Players
and Management members of the senior National Football Team, the Black Stars,
will no longer be paid winning bonuses when they play a friendly game.
This
new development is a brainchild of the Dzamefe-led Commission of Inquiry set up
to look into Ghana’s disastrous 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign in Brazil.
According
to page 52, section 3.6.2, of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry,
subtitled Winning Bonuses, it is recommended that winning bonuses should be
paid within the context of COMPETITIVE matches only for all the National Team.
This
new rules is certain to cause some disaffection within the Black Stars and the
Ghana Football Association, considering the fact that each players as well as
technical members of the Black Stars hitherto received a fixed amount of USD
$5,000 for friendly games.
As
at the time of going to press, the Black Stars had not received their winning
bonuses one month after beating Mauritius 7-1 in the 2017 African Cup of
Nations qualifier in Accra.
Prior
to the Mauritius game, the Black Stars also played a friendly game against Togo
at the Accra sports stadium and the players expected to receive $5000 for that
game, however, no monies have been paid to them.
Finder
Sports cannot authoritatively
link the delay in the payment in the bonuses to the Dzamefe Commission’s
report.
Ghana
is expected to face Mozambique in August for the second group H game of the
qualifiers.
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