GFA FIFA NC responds to reports of Black Stars stranded in Kenya

The Normalisation Committee for the Ghana Football Associated has officially responded to media reports that the Black Stars contingent is stranded in Kenya upon arrival.

Kwesi Appiah and his players are training in Kenya ahead of the 2019 AFCON qualifier against Ethiopia on Sunday November 18 but according to some Ghana media reports on Thursday the team was stranded and left to cater for themselves upon arrival in Kenya to begin training.

But the Kofi-Amoah led normalisation committee has debunked those reports as false.

Below is the full statement:

The GFA Normalization Committee’s attention has been drawn to publications by some media outlets alleging that the Black Stars team is stranded in the Kenyan city of Naivasha. The publications further suggest that the players and the technical team have been left to fend for themselves.

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We wish to state unambiguously that the said publications are a falsification of the bare facts.

FACTS:

First of all, the Black Stars team did not pitch camp in Naivasha and cannot be stranded in a city they have not visited. The technical team and the players that arrived Monday morning in Nairobi were bused from Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi to a 5-star City Lodge Hotel.

Itineraries drawn to get the players to report to camp were done with the approval of each of the players and their respective clubs as well as the technical handlers of the Black Stars. Thus the assertion that flight tickets could not get to the players in time is untenable.

Meanwhile all Nineteen (19) players invited are currently in camp at the team’s base in Nairobi. The Black Stars will depart for Addis Ababa Friday to continue preparations for Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia.

(Dan Kwaku Yeboah-Spokesperson, Normalization Committee)