It’s disappointing that some of our clubs don’t have websites – Prez Kurt Okraku

Ghana Football Association President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku has expressed disappointment over the poor presence of Ghana Premier League clubs on new media.

The affable Ghana FA President, who is determined to reposition the football of then West African giants, expressed shock and dismay in a recent article published on his Facebook page.

Simoen-Okraku revealed that less than 50% of GPL have corporate websites, something he thinks must be a common practice.

In his post, titled: Developing our GPL and our use of social media – Part 2, Kurt reiterated the need for clubs to embrace new media to enhance their brands and to build good corporate images.

Below is the full article from the Ghana FA President:

On the 29th of April, I started a conversation on our usage of new media to promote and add value to our leagues especially our GPL. The reaction I got from our reading public means I must continue to engage our publics more on same.

Today, I will continue to reveal some more results of my research on our usage of new media and new media platforms to enhance our work.

My focus will be on our usage of websites or our online representation of our football clubs (entities)

I am very very disappointed in what my research has told me and I guess as club people, it’s imperative for us to really fix this identified problem to allow our clubs to grow beyond our borders

So, we have 18 GPL clubs. Most /all clubs are corporate entities. Websites, tell who we are, what we do and how we do business. Basically, it’s the online version of what we do and who we are. It enables us to also open our business to external and much bigger business audience.

I have come to know that, from our vibrant 18 GPL clubs, 10 do not HAVE official websites!!!!!!!

This is incredible!!!! In our times, having an online representation is the way!!!!

My appeal to our clubs is to take immediate steps to rectify this!!!!

Again, from the 18 GPL clubs, two have inactive websites and 6 do have websites which are active and updated on regular bases.

We have been talking about #FixingTheFundamentals and having a fully functional website is part of we #FixingTheFundamenatals. Let’s get on with it guys!