Ghana Football Association President, Kurt E.S Okraku believes that the truncation of the 2019/20 Ghana Premier League season may affect the association’s relationship with Corporate Ghana.
The 2019/20 Ghana Premier League was halted halfway into the season following the ban on all public gatherings by the state in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Due to the rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country and the extension of the ban on social gatherings by the President, there have been some calls from some stakeholders for the truncation of the league as it is still not clear when the fight against the pandemic will be won.
However, according to Kurt Okraku, Corporate Ghana will see the league as inconsistent if it is being truncated because there hasn’t been a winner of the league since 2017.
“If there is no football, you don’t expect your sponsors to continue dolling out money to the clubs because they are not charities and even charities require a certain form of visibility. You have to also look at the partnership that currently exists at the FA level and the loss of revenue due to this situation.”
“Before we went for the Coronavirus break, we were busily engaging the private sector to come on board and partner the football association and the measures we put in place before the start of the season had started taking shape in the minds of Ghanaians.”
“Corporate Ghana has started looking at the Ghana Football Association and the footballing industries as possible partners and we are also looking to get their support. So if we cancel football within this period, we shouldn’t expect corporate Ghana to take us seriously. Don’t forget that since 2017, we have not declared the winners of any league we have playedâ€. Kurt Okraku told Happy FM on the effects of COVID-19 on Ghana’s Sports Industry.
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