“We will not work with them because the mandate given to them by FIFA is to facilitate the participation of all national football teams in FIFA and CAF organized competitions, especially the upcoming World U20 Female world cup in France but not to organize domestic competitions”.
This has been the chorus trumpeted by a majority of the “football people” over a period of time now. This same song was sung when they were informed, through GHALCA, to come with suggestions on whether the abandoned 2017/18 Ghana Premier League should be continued after receiving a letter from the liaison team.
“Are we in crisis?” Yes, I believe we are because it has now dawned on us that we are not in normal times and it’s not business as usual. So how do we deal with this crisis that is the path of the bridge we have reached now, so how do we cross it?
Crisis management is where an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders.
And, in my opinion, that is exactly where Ghana football is today. The question is how do we manage this crisis?
I remember vividly in our MBA class at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr Akuoko told us that managing crisis that has befallen you or an organization for the very first time demands deep strategic thinking and logic reasoning.
This is because you always get confused and will not know where to start from. So, now I can assume that stakeholders in the football industry are all confused and don’t know where to start from.
Now Ghana football is in near-irreparable disarray and it has become difficult to know where to start from. We got here though, thanks to Tiger Eye PI investigative piece, #12. I have christened this era in our football history as a golden opportune time to sanitize the game we love so much, a game that is also the passion of the nation.
Government taking steps to dissolve the Ghana Football Association will take a very long while because as the saying goes, “the wheels of justice grind slowly” and from events so far, the government is not willing to back down on its quest to dissolve the FA.
Can we put this behind us and continue our game? Yes! Thankfully FIFA has given us a liaison team made up of Dr Kofi Amoah and Francis Oti Akenteng who have assumed a temporal responsibility of taking charge of all football-related activities in the country, a team we are told has since received written congratulations from the World Football governing body (FIFA) for what they have done so far.
At this stage, I can only admonish football people to cooperate with the FIFA/CAF liaison team to take steps to bring our football back because there is no other avenue than to work with them. Whether they have the mandate or not, they are the only recognized team by both FIFA/CAF and the government.
A word to the wise………………
JONES ASANTE MFODWO
JOURNALIST.