Scouting team picks footballers in Sunyani

Sunyani, (B/A) May 4, GNA - A two-man scouts team of Great Warriors,= a Kumasi-based Third Division football club in the Ashanti Region is currentl= y on an exercise to select potential footballers players for grooming. The selected players will then be recruited by a number of international football agents abroad.

Mr Yaw Frimpong, a member of the team who announced this in an interview with GNA Sports in Sunyani on Wednesday said the agents are based in Belgium, Qatar, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden and are international agents who have expressed interest in the exercise. He said the scouting exercise would be held in four regions to pick 12= 0 footballers from Division Two upwards.

The team, which is led by Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie, a former national coach, has already been to Tamale in the Northern region. About 148 players drawn from all over the Brong Ahafo Region have assembled at the Sunyani Coronation Park for the justify-your-inclusion exercise.

The players were from Bechem, Berekum, Kintampo, Duayaw-Nkwanta, Ntotroso, Techiman, Sampa, Drobo, Dormaa-Ahenkro and Atebubu among others towns.

Mr Frimpong, however, could not readily tell the number of players to be selected out of the 148 in the Region but said the whole exercise was expected to select 120 footballers from the four regions. He added that the 120 players would later on go through the second stage of the selection exercise at Opoku Ware Senior High School (SHS) Park= , Kumasi from May 16 to 20, this year.

Mr Frimpong said the exercise, which takes place in only a day in each region, would later visit Takoradi in the Western Region and return to Kumasi for the final 91brush up" selection.

A visit by the GNA Sports to the Coronation Park on Wednesday morning saw the footballers seriously engaged in the selection exercises and defied even the morning's downpour to go through the drills of qualifying.