Memunatu Sulemana, a former goalie for the Black Queens, has disclosed that while in a national team camp, she once discovered a teammate in a coach’s bed.
She did not say what year the incident took place but did say that the team was in South Africa getting ready for a competition.
She claimed that as team captain, she was going to speak with the coach about the time for practice, but instead, she discovered the third goalkeeper of the team lying on the coach’s bed while he was taking a shower.
“We were in South Africa and John Eshun was the Black Queens coach. We used to travel for tournaments with two goalkeepers, but the coach took three goalkeepers,” Sulemana told Original TV.
“I was the captain and I wanted to ask the coach when we’d be having our training. So I knocked on his door and he responded ‘come in’.
“The door was open and perhaps he had ordered food from the hotel staff and didn’t expect that I was the one at the door. When I entered, I saw our third goalkeeper on the bed, while the coach was in the washroom. But I didn’t say anything. I couldn’t even tell my teammates.”
She continued by saying that she was temporarily removed from the national team after the coach submitted a critical report about her to the Ghana FA following the competition.
Sulemana, a member of the Ghanaian team that competed in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, recently discussed her unfortunate situation after retiring from football.
In a career spanning more than ten years, the 45-year-old played in over 30 matches for Ghana’s women’s national team.
She also competed for the Black Queens teams in the FIFA Women’s World Cup competitions in 1999, 2003, and 2007.
Sulemana claimed that despite having a distinguished career, she made very little money playing football, which contributed to her current predicament.
But since then, ex-President John Mahama has given the former Black Queens goalkeeper money to launch a business and rented for her a two-bedroom apartment.
