The General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Justice Yankson has stressed that it will not be possible for football activities to resume as he advises the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to think about restarting a new season.
The 2019/2020 football season was suspended back in March after President Akufo-Addo announced that the government is banning all public gatherings.
Since then, there have been conversations on whether the football season should be abrogated completed or remain halted and continued later on due to the uncertainty surrounding when the Covid-19 crisis will be over.
Speaking to Happy FM today, Dr. Justice Yankson says football activities cannot continue for now.
He explains, “At this point in line with measures by the President, we will be breaching the rules if football is allowed to go on. Football is a contact game and one of the preventive measures is to practice social distancing. As it stands now we haven’t been able to reduce the community spread and in line with what FIFA and the UEFA has done, we should hasten slowly and try not to play the game as soon as possible”.
“The more the season prolongs without matches it will be better to consider and start a new season. Even with the current season due to the challenges with Normalization, we were trying to do a crush program and now there is Covid-19. So this will give us another opportunity for us to prepare well for another season”.
The General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association further shared that his outlet will guide football authorities as to when it will be safe for football to return in due time.
“The health officials will help and guide the authorities on when football should return.As it stands now it is very difficult to predict when football should return.We are hoping the cases will not increase and we should all abide by the protocols so football can return soon”, he indicated.