Prince Boateng lashes at the Ghanaian Football Federation after suspension in Brazil


Kelvin-Prince Boateng.Photo/Courtesy
Ghana’s midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng has kicked back at his native football association after being suspended and kicked out of the team with his teammate Sulley Muntari just before Ghana’s match with Portugal which they lost.
Boateng called the treatment he got even before the match as ‘amateurish’ saying that some of the agreements the Ghana football Association had made were not met before and during the World Cup.
Boateng was suspended after he was accused of making “vulgar verbal insults” towards Coach James Appiah.
“The nightmare lasted from the first day of the preparations until the very end,” he said.
“I would never have thought that the preparations and the World Cup itself could be so badly organized. The hotels, the flights – everything was amateurish.” He added.
Boateng blamed his problems in Brazil on the Ghana National Coach saying it was the coach who persuaded him to play for the national team while he was still in AC Milan. The Schalke midfielder had retired from international football after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
“It was him who kept talking about me as the leader and who had declared his confidence in me. I have never had a problem with him and I have always behaved positively. But if somebody asked me whether he is a good coach i will out rightly say no,” he said.
“I’m just wondering why he begged me to play for Ghana when I was still at AC Milan but when I came back to play for my team he said am not playing anymore.”
Boateng denied claims that the team there was dispute between the players and the association over allowances saying the players only had issues with things like accommodation and transport.
“Allowances were the smallest problem. But everything kept stacking up over the whole month. It was catastrophic. The practice conditions, sleeping conditions, everything. I just wonder where all the money goes.”

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