Goals Galore at GBSA La Pleasure Beach Soccer Arena

…as Blue Whales lose 5-7 to Gulf Powers

in Division One League Big Game

By Sammy Heywood Okine

The Ghana Beach Soccer League Arena at the La Pleasure Beach

was the hot spot for Chorkor Blue Whales when they were shocked in a 12 goals

action packed duel with Gulf Powers.

Gulf Powers who are one of the serious Beach Soccer Clubs

and take their training very passionate were thankful to God and coach Jonny

who mapped a good strategy to outwit the over confident Blue Whales who scored

the first goal through Robert Saba, but it was equalized before the Powers

went ahead and Whales levelled.

By the end of the second half the boys from Chorkor were

surprisingly 2- 6, down due to poor goalkeeping from Richmond Armah, standing

in for the agile tall tried and tested Isaac Quartey.

The captain of Powers and new goals leader, Eric Lamptey

banged in five goals before National team prospect King Addo rallied his

colleagues to find their bearing and also score some of the beautiful goals,

but time was not on their side so their best was a 5-7 result which the

President of the GBSA Yaw Ampofo Ankrah described as one of the best matches

ever played at the arena and it was sad that many television cameras were not there

to cover and play back for Ghanaians who love football especially beach soccer.

These who registered the goals for Whales were Robert Saba

with two goals, King Addo, Francis Patamia and Wilmot Mingle. Addo and Saba now

have four goals with goal shy-Mingle at three goals.

In other matches played on the eighth week, Teshie United

played a determined game to halt league leaders African Angels who have amassed

21 points through walk overs. Theo Armah of Ogbonu FM was the tactician for

Teshie to grab a 2-1 winner to close the gap on 18 points.

Black Sea Lions had a walk over Global and Nungua also

collected three free points from non existent James Town Octopus. Nima were

sure to collect free points but they had to sweat to a 2-2 drawn game with

Golden Eagles.

Yaw Ampofo Ankrah said the Division One League was

interesting and urged fans to troop to the arena to watch the thrillers and new

stars emerging from beach soccer.

He hinted that the National team would soon be formed

because Ghana has been invited by some countries such as Togo who want to play

a friendly game.

Some of the guests who watched last Saturday’s matches were

Fuseini Bawa General Secretary of the GBSA and Douda Luthorodt deputy coach of

the Black Meteors and local Black Stars.

The first round comes to an end next Saturday with some

exciting fixtures.

Teshie face Golden Eagles, Black Sea Lions clash with

African Angels, Nima meet Nungua, James Town play Gulf Powers and Blue Whales

lock horns with Global Supporters.