Badminton players in a Justify-your-inclusion
Accra (Greater Accra) 13 February 2002 - Mr Edward Osei-Kwaku, Minister of Youth and Sports, has urged Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko to take a cue from the solid foundations being laid for the game of football at the Feyernood Football Academy.
Speaking during a tour at the $1.5 million facility at Gomoa Fetteh in the Central Region, Mr Osei-Kwaku said such projects, directed at the development of the game at the grassroots, hold the future of football in this country. He was full of praise for the brains behind the project, Karel Brokken, the Managing Director and Coach Sam Arday, the Technical Director for bringing such a novelty idea to fruition, which he said the country stands to benefit from in the near future.
Mr Osei-Kwaku during an interaction with students of the academy urged them to be disciplined and reminded them of their responsibility to excel in view of the excellent facilities put at their disposal. The Academy currently holds a total of 50 students, made up of 18 from the first generation of ages between aged 15, 16 and the second generation who are between 12 and 13 years.
Mr Sam Arday later told the GNA Sports that the children follow a strict daily routine, which includes early morning and evening training sessions and the normal Ministry of Education approved school curricular in addition to French lessons. He said the academy would soon be expanded to include a senior secondary school. For the time being, he said, the academy is using the Winneba Secondary School where they have two of their students.
On recruitment, Coach Arday, said selection is done nation-wide during school sports festivals. "During last year's exercise, for instance, we had a total of 6,000 students and we took only 20 of them." He expressed the hope that the country would start benefiting from the product of the academy since most of the products would be released to any clubs.
Present with the Minister on the tour were Dr Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah, Chairman National sports Council, Mr Edmund Kofi Adumah, Acting national Coordinator, Youth Council and the Mr Kofi Djarteng, Chief Director of the Sports Ministry.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 13 February 2002 - A seven-day coaching course jointly organised by the Global Sports Academy and Holland Football Association opened in Accra on Tuesday under the instructions of Mr Matheus H.M. Derks of the Royal Netherlands Football Association.
The course, which is the intermediate level in soccer would take the 30 participants through both practical and theoretical aspects of coaching including football learning and coaching process, match reading and communication as well as match analysis. Certificates of participation would be presented to the participants after the course.
Speaking to GNA Sports, Mr Patrick Aidoo, Vice President of the Global Soccer Academy said the basic aspect of the course was held in Kumasi recently and that this one is a follow up. He said the courses are aimed at training young people and equipping them with coaching skills for them to help in the development of soccer in the country. He said the Academy has programmes for some of the participants to undertake further courses in Denmark while others would go on attachment programmes.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 13 February 2002 - A Nungua select side will engage the Royal Abilities F/C, a newly promoted second division team in a special fair play match in honour of Emmanuel Anue Kofie, former goalkeeper of the Black Stars.
The match is scheduled for the Nungua Town Park, tomorrow, Wednesday, at 1500 GMT. Mr Kofie, kept the posts for the Stars between 1966 and 1969, played for the national academicals team, Accra Great Olympics and later Kumasi Asante Kotoko, before moving to New York Cosmos in the USA. He is currently the Athlete Counsellor and Recruiter for Essex County College and also the head-coach of Newport Technical High School, all in the US.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 13 February 2002 - Nineteen badminton players would take part in a two-day justify-your-inclusion at the Accra Sports Stadium this Friday and Saturday to prepare for the impending Commonwealth games slated for July this year in Manchester
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday by the Andrew Ocloo, General Secretary of the Badminton Association of Ghana said the exercise is to select outstanding players to form the nucleus of the national team.
He said the number would further be pruned down to at least six after a special competition. The players invited are from Tema, Accra, Takoradi, Koforidua, Obuasi and Cape coast. They are Joana Aryeh, Geraldina Folley, Noah Ayim, Isaac Okai, Samuel Wiafe, Emmanuel Williams and Francis Mireku, all from Accra.
Others are Theresa Tetteh, Mary Sadjie, Tony Arthur, Charles Mensah, Issah Mohamed, Michael Sam, and Mary Twumwaa all from Takoradi while Martin Owusu and Richard Odonkor make the Koforidua team. The rest are Victoria Ackon from Obuasi, Prince Ashie, Cape Coast and Mary Enoo, Tema.
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