Glo Soccer Academy begins in Kumasi Monday

The Paa Joe Stadium located

on the KNUST campus in Kumasi is the venue on Monday as screening for candidates

for the new Glo Soccer Academy begins. Billed to be West Africa's biggest soccer

reality television show, screening will take place in eight other venues across

Ghana, Nigeria and the Republic of Benin in the search for 33 players aged between

14 to 17 years for a one-month

camping at the Academy in Lagos under the training of celebrity coaches from

West Africa and English Premier league giants Manchester United.

A massive total of 16 finalists

would then be selected for a training tour of the Manchester United Soccer Schools

in addition to winning scholarships and other lucrative rewards.The most valuable

player (the MVP) is also assured a mammoth sixty thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢60,000)

with the

other 15 finalists assured twelve thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢12,000) each.

To register in Ghana, prospective candidates for screening are expected

to load GH¢30 credits on their Glo line and text their name, age, and preferred

screening

location to 3836. From Kumasi, the screening goes next to Tamale Sports

Stadium in the Northern Regional capital on 12 and 13 October before concluding

in Ghana on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th October at the Lizzy Sport

Complex in East Legon, Accra.Screening shifts to Nigeria from 23 October to 11

November in Benin City, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos before concluding

in Benin on November 14.