The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has been mandated by FIFA to impose a national transfer ban on Asante Kotoko if they fail to make payment to Esperance before May 17, 2020.



The Porcupine Warriors have been slapped with a $240,000 fine by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for the illegal registration of Emmanuel Clottey in 2015 who was then a player of the Tunisian club.

FIFA in a statement has warned the Ghanaian club to make payment before the deadline or risk being demoted and banned from all football activities.

The statement read, “As a member of FIFA, the Ghana Football Association is reminded of its duty to implement this decision and provide FIFA with proof that the transfer ban has been implemented at a national level.

FIFA added that should the GFA fail to implement the ban will also lead to sanctions: “If the Ghana Football Association does not comply with this decision, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee will decide on appropriate sanctions on the member. This can lead to expulsion from FIFA competitions”.

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Former Nigeria’s Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has been banned for life from all football activities by FIFA for collecting bribes.

The official statement from the FIFA Ethics committee stated that Siasia attempted to manipulate matches for betting purposes. The decision to ban the Nigerian coach came after conducting a “large scale” investigation.

Following the news, Samson Siasia has denied all the allegations leveled against him.

“I don’t know anything about this. I did nothing wrong and I have not received any letter from FIFA.” he told a Nigerian journalist Colin Udoh

Samson Siasia added that he was never given the opportunity to defend himself and will do all he can to clear his name.

Samson Siasia will address a press conference at 12 noon Nigeria time (7AM EST) at the National Stadium in Abuja, Nigeria.

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“The adjudicatory chamber found Mr Kinteh guilty of having violated art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts and other benefits) and art. 21 (Bribery and corruption) of the 2012 edition of the Fifa Code of Ethics,” Fifa said.

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The investigation against Kinteh began on 1 March 2017 and was linked to Fifa’s presidential elections in 2011.

He was named in a 2014 investigation report by Fifa’s then-ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia for taking payments from former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam.

Bin Hammam was suspended in 2011 days before the election against then-president Sepp Blatter after being implicated in bribing Caribbean voters.

As well as the suspension, which comes into force immediately, Kinteh was fined US$200,000.

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The mother of two appeared on a late night TV show on Tuesday to express support her better half who has been handed a life ban from all football activities and a hefty fine by FIFA for breaking its code of ethics.

Christine-Marie feels the former FIFA Council member has been treated unfairly because there are no criminal charges against him.



”My pain is that Ghanaians should exercise patience. Kwesi is not running away; he’s here. If the court or if the processes find Kwesi guilty, he’s available to face the consequences,” she said on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme.

”But until then, the name-calling, the insults, the jubilation and the celebrations that he’s down, I am begging and pleading that we should all hold our horses and wait.

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”Time will tell; he’s ready to face any consequences.

”He says if I have done something wrong; let the law take its course. If he’s found innocent we give glory to God; so we are ready for any consequences.”

She later suggested that her husband wasn’t himself.

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“They brought $40,000 first; and then later on, they brought $60,000 dollars.



“I have not gathered the courage to watch the full video, because the small that I watched, I knew that the way he is talking; that is not my husband; something might have gone wrong,” she bemoaned.

When the host asked if he could have been under a spell or some incantations, she responded in the affirmative.

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