President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi says his outfit does not make any financial gains anytime the Black Stars engage in a friendly.
Kwesi Nyantakyi said this in relation to claims that the Ghana Football Association use the Black Stars friendies as bait to get cash.
However, the President said Black Stars friendly games rather cost the FA huge sums of money and it even prevented the team from playing any game in the last international break.
“The notion that the Black Stars is a business unit and that we have to make profit anytime we[Black Stars] play a game is wrong," he stated in an interview with Zylofon FM.
"We play friendly games because it gives the coach the opportunity to access the team, the new players and old players."
"When we play football games, it comes at a huge cost and sometimes we don't get anything from the game. Most of the times, even when we make some money, we use it to finance the game. Last time, when we didn't play any game, everybody was asking why we didn't play any game."
"The reason we did not play any game was that we did not have money and the teams that wanted to engage us in friendlies wanted us to pay for the game so that was the reason we did not play any game.
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Kwesi Nyantakyi also disclosed that the Black Stars will play two friendly matches in June against Japan and Iceland.