Desperate
Power F/C vows to spoil Hearts party
Koufie
commends Brong Ahafo’s interest in sports
Desperate
Power F/C vows to spoil Hearts party
Accra (Greater Accra)
05 November 2002 - Relegation threatened Koforidua Power F/C has vowed to halt
league leaders, Accra Hearts of Oak, in their mid week encounter at the Accra
Sports Stadium on Wednesday.
Team Manager, Eric
Michel told the GNA Sports that Power was bent on adding Hearts to their scanty
victims in order to escape relegation. 'We are doing everything humanly
possible for our boys to be motivated enough to beat the Phobians at
home," he added.
On whether it is
possible for the electricity boys to beat their more experienced opponent who
are bent on wining the all important Wednesday league title decider in front of
their fans, he conceded that though it would be a herculean task, they are bent
on causing a stare in the Phobians camp.
When asked about their
motivation package for the team, Mishel said the team could be paid extra
allowances should the boys go all out to execute the coup de grace as planed.
The electricity boys
are currently walloping in the danger zone and would need to win their last two
games to survive the relegation.
Being one of the teams
that were promoted to the premier league, Power look certain to visit the
relegation zone again should they fail to secure the remaining six very
important points on Wednesday and Sunday. It would be recalled that the
Phobians piped them 1-0 at Koforidua in the first round encounter after they
had played a determined game.
GRi…/
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Koufie
commends Brong Ahafo’s interest in sports
Sunyani (Brong Ahafo
Region) 05 November 2002 - Mr Ben Kwofie, Chairman of the Ghana Football
Association (GFA) on Saturday commended the Brong-Ahafo region for high
participation and showing interest in the Association's National Five-Year
Football Development Plan.
He explained that
after the formal national launch in Tamale some months ago similar programmes
took place in the Western and Central regions, but the response in Brong-Ahafo
was overwhelming which is an indication of total commitment to the programme
which also involved the training of football coaches, administrators and
referees.
Kwofie was speaking at
the closing ceremony of a Five-day training programme in Sunyani at the
weekend. The GFA chairman expressed appreciation of the encouraging response shown
by the participants and charged them to ensure that the nation benefited from
their training.
“The seed of football
development has been firmly put into the ground, it is up to you to be watering
it to ensure its growth", he charged them. Kwofie said the development
plan would among others enable the country to correct the old system where the
age groups of players had been a problem for football administrators.
"If you help the
plan by playing your expected individual or collective roles as technical men
and women in your field, it will be successful, but if you fail to put into
practice what you have learnt here then we are bound to fail", he added.
Kwofie reiterated that
his outfit is open to constructive criticisms to either put the Association on
its toes or for it to make amends when necessary. He said he preferred the
truth against his administration than negative remarks which can be avoided by
his administration.
Kwofie was applauded
for most of the time by the participants for his being frank and precise
delivery of his message. On the success or failure of the Five-year Football
Development Plan itself, Kwofie said the vision, like any other human endeavour
might not be able to record 100 percent immediate success. "We however
hope to manifest some success in two or three years time, all being well",
he promised.
On Colts football
administration, Kwofie said the area is the back bone of Ghana's football and
called on those handling colts football in the region to buck up. E.K. Dwomoh,
Chairman of Brong-Ahafo Regional Football Association (BARFA) advised the
participants not to keep to themselves the knowledge they have acquired but to
impart them to others when they returned to their stations.
Speaking to the GNA
Sports later, Kwame Anane Frimpong, Brong-Ahafo Regional football Coach of the
National Sports Council announced that players have been selected during the
five-day exercise in all the four age groups. He said out of the 196 Under-12
players who reported on the first day of the programme, 66 of them were
selected, while in the Under-15 category, 45 players have been picked out of
the 164 players who reported.
He said 37 players
were selected for under-17 group from 156 players who reported while the
Under-20 had 45 players selected from 148 players. With Kwofie were George
Dasobre, National Co-ordinator of the Plan, J.K. Boateng, National Referees'
Instructor, E.K. Afranie, Caretaker Coach of the Black Stars, Mr Osam Duodu,
Technical Adviser of GFA who is also the Development director in-charge of the
southern Sector.
GRi…/
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