Team Manager for Prison Ladies- a Ghanaian Women’s League club, Fainusatu Naomi Abdulai has revealed that some of their players are pregnant because of lack of football activities in the country.
Football activities in the country was brought to a halt following the revelations captured by an ace Ghanaian undercover investigate journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Ana’s video documentary dubbed Number 12 which uncovered the rot in Ghana football.
After the government suspended the activities of the then Ghana Football Association, a Normalization Committee was established to normalized the Ghana football. The Committee led by Dr. Kofi Amoah after meeting club owners ( Women) yesterday, a special tournament for women in the country was finalized.
The clubs would receive a sum of GHC 7,500 as participation fee whilst those who will reach the quarter-final would pocket GHC 3,000. The semi-finalists would get GHC 5,000 with the prizes for the finalists and the winner to be announced later.
Speaking to Accra based Happy FM, Fuinusatu believes the news is a welcoming one since some of local based female footballers in the country including her own outfit are heavily pregnant due to the halting of football activities in the country.
” The inactive has cost some of our players and some local based female footballers to become pregnant with some also entering into other social vices but we are excited for the special tournament”, she said.
“We’re grateful to the Normalization Committee for their decision to organize this special competition for us to be active and fit again”
“Two of our players are heavily pregnant and one is pregnant but not visible.
“One of them is married and the others are engaged so I am not saying that pregnancy and giving birth is not good but because they are grown-ups”
“I believe if are playing football they won’t get pregnant now. They might actually decide to give birth later”, she concluded.
