Glo premier league - jerseys

It’s the 21^st century, an era where football is no longer treated as back then in the 17^th and 18^th century but as an industry where lots of money is generated. In fact hundreds of billions of US dollars are made from owning football teams annually. No wonder some of the world’s richest people are investing greatly into the sport.

Football or soccer as it is widely known in greater parts of the world has found its way into the hearts of Africans and gained its roots in the land to the extent of producing some great and excellent players, the likes of Abedi Ayew Pele, George Opong Weah, JJ Okocha, Roger Mila, Kanu as well as Samuel Eto’o Fils, Drogba, Essien, Yaya Toure, Asamoah Gyan as the 21^st century stars of Africa.

Ghana as a nation has improved considerably on the African and world stage seeing them go through to the quarter finals of the South African world cup 2010(the first time hosted in Africa), the second African side to do so after Cameroun in Italia 1990. Despite all the individualistic and national success in the sport, you would think a nation like Ghana would treat soccer like a precious’ god’. But surprisingly that is not the case.

Though Ghanaians love the sport so passionately little has been done by officials and top flight teams to prove it.

As at the 2011/2012 we all witnessed many Ghanaian premier league teams with playing league matches with;

•  No name brand jerseys: these are jerseys that are designed and made by individuals , that is to say that makers of the jerseys 
•  non-sponsored jerseys:
•  no sponsor fees: these are jerseys designed or made by name brands but instead of sponsoring or paying these teams to wear their jerseys as it is advertised by the teams where ever they play, the teams are readily happy to advertise these companies jerseys without receiving any monies from them  
  

The most amazing fact is that in this 21^st century top flight teams in the premier leagues in a nation like Ghana put on jerseys which have do not have player names on them. Teams like Accra hearts of oak were all victims to this. It even went to the extent that players of such teams changed the jersey numbers registered in their names at the beginning of the season anytime they felt like doing so and did not face any sanctions or what so ever from the Ghana Premier Board(GPB) and not even the GFA(Ghana Football Association).

This is absolutely no good for Ghana and certainly not for Africa soccer in this modern age of soccer advancement. Let’s do our best to raise the game in Africa.

STAND TALL AND BE A PROUD AFRICAN (STABAPA).