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The relatively high number of injuries in the ongoing Ghana Premier League has coaches fretting and David Obeng Nyarko, who is the Communications and Brands Manager of Kotoko has blamed the poor pitches.
The defending league champions has been inconsistent in the domestic top-flight. They currently sit 5th position with 39 points after 26 matches into the season.
Speaking to Sompa FM, Obeng Nyarko described pitches in the country as injury prone, while blaming consistent injuries for his outfit struggle in the ongoing season.
“Injury are many in Ghana Premier League. our season has really been hampered by injuries, almost every single player at Kotoko has faced an injury or two"
"A lot of factors lead to this injury situation in our league, sometimes the quality of the pitches we use, let be frank with ourselves, these are injury prone pitches because ideally, the pitches need to be watered before games because some of the pitches are very hard, Muntari even complained"
“In order to prevent injuries our medical team resort to taping, they use tape the ankle of our players in every game. Those tapes are very expensive and I can tell you that, in every game we spend almost GHC5000 on taping our players just to avoid injuries. In fact, injuries have really worried us” he said.
Asante Kotoko will host Aduana Stars in matchday 27 of the Ghana Premier League at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.
The defending league champions has been inconsistent in the domestic top-flight. They currently sit 5th position with 39 points after 26 matches into the season.
Speaking to Sompa FM, Obeng Nyarko described pitches in the country as injury prone, while blaming consistent injuries for his outfit struggle in the ongoing season.
“Injury are many in Ghana Premier League. our season has really been hampered by injuries, almost every single player at Kotoko has faced an injury or two"
"A lot of factors lead to this injury situation in our league, sometimes the quality of the pitches we use, let be frank with ourselves, these are injury prone pitches because ideally, the pitches need to be watered before games because some of the pitches are very hard, Muntari even complained"
“In order to prevent injuries our medical team resort to taping, they use tape the ankle of our players in every game. Those tapes are very expensive and I can tell you that, in every game we spend almost GHC5000 on taping our players just to avoid injuries. In fact, injuries have really worried us” he said.
Asante Kotoko will host Aduana Stars in matchday 27 of the Ghana Premier League at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.