Former Ghana international Bashiru Gambo has revealed why he quit the Black Stars despite having a top form at the time.
Gambo, who featured for the national between 2000 and 2003 says he personally call it a quit for Black Stars due to lack of transparency on the part of the FA.
The Black Stars in 2000 participated in the inauguration of Abuja international stadium in Nigeria and this according to Gambo led to his surprise exit from the national team.
As part of the commission of the stadium, the country decided to play a four nations tournament with countries like Ghana, Cameroon, Oman and Nigeria.
However, Gambo in an interview with Don Summer of Angel FM in Kumasi explaining why he stopped playing for Ghana indicated that, the nation’s football governing body then were not transparent, saying they underdsiclose the money gain during the Black Stars participation in the four nation tournament in Abuja, Nigeria.
The former King Faisal midfielder averred that players who participated in the tournament did not benefit from the money given to the FA by the Nigerian governor. .
“Due to my performance at club level, I got friends from Nigeria. Yakubu Aiyegbeni was my closest friend then so during the tournament I decided to sleep with him and it was through him that I realized the FA was using them for their personal gains”
“Whiles in the room I had some conversations with Yakubu. I told him their governor has given the FA $70,000 as participation fee. As soon as I said that, he made it known that the governor gave Ghana $700,000 which means the players were fooled”
“After that unscrupulous behavior on the part of the FA, when I got to my club in Germany, I wrote letters to Alhaji Jawula, Oheneba Charles and E.T Mensah that they shouldn’t hand me a call up again. So I personally quit the national team because of lack of transparency”
He adds that, the Ghana FA on numerous occasions persuaded him to use his money to buy flight tickets to honour Black Stars matches and is of the view that affect him when he returns to his club abroad.