Former Sports Minister blames poor domestic league on Ghana FA

Former Sports Minister, Enoch Teye Mensah has blamed the Ghana Football Association leadership for the poor standard of football in the domestic league.

Mensah insists the league lack quality as hoped for because of the improper management of the game by the football governing body.

He indicated that Ghana failed at the just-ended Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon because Ghana has a problem with structure from the juvenile to the top-flight.

“We were not ready for AFCON, we have a problem with our structure from the juvenile to the local league. Our local league is not strong because of the FA, ” he told Kumasi-based Akoma FM.

Mensah advised the hierarchy of the current FA to make consultations to ensure that the standard of football in the country will be improved.

“They can consult us to see how we did it and learn from it. We had a holistic approach to it. I worked hard to convert our amateur league to a professional one. You cannot ignore the basics and go and win. We need to go back to the drawing board.”

Ghana have not been able to win the Afcon since 1982.

In club football, the local clubs have failed on countless occasions to progress to the money zones of the Caf inter-club competitions