Nyantakyi to mediate in Sa Leone football crisis

The president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi will lead a FIFA delegation to Sierra Leone today to resolve the current problems between the Sierra Leonean Football Association (SLFA) and the League clubs.

Mr Nyantakyi is expected to leave Accra for the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown for a scheduled meeting with SLFA officials, the league clubs and the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mr Ernest Bai Koroma.

The delegation to Sierra Leone, which includes Primo Corvaro, an official from the FIFA's Department of National Associations, will seek to resolve the power struggle and the protracted impasse among rival factions at the FA aimed at ousting the Isha Johansen led SLFA Executive.

World football body FIFA swiftly rejected the unauthorised Congress held on December 20, 2014 by Johansen’s rivals and threatened to suspend the country from international football unless they reversed their decision.

Mr Nyantakyi recently led a delegation that successfully resolved the Kenyan football crisis and FIFA has once again tapped into his leadership and negotiation skills to bring a lasting solution to Sierra Leonean football.

The GFA president is expected to return to Accra on Sunday 30. —ghanafa.org