after-black-stars-exit-from-2021-afcon\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:19:05","slug":"i-will-not-resign-gfa-boss-speaks-after-black-stars-exit-from-2021-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/i-will-not-resign-gfa-boss-speaks-after-black-stars-exit-from-2021-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"I will not resign &#8211; GFA boss speaks after Black Stars exit from 2021 AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/412020111402-1j041q5ccw-kurt-okraku-gfa-boss-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"PresidePresident of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okrakunt of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okrau\" title=\"President of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurt Okraku, GFA president <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kurt Okraku, the president of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], has reiterated that he will not resign from his position despite the Black Stars horrendous performance in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars were hoping to end their 40 years trophy drought in the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON]\u00a0but exited the tournament at the group phase.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars, after three games played, lost twice and drew one. Milovan Rajevac opened their campaign with a defeat against Morocco and a draw against Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>In the final Group C game on Tuesday, the team was humiliated by a 3-2 defeat by debutants Comoros.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Following the shambolic and abysmal performance of the team, several Ghanaians have called on Mr Okraku to resign from his position.<\/p>\n<p>But the former MTN FA Cup chairman insisted it is not a topic that should be discussed insisting it is about time \u201cwe stick together as a country and fix the mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is a topic that we should discuss,\u201d he told <strong>Asempa FM<\/strong> on the <strong>Ultimate Sports Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2006, we exited at the group phase and we never called for the heads of the people in charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have played in two finals and after failing to win the trophy nobody called for the exit of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know people are angry by the performance of the team but I don\u2019t think asking me to resign is the right thing but we have to stick together and fix the situation,\u201d he added.<\/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=\"-8l7SppBQVI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Putupru Kase3 on Adom TV (20-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8l7SppBQVI?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>Kurt Okraku, GFA president Kurt Okraku, the president of the Ghana Football Association [GFA], has reiterated that he will not resign from his position despite the Black Stars horrendous performance in Cameroon. The Stars were hoping to end their 40 years trophy drought in the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON]\u00a0but exited the tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,94,566,1972,1615,2562,746,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-759449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-afcon","9":"tag-black","10":"tag-boss","11":"tag-exit","12":"tag-gfa","13":"tag-resign","14":"tag-speaks","15":"tag-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759449","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=759449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}