Wednesday 25 December 2013

SANNIE DARRA HITS ON PREMIER LEAGUE CLUBS TO FIND SPONSORSHIPS



SANNIE DARRA EDGES  CLUBS TO FIND SPONSORSHIPS



Communication director of the Ghana football Association(GFA),Ibrahim Sannie Darra has thrown a challenge to the 16 clubs in the Ghana Premier League to look for Sponsorships for themselves and stop depending only on the GFA for assistance.
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In an interview with Live fm,an Accra based radio station, the FA spokesperson said “The onus does not only rest on the GFA. The clubs have also got their bits to do. The club have also got to market themselves and  their matches. When we talk about the League not having sponsors, why do we not talk about the clubs not also having sponsors. A lot of the clubs in Europe don’t depend more on the finances from their FA’s but they rely more on the finances they are able to generate from sponsorships,”.

The Ghana Premier league has no sponsorship after the FA terminated the contract between they and Nigeria’s telecommunication network Globacom after the leading communication company failed to pay their bits of the agreement .

Prior to the start of the season the FA were supposed to pay the 16 league clubs some sum of money to enable them prepare ahead of the season as part of the deal the FA had with Glo.
Glo failed to pay the FA a sum of $6.5million after the 2012/2013 season which eventually lead to the terminating of the whole deal.

Asante Kotoko,Accra Hearts of Oak,Medeam SC and Ashanti Gold are the only sides out of the 16 clubs who has got sponsorships


By:Frank Darkwah

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