{"id":74563,"date":"2023-06-08T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/08\/ghana-football-is-dead-ex-black-stars-striker-tony-yeboah\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:07:31","slug":"ghana-football-is-dead-ex-black-stars-striker-tony-yeboah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/08\/ghana-football-is-dead-ex-black-stars-striker-tony-yeboah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana football is dead &#8211; Ex-Black Stars striker Tony Yeboah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20200821_152829-696x391.jpg\"   alt=\"Tony Yeboah\" title=\"Tony Yeboah\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Yeboah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Ghana striker,\u00a0Tony Yeboah,\u00a0has described football in the country as dead due to\u00a0bribes and mismanagement by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Accra-based Peace FM, the former Leeds United striker\u00a0accused the Ghana Football Association (GFA) of not heeding advice from former footballers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what is going on because I don\u2019t follow. Everyone knows Ghana football is dead because they didn\u2019t listen to the advice we gave them from the beginning,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think they are currently facing the punishment. If you involve bribes and stuff like that in football, you will destroy the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only advice I can give them is that they should go back and train the kids for youth (football) and develop Colts football either than that it will be difficult to get top players like we used to have back in the day. It will be very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeboah played for the Black Stars for over a decade and was part of the team that reached the final of the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).<\/p>\n<p>He played over 120 matches for Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga and impressively scored 68 goals. He won two golden boots in the German topflight.<\/p>\n<p>Yeboah also played for Hamburg SV, before hanging his boots following a one-year spell at Al Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/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=\"ZDsskqv3Jok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Land Disputes: Efutu Gyasehene urges government to investigate issues for settlement (08-06-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDsskqv3Jok?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Yeboah Former Ghana striker,\u00a0Tony Yeboah,\u00a0has described football in the country as dead due to\u00a0bribes and mismanagement by authorities. Speaking to Accra-based Peace FM, the former Leeds United striker\u00a0accused the Ghana Football Association (GFA) of not heeding advice from former footballers. \u201cI don\u2019t know what is going on because I don\u2019t follow. Everyone knows Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ghana football is dead - Ex-Black Stars striker Tony Yeboah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/08\/ghana-football-is-dead-ex-black-stars-striker-tony-yeboah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana football is dead - Ex-Black Stars striker Tony Yeboah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tony Yeboah Former Ghana striker,\u00a0Tony Yeboah,\u00a0has described football in the country as dead due to\u00a0bribes and mismanagement by authorities. 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