Former Black Stars midfielder, Sulley Muntari has apologised for slapping Moses Parker in 2014, but insists that things got really bad after promises were not fulfilled.
Sulley Muntari went head on with Moses Parker over 2014 World Cup appearance fee brouhaha. He slapped Moses Parker, then Black Stars management committee member, after tempers flared in camp.
Sulley Muntari was subsequently sacked from camp together with Kelvin-Prince Boateng in Brazil, before Ghana's last group game against Portugal.
Ghana was eliminated after losing 2:1 to both Portugal and USA, and a 2:2 draw to Germany, packing home with just a point in thier worse World Cup finals.
The Government formed the Justice Dzamefe Commission of Enquiry to look into the scandal and advised on the future direction of football in Ghana.
After year, Sulley has finally revealed that he feels sorry for the incident, as he insists that things got really bad in Camp.
"I don’t disrespect elders so it will take a lot of things for me to react unfortunately, he was sitting in front of me and things got really bad. Immediately it happened, and I felt really bad,” he told Dan Kwaku Yeboah TV.
"I wasn’t thinking just about him but his daughter, his family, his wife, and all those things. It’s not right for someone to disrespect their father. I’ve looking for him to apologize to him for my behavior at that time but I have not seen him yet.
"I will use this opportunity to apologize to him. I disgraced him and made people ridicule him. It was not intentional to do something like that. Whenever I see him, I will find a way to apologize to him directly. He is an elder and I’ve been looking for him for a long time. I’ve no bad feelings about him. It was not him but the situation.
“I never had the chance to talk to him but I don’t think I had problems with him during the World cup. It was a pile of a lot of things that led to me bursting out. I’m someone who doesn’t talk and when I work, I work really hard," he added.
By: Abdul Razak Salim
