Former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Fred Pappoe, has asserted that national team players be awarded based on their performance at tournaments.
According to him, rewarding players with fixed amounts regardless of abysmal performances does not motivate them to do better.
“We need to tweak appearance fees to be focused on performance and output. We don’t need to keep it at the same amount or package all the time,” he stated at the maiden e-Sports Summit organized by e.tv Ghana on the topic; “Financing the National Team; The Bonus and Appearance Fee Structure and its Sustainability.”
Fred Pappoe exemplifying his submission cited, “Let us say generation A appears and reaches the final stages of the Afcon, either losing or winning and are awarded $20,000, do we think it will be fair to also reward generation B the same amount after being kicked out from the group stages? It won’t be fair.
We need to tweak the appearance fee to be more of performance. The better you perform, the more you get. I don’t subscribe to the blanket stage where you reactive huge sums in appearance fear regardless of performance. I don’t think it is fair and I think it is something players themselves will ascribe to,” he reiterated.
The maiden e-Sports Summit is a thought leadership dialogue that brought together industry experts, stakeholders, civil society groups to discuss the topic: “Financing the National Team; The Bonus and Appearance Fee Structure and its Sustainability.”
Panelists included Fred Pappoe, Moses Foh-Amoaning and ex-Black Stars player Agyemang-Badu who shared useful perspectives to influence national policy on the subject.
Also present were a cross section of sports policy influencers; including the Ghana Supporters Union, celebrated Sports journalists, and a hosts of others.
The event which was a fusion of entertainment and knowledge sharing was moderated by host of Happy Sports and Head of Sports for e.TV Ghana Ohene Bampoe Brenya, was held at the Accra City Hotel.
The event was emceed by Raymond Nyamador host of eSports Live on e.tv Ghana and Co-host of Happy Morning Show.
By: Joel Sanco
