Vodafone to assist in unearthing football talents in the country

Tamale, Aug. 24, GNA - Vodafone, a mobile communications company has signed a three-year sponsorship partnership with the 93Right to Dream Academy" to unearth football talents in deprived communities to enable them develop their potentials and also pursue their education.

In this regard, Vodafone has assisted the Right to Dream, a football inclined organization with an amount of GHc150,000 to create media awareness and branding of the programme while also distributing T-shirts, mobile phones and Sim cards at the end of each match as souvenirs.

Mr Gordon Wellu, Media Relations Officer of Vodafone said this at a series of football training sessions and matches organised for Colts Clubs in the Northern Region Regional capital, Tamale during the week.

In the finals of the match between Zaytuna and Republicans in the Under-12 match Republicans won by a lone goal while in the Under-14, Young Goldfields also beat Standfast by a lone goal.

Each of the teams took home GHc 200.00 cash while each player received a Vodafone Sim card plus five Ghana cedi credit with the runners up also taking home GHc100.00 plus one Sim card, two Ghana cedi worth of credit and T-shirts for the Under-12 and 14.

The best player in each category also received a mobile phone, Sim card and five Ghana cedi worth of credit.

Mr Joe Mulbery, Head of Recruitment of the Right to Dream Academy, said the Academy was established in 1999 to offer talented athletes the opportunity to fulfill their true potential in life through specialized football coaching and education.

He said 21 students have so far graduated out of the Academy and were playing professional football in universities in the USA while five of them have advanced to play in the Premier League in Ghana this season.

Mr Mulbery said the Northern Region was the third Region that the Academy was undertaking the talent hunt training, adding that 16 to 20 players are expected to be selected for the Academy after the whole exercise has been completed throughout the country.