Obuasi (Ashanti Region)
At a well-attended press conference at the
Len clay stadium on Tuesday to launch the club's 25 years anniversary
programme, Captain Andy Sam (rtd), the Chief
Executive, stressed, "we hope to be a great club
in
Capt Sam said management is building the
foundation for that realisation not only to become the best club in
The Chief Executive added that the players nutritional status is also being improved so that
wherever they go there would not be a problem for the club.
Capt Sam announced that the supporters of
the club would be made to go through some form of transformation while the
technical team too will be reshaped to meet the challenges of the new vision.
"We hope to celebrate another 25 years of success and therefore if that
vision dies, then we need not do anything again".
Touching on the achievement of the club
over the past 25 years, the confident Chief Executive who was flanked by the
national supporters chairman, Alhaji
Sannie and A.K. Badu, past
chairman of Goldfields, said Goldfields on its formation in 1978 got promoted
to then Division One in 1985.
"In 1993, Goldfields won its major
trophy -the FA cup and became the first club to win the first premier league in
1994 and retained it in 1995 and 1996".
Capt Sam added that Goldfields is the only
club in Ghana to have built its own stadium and a soccer academy "and the
stadium possesses the best playing surface in Ghana, boasts of a grandstand of
3,000 seats, six spacious and executive air-conditioned boxes, two squash
courts with bar and function room, a fully-equipped gymnasium, an electronic
scoreboard and a very huge park".
The anniversary programme, which has
already started, will run through to December where the first week would be
used to climax the anniversary with picnic, football gala and other fun matches
including one between Goldfields old players and Kotoko
old players.
Other activities will include the
unveiling of a monument, dinner dance/awards night and thanksgiving service. Prominent
among the anniversary will be the outdooring of the
official anniversary song in August and cutting of the sod to begin work on the
construction of phase one of the club's silver jubilee
flats in September.
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Ebenezer Adablanu,
Chief Executive Officer of the Club, who announced this in
He said the event which has hitherto been
sponsored by Crocodile Matchets Ghana Limited, had
registered a large entry this month due to the attractive prizes at stake.
Golfers expected to be in action would
include Felix Owusu-Adjapong, Minister for
Parliamentary Affairs, John Cobbina, immediate past
captain of the Tema Club, E.K. Henaku,
Yaw Assah-Sam, Bashiru Sakibu and John Sam.
Meanwhile J.S. Son and Elizabeth Essel Koomson,
Son said he is optimistic to win the
trophy for
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