The Soccer team had stopped training altogether with the exception of
some of the players who play with some teams around. Those who are not
in any team do not report for training because they have been
seriously warned that should they fail to meet the pass mark, they
will be withdrawn from the College without any consideration.
They were of the view that they are not prepared to sacrifice their
academics for training sessions. They said that if they were to go for
training while their mates studied, they were definitely not going to
do well in the exams and this would attract more harassment from the
teachers.
Others said they want to also become proud Amanfoo in the near future.
Moreover, recently whenever they go for training, no food is reserved
for them at the Dining Hall and they always have to go through a tough
time before getting food to eat. It has been 3 consecutive years since sports boys
started suffering from starvation, a putrid legacy of Mr. Owusu-Achiaw, who appointed
the worst Senior Housemaster in Prempeh history.
It was also learnt that some of them
have started looking for schools elsewhere should they be withdrawn
from the College.
Some known schools have also started hunting for some of our players
and are baiting them with better incentives. The Coach of one of these
schools is said to be in talks with some of the players just that they
are resolved to remain in the green shirt.
Utterances and threats from
some of the teachers -- another putrid legacy of Owusu-Achiaw -- have also not helped matters. The players are
allegedly disgraced in front of their other colleagues. Their rebates
for staying in the boarding house have also been allegedly withdrawn
by the College and from next term, any of them who would want to
continue staying in the boarding house will have to pay the full
boarding fee.
They are calling for an urgent meeting between the Old Boys, the
Sports Committee and the Headmaster so that their grievances could be
resolved. If this is not done, some of them might find their way into
other schools with Santasi as one of the most likely places instead of
returning to Sofoline to play in the Regionals Soccer Competition. Our
Coach has however traveled to Nigeria and was not available for
comments.
The soccer boys were featured in a video interview on this website in which they appealed
to the headmaster to reduce the "50% passing mark" for their sake since they spend too much
time on the field training. Prempeh requires that each student maintains a 50% average for
promotion. The very day the video appeared here, OWASS sports master, who has much lower standards,
approached our boys and invited them to transfer to OWASS, where he will let them go up with only a 20% mark.
Science Quiz contestants had their dream crushed; now the football team, our only remaining hope is falling apart because
of mismanagement. When will this Headmaster get anything right?
