I Disrespected My Mother By Choosing To Play For Liberty Professionals Ahead Of Kotoko - Sulley Muntari

Sulley Ali Muntari, a former Ghana international has revealed that he disrespected his mother by snubbing Asante Kotoko to play for Liberty Professionals.

Muntari played for Liberty Professionals before the shores of the country for Europe.

The former Inter Milan midfielder in an interview reiterated that it was his mother’s dream to see him play for the Kotoko.

According to Muntari, his decision to join the Dansoman based club was born out of the desire to earn more playing time to grab interest from clubs abroad at a young team which had less prominent stars compared to Asante Kotoko.

“I remember when Liberty came for me and my mother said no, my son will play for Kotoko,” Muntari said on McBrown's Kitchen on UTV.

“I like Kotoko because it’s like everything and I grew up in Kumasi and I saw everything. We go to the park at 9:00 am before Kotoko play and they park top players,” the former Portsmouth player stated.

He added, “Obodai, Michael Essien, Derrick Boateng were already top and they all went through Liberty. So, I looked at Kotoko and said they will buy me with all the money, I will play a little bit but there were top players I couldn’t compete with. So where can I compete? It was Liberty.”

Sulley reminisced that his decision to snub the Porcupines was his first act of disobedience to his mother which he remembers till date.

“My mom said don’t go and I said, I will go. That was the first time I disrespected my mom,” the former Inter Milan player said.

“I couldn’t see my mom suffer again, so at that young age I had to take that decision,” he added.

Muntari is on the verge of joining PSL side, Maritzburg United in South Africa.