President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, has said his outfit will stop the payment of bonuses in the future to players of the nation’s male U-17 national team, Black Starlets.<\/p>\n
The recent crop of Black Starlets players who took part in the African U-17 Championships and the World Cup in India were given USD 8,000 as rewards for their exertions in the two tournaments.<\/p>\n
Ghana finished second in the African tournament and made it to the quarterfinals of the world cup before being dumped out by Mali.<\/p>\n
The finances handed out to the players led to a lot of public debate and Nyantakyi has revealed that the move will not be repeated in future.<\/p>\n
“We agree that we need to focus on the necessary things of life and for the young players, these things are food, clothing, shelter and education.<\/p>\n
“We should move away from the practice of giving young players thousands of dollars. These boys tend to misuse the amounts of money given to them.<\/p>\n
A new crop of U-17 players is set to be put together for the qualifiers for the 2019 African U-17 tournament which will be played in Tanzania.<\/p>\n
A host for the 2019 U-17 World Cup is expected to be determined by FIFA by the close of 2017 or early 2018.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: Nathan Quao\/citifmnonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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