GFA closes down Tema Sport
Stadium
No relegation worries for Faisal - Grunsah
Accra (Greater Accra) 20 September 2001 - The Ghana Football Association (GFA) in consultation with the Professional League Board (PLB) has decided to close down the Tema Sports Stadium with immediate effect and has consequently shifted the 20th week Premier League match between Ghapoha and Kotoko to the Accra Sports Stadium to Saturday, September 22nd.
A release signed by Mr Apem Darko, Acting General Secretary of the GFA said the closure came about after careful study of points raised by Ghapoha on safety at the stadium. The GFA has accordingly closed it down for repair works.
The statement said subsequent home matches of Ghapoha would be played at venues to be determined by the PLB from time to time.
It would be recalled the Ghapoha wrote to the GFA seeking to play their match against Kotoko at the Accra Sports Stadium instead of Tema to ensure the safety of spectators.
The club contended that the walls of the Tema stadium are very weak and have collapsed at several points thus making crowd control very difficult.
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No relegation worries for
Faisal - Grunsah
Accra, (Greater Accra) 20 September 2001- The proprietor of Kumasi-based King Faisal,
Alhaji Mohammed Grunsah has said that his team would survive the premiership and
indeed, earn a respectable placement at the end of the season.
Speaking to the GNA Sports on Thursday, Alhaji Grunsah said they have mapped out strategies to ensure that the blunt attack of the team becomes potent enough to guarantee maximum points in their remaining matches.
King Faisal are now 13th wit 20 points on the 16-team table, just three
points more than bottom club Accra Great Olympics, with 11 matches to end
the season.
The club owner said his team has been playing well and what was responsible for their present position was hard luck and in some cases, poor officiating.
"We have been playing very well. I pay them very good salaries and when
they win, I give them big bonuses but luck has not been on our side and I
tell you, from next Sunday the luck will come and we shall win all our matches 'Insha Allahu', he said.
Though he spoke with great optimism, he declined to divulge how the magic
wand of luck would be evoked.
Asked if the present position of his team is not a reflection of the frequent sale of his players, he answered, "When I sell a player I get a good one to replace him," adding that, the present team is a very good one and the technical team is doing well but sometimes it is not the better playing team that wins matches.
King Faisal sold their arrowhead Nana Frimpong to city rivals Asante Kotoko just before the commencement of the current season. Last season Faisal sold Joe Louis who now steamrolls Kotoko's midfield to Great Olympics and the Accra club in turn sold him to Kotoko at the beginning of the current season.
Current European Champions League gold medallist with Bayern Munich, Samuel Osei Kuffuor and ex Ghanaian internationals playing in the German premier league, (Bundisliga) Ibrahim Tanko and Mallam Yahaya were also former King Faisal players. GRi…/
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