Nkoo – Wants red-gold-green colours for national teams
ONE of Ghana’s national team jersey colours of black-and-white has for some time now come under heavy artillery of criticism from home fans.
Consistent calls to have the traditional national colours of red-gold-and-green restored have fallen on death ears.
The national president of the Sports Callers Association of Ghana (SCAG), Joseph Nkoo, has added his voice to the call for a new national team jersey “that portrays our true identity.”
“Presently, our national teams use black-and-white colours as one of their jersey designs and this for me isn’t the best.
“I think the Red, Gold and Green identify us as more as Ghanaians than the ordinary black and white coloured jerseys and I am sure most Ghanaians will agree with me,” said Nkoo, who is also the Communication Officer of the Brong Ahafo Regional Circles Council of Asante Kotoko and doubles as a member of the Asante Kotoko Communication Team.
He said the gold in the national flag, combined with the yellow jerseys and glistened by a black lettering with shorts to match, projects Ghana’s identity and whips up nationalism.
Mr Nkoo, on behalf of the SCAG, reiterated his appeal to the Normalisation Committee (NC) of the GFA to “change the colours before we even go for the 2019 Nations Cup (AFCON) in Egypt, this June.”
“Indeed, I will be very surprised should the Black Stars go into this year’s AFCON without our true national jerseys, because there is ample time to make such a huge change.”
The SCAG president gave a litany of instances of countries which use jerseys representing their “true national colours.”
“The examples are there for all to see. Nigeria paints Abuja or any of their match venues Green/White; Ivory Coast splatters Abidjan with their traditional Orange, so also do the Dutch who literally smear Amsterdam Orange any time they play. Others include, Brazil (Yellow/Blue), Cameroun (Dark Green/Red) and one could go on and on.”
The flag of Ghana, consisting of the colours red, gold, green, and a black star, became the new flag in 1957 when Gold Coast gained its name Ghana.
BY JOHN VIGAH
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