LOW AFCON EUPHORIA IN KUMASI

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The Senior national soccer team, Black Stars, are, today, scheduled to start their campaign in this year’s edition of the African Cup of Nations football tournament in Equatorial Guinea with a match against the Teranga Lions of Senegal in the opening game of Group ‘C’.

 However, a survey by Ashanti Today of the Kumasi metropolis shows a very low euphoria among members of the public concerning the crucial match. 

The situation is in sharp contradiction with what happened during previous similar engagements of the team when both private and commercial drivers hoisted miniature flags on their vehicles, while soccer enthusiasts in the metropolis were dressed in paraphernalia of the Black Stars. 

The current apathy of the public towards the national team could be attributed to the behaviour put up by the team during last year’s World Cup in Brazil and the posture of some of the players thereafter. 

It would be recalled that during the AFCON 2015 qualifying matches played at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi, the fans who went to the stadium booed and jeered at the team in apparent show of strong disapproval of their behaviour in Brazil and thereafter. 

Meanwhile, it is still doubtful if the Electricity Company of Ghana would make light available for the viewing public to watch this afternoon’s match between Ghana and Senegal considering the change in the load shedding time table earlier released by the company. 

Instead of providing 24 hours of power and 12 hours of power cut, the ECG now provides 12 hours  of power cut and six hours of power cut due to what the Ashanti Regional PRO, Erasmus Kyere Baidoo attributes to power crisis.
                                   

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