Arsenal's Frimpong complains over FIFA nationality switch delays, wants to play for Ghana now
Posted On Friday, 21st September 2012
Emmanuel Frimpong in action for Arsenal in the Emirates Cup
Ex-England youth star Emmanuel Frimpong has asked FIFA to expedite action on his nationality switch to enable him play for Ghana as the process has delayed for one year.
The Ghana Football Association applied for a nationality switch of the hard-tackling midfielder last year to enable him represent his country of birth.
But FIFA’s ‘unprecedented’ demands from the Ghana FA has delayed the process.
FIFA wrote to the GFA in July saying they needed documents from the Scottish and the Welsh FAs confirming that he has not played for them as he holds a United Kingdom passport.
This is an unprecedented demand from FIFA for a player seeking nationality switch and even though the GFA has made those representations to the the Scottish and the Welsh FAs, the world governing has still not made a decision.
Frimpong, who plays for English giants Arsenal, is frustrated over the delays and wants FIFA to take action on his nationality switch now.
“Just need FIFA’s clearance so I can play for Ghana. It’s been over a year,” the 20-year-old complained.
Frimpong provided the world’s football governing body all the necessary documents confirming he is keen on playing for the Black Stars.
He returned to full training this week after spending seven months in the treatment room after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.
Source: MTNFootball.com
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GFA at it again o…just getting confirmation from Scottish and Welsh FAs shouldn’t take this long? At least, let Ghanafour know what is going o…..yoo! We are producing lots of talents but always ..we play mediocre players….with mediocre coaching…why won’t Liberia beat us?
The GFA is not interested in him playing for the stars now. If they were, they would have been checking and running after his file. How many days did it take countries like Senegal and Algeria to theirs????
why is this guy rushin?hn shld go away
MEMPHIS DEPAY !!!!! Yes Frimmie
The GFA just wanted to lock him down. Remember it didn’t take them a long time to switch the German guy (his name not worth mentioning)..
what is wrong with this GFA? is it that you don’t want the guy or what???
Don’t worry, you will play for Ghana soon. But don’t forget to make a promise that you will always play for Ghana whenever our coach calls you
This are the sort of players we need in our midfield not football dancers like DEREK who have zero defensive skills.we need steel reinforced defensive midfielders.
—Gyan—
Atsu—–Ayew
Kwadwo-Frimpong-Acquah
Nuhu-Vorsah-Boye-Afful(only b.c Opare hasnt been playing regularly for his club)..In the future i feel we could probably do well with this formation
Liberia 2 Ghana 0
Zambia 1Ghana 0
China 1 Ghana 1
I Wholesomely agree with Dr Who; physical strength is lacking in the Stars midfield set-up.
The GFA probably is thinkin twice about taken because he is a stand up guy who won’t put up with their b.s. and corrupt ways. Personally, I would take him in a heartbeat. The team needs guys like him…straight up gangsta.
Massa frimpong pls work hard nd earn a starting plc we nt gona cal u into black stars becos u warming d bench at arsnal. Hw many games dd he play last season b4 hs loan move 2 wolves. Agyeman badu nd annan r far beta dn him.
this guy paa. abi nyantakyi chop in money FINISH, SO NOW HE WANTS TO PLAY FOR GH. WE DONT NEED HIM. WE HVE MORE THAN ENUFF MIDFIELDERS. HE IS NOT EVEN A STARTER FOR ARSENAL…LOL N HE WANNA PLAY FOR GBSTAR? HW3, FRIMPONG PAA…U MUST BE DREAMING…WHILES ABEYIE, WAKASSO, YARTEY ARE ALL THERE
Its simple, Nyantakyi dont want competition for his boys and thats why they dont even want to call Quincy bcos whenever he has played in Ghana shirt, he plays so well that people start asking why he’s not in Blackstar. Its for the same reason they have not done Jeffrey Sarpong switch (who wanted to play for Blackstar around the same as Kevin Boateng). Its for the same reason why Ghana delayed Kwarasey’s switch for soooooo long blaming it on FIFA until after the Korea-Ghana match when they realised Kingson needed to be replaced immediately to avoid further embarrassment. Its for the same reason why they are not chasing players like Elvis Manu of Feyenoord (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpjFn_c-Fj4) and Memphis Dapay of PSV.The only reason they were chasing Balotelli and Welbeck is bcos they knew these two would never play for Ghana and wanted to give the media something to talk about.They just dont want competition for their boys. Though Ghana will survive without these, we only making our impact on the international scene difficult bcos every good team needs strong substitutes on the bench. FRIMPONG HAD PLAYED DIPLOMACY FOR TOO LONG. HE ONCE SAID THERE’S POLITICS IN FOOTBALL, YES ITS TRUE BUT MAY BE HE SHOULD HAVE VOICE OUT A BIT EARLIER
@Afirikaba1 — you’ve said it all..
Thank you, I love Ghana soo much that it pains me to see GFA play with our national team bcos of their own interest. You see, everytime that they come under criticism, they escape bcos the team starts doing well then people starts saying we have done well with the few talent the country have BUT the thing is I believe, if Ghana was able to reach quaterfinals at 2010 worldcup, we can do better if we use the right players instead of trying to get better contracts for Ghanaian born-and-bred players, by sometimes playing them out of their position.
the article says GFA has met fifas demands and fifa are the ones delaying the process so why is everyone still blaming the GFA