By: Sheikh Tophic Sienu @desheikh1 on twitter
Experienced Fifa media committee member and a member of the technical committee of the Nigerian Football Federation Paul Bassey has called on the Ghanaian sports media to stop interviewing club CEOs and interview players to hype matches since they are the principal actors.
Bassey who has covered and reported over 10 African Cup of Nations tournaments thinks that the lical mediauat highlight on the players and coaches in the local league instead of talking to CEOs who do not matter most to the fans and followers.
"If indeed you want to attract fans to the stadium to watch matches, then journalists must desist from interviewing club CEOs and interview the players themselves", Bassey told Ghanasoccernet.com
"The journalists are now busy interviewing the CEOs instead of the players and coaches. With all due respect because at the end of the day the CEOs will give them something for transport. But that is killing the interest of the fans".
"This seem to be a West African problem. It also happens in Nigeria but I think we all have yo desist from that and talk to the player. They are those the fans will watch and not the CEOs", he concluded.
According to Paul Bassey has been to three World Cups and 12 African Cup of Nations.