Of footballers, national team invitations and Mallam-like "agents"
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Ahmed displaying the Best Defender award for 2006
The national Under-17 team is in Kumasi to play a friendly match today at Wesco.
However, it appears Prempeh Ahmed Deedat Amoako will not be participating.
Ahmed left the Winneba camp over a week ago and returned home because he did "not feel
like being a part of the team anymore." He walked out on his own accord and gave up on the almost guarranteed
place in the national team.
Here is a guy who won the 2005 National Player of the Year when he played as a striker
and won the 2006 Best Defender award when he played in defense. In fact, the national coach who saw him play at
the just ended national Milo Football competition, assured him and Prempeh's Okei of a partnership in
central defense. Yet he walked away.
Whenever we call him, he states that he is "busy with his agent." It turns out that one Mallam-like agent, who claims to know
so much about world football and could therefore get him a contract abroad, is influencing him. Does he not realise
that playing for the national team
in the World Under-17 championships provides the irrefutable gateway to professional football in Europe?
The so-called "agent" is the same man who is on the verge of taking Prempeh's form one
sensation Sadat Karim to Switzerland.
Prempeh's Sadat Karim have only completed form one. Yet an agent could lure him to
Switzerland
First year star Sadat, who excelled in the national Milo football championship, has been so deeply
brainwashed by this agent that his mind is now set on leaving for Switzerland. Prempeh.org was approached
after the Milo finals about the prospect of de-brainwashing Sadat
and getting him to at least complete Prempeh before heading to Europe.
The Mallam follows Prempeh football and scouts our campus for talent to exploit. It also appears that the Moslem man shows interest in only Moslem players like Sadat and Ahmed.
When Ahmed was asked about why he does not let one of the Sofoline masters advise him on career matters, he says he cannot trust them with his money.
