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Prosports opens a branch in Ghana
Accra, April 12, GNA – Prosport International - a leading
sports agency management company has opened a branch in
Ghana with the primary objective of signing and representing
top Ghanaian footballers as well as scouts for young and
talented football players.
The branch, which is to be known as Prosport International –
Ghana, is a joint venture with Herbert Mensah, former
Chairman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
Announcing this at a press conference in Accra on Thursday,
Mr Mike Maakab, a Director of Global Football for Prosport
said his outfit is delighted to have a joint partnership
with Herbert Mensah, whom he described as a leading figure
in Ghanaian football circles and shares the same vision and
objectives with the company.
The Director said the partnership is to ensure effective
management of football careers of the vastly talented
footballers in Ghana and Africa in general.
Mr Makaab added that the decision to move to Ghana is to
keep the objectives of the company, maintain its market
share in the football player management industry to remain
at the forefront as the leading sports agency and Management
Company in Southern Africa and to expand its markets into
the rest of Africa.
“We believe that our company’s strategy of expanding into
Africa can only sustain our existing business interest in
Southern Africa and Europe as more and more footballers are
successfully developed and prepared to enter the European
market”.
Mensah on his part expressed satisfaction with the venture,
which he described as a serious and established company in
the field of sports’ agency and management.
He said the venture is to sign on and represent top Ghanaian
players and explore new talents adding: “We intend to
achieve this by combining the strong and local knowledge and
network which we have in Ghana with the professional
approach to sports agency and management which Prosport will
bring to the table”.
Propsort has a network of offices situated in Johannesburg,
Durban, Cape Town, England and Greece as well as associated
offices in Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The company has succeeded in placing players in the top
leagues of England, Greece, Denmark, Israel and Turkey among
others.
GNA
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