Accra (Greater Accra) 01 February 2002 - A
security officer with Fire Amour Company Limited at Kaneshie in Accra died of
over excitement on Wednesday after the Cup of Nations match between Ghana and
Burkina Faso.
Mr Sampson Minta, 59, watched the encounter
with passion together with his colleagues at the office where he incidentally
resides. An eyewitness, Mr Philip Antwi who is also a director of the company
told the ‘Times’ that the deceased was depressed after the Burkinabe’s goal.
According to him, the equalizer came as a
surprise, and the winning goal overwhelmed Minta so much that he celebrated it
all over the premises of the company. He said a few moments later, Mr Minta was
found in the house behind the premises of the company lying in a chair
motionless.
Mr Antwi said they quickly rushed him to the
Kaneshie Polyclinic where he was referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. He
was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Minta is survived by a wife and
four children. The body has been deposited at the Korle-Bu Mortuary.
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Osam said all the changes he made were as a
result of injuries and praised the finishing power with which they overcame a
late shock, fought their way up to level terms and finally crushed the
Burkinabes. When asked what role luck could have played in the timing of the
Black Stars two goals scored by Isaac Boakye, he said citing luck would be
taking too much from the players who exhibited such great courage and
unyielding spirit.
He said football is played in 90 minutes so if
luck is the reason for scoring, then all goals scored in the 90 minutes could
be so likened. Against the Super Eagles he said what is good is that the
players will be playing with the spirit of underdogs, knowing that they do not
have any super stars such as Kanu or Okocha and “their only strength is in
their collective will.”
Accra (Greater Accra) 01 February 2002 - Mr
Douglas Djarbeng, Chairman of the Division One League Board has said that from
next year, the board would seek sponsorship for the national middle league and
the sub middle league.
Speaking to GNA Sports in a telephone
interview, Mr. Djarbeng said due to the large number of participating teams in
the division one the board is not able to get sponsorship for it hence their
decision to start from the top by limiting themselves to the middle league and
the sub middle league.
Mr. Djarbeng said the national division one
league comprises 48 teams and this deters many prospective companies from
taking up the sponsorship of the league. He said the board would seek
sponsorship for the middle league and the sub middle league before extending it
to the main Division one league adding that contacts have already been made
with a number of companies but the deals are yet to be finalised.
On the just ended middle league, Mr. Djarbeng
said they had not been able to achieve 100 per cent success in this year event
due controversies before and after the league. He said as at now there are
still cases pending before the disciplinary committee and these has taken some
marks from the success of this year's league as compared to that of last year
which had only few problems.
Mr Djarbeng advised club chairmen to desist
from under ground dealings in matches and to be honest in whatever they do so
that the coming season would a success. He said football is not a game of life
and death therefore people must see it as game which could be won or lost at
any time and urged club chairmen to educate their fans. He congratulated clubs
in the northern sector for showing sportsmanship in the division one league as
well as in the national middle league.
On the Black Stars, he said the team is capable
of getting far in the competition because they are now gathering momentum and
expressed confident that they can beat Nigeria to qualify for the semi finals.
He said the match against Nigeria is going to be real test for the Black Stars
considering the rivalry between the two countries.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 01 February 2002 - A-one
day coaching clinic organized by the Accra Polo club as part of a programme
lined up by the Accra Polo Club to mark its centenary anniversary ended in
Accra on Thursday.
The course took players through hitting and
passing skills, horse ridding, hand direction, game strategies and basic safety
precautions. About 12 members of the Accra Polo Club were taken through basic
skills by instructors who are professional polo players from England and are in
the country to engage a Ghanaian side in fund raising match for the Anphani
Children's home in the northern region.
Speaking to GNA Sports Madam Lucinda De
Laroque, British Airways Public Relations Manager for Africa and the only
female in the British Airways team said in the past, it is only the well to do
who play polo, because horses are hard to come by and are difficult to
maintain. She said presently it is easy to keep and maintain horses and one
does not necessarily need much money to play polo.
Mr Harold Awuah -Darko, a veteran player of the
Accra Polo Club said when visiting teams are in the country such clinics are
organized for them to impart their knowledge to Ghanaian teams. He said some
players of visiting teams are quite advanced than the Ghanaian players hence
the need for such clinics for them to improve upon their skills.
Mr Awuah-Darko said as part of their focus to
demystify the game of polo as the preserve for the rich they would expose the
game to as many people as they could by way organizing ridding in schools and
for people who show interest in the game. He said the game of polo has
developed gradually in the country because it was formally played by the
British colonial masters but now it is an all Ghanaian affairs.
He said their aim is to get more people
involved in the game and to get other African stares to promote the sport as
well as to get sponsorship.
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