Former Asante Kotoko and AshGold captain Eric Donkor has been named on the newly constituted Club Licensing Board, the FA has announced.
The decision was taken by the Executive Council of the football association.
Donkor, 32, currently works with Eastern Region-based Division Two side Koforidua Suhyen FC as an administrator.
Donkor remains one of the legendary Ghana Premier League players, having spent the entirely of his playing career in the local league.
“The Executive Council has re-appointed Dr. Kwame Baah-Nuako as Chairman of the Club Licensing Committee. Dr. Baah Nuako, an economist and sports journalist, has been at the helm since November 2019. He is currently, the General Manager, Sustainability at Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC),” parts of a GFA statement said on Monday, February 26.
The Ghana FA Exexutive Council retained Dr. Kwame Baah-Nuako as Chairman of the committee.
Meanwhile, Legal practitioner Clement Opoku Gyamfi will work as Vice Chairman of the Committee.
Other members of the committee include former captain of Asante Kotoko Eric Donkor, as well as Mike Bonsu, Mavis Amanor, and Jacob Yeboah.
Donkor played for Winneba-based team Windy Professionals before moving to Kumasi-based Asante Kotoko in 2011, winning the league title with Asante Kotoko on three consecutive periods, 2011–12, 2012–13 and 2012–13 seasons. He played for Kotoko from 2011 to 2018.
In 2018, he joined Obuasi-based team Ashanti Gold on a two-year contract. He featured for the club in the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup and left after the expiration of his contract.
The Ghana FA has mandated the Club Licensing Committee to vet the license application of clubs to ensure compliance with legal, administrative, finance, technical, medical and security requirements of the provisions of the GFA Statutes and the GFA Club Licensing Regulations before issuing licences to clubs to fully partake in GFA sanctioned competitions.