Okwahu United FC player banned for six games

Sports News for Thursday, October 22, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-10-22

The Player Status Committee (PSC) of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) prohibited Okwahu United FC player Felix Oppong from participating in football and all football-related activities for six matches and fined him an amount of GHc500.

Oppong, who is a former Okwahu United FC player, applied to the GFA Player Status Committee (PSC) on August 24 to be declared a free agent on the grounds that since the Club registered him, he had not been paid. no monthly salary.

In its investigations, the Committee noted that Oppong registered for Asaaka Sharp Arrows using a date of birth, May 20, 1998.

The player stated that his record with Asaaka Sharp Arrows was in the 2013/14 season and that he assumed after several years the records would be out of the GFA records.

He added that he then decided to get a new passport with a new date of birth that was used to register with Okwahu United FC. When further pressure was put to see if the Club was complicit in this new birth date, the player indicated that he did so of his own free will and Okwahu United were not aware.

The PSC therefore decided to sanction and fine the player in accordance with Article 21.1 of the GFA Disciplinary Code (2019).

Upon completion of the ban, Felix Oppong will revert to May 30, 1998 as his recognized date of birth, as recorded in GFA records.