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00:00 Good morning, let's do sports now on the AM show with me Mufti Abdullahi and Mediamer

00:06 SC, winners of the Ghana Premier League for 2022-2023 season, has been given one million

00:13 Ghana cities by President Ekofu Ado.

00:15 The team paid him a visit to present the trophy and also inform him about their intention

00:21 to participate in the CLAF Champions League.

00:23 And the president said it was important he continues with the tradition of supporting

00:28 CLAF that represents the country at a continental level.

00:32 I have to begin by first of all congratulating you, the captain and the members of the team

00:39 for this historic achievement.

00:41 The 47 years since the Cup was last won by a team from the Western region.

00:46 This is great, you've done a great job.

00:49 Congratulations.

00:50 I guess people who win the league, you have to have some people there.

01:02 But I want to congratulate you very much.

01:04 And you're getting the congratulations from somebody who's a fanatic of Asante Kosovo.

01:10 So you know that it's genuine, my congratulations.

01:16 Well done.

01:17 And a team that was born in Duke's hometown, that's an excellent thing.

01:24 Thank you very much for coming.

01:27 I think that the Deputy Minister of Sports is here to assure you that whatever we can

01:33 do to help in the continental engagements that you are going to be involved in this

01:38 year, we'll do our best to assist, to make sure that you have a successful tilt.

01:44 And then I understand that you are in fact being invited to be in Washington in the month

01:50 of October for the Gander Week.

01:51 You've been invited to go and play Washington DC football club.

01:55 Oh wow, that's going to be a big thing.

02:00 So I wish you the best of luck for that.

02:04 But I'm sure that when the time gets near, the government people will also come in and

02:11 make sure that things go well for you there.

02:13 So thank you very much for coming.

02:15 I'm honored by you coming to present this cup to me.

02:18 And I want to congratulate the playing body once again for this historic achievement.

02:24 You've done well.

02:26 It's good for Ghana football and for the league that there's diversity in the people who come

02:33 through.

02:34 You shouldn't have this.

02:35 For years it was a duopoly in Ghana, Kotoko O. Hartz.

02:40 And then when Adriana broke through a bit.

02:43 But it's good.

02:44 We have yet somebody else now.

02:45 We'll all remember the name, Mediana Football Club.

02:46 I have to make a pledge.

02:47 Yes.

02:48 Yes.

02:49 Yes.

02:50 I will try and provide a million seeds to help you.

03:13 That is Chris Hilton, head coach of the Black Stars.

03:16 He says one of the core things is that it doesn't matter where you play your football.

03:20 Even if you play in the Ghana Premier League, you stand an opportunity of playing in the

03:24 Black Stars.

03:25 But the Ghana Premier League in recent times has suffered to attract fans to the various

03:30 stadia to watch the competitions.

03:33 According to Vincent Souradote, who is a management member of Accra House of Oak, he says the

03:38 competition is not fit for purpose.

03:40 And this is how a rapper of AM Sports here with me, Muftahu Nabila Abdoulaye.

03:45 I think my issue about Ghana football has been known for 20 years.

03:50 And the issue is that we are producing a competitive entertainment product.

04:03 That goes to the core of the problems of Ghana football.

04:10 If when you rank of the reasons why people don't go, what was the top one?

04:17 Quality.

04:18 What is quality?

04:21 Quality is fit for purpose.

04:24 Our football, where's your guy from, when you spoke to me?

04:28 Our football is not fit for purpose.

04:32 A lot of the issues we've raised are symptoms of an underlying problem.

04:40 When people go to the stadium, they are competing with their social time.

04:44 People want to be entertained.

04:46 Why are we not being entertained?

04:49 We need to do, as Dr. Ndiaye said, to diagnose in terms of management and situational analysis.

04:58 We are all, as my senior colleague, Zungu Thogme, said, we are all pretty much the ostriches.

05:04 Our football is not fit for purpose.

05:07 The issues you see about officiating, the issues you see about security, the issues

05:12 you see in the fans are symptoms of the underlying product.

05:17 If we are able to realize that this is the core of the problem, all the other things

05:24 we are speaking to will come out, about quality of management, about people.

05:31 Mowko Afadjidou made comments.

05:36 The contextual environment in which we are managing football now is completely different

05:42 from when Dr. Ndiaye was there.

05:43 It's completely different from when my colleague Neil, while he was able to, it's completely

05:48 different.

05:49 The technological environment, the social environment, the economic environment, and

05:54 the impact of the globalization, they are completely different.

06:00 We have not been able to find answers to the impact of these things, and that is why we

06:07 are where we are.

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