When George Manneh Oppong Weah became President of Liberia in January 2018 the global football fraternity stood up and congratulated him massively because it is uncommon for former football stars to assume such high office.
As Ghana decides today, Monday 7th December 2020, we at SPORTSWorldGhana.com wish our dear nation a peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Vote peacefully and encourage others to do the same.
The practice of former soccer icons go into politics is common in the South Americas and some parts of Africa but not in Ghana. The great Pele of Brazil became the Extraordinary Minister of Sport for his country between 1995 – 1998. Former Egypt international Mustafa Mansour became a government minister in Egypt.
Former Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union striker Oleg Blokhin is now a member of the Ukraine Parliament. Romario has been in the senante of Brazil since 2010. Hakan Şükür is also doing it in Turkey after retiring from football but in Ghana , there are hardly any names you could thing of. We can say as a matter of fact that no known former international footballer from this country has taken to this path of governance and politics.
Even just recently former Ivory Coast international Bonaventure Kalou became a major in one of the Ivory Coast towns.
And so we ask you. Which of these former Ghana soccer stars stand the biggest chance of President of Ghana should they decide to take to politics just like their former colleague George Weah did in Liberia?
Abedi Ayew Pele or Sammuel Osei Kuffour or Stephen Appiah ” Tordnado”?
