Thursday 17 October 2013

problems of colts football in Ghana

Although colts football over the years has archived alot for Ghana, it cannot run away without number of challenges. Despite all the achievements that were explained in the second blog,colts football in Ghana is less known to many Ghanaians. In Ghana a player who plays his football at colts level is not recognised as compare to their professional couterparts.
Colts football in Ghana is played on bad pitches, pitches that teams in Europe and other parts of the world will not even use as training ground. This lack of good  pitches for our colts teams has made  it difficult for more talents to be discovered.
Lack of sponsorship, sponsorship has become a ghost name in colts level football in Ghana. Division one, two and three leagues are played throughout the country without a sponsorship. The absence of sponsorship in the scond and third tier of Ghana football is a major problem facing Ghana football in general, imagine a first division team from aflao traveling to play against navarongo xi stoppers in the upper east region without a sponsorship.
Colts teams in Ghana have been facing alot if financial difficulties over the years because of lack of sponsorship. Indeed managers and team coaches find it difficult to handle the players which subsequently leads to the colapse of the teams. In 2008-2009 season forinstance polytank came inn as the sole sponsors of the Ghana division one league but the deal broke down somewhere along the line. Since then the lower division teams have not gotten any sponsorship deal. Colts teams in Ghana play football not because of money but rather for pride. Most players at the lower division teams are not paid, even those who are paid how much do they earn at the end of the month?
Viewership, this is another problem facing the colts football in Ghana. Most of these colts teams play their Matches with only the Sun wathcing them spectating has been a major problem facing all aspects of Ghana football and colts football is not eception. In some of the venues even if a match is made free to the public, these venues still remain empty, this is because the venues in which the games are being played do not fit for association football. Much money is spend on the black stars, whereas colts football which is the back bone of professional football is tearing apart. In England for example where colts football enjoys alot sponsorship, the empire chapionship, the division one and all the lower division leagues are being played the way the premier league is played, that is, it is played in the all play all system. Whiles in Ghana, it is played on zonal basis to avoid much money spend. This has made it difficult for the professional league board (plb) to get quality teams in our premier league. If a team goes round to play all the teams before qualifying, that team will be fully prepared for the premier league. If a team play only zone one throughout the season for example and that team qualified to the premier league, what do you expect from such a team? Typical example is Inter alies, tema based team which has played six games in the on going premier league without a single point. Indeed, colts teams are the back bones of professional football if attention is not paid, colts football will surely colapse. If the root of a tree is cut off the leafs get dry, if the leafs dry, what happens next? ...........

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