Former Liverpool defender and football analyst James Lee Duncan Carragher has blast FIFA and Canadian government over Ghana’s TOP midfielder, Thomas Partey visa brouhaha.
“This is an absolute disgrace from a tournament planning point of view. You spend years building towards a World Cup, qualifying, preparing squads, getting everything right and then something like this happens days before kickoff. It’s just not acceptable at this level of football.”
“If Thomas Partey is part of Ghana’s plans and has been cleared to be in the squad, then how does it get to a point where a visa issue knocks him out of the opening game against Panama? That’s not football, that’s administration failure.”
“I don’t care who is responsible FIFA, Canada, immigration someone has to take accountability. You cannot tell fans to invest emotionally in a tournament and then allow situations where key players are missing because paperwork wasn’t sorted in time.”
“At the very least, these issues should be resolved weeks before the first match. It’s unfair on the player, it’s unfair on Ghana, and it damages the integrity of the competition. This is exactly the kind of chaos that should never happen at a World Cup.”
The former Atletico Madrid and Arsenal FC player has been denied visa by the Canadian government, hence will miss Ghana’s first match against Panama scheduled for Wednesday, 17 June, 2026.
