Former Ghana international, Sulley Muntari has apologised to ace football administrator Moses Armah Parker for assaulting him at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.[ads2]
Muntari was all over in the media when news of him slapping the renowned businessman at the World Cup came up. He was highly criticised and were calls for his expulsion from the Black Stars for the indiscipline behavior.
Fast forward, seven years after the incident, Sulley Muntari has finally apologised to the Medeama Sc.
Speaking in an interview, the former UEFA Champions League winner indicated that frustration at the Black Stars camp led to his action against Moses Parker and since then has been looking forward for an opportunity to meet him and apologise.
“I don’t disrespect elders so it will take a lot of things for me to react unfortunately, he was sitting in front of me and things got really bad. Immediately it happened, and I felt really bad. I wasn’t thinking just about him but his daughter, his family, his wife, and all those things. It’s not right for someone to disrespect their father. I’ve looking for him to apologize to him for my behavior at that time but I have not seen him yet.[ads3]
“I will use this opportunity to apologize to him. I disgraced him and made people ridicule him. It was not intentional to do something like that. Whenever I see him, I will find a way to apologize to him directly. He is an elder and I’ve been looking for him for a long time. I’ve no bad feelings about him. It was not him but the situation,” he said.
“I never had the chance to talk to him but I don’t think I had problems with him during the World cup. It was a pile of a lot of things that led to me bursting out. I’m someone who doesn’t talk and when I work, I work really hard.”
Muntari who would not want to blame anyone hinted that the players were frustrated with the failure of the FA and government to fulfill the promises they made to the players.[ads4]
According to him, the players would have been satisfied if the authorities were candid and honest with them instead of playing hide-and-seek with them.
“It’s like you keep on stabbing someone and not let the persons bleed. We sacrificed a lot and this is what we do for a living. I’m not saying you shouldn’t get paid but tell us that I’m not giving it to you today, I will give it to you next two days. Next two days, you give it to me but if I come and you say next three days, people are human,” he told Dan Kwaku Yeboah TV.[ads5]