Vice Chairperson of Ghana Women’s Premier League Committee, Rosalind Amoh wants the Ghana Football Association to stop treating the Senior Women National team, Black queens as second class citizens.
In an exclusive interview with Starr FM sports, she bemoaned the lack of proper planning and resources channeled into building the team has resulted in the Queens abysmal performance at international competitions.
“For me the bottom line is how much resources are we ready to put in to help develop our national team. We shouldn’t treat them as second class citizens and only have need for them. Every year whether there is an international tournament or not, South Africa makes a conscious effort to have at least three international friendly games for the Bayana Bayana. But for us how many friendly matches are we able to organize for ourselves? We don’t do it”.
“If it’s not an invitational tournament, and even when we are invited to those competitions, how well is the preparation”?
“We hurriedly call the girls, put them in camp for like 6-7 days and off they go, and when they do not perform well we don’t understand. Bayana Bayana won’t do that and I think these are some of the issues we need to be looking at.” She told Starr Sports.
The performance of the Black Queens has not been impressive at international tournaments in recent years. The major feats the Queens have chalked in the past two decades have been winning gold at the 2015 All Africa Games and also been crowned champions of the 2018 WAFU Women’s cup. The Black Queens have not been able to qualify to the world Cup since 2007, and have struggled to win the Africa Women Cup of Nations despite making 12 appearances out of 13 editions. The team’s recent performance at the just ended Aisha Buhari invitational tournament where they won one game out of two matches played has led to many questioning the team’s ability to qualify for the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup Of Nations as they are set to meet Nigeria in their first qualifying game next month.
Speaking on Sports Fiesta on Starr FM, Roselyn Amoh wants the GFA to stop focusing too much on the women’s grassroot football.
“We are paying attention to grassroots development and we are not paying attention to the senior national team players and their maturity. Because most of them play at home and we play in an amateur of semi-professional league, we consider them as amateur and we do not treat them with same respect and dignity that we will give to our senor male national team. We are all wondering why South Africa has been able to chalk that success. I have always said that what South Africa lacked in talent and skills, they have used their resources to develop it.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5fm/Betty Yawson
