APPEARANCE RATE HAVE TO BE PAID AFTER WORLD CUP - KUUKU DADZIE

A former Black Stars and Sekondi Hasaacas legend, James Kuuku Dadzie, has stirred the hornet’s nest via way of means of imploring the authorities and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to chorus from paying look expenses to the Black Stars in advance of the Qatar 2022 World Cup. He stated one of these fee have to be made after the arena soccer governing body, FIFA, had paid Ghana for collaborating withinside the event. He, therefore, defined the arrival expenses paid to Black Stars gamers earlier than the preceding World Cups in 2006, 2010, and 2014, as wrong. To the previous countrywide famous person and coach, the FA and the authorities have to most effective offer the gamers with their according to diem allowance and agreed triumphing bonuses in the course of the event. “The factor is that the gamers have to now no longer be paid any look rate earlier than the graduation of the event due to the fact according to its meaning, gamers have to seem and take part in a event earlier than any shape of look rate is paid to them. “Why then have to the authorities pay look expenses to gamers earlier than they seem withinside the event and compete?” Dadzie requested in an special interview with the Daily Graphic. A member of Ghana’s 1978 Africa Cup of Nations triumphing group, Dadzie stated former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s authorities set a awful precedent in 2006 while it paid $50,000 to every of the Black Stars gamers and technical group as look expenses for Ghana’s maiden World Cup marketing campaign in Germany. Subsequently, on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the past due President John Attah Mills’ authorities paid $75,000 as look expenses, a scenario which forced the payers to call for an upward adjustment withinside the expenses to $100,000 for the 2014 World Cup. He mentioned that discussions over look expenses in advance of the event had distracted the gamers from the primary venture and additionally sparked indiscipline the various gamers, which have to not be encouraged. “FIFA will pay a few cash to the certified international locations to decorate their arrangements for the event, so the Black Stars do now no longer want any cash for something earlier than the opposition begins. In the route of the opposition, the authorities will pay triumphing bonuses to gamers after they win matches, so financial issues have to now no longer play any function earlier than or in the course of the event,” brought the person reputed to be one in every of Ghana’s maximum subtle centre-backs of his era. On what have to be performed to encourage the gamers to excel in the course of such tournaments, Dadzie stated the gamers have to as an alternative be proud that the kingdom had provided them a platform to show their capability on any such larger platform for which their values might bounce excessive to elevate their marketplace values in the event that they rose to the occasion.