Beach Soccer league for the whole nation by 2017

Ghana Beach Soccer Association hinted at giving the Beach Soccer league a nationwide appeal by the 2016/17 season. The fastest developing sport in the country has been practiced mainly in the coastal areas of the country since its inception in 2011. The GBSA president, Yaw Ampofo Ankrah revealed plans of developing training pitches and match venues across all the ten regions by 2017.

The game started modestly and is gradually attracting interest and patronage from Ghanaian sports fans and is threatening to compete with football for domestic attention within the next two years. The sport currently has 16 clubs competing for domestic honours in the Beach Soccer league.

Speaking exclusively to Sports crusader on the plans his outfit has for Ghana Beach Soccer, Yaw Ampofo Ankrah expressed the need for the game to have a nationwide appeal in the near future.

“Ghana Beach Soccer will be going nationwide in 2017. It is our plan to hit all the ten regions by 2017, but for now, we will focus on the coastal areas first. The plan is to go to all ten regions by 2017.”

The Ghana Beach Soccer league was formed in 2011 with ten teams but currently has 16 clubs. CAL Bank remains the headline sponsor of the Ghana Beach Soccer league since 2011. The national team, Black Sharks, which was first assembled in 2013, managed to qualify for the maiden edition of the CAF Beach Soccer Cup of Nations in Seychelles in April and is set to feature in another international tournament slated for December 16, 2015 in Maldindi.