A former Communications Director of the Ghana Soccer Affiliation (GFA), Ibrahim Sannie Daara, has issued a warning to the federal government, urging instant help for Ghanaian soccer golf equipment to stop the collapse of the home leagues within the nation.
Talking on Prime Take with Muftawu Nabila Abdulai, Sannie emphasised the essential position of presidency intervention in sustaining the game on the nationwide stage.
“When a footballer sees that there’s no life past the soccer he’s enjoying after 35 years, they don’t earn a lot. Many of the groups, all of the groups in Ghana at this time, are owned by people,” he famous.
“It’s people who’re funding and paying for the children of individuals, or Ghanaian youth, to change into who they’re.
“The state should help them. It should not be a one-man effort,” he admonished.
Hitherto, Ghanaian footballers and different athletes have been employed by state corporations.
The previous BBC broadcaster reminisced a few time when the state performed a pivotal position in supporting athletes.
“Up to now, when somebody was enjoying within the home league, he was employed by the police or the military,” he recalled.
“Ali Jarrah, as an example, was employed by the Fireplace Service. So was Sam Johnson. And plenty of them have been employed by the Financial institution of Ghana.
“All of those state businesses had a way, one way or the other, one thing to do with sports activities recruitment after they recruited yearly.”
He argued that the return of such initiatives would supply gamers with monetary safety and profession longevity.
“These are among the issues that we should return to. In any other case, we’ve no combating selection. They need to as a result of they’re state establishments,” he urged.
Sannie additionally proposed that the federal government not solely change its technique but additionally develop a complete plan to combine sportspeople into state establishments.
“They recruit sportspeople. A part of the sportspeople should be footballers, athletes, or boxers, in order that the participant is aware of that, one, they’ll get a wage from, say, in the event that they’re enjoying and dealing with the police, they’ll get their wage from the police.
“They’ll get a wage added on to, perhaps, from Hearts or Kotoko. Then, lastly, after they retire from soccer, they’ll even have a full-time job to fall again on and a pension,” he defined.
By guaranteeing that gamers obtain twin incomes—one from their soccer golf equipment and one other from state employment—together with future job safety and pensions, Sannie Daara believes that the home leagues might be revitalised.
He warned, nonetheless, that failure to behave would spell the demise of native soccer.
“In any other case, our home leagues will die, and it is going to be on their heads,” he concluded.
On this interview, which can air on JoyNews on Friday at 7:30 am, Saturday at 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 11 am, he talks about youth, household, skilled life, exiting the FA, and dealing at CAF.