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Sacked Queens’ coaches demand unpaid
salaries
Accra, March 4, Ghanadot/GNA –
Sacked Black Queens’ coaches have asked the Ghana Football
Association (GFA) to pay them salaries for the period they
served in technical capacities of the team.
Dan Owusu, assistant to head coach, Isaac Paha who made the
demand said they had not been paid for upwards of two years,
the period that they had been in charge of the team.
He said the GFA management had told them they would be paid
honourarium but unfortunately, the football administrators
reneged on their word and did not pay them since their
employment.
Dan Owusu said under the circumstances, they had to work
under very difficult conditions, without any form of
motivation, adding that he had proved himself as a competent
coach in the West African Region.
The coach therefore appealed to the GFA to pay them what was
due them since their services had been dispensed with.
Fred Crentsil, chairman of the Black Queens Management
Committee corroborated the allegation of the coach but was
quick to add that the payment of their salaries was the
responsibility of the Ministry of Education, Science and
Sports.
He said they were working hard to ensure that what was due
to the coaches was paid to them.
Mr Crentsil said the GFA was looking at ways of streamlining
the appointment of local coaches to motivate them to deliver
their best.
He said the need arose for a change in the technical
direction of the team because of concerns being raised by a
cross section of Ghanaians about the poor form of the team.
The Chairman of the Management Committee said the Queens had
two important matches which they must win to qualify for the
African Women’s Championship in Equatorial Guinea and the
Olympic Games in China.
The Black Queens clash with the Mama Elephants of Cote
d’Ivoire on Saturday, March 8 for qualification to the
African Championship while they have an away date with the
Falcons of Nigeria, with the winner picking a Beijing
Olympic slot.
The GFA at the weekend replaced the Black Queens’ technical
team with a new one headed by Mumuni Gamel, with Ben Fokou
as his assistant, ending the tenure of Isaac Paha and his
assistant Dan Owusu, as well as goalkeepers’ trainer Dora
Zuta.
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