Vanderpuye Fires Back
Former Youth and Sports Minister Nii Lante Vanderpuye has said those blaming him for being the cause of Ghana’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia are “little minds”.
Director of Communications of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Ibrahim Sannie Darra had told Class FM that Mr Vanderpuye caused the failure of the Black Stars.
According to him, when the World Cup qualifiers started, the then-minister took decisions that affected the morale and psyche of the entire playing body, a situation he believes contributed largely to the team's poor performance in the qualifiers.
Darra said Mr Vanderpuye, for instance, slashed the winning bonus of the team from $10,000 to $8,000 and chided the players to be patriotic.
Aside from that, Mr Vanderpuye, Darra continued, denied all management members of the team complimentary tickets during matches and also cancelled indemnity and unclassified payments.
Speaking on Class FM Monday, 13 November, Sannie Darra said that: “Nii Lante Vanderpuye poisoned the atmosphere and insisted that the players and the management don't deserve their winning bonus as if they are thieves. He consistently attacked anybody who was connected to the team to the extent that he said his son could coach the national team and the media couldn't question him because they were happy of his attack on the FA.”
“We are now paying the price of all these things done against the country in the hatred of one person, Kwesi Nyantakyi,” Sannie Darra said, adding: “He didn't want to see the eyes of Nyantakyi. How can you plan a World Cup qualifier without the involvement of the FA president? Not only that but he chose to sideline him at the time where he was occupying one of the most powerful positions in world football. He sidelined the whole management of the team and went directly to negotiate with the players.
“In my opinion, Nii Lante Vanderpuye was never fit to be the Youth and Sports minister. If we are to juxtapose what he has done … to other ministers who have helped us qualify to the World Cup successfully, he will be ranked the lowest because he didn't act as a sports minister of Ghana but he rather acted as a sports minister in charge of anti-Nyantakyi campaign and in doing that he brought damage to the country and he never cared about it. I don't hate him but I am only disappointed in him and some of the sports journalists who joined his crusade knowing that this was going to damage us. Imagine that the globe will not see Ghana at the World Cup. This is very sad for a football country like Ghana,” he added.
In his riposte, Mr Vanderpuye told Class Sport’s Desmond Decker that: “People who say those things are little minds because I believe in such situations, you sit down and critically do analysis of the failure instead of making it personal. And I’ve heard so many things but I refrain from commenting on it.
“I will only say that they are not thinking well, those who are saying those things are not thinking well. If they are thinking well, they’ll be able to do critical analysis,” the Odododiodoo MP said.
He continued: “Under my administration, how many matches were played by the Black Stars? What were the results? One point home, one loss. After I left, how many matches have been played? What were the results? So why do you blame, why won’t you blame the current ministry or the current government or the minister? Have the GFA themselves looked at themselves to see whether they were also a contributing factor to our failure to qualify?”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Mr Sannie is it because he did not approve your outrageous budgets.
I needed an adjective to describe u but infact u are worst.
Nii Lante is rather the best sport minister. coz he didnt allow u people to steal u r talking rubbish. u better stop talking before come attack u.
Oh ghana unclassified monies was canceled so wat eish hmmm so wat he said he is happy God help us this man want 10000 dollars a match 8000 is not enough for our players mmmmmmm yooo Mr diarra we thank you wai but if I were u I will resign since u are not getting anything from de team eish thievesssss
Everyone is missing the question, the foundation was broken and was able to break the front of the team. I said it when Nii was made the minister and that this will happened. Some of the players were swayed by that. What made a player responded to him? He was a failure and the results is that we are not going to world cup. Thanks to Nii and Mahama who cannot see best materials in NDC but used half baked young guys who have nothing to show before 2009.
WE STILL HAD A CHANCE TO QUALIFY AFTER NII LANTE LEFT AND WHAT HAPPANNED ? HE SHOULD GIVE US A BREAK !! ALL THAT THE FA THINKS ABOUT IS WHAT GOES INTO THEIR POCKET AND ANYONE STANDING IN THEIR WAY IS AN ENEMY SHAME!!
This guy sani or whatever he is called is just not worth listening to anywhere. He talks like he doesn't have anything inside his head. Because the Former minister will not allow you guys to steal from the country , he is a bad minister. You're lucky we don't vote for ministers over ministries like nii lantey will be there until all of you guys leave or stop your corrupt ways
Look at this 1diot Sani... how much does he think the rich Germany pays as winning bonus to the national team players? Or Countries like England, Portugal, Italy or even Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt. They just sit at the GFA there and use black-stars to enrich themselves and anytime any body try to put sense into their mind this 1diot and their media "veranda" boys come and start disturbing us..
This guy is a monkey. He want earn monies he didn't work for. He want to go to Russia