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Rent A Place And Pretend You Went To South Africa

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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Two duck hungers ran into one another early one morning. One of them noticed that the other's dog was just sitting there, who no interest in retrieving any of the fowl his master downed.

    The first hunter asked, "What's wro ...
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  • moyo 10 years ago

    Ghana is not giving the GFA a blank check this time. Corruption is going on every sector of the economy. We pray Govt. and Parliament to do the right thing. We cannot sponsor anybody to Brazil. If you want to go Brazil, buy y ...
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  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    Rent A Place And Pretend You Went To South Africa - Minister Tells Stranded Soccer Fans "

    The Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Ibrahim Saani Daara, the Fred Adu lost twin was in the news ye ...
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  • Justice Sarpong 10 years ago

    Ghanaweb did not publish the whole article.

  • KWAKU 10 years ago

    PLEASE POST THE REST OF THE ARTICLE. YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. I HOPE THERE IS NO NPP-NDC SLANT IN ANY OF THE DISCUSSIONS. ONLY A FEW PEOPLE IN THE SPORTS MINISTRY AND GFA ARE BENEFITING FROM THIS TRICKERY. THINK FIRST O ...
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  • KWAKU 10 years ago

    WHO DECIDED THAT IT WAS IN GHANA'S BEST INTEREST TO CAMP IN THE US? THE WHOLE NATION OF GHANA IS ASLEEP. WHY SHOW YOUR HAND? THERE ARE SEVERAL CHEAP CAMPING LOCATIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA THAT WILL ALLOW GHANA NOT TO TIP HER H ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    Ghana will camp in the USA, somewhere in California. You give us what you know. Tell us about those cheap camping locations in South America that makes you think Ghanaian authorities are impervious to big thinking. I hope you ...
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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    What will camping in California do for the Blackstars that they can't do cheaper in another country or even in Ghana? These Officials just want this opportunity to vacation in USA by using soccer as a cover. We have too many ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Vacation in Mexico or St Lucia

  • KWAKU 10 years ago

    POW, THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, CALIFORNIA WAS STILL PART OF THE USA. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT CHEAPER ALTERNATE LOCATIONS, PANAMA, PERU, BRAZIL, ECUADOR, PARAGUAY, AND GAYANA COME TO MIND. THIS DID NOT REQUIRE ANY BIG T ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    You wrote and I quote: We were all in the country when we could not even find money to feed the 1500 supporters we sent to South Africa and four years later this guy is telling us 10 million dollars was returned to the budget ...
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  • Justice Sarpong 10 years ago

    When did you start coming to this site? You have a short memory and you might be new to the forum. Your analysis of what you quoted shows how poorly you reason.

    I do remember and I will find newsreel later for you about ho ...
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  • terry 10 years ago

    Sarpong this is more emotive than reason.If apart from paying air fares you expect Ghana to as well pay to feed supporters then that exercise must stop.The English supporters are going to Brazil to support England from their ...
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  • KWAKU 10 years ago

    TERRY AND POW, I AM NOT SURE YOU GUYS GET WHAT SARPONG IS INFERRING. MY UNDERSTANDING FROM SARPONG'S PIECE IS THAT THE $18M OR $19M WAS NOT ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE AND FEED THE 1500 OR SO SUPPORTERS WHO WENT TO SA; THIS WAS RE ...
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  • Antiochus - London 10 years ago

    This is a typical example of create, loot and share. England's budget is 5m, America 2m and Nigeria even the 9.5m has been questioned. The Minister losing his job as a result. Yet poor Ghana has budgeted 15-20m? Is this some ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    Ghana is going with 23 players. Currently, each player is requesting $100K for appearance fee, if you multiply that by 23 isn't that alone $2.3 million? Guys relax, reason and stop comparing stuffs that has no base. Have you ...
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  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    You should know better The Washington Post had the whole US Soccer Federation budget publish for the years ending in 2015 article written By Steven Goff is in there.

    The GFA had never account for or publish it budget, they ...
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  • Berima Nana Kweku 10 years ago

    Sometimes when i read responses from readers on this forum, i get a clear picture of how people criticize and how much we put into it to ensure that corruption is reduced. But ask yourself who will listen. We've been making o ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    Klinsman's base salary is $3 million, his bonuses alone for this world cup will cost the USA between $500K to $10.5 million depending on where the team gets in the competition and you're telling me their budget is $2 million? ...
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  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    Do you really live in USA and it seems you have no idea how United States government operates.

    Where did you get the Coaches salary figure, bonus and other incentives from?

    Let meschool you a little about USA and its h ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    Re-read my comment and tell me where I said the federal government pays the coach? What I said was the USSF as in the United States Soccer Federation were allotted a total of $15 million for anything soccer from women's throu ...
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  • Dan 10 years ago

    Controversy over Brazil 2014 Budget

    The Ghana Football Association has presented a budget of $20 million to the Government as provisional budget for the mundial. There are clamours from various groups, individuals and stak ...
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  • Mr.N 10 years ago

    There difference is, in the USA it is OPM which means other people's money, there is no world cup budget before "do nothing congress in our case GFA is asking the government of Ghana to pay for whole budget. This budget deb ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    It's about the supposed $2 million budget for the USA as against $20 million and how most Ghanaians run with news without finding details. I just want people to acknowledge the fact that the USA is not going to Brazil with a ...
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  • Houdini 10 years ago

    You really sound like an idiot. What are you saying? That we should support this nonsense? Ghana as a country don't even have one urology center for our heath care and you are here defending this foolishness?

    Go to peacefm ...
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  • POW@ Brazil b3y3 huhuu hu 10 years ago

    You are equally as ignorant as those journalists out there. So that's where you tap your knowledge? No wonder, the fact that health care is in bad shape in Ghana doesn't mean there shouldn't be entertainment. All these people ...
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  • papadoc 10 years ago

    You will think some asses will be whipped. Not in Ghana, remember, the food chain goes all the way to the top. They are all in cahoots with one another. They will not talk about it openly and probe after probe will yield noth ...
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  • k,n,a, 10 years ago

    They should send civil servants too.they develop programmes for the nation to move forward.

  • BoB 10 years ago

    The whole country is a joke laughable

  • Alhaji Pope 10 years ago

    Fellow Ghanians if its true that, the minister of sport said this to football fans,
    quote: (Rent A Place And Pretend You Went To South Africa)
    unquote:
    Then folks, we have more than a problem in Ghana. it qonotes that, t ...
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