Sports Information of Thursday, 13 August 2020
Supply: cafonline.com
2020-08-13
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The Govt Council of the Ghana Soccer Association has approved an total of $100,000 to buy 6 thousand (6,000) footballs for grassroot soccer progress by using the FIFA Ahead 1. programme.
This was announced by President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku on Thursday, August 13, 2020 when he met Executives of the Better Accra Regional Football Affiliation in the course of a operating stop by at the Accra Sports Stadium.
These footballs will be dispersed to the 10 Regional Football Associations for use at Juvenile League sport centers, Women’s Division 1 Golf equipment, Second and Third Division Golf equipment and the Juvenile U-17 inter club champions league.
This is 1 of the landmark projects earmarked less than the FIFA Forward 1. programme.
The conclusion is to make a greater total of footballs readily available to the Regional Soccer Associations (RFAs) for their competitions and for the improvement and forward marching of football at the Regional and District stage.
“What is extremely very clear is that we have grassroots soccer at coronary heart. If we spot high quality on grassroots soccer our League will get greater and that will have an effect on our National teams,. President Okraku claimed
“Let us bear in thoughts that in the period of time in which our youth teams had been dominant on the Intercontinental phase, our Black Stars was normally solid.
“In fact, we nonetheless think that this is not more than enough but this is a huge assertion from the soccer Affiliation. This will know will aid grassroots football specifically at your activity centres for your Juvenile game titles, Women’s online games. I am thrilled about this day, simply because this a gig dedication from the GFA.
“We will go on to do the job with CAF, FIFA and the govt to make confident that we get the ideal for grassroots football.” President Edwin-Okraku extra
It would be recalled that the GFA, on Thursday, August 06, 2020 declared that a decision has been taken to assemble two Astro Turfs – a person Prampram and the other at Bolgatanga. The federation has also introduced the determination to invest $280,000 into a system to strengthen competitions by means of the provision of boreholes at activity centres across the state with funding from the FIFA Forward 1. programme.
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