Cape Coast set to climax Tigo Community Soccer

The Central Regional capital of Cape Coast will buzz with the final event in the 2014 series of the Tigo Community Soccer competition this weekend.

Tigo Community Soccer, the biggest and the most participatory football grassroots competition in Ghana has already visited eight regions and some major towns in the country.

Some beneficiary towns and cities include Mampong, Kumasi, Tamale, Sekondi, Ashaiman, Ga Mashie and Sunyani. Almost 3,000 (three thousand) footballers have been given jerseys free of charge by Tigo as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility commitments. Footballers have also benefited by becoming heroes for their communities by playing for them just as players of different countries represent their nations at the World Cup.

As part of Tigo’s Community Care platform, every stop of Tigo Community Soccer has also provided free medical screening to soccer fans for diseases like diabetes, hypertension and malaria. Tigo also infused a blood donation exercise into this season’s Tigo Community Soccer to help the national blood bank gain more blood. At least four hundred (400) pints of blood have been donated to hospitals around Ghana.

The mainstay of the Tigo Community Soccer however is grassroots football organised at the inter-community level where heroes are first born.

“This year’s Tigo Community Soccer competition has become even bigger and better. The fun is more everywhere we have been,” said Alfred Dowuona-Hammond, an official of Tigo who speaks on Tigo Community Soccer.

“Communities come out to compete for honours as if this was the World Cup. At Tigo, we engage the communities because we are the official sponsor of their passion which is football. Tigo also wants to show these communities that we care not just for their football but also their health,” Mr. Dowuona-Hammond said.

Takoradi is the latest instalment of Tigo Community Soccer that has just been observed. Sulele Park, the hosts tripled their honour role by winning the competition for the third straight year. Bankyease came second while Kwekuma came in third place.

Now Cape Coast is agog with expectation after the success of their ‘neighbours’ in Takoradi.

“You can feel the excitement in Cape Coast. This is the final event. It will be held at the Zion Park which right in the middle of the town. Expect a big name footballer to grace the event,” Alfred Dowuouna Hammond reminded everyone.

He continued: “Also expect unbridled excitement at the grounds. We want to leave Cape Coasters with a tournament that will be impossible to forget before the big soccer mundial in Brazil. Cape Coast will be a worthy signing off for the 2014 Tigo Community Soccer so we want everyone to come and experience it.”

Registration for all sixteen teams taking part in the Tigo Community Soccer takes place on Friday at the main Tigo office in Cape Coast around Mfantsipim school. Some of the participating communities in the competition include Kawano Pado, Tantre, Ntsin, Third Ridge, Bakano and Pedu. Other Communities taking part are London Bridge, Kotokuraba , Troom, Coronation, Abura, Abom,