Sports and Recreation Minister, Kofi Iddie Adams, says Ghana is not yet fully prepared for the upcoming FIFA World Cup but has put in place structures to ensure readiness when the time comes.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV\u2019s\u00a0The Point of View<\/strong><\/em> on Monday, March 30, the minister responded to questions about the country\u2019s preparedness both as a team and as a nation.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t say we are 100% ready, but we have set systems in place that we will be ready when we have to be ready. Financially, the government has committed some budgetary funds for the team as we saw in the 2026 budget,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Adams explained that preparation for the World Cup goes beyond the performance of the Black Stars on the pitch, noting that broader national activities are also being planned.<\/p>\n \u201cWorld Cup goes beyond the team, just the Black Stars playing. There are a number of things that you have to do. There are a number of activations you want to do because you want to also promote the country beyond just the 90 minutes that they will play,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n He revealed that government has budgeted a total of $30 million for Ghana\u2019s World Cup campaign, covering both team-related and promotional activities.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we have other things we do \u2014 that was what we put all together giving us a figure of $30 million. There is an appropriation in the World Cup that is about $16 million which the team can utilise during the World Cup, if we are staying from group to the finals. Their feeding, training, hotel accommodation, per diems, bonuses \u2014 it is part of the tradition that we have. Bonuses are not things that are bad,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sports and Recreation Minister, Kofi Iddie Adams, says Ghana is not yet fully prepared for the upcoming FIFA World Cup but has put in place structures to ensure readiness when the time comes. Speaking in an interview with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV\u2019s\u00a0The Point of View on Monday, March 30, the minister responded to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":16377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3590,41,11],"tags":[873,5180,4634],"class_list":["post-16376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc","category-general-news","category-sports","tag-black-stars","tag-kofi-iddie-adams","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16378,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/revisions\/16378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}