Kwasi Appiah wants clubs to insure players

Black Stars Head Coach Kwasi Appiah wants the Ghana Football Association to urge clubs in the country to insure all their players and place them on pension schemes to save them from becoming impoverished after their retirement from active football.

The former Asante Kotoko Head Coach made the call yesterday during a short ceremony at the GFA Secretariat where insurance giants GLICO Group of Companies handed the ex-Black Stars captain a mouth-watering incentive package to avert any financial challenges that arise after his tenure as Black Stars Head Coach or his retirement from coaching.

Kwasi Appiah said, “I thank GLICO from my heart for this honor and I believe that it is important that all clubs should try and insure their players. Most of our old players are suffering and are without pension schemes because no insurance was done for them. All their concentration was on playing for their club and country.”

GLICO presented Coach Kwasi Appiah with a 24-hour protective life insurance cover worth 50,000 Cedis annually throughout the entire period of his tenure and also gave him a personal donation of 2,000 Cedis.

Kwasi Appiah immediately donated an amount of 1,000 Cedis to the Retired National Footballer’s Association of Ghana (RENFAG) and 500 Cedis to Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio and Emmanuel Quarshie who have been hit by throat cancer and the Parkinson disease respectively in the last few years.