No need to resume Ghana Premier League – GMA President

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The President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Frank Ankobea has kicked against resumption of Ghana Premier League.

Some countries like Germany, USA, have set a date to resume their 2019/20 football season in order to compete.

As a result, discussions about resuming or cancelling the suspended Ghana Premier League have been going on in the media landscape.

Some are of the opinion that, the season should be annulled, while others have proposed that the Ghana FA should continue with the season.

But the president of the GMA – who is a frontline member in the fight against the novel COVID-19 pandemic – has advised the football governing body not to resume football activities in the country.

“Football is a form of entitlement. If you play and there are no supporters, who will you be entertaining ?

“We know how close supporters are in the stadium and you know how the disease spread quickly from one person to the other,” He said on Hello FM’s Kokrokoo.

“There’s no need to resume the Ghana Premier League. We should wait for the COVID-19 disease to come down before we start thinking about football.

He indicated that football fans should value their lives more than the satisfaction they would get from watching football.

“We should value our lives more than entertainment.”

Football activities in the world have been standstill since the outbreak of the novel COVID-19 pandemic.