Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, has criticized some Ghana National Football Team Coaches for their unfair stance regarding salary payments.
He said this while responding to wide ranging questions on pertinent troubling issues affecting football in Ghana to a Parliamentary Select Committee for Sports, Culture and Tourism, that is chaired by Wisdom Kobena Woyome.
After shedding light on how Ghana’s contingent at the 2023 AFCON spent three million dollars, Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif addressed the big issue of several national football team coaches being owed hefty sums in salaries and allowances.
In his speech, the Sports Minister chastised some of the aforementioned coaches over their stance despite such coaches signing performance based contracts.
“When you also qualify for the tournament and you are going to the main tournament, the bonuses that you (the team) are going to get, you the coach, you will get double of what the players will get. Then also after that, if there is any trophy that you are going to win, the coach will get some component of amount; these are performance based contracts that the coaches sign. It doesn’t necessarily mean that every coach should be based on a monthly salary.”
Minister of Youth and Sports Mustapha Ussif
“These contracts are always signed and when I listen to them they said they have not been paid…so if you signed to this contract and later you say you don’t get a monthly salary just because the senior national team coach gets a monthly salary, I don’t think it is fair.”
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Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif says not all national team coaches need to be paid monthly, as many agree deals to be paid when they fulfil certain objectives.
He says it’s unfair for them to turn around and complain when they know what they signed up for pic.twitter.com/sNyWv7Qufp