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Nyantakyi's ban, a big loss to Ghana football - Ntow Fiako

By Haruna Mubarak
Kwesi Nyantekyi
Nyantakyi's ban, a big lost to Ghana football - Ntow Fiako
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Former Division One League Board Chairman, Mr. Ntow Fiako has envisaged that Ghana football will miss the absence of Kwesi Nyantekyi following the lifetime ban imposed on him by the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA).

The world football governing body on October 30, 2018, banned the former GFA boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi for life from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both National and international level.

In an interview with the GNA Sports, Ntow Fiako sympathized with the beleaguered Nyantekyi and added that "Ghana Football will miss him".

“To me, it’s an excess of a punishment and that is my personal thought especially the ban. I also feel that the fine is harsh,” Fiako said.

“Ghana football would miss Kwesi Nyantakyi. Nyantakyi has got his good side and bad sides as well. He is a human being, and according to Alexander Pope, to err is human. Once we are not God to claim infallibility, we are fallible and we all do mistakes.

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“He has made his mark, at least the youngest FA president in history. He is 23rd person to head the Federation. It was under his reign that we participated at the FIFA World Cup on three consecutive occasions and to even be counted as part of the African countries to reach the quarter-final among other things including the FIFA Under-20 success.”

“It was during his time that the FA got its first office structure; the three-story building the Association resides in now. He has got his pluses and minuses, but he is also the first FA president or chairman to be banned for life by FIFA.