Accra
(Greater Accra) 24 October 2002 - Kumasi Asante
Kotoko would require an amount of ˘900m to enable them honour
their first leg CAF Cup Winners Cup final match against Wydad
Casablanca in Morocco in early November.
A source
close to Kotoko’s management hinted
So far, the
main source of the club’s revenue generation has been through gate proceeds
recorded in Kotoko home matches in the domestic league and in the continental
campaigns but it has not sufficed in taking it through the continental
campaign. The onus on a number of occasions had fallen on individuals’
assistance.
In their
last game at
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The
traditional area, which boast of two elite clubs- Kwaebibirem
and Suhum Maxbees- lacked
any stadium of their own and they are therefore compelled to travel to other centres to honour matches.
Nana Fredua Agyemang, Apagyahene of Akyem Abuakwa made the appeal on
behalf of the Okyenhene, Osagyefo
Amoatia Ofori Panyin at the launch of the Mylik
Classic Under-19 Football Tournament scheduled for 20 - 30 November at the
Accra Sports Stadium.
In all,
eight teams including Leyton Orient from
The teams
would be put into two groups with the two top winners in each group playing in
the semis finals. The two winning teams would meet in the finals on November 30.
Nana Fredua Agyemang urged the ministry to make provision for
rural teams in terms of infrastructural facilities such a
stadiums so that their youth would not be attracted to the nation's
capital. "We want to enjoy the facilities that the people in the cities
enjoy", the chief said and urged the ministry to take a second look at
the distribution of sporting facilities in the country.
"The
minister has earmarked certain areas for the provision of stadiums as a premise
for the country to bid for the 2008 Nations' Cup but unfortunately the
Dr Owusu Ansah, Acting Chief Executive of the National Sports
Council who spoke on behalf of the Minister could not make any definite promise
but instead commended the Okyehene for his
involvement in sports, citing his defiant to tradition to participate in last
year's cross country races to commemorate World Aids Day.
The Chief
Executive said his outfit would donate four trophies, at the request of the Okyehene, towards this year's event.
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In a speech
read for him by Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah, Acting Chief Executive
of the National Sports Council (NSC) at the launch of the Mylik
Classic under-19 Football Tournament, he said even though currently "we
celebrate the achievements of the junior national teams it is important that we
recognise that there is a yarning gap between success
at the junior level and senior level.
He praised Mylik Sporting Limited for instituting the tournament,
which would bring the youth from all over the world to show their soccer
talents and at the same time give them the opportunity to increase their market
value.
The
tournament is scheduled for the Accra Sports Stadium from 20 - 30 November and
would involve eight team divided in to two groups with the first two moving to
the semi-finals before the finals.
Osei-Kwaku said the Mylik Classic
under-19 Football Tournament is in consonance with government's policy of
private sector participation in national development. "It is in this
direction that I will lend my support to all progressive programmes of Mylik and encourage more private sector participation in
the development and management of Ghana Sports."
Kofi Bawuah, Chief Executive Officer of Mylik
Sporting Limited said the venture started with a dream to put in place a
mechanism that would help bring about a systematic bottom up development of
sports in the country.
He said
some of the objectives for starting the company are to organise community
football development, player management, staging of youth football tournaments
and marketing of quality sports wears. Bawuah said it
in line with the company's objectives that they have started a community sports
project at Jamasi in the Ashanti Region, which would
take the form of football academy to provide football education to the Youth of
the region.
"Currently
we already have the basic infrastructure in the form of a building that can
house 40 students in the first instance and it is our hope that we expand it to
200 students by 2004." He said the Mylik Classic
under-19 Football Tournament would be an annual affair and would start off with
the youth teams of Accra Hearts of Oak, Liberty Professional, F C Midjiland, and a British Council Community Sports
Initiative team, all from
Bawuah
said Asante Kotoko and Corners Babies would come from
Bawuah
said it is the aim of his company to work together with the NSC, GFA and the
Ghana Education Service to streamline youth football in
Present at
the ceremony were Kwadwo Mpiani, Chief of Staff
Office of the President, Teddy Humphreys, Director British Council, Yaw Bawuah, former Chairman of Kumasi Asanti
Kotoko and representatives of some of the clubs to play in the tournament.
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