Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, previous Minister of Youth and Sports has encouraged football specialists and authorities to stop wagering in football, as it goes far to settle for what is most convenient option of the game in Ghana.
The Ghana Premier League (GPL) for at some point presently has been confronting the test of football executives, players and a few authorities being engaged with match fixing outrages, and furthermore a few claims being made against certain clubs.
The previous pastor talking at the fourth release of the Ghana Football Awards said the game was getting filthy as some football chairmen, players and authorities were currently engaged with football wagering.
"Wagering is truly harming our game and individuals would rather not be honest about it, individuals are bringing in cash at the disadvantage of the improvement of the game, players and group authorities are undermined. The game is becoming filthy," he said
As per Mr Vanderpuye, it was about time football specialists met up to discuss the issue of wagering in football as it was bringing down the norm of the game.
He said wagering was making players not committed when contrasted with years back when football had not at all like wagering and furthermore giving authorities the road to bring in cash out of the game.
Talking on whether wagering ought to be cleared out off football in Ghana, he said "On the off chance that you don't have the construction to screen the impact of wagering on our game then it ought to go off".
"I have played football before to the most elevated level in this nation and we didn't have wagering as within recent memory and we played the game out of our souls, dependably, decently and clean, however nowadays group authorities even know the scorelines even before the match begins," he said.
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