Soccer News of Wednesday, 9 April 2003
Source: gna
The national women soccer team, Black Queens, last Friday received their maiden weekly training allowance of 50,000 cedis each.
The Queens who have been in camp for the past six weeks were expecting to receive allowances covering the six weeks that they had been in camp but "this dream was dashed when we were paid for only one out of the six weeks.
Information gathered by the GNA Sports, said the team was promised the rest of the allowance by the close of the week. Some players the GNA Sports spoke to expressed unhappiness about the way things were being handled and called on the officials concerned to seek the welfare of the players and to do things that would motivate them to give off their best.
Indications are that the Ministry of Youth and Sports is yet to release money to meet payment of the teams bonuses after several weeks of application by the Ghana Football Association (GFA). It is not known whether the recent reshuffle at the ministry could further prolong the payments.
It became clear in an interaction with a couple of players that the players are not generally happy with their feeding which majority of them described as awful. Irrespective of the complaints, moral in camp could be said to be at its peak as the players, according on coach Aryee, are gradually improving and mastering their roles.
The coach commended the FA for releasing the official bus of the Black Stars to the team saying "the availably of the bus has been very helpful in the sense that the team is able to train at the beach and play friendly games with local teams when possible"