The Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association will be organizing a three-day summit in Cape Coast from today, Monday to Wednesday to address the problems facing the nation's favourite sport,seeking ways of improving on recent achievements.

The nation's leadership football governing body is meeting key stakeholders, both external and internal to explore the challenges confronting the game in recent times and how these could be prevented.

The summit, led by the President of the association Kwesi Nyantakyi will be presented to the congress for consideration to improve the game ahead of the start of the new football season.

With the theme 'Ghana Football: Stronger Partnership for Brighter Future' the Executive Committee will also seek to take the advantage and opportunities in world football to positively impact the game in the country.

The Ministry of Youth and Sport has been invited to the summit with the GFA seeking feedback while courting government's support to help accelerate the development of the game in the nation particularly the domestic leagues.

Aside the local football,the GFA will also be brainstorming on national teams' issues with the ministry and key among them is the Black Stars failure for the 2018 world cup and how this could be prevented in future.

Leadership of the Premier League Board, Division One League, the MTN FA cup, women's League as well as National Juvenile Committee, which is the body responsible for the youth football in the country and the Competitions Division of the GFA will also make presentations at the gathering.

THe Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) will also make its inputs at the meetings meant to take feedback from stakeholders of the game.

Also the players' welfare body, the Professional Association of Ghana (PFAG) has been invited to make a presentation and put forward their suggestions on how to improve the came in the country from the players' angle.

The Judicial bodies and the Referees Association of Ghana and the Administration of the GFA will also make presentations.

The dangers of football betting, manipulation and match fixing are also among issues to be discussed.

The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) has also been invited.

This is the first time the Executive Committee of the GFA is taking its meeting to Cape Coast as the summit forms part of the innovation of how the game is run in the country.

by Abubakr Salim/ghanaguardian.com