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World Cup 2014: Ghana and Cameroon to investigate poor performance
The national football federation derided the players’ “disgraceful behavior.”
After the team was eliminated, local media began calling for sanctions. The tabloid newspaper La Meteo ran a front-page headline of “All Guilty” underneath photos of sports minister Adoum Garoua, coach Volker Finke and captain Samuel Eto’o.
Ghana’s Black Stars also had disciplinary problems. Two players were thrown off the squad just hours before its final match against Portugal. Sulley Muntari was suspended for allegedly attacking a team official and an executive committee member of the national football association, and Kevin-Prince Boateng was suspended for alleged “vulgar verbal insults targeted at coach Kwesi Appiah.”
The suspensions came just after Ghana resolved its own dispute over bonus payments when the government chartered a jet to fly $3 million in cash to players in Brazil. According to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the national bar association criticized the move as illegal, saying it “sets a bad precedent for the citizenry.”
Source: Reuters
