Director of Aduana Stars, Kofi Manu popularly known as “Blue Boy” has lashed out at the supporters of the club for what he termed as a disgraceful act.
Supporters of Aduana Stars Football club released a statement expressing their disappointment at the decision of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to allow Asante Kotoko and Ashantigold to represent Ghana at the next CAF inter-club Competitions.
The supporters insist that the Normalization Committee’s special competition that allowed both clubs to represent the country in the 2019 CAF inter-club competitions was not an official tournament of the FA, that should warrant same clubs representing the Association in the same Competition.
Ghana Football Association Statutes and Regulations expert who doubles as the director of the club Speaking to Ohene Bampoe-Brenya on Happy FM’s ‘ Happy Sports, expressed his disappointment.
“I was really sad when I heard that our own supporters wrote a letter to the GFA expressing their displeasure about Kotoko and AshantiGold representing Ghana in CAF. These supporters are disgracing Aduana stars. A club that I am a part of disgracing us like this is bad. Even the regulations they quoted are against them”, he bemoaned.
“If we are to go by their letter and argument, then no club can go to Africa not even Aduana Stars. How can you write a letter without understanding it to disgrace the club?
Aduana stars people were quiet when the normalization committee wrote to CAF for Kotoko and AshantiGold to represent us.”
“A whole me, Kofi Manu, a club that I am a director of can write such a letter and will not even contact me. This is just shameful. We can’t declare any club as a leading club on the table because we have not finished our first round. Clubs haven’t played the same number of games so they’re not equal and we can’t use that,” he added.
The Ghana Football Association brought an end to the football season due to the coronavirus pandemic with no teams being relegated. But Asante Kotoko and AshantiGold were selected to play in the CAF Champions League CAF Confederation Cup respectively.
By: Ayishatu Zakaria Al
