The Ghana Football Association has called on the South African Football Association to responsibly accept defeat and show respect to the Black Star’s achievement on the field.
This follows after SAFA boss Danny Jordan detailed a comprehensive formal complaint made to FIFA following Bafana Bafana 1-0 World Cup qualifier defeat to Ghana.
According to press statement issued by the Ghana FA earlier today, the West African nation has launched a blistering attack on South African’s false allegations and has called on their sister association to responsibly accept defeat.
“The Ghana Football Association call on the South African Football Association to responsibly accept defeat and show respect to the Black Star’s achievement on the field.
“For this is not the first time Ghana has defeated South Africa and this will not be the last time. In fact, every South African knows the pedigree of the Black Stars in football, a reason the team has a lot of following in South Africa. The GFA will continue to project the positive image of football and protect the integrity of the game across the globe”.
“The GFA wishes to state clearly that we will always operate within the FIFA Regulations and focus on our next match which is a play-off against any of the qualified teams we may be paired against”.
As a good sporting Association, we know that Bafana Bafana gave it their all but lost to a better team (and must be forthright to tell the South African public this). We wish Bafana Bafana and our colleagues at SAFA better luck next time.
“We wish to state that we have received correspondence from FIFA and would respond appropriately within the ambit of the FIFA Regulations.”
Ghana has qualified to the playoff and expected to be drawn against one of the nine teams left for the final round of the qualifiers.
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