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WAFU to boost schools’ soccer
Accra, May 22, GNA – The West African Football Union (WAFU)
will boost school soccer in the sub region with the
reintroduction of inter schools football competitions,
popularly called academicals football.
Alhaji Sly Tetteh, a member of the WAFU Executive Committee
in charge of competitions said in their determination to
raise the standard of football in the sub region to dominate
on the continent, it was imperative to go to the grassroots
and nurture the abundance of talents that spill over.
He said a sure way of tapping youthful talent was to
engender school competitions in addition to others that
would be announced after an important meeting scheduled for
next month to shape the calendar of activities for the rest
of the year and next year.
The WAFU executive committee member named other competition
which would dot the sub regional calendar as “A” team
matches, youth category tournaments, clubs competitions and
women’s football.
He said the dynamism of the current President, Dr. Amos
Adamu, coupled with his wide connections with the business
community would heighten the activities of the Association
and give soccer in the sub region a pace of accelerated
development.
Alhaji Tetteh said a new lease of life for the regional
competitions would be attractive prizes for distinctive
performers to encourage a stiff competition, albeit in the
spirit of camaraderie and brotherhood.
He said though the competitions would re-enact the high
level of rivalry that existed between nations in the sub
region, they would generate the desired excitement
associated with football development.
The executive committee member tasked the media to play a
major role in the success of WAFU programmes by harping on
the positive sides of competitions, which include fostering
of bonds of friendship between the youth of the various
countries.
He said the new WAFU leadership would work hard to ensure
that hooliganism and all anti social trends would be
eliminated from its organisation to give the competitions a
friendly aura that would overflow into other spheres of life
in the region.
GNA
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