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“First of all, I would want to say ‘thank you’ to the President [Gianni Infantino] for the invitation. We were heic88re to speak about football on the global stage and, obviously, on the African continent, zooming in to Ghana. FIFA, led by ic88the President, has been aic88t the forefront of support for the development of football., especially in Africa. And it was always importanic88t for us ic88ic88ic88to engagic88e and to know how far we are going, how welic88ic88ic88l we are doing, and what we have to do to make it much, much, muciic88c88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88h better. I think that the President is very ic88ic88ic88iic88ic88ic88ic88c88ic88clear in what needs to be done. And as the President of a Federation, I’m also very clear oic88n the vision of FIFA and, together, we are both sharing the same visiic88on.”
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President Kurt Edwin-Simeon Okraku then proceeded to paint a picture of the gains made by Ghana since he took over as President of the Ghana Football Association in 2019.
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