Popular Kumasi Asante Kotoko supporter known as Nana Pooley has been stabbed to death at Nsoatre in a Ghana Premier League match between Nsoatreman FC and Asante Kotoko played at Nana Konamansah Park on Sunday.
The deceased, known in private life as Francis Frimpong, was stabbed multiple times in his right chest by an unidentified supporter of Nsoatreman FC after an altercation during the match day 19 game between the two teams.
Nsoatreman FC finally won the match 1:0 after three players of Kotoko ad a player of Nsoatreman had been shown red cards.
The match had to stop for over 30 minutes after a fight broke out between the players of the two teams, which attracted the some supporters of the home team to invade the pitch.
During the process, one of the intruders pelted Kotoko goalkeeper Mohammed Camara with objects which infuriated to chase the invader.
Subsequently, captain Justice Blay and Mohammed Camara were shown straight red card together with one Nsoatreman player.
During the recess, another Kotoko player, Kyei Dwamena was also shown a red card which meant that Kotoko finished the game with only 8 players.
Nana Pooley, an ardent supporter of Asante Kotoko was known to follow Kotoko to length and breadth of the country whenever his team played opposing teams at their backyards, but this time around met his untimely death by an unknown miscreant.
According to multiple sources, supporters of Nsoatreman FC had intimidated team Kotoko before the match and there were indications that something ill could happen should they had lost the game.
“They (Nsoatreman) needed the points so badly that they began to frustrate Asante Kotoko even when they (Kotoko) were entering the stadium for the match. It took intervention some some people before the supporters allowed Kotoko bus to enter,” a supporter who was at the park told swiftnews3.com on condition of anonymity.
It is believed that deceased passed on at the park due to the multiple injuries he sustained from
Meanwhile, Asante Kotoko has confimed the desth of Nana Pooley in an official released astatement, describing the loss as senseless.
A portion of the statement read. “tragically, one of our supporters who was stabbed during the violence has succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.”