Former board secretary of Accra Hearts of Oak, Mr. Ernest Thompson says that the Ghana Football Association should equip its technical department with the requisite skill and training in order to monitor and address certain peculiar problems in our game and not just penalty kicks.

Ghana suffered a double dose of penalty shoot out heart ache at the just ended Afcon U-23 tournament where the Black Meteors lost out twice on pnalty kicks to Ivory Coast and South Africa thereby failing to gain an Olympics ticket to Tokyo 2020.

Since then the talk about penalty kicks has been deafening with the GFA suggesting to clubs that penalty shoot outs should be played in our local leagues if matches end in a stalemate.

In an interview with Kumasi based Akoma Fm, Mr Thompson says that the first thing the FA must do is to equip their technical department so that they can go round and monitor various clubs and their training regimes, identify familiar problems and look at ways of solving them since penalty is just a fraction of our problems.

"I would have preferred that the technical guys are well equipped and go round the clubs whether first division, second division and then take a look at what kind of training they are doing."

"Because let’s face it it’s not only penalties that we have problems because how many goals have we scored from dead ball situations and how many goals have we scored from free kicks and how far do we want to go."

"So If we go to tournaments and don’t score free kicks we come and introduce free kicks and award points in the league?"

"Something has happened in a tournament but I think we should not rush" he advised.