Asante Kotoko legend questions club’s decision to wear green jersey in Hearts of Oak clash

Opoku Nti, the former Chief Executive Officer of Asante Kotoko, has expressed disappointment with the current management for changing the team’s traditional red color to green during their recent game against Accra Hearts of Oak.

According to Nti, playing against their rivals in a green jersey was incorrect as the red color is widely recognized as Asante Kotoko’s traditional color and identity.

Unfortunately, Hearts of Oak beat the Ghanaian champions, leading to them earning the maximum betPawa Ghana Premier League (GPL) points and the GHALCA 2023 Presidential Cup at the Accra Sports Stadium.

Speaking about the traditional colours of the club, Opoku Nti sad: “I’ve been speaking about something like the Kotoko colour ‘red-red’. Everyone will expect the red colour wherever you take Kotoko but it has changed to green today.

“You will see them training and playing with it but they will say jersey does not play. Every club has its colours. The identity of the club is the colours.

”Unfortunately, these things are going on but people don’t really care. The spirit of Kotoko is in the red colours. Some years ago you will see and feel the spirit in the red colours whenever the likes of Wilberforce Mfum, Sunday, and other players are coming out of the tunnel. You shouldn’t go for some blue or green jersey and tell us that it does not play. Is unfortunate but we cannot leave the club. We will continue to support them. It shall be well and we know that it will be better than what happened in the past,” he lamented while speaking in an interview with Ghanasportspage.com.