Kurt Okraku has done well as GFA president – Sports Minister Kofi Adams

Sports and Sport Minister, Kofi Adams, has praised the president of the Ghana Soccer Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, asserting he has no longer magnificent badly.

Mr Okraku became voted into tell of labor in October 2019, changing Kwesi Nyantakyi.

Below his administration, football has skilled a keen decline, especially the Shadowy Stars. The senior national crew has struggled to provoke within the final three international tournaments.

On the different hand, the woes of the crew were deepened after failing to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of International locations (AFCON) match for the principle time in twenty years.

Nonetheless the field minister beleives despite the challenges, Mr Okraku’s administration has no longer accomplished badly as president of the country’s football governing physique.

“As basic because the football system has been, Kurt Okraku has no longer accomplished badly. In all these conditions, he has been ready to write many wrongs,” he informed Asempa FM.

“I’ve had diverse engagements with the GFA, and I realise that they’re persistently planning on originate the game, but basically the most productive project has been the implementation of it.

“There became a knowing to slice up the football system into a Southern and Northern belt, the place skills shall be developed. The GFA has developed Prampram, which is a first fee thing, and one more thing has to procure with the Salvage Them Young Referee initiative. This became accomplished in silence, which is additionally excellent for our sport.

“These younger referees officiated the African College Championship, which is something we must be comfy with.

“These are some of the issues that CAF believes Ghana is doing upright, which I deem additionally went in favour of Kurt Okraku getting that tell,” he added.

Despite the Shadowy Stars’ challenges, the Shadowy Queens has licensed for the 2025 Females’s Africa Cup of International locations (WAFCON) whereas the Shadowy Satellites will participate within the U-20 AFCON, which is underway in Egypt