Fred Pappoe Adamant Ghana Football Is Dying

Board Chairman of Accra Great Olympics, Fred Pappoe has emphasized that football in the country is dying and will take an attitudinal change from stakeholders to reverse the trend.

Pappoe, who was the vice president of the Ghana Football Association spent five years between 2005 and 2010, was reacting to the reportage that Division One League clubs will have to cough up a whopping Ghc30, 000 a season as officiating fees for next season after the league’s sponsor, GN Bank, decided not to renew their contract.

The astute football administrator described the figure as “insensitive” while questioning the FA’s inability to maintain sponsorship deals.

Polytank, First Capital Plus, OneTouch, Glo, Goldfields Ghana, GNPC, have all pulled out their sponsorship deals with the GFA before their expiration or acted against renewal upon expiration, raising eyebrows about the FA’s management of sponsorship deals.

In an interview with Accra based Happy FM, quizzed if Ghana football was dead, Pappoe said: “Ghana football is not dead, but it is dying against all available parameters. It is not an opinion. It is a fact.

"I think we can resurrect it when we commit ourselves and recognize that things are going down and it's because of our some of the decisions we've taken have not been helpful, so there is a need for us to take a second look at what we are doing and make sure we try to do things right, using all available resources in fair and transparent manner of possible, we'll all put our shoulders to the wheel and I'm sure we can revive our football because wherever it was that is falling down from, it's human beings who sent it there so we can send it there back again" he concluded.