Previous Editor of the Kotoko Express, Jerome Otchere has faulted the National Sports Authority’s need of circumspection for the issues plaguing the Ghana Football Affiliation ahead of the Ghana Black Stars and Nigeria Super Falcons clash on Walk 20.
Concurring to him, had it not been that the NSA had posted pictures of the demolished pitch right after the Autonomy Day celebrations on their Twitter handle, the Nigerian Football Affiliation would not have dissented the setting to CAF.
This would have anticipated the quandary the GFA as of now finds itself in with respect to exchanging setting for the coordinate whereas the Cape Coast Stadium’s pitch gets repaired, he said.
Talking on JoyNews’ PM Express Tuesday, he said, “I’ve been tuning in exceptionally carefully to everything that has been going on with respect to this pitch issue and Evans, I at first specified administration. Let us call out the NSA. Everything that has happened is as a result of the destitute authority of the NSA.
“Everything that has happened is as a result of the NSA not being in touch with reality. The reality that in this world nowadays, in case you need to do PR, you must think through anything you put out, the NSA I’m too bad did not do that.”
“Why we are having this discussion is that the NSA looked for to distribute pictures that they ought to have kept absent from the open. Since all of us in Ghana who cover football know exceptionally well that our pitches are not great.
“Yes we’ve been attempting to do something around it to induce players to play, to induce groups to play, what the NSA did is what has brought us to this point since on Monday morning right after the 6th March event, they distributed pictures appearing a pitch that everyone who takes after football will wince after seeing the pictures,” he included.
Jerome Otchere clarified that the distribution of those pictures were cursing for Ghana’s picture and looked for to extend the destitute state of undertakings at the Cape Coast stadium.
“So for occurrence, when I saw the pictures on their twitter handle, the primary thing I did was to cite the tweet and tell them to halt distributing those pictures, be cause for me it was an notice of the destitute state of issues at Cape Coast.
“And when they looked for to adjust the awful impression they’ve given of Ghana they looked for to once more distribute pictures that they sifted. And who were they deluding?” he said.
He expressed that he concurs with Nigeria’s choice to challenge the pitch and called for more consideration to paid to the quality of pitches particularly in Ghana to dodge a redundancy of this occurrence.
“I am cheerful the Nigerians took on this issue since you see like I was saying, whoever likes football, whoever takes after football – and Sannie was talking almost the caliber of players we anticipate to play on certain pitches. I am not astounded for occasion Gambia and Chad will have to be compelled to play their matches some place since you see we’re bringing domestic players who are exceptionally costly.
“And indeed in case they are not costly, it’s their careers at stake. They can bend an lower leg on a awful pitch and so FIFA must be concerned on the quality of pitches we play on. So in my see it could be a matter of we talking so much approximately enjoying sports, being so energetic around sports, attempting to pump so much cash into the amusement but in reality it is fair squander since at the conclusion of the day the exceptionally things you’re assumed to do to keep these offices in shape we disregard it,” he said.