Deputy chief executive officer of AshantiGold Sporting Club, Albert Commey has apologized for a match-fixing allegations he made after the 2021/22 Ghana Premier League season.
The former Ghana FA Executive Committee member alleged that some four matches played during the final games of the league season were fixed.
Albert Commey stated emphatically that the four matches fixed were Hearts of Oak versus RTU, Goldstars versus AshantiGold, Eleven Wonders versus Aduana Stars and King Faisal versus Legon Cities FC.
“The match between GoldStars and Ashgold was a fixed match. Eleven Wonders vs Aduana Stars was a fixed match, King Faisal vs Legon Cities was a fixed match and lastly Hearts vs RTU was also a fixed match. Let us not be hypocrites or else we wouldn’t move forward in Ghana football”, the astute football administrator said in an interview on Sunyani-based Space FM.
His allegations was welcomed with lot of bashing by some football lovers with the Ghana FA inviting him for investigations.
But after days of severe criticisms, the former Aduana Stars official has retracted and apologized for his comment in a statement sighted by Kyfilla com.
“I have realized that the interview I granted to Space FM in Sunyani recently has generated a lot of controversy among the football fraternity, especially the clubs whose names I mentioned in the said interview”, Commey said in a portion of his statement.
