Aduana Stars Director Manu sad after fans petitioned GFA over club's snub for Caf inter-club competitions

Published on: 07 July 2020

Aduana Stars Director Kofi Manu has expressed his disappointment in the fans after petitioning the Ghana Football Association (GFA) over the club's snub for the Caf inter-club competitions next season.

The Executive Council of the GFA selected Asante Kotoko and Ashanti Gold SC to represent Ghana in the CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup respectively following their decision to cancel the 2019/20 football season last week.

Aduana were leading the league table with 28 points after 15 matches played before the topflight was halted and as such, some fans of the club believed the side should have been offered the spot for next season's Caf competition.

"I was really sad when I heard that our own supporters wrote a letter to the GFA expressing their displeasure about Kotoko and AshantiGold representing Ghana in Caf [competitions]," Manu told Happy FM.

"These supporters are disgracing Aduana stars, a club that I am a part of. Disgracing us like this is bad. Even the regulations they quoted are against them.

"If we are to go by their letter and argument, then no club can go to Africa, not even Aduana Stars. How can you write a letter without understanding it to disgrace the club?

"Aduana Stars people were quiet when the Normalization Committee [who led the administration of football in Ghana between 2018 and October last year] wrote to Caf for Kotoko and AshantiGold to represent us.

"A whole me, Kofi Manu, a club that I am a director of can write such a letter and will not even contact me. This is just shameful.

"We can’t declare any club as a leading club on the table because we have not finished our first round. Clubs haven’t played the same number of games so they’re not equal and we can’t use that [to determine who represents Ghana in Africa]."

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