COLUMBUS CREW SC'S NEW GHANAIAN DEFENDER HARRISON AFFUL THANKS FORMER BLACK STARS DEFENDER JOE ADDO

Ghanaian defender Harrison Afful has shown appreciation to former Black Stars defender and current corporate affairs manager of Accra Hearts of Oak, Joe Addo for playing a bigger role in his move to the MLS.

Afful yesterday completed a move to Columbus Crew SC as a discovery signing and according to the Black Stars defender, it was Joe Addo who recommended him to head coach Gregg Berhalter.

"I think I have to give all the credit to Joe Addo, the former Black Stars defender; he was the one who made the move. I learnt he played with the coach before and they talked about me and he showed the coach some clips about me and he was also interested. I am just happy to be here and I want to enjoy some playing time". 

Columbus Crew are second behind DC United with 31 points in the Eastern Conference and are gunning for the MLS playoffs.

Afful joins the likes of Patrick Nyarko, Dominic Oduro, Gershon Koffie, Adam Larsen Kwarasey, David Accam and Kwadwo Poku in the league.

There are other players with Ghanaian backgrounds like Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Kofi Opare, C. J Sapong, Kofi Kwarteng Frempong Sarkodie, Gyasi Zardes and Lloyd Sam not forgetting Ishmael Yartey who joined the league in the middle of the season in a loan move for Portland Timbers.

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Ghana FA adopts FIFA TMS Intermediary Regulations Tool

Ghana FA adopts FIFA TMS Intermediary Regulations Tool

FIFA TMS announced today that the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is the first Member Association (MA) to adopt the FIFA TMS Intermediary Regulations Tool (IRT).

On 1 April 2015, FIFA’s new “Regulations on Working with Intermediaries” came into force. The regulations require all MAs to register intermediaries who are engaged in transactions involving players and clubs affiliated with their association and to annually publish aggregate figures.  

In line with FIFA TMS’s goal to support MAs in fulfilling their regulatory obligations, the IRT will enable the GFA to gather the necessary information in order to comply with FIFA’s regulations. The information to be collected includes: all agreed remunerations or payments that are made or will be made to an intermediary; intermediary declarations; representation contracts and consents and declarations about conflict of interests for all involved intermediaries. Most importantly, at the end of March each year, the GFA will be able to generate a report reflecting the necessary data for publication in accordance with the Regulations on Working with Intermediaries.

The IRT is integrated with the Transfer Matching System (ITMS and DTMS). As such, the GFA has the added benefit of being able to manage professional player transfers and related intermediary involvement in one system- increasing administrative efficiency and visibility over transfer and intermediary activity within their association.