The Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kurt E.S Okraku has announced that the first-ever football academy to be owned by the Football Association will be based in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region.
The GFA President made the wonderful announcement on Friday, June 23, 2023, during the commissioning of the FIFA-sponsored standard Artificial Turf and Technical Center Phase One/ Sod Cutting Ceremony for Changing Rooms phase two in Winkongo.
“The first ever Football Academy to be owned by the Football Association will be based here on your soil. It is the intention of the Ghana Football Association to make a big and proud statement that, it is possible for our children to have normal education and also pursue a carrier in football. We will combined education and football right on this soil” GFA President told the people of Talensi district.
The GFA President, was very optimistic that the Upper East region has the potential to produce a lot more super talents and perhaps a lot more of Abedi Ayew Pelles if and only if we support our youth with first-class football infrastructure.
“It is very true that there is a shortage of first-class football infrastructure in this part of our country. Just by way of statistics, we have seen one club qualify from Division 2 to Division 1 and what that means is that, in the Upper East Region, we have one first-Division club, and in the Upper East Region, we have 24-second Division club, in the Upper East Region we have 21 third Division clubs and in the Upper East Region, we have 7 women Division 1 league clubs and most importantly, in this part of our country, we have 84 juvenile clubs”.
He stated that all the football clubs he mentioned above do deserve first-class football infrastructure. Stressing that, “it is the only way as a country we can develop a lot more sports talents to represent our country at various levels of football ecosystem”.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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