Nyantakyi to step down

Reeling under the sheer weight of the Black Stars’ 2014 World Cup debacle and the drama of player indiscipline, the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, intends to step down as the chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee as part of reforms for the management of the team.

Nyantakyi took over the committee in the aftermath of an Emergency Committee elections which swept away Fred Pappoe, then vice chairman of the GFA and chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee. 

Since then, the Stars camp has been bedevilled with a litany of issues that undermined discipline in camp and which took a dramatic twist in Brazil as one player took to blows to settle differences with management.

At a GFA Executive Committee meeting last Wednesday, Nyantakyi conceded that the  time had come for him to take a bow from mainstream management of the Black Stars, and rather concentrate on the larger business of football management in the country.

And at a press conference in Accra, also last Wednesday, the GFA president hinted that the management committee of the various national teams would also be reconstituted and the membership considerably reduced to make it relevant and efficient for the management of the teams.

A source, who attended the meeting, disclosed that the decision came up when a member suggested after Nyantakyi had given account of Ghana’s participation in Brazil that another person should have done that and not Nyantakyi as the president of the association.

Nyantakyi, he said, agreed with the proposal to step down as chairman of the management committee.