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The Minister for Sports, Kofi Adams, has started a national conversation about the management of football in Ghana. This follows Black Queens’ boycott of the second leg of their 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) qualifier over their unpaid allowances. “The nation needs to sit down and deliberate on the management of our football,” he affirmed in an interview on Asempa FM. According to him, the deliberation must result in a review of the funding for the sport as well as payment of players. “There were instances we were not able to maintain our pitch because all revenue that should go into sports ends as allowances, bonuses and the rest.” Despite participating in four World Cups from which the country earned proceeds, he said the nation cannot boast of any tangible infrastructure development with those proceeds. “We have participated in four World Cups, and there were proceeds from all but how have we spent it, whether directly or indirectly, being spent as allowances without being used to develop our sports?” According to him, all such proceeds and budgetary allocations are only channelled into areas of consumption. Story by Hajara Fuseini
