Ghanaian Football Players Misery in Thailand: Stranded Ghanaian Football Players Resort to Sex with Thai Women for Survival in Thailand / Breaking News
A Ghanaian football player with Thai side Ayutthaya FC has told a local radio station back home in Ghana that most of his fellow Ghanaian football players with him in the Kingdom of Thailand are exchanging sex for money with Thai women to survive.
Nikwei Issac, a former player of Wa All Stars in the Ghana Premier League left Ghana last year to continue his football career in Thailand in an undisclosed transfer fee. Most Ghanaian young players are eager to leave for abroad as a result of poor salary they receive from their local clubs but significant number of them ends up going through such ordeals abroad.
Goal Ghana reported that the player told Akyeaa FM in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana in an interview that most Ghanaian players plying their trade in Thailand are club-less and the situation has pushed some to engage in sex with Thai women as well as drug smuggling for survival in the country. The player claimed he was deceived by a fake football agent who promised him of a lucrative contract in Thailand but that has proved to be false upon his arrival in Thailand.
“An agent lured me to come here, but when I arrived things were not like I was told, life is not easy here, I play for my team only if the place is safe because my working permit has expired and many players are into a lot of ungodly acts just to find their feet, some of which are Ghanaians. They cannot return home because they are not financially sound, some have now resorted to dealing in illegal drugs while others live with local women”.
“These women like sex a lot so you will have to satisfy them every day before they will help you. We are going through hell-like situations just because of football”, he was quoted as saying by Goal Ghana.
Some amateur African players who leave Africa for Thailand have complained in the past that bureaucratic nature in Procuring Thai residential permit is making life difficult for African players in the country.
Both the government of Ghana and the Ghana Football Association has not commented on the issue and the Ghanaian public feels that these establishments are not doing enough to ensure the welfare of football players both home and abroad.
Issaka Adams / NationalTurk Africa News
