Okwawu on a rebuilding exercise

Accra (Greater Accra) -- Soccer mountaineers, Okwawu United, has begun a massive rebuilding exercise, assembling a youthful team in a bid to winning this year's league title.

Dr Felix K. Frimpong, Board Chairman of the club, told the GNA Sports in Accra that the current squad is ageing hence the need to revamp it with younger ones in order to become a force to reckon with in Ghana soccer.

He said the aim of the club is to present a brand new Okwawu United and to break the two-horse race that Hearts and Kotoko have enjoined in the league and has persisted for years. The Chairman said what makes the rebuilding unique is the fact that the old players are not going to be put on transfer list but management is instead collaborating with some selected foreign clubs to resettle them.

As one of the measures, the team has signed a two-year contract each with coaches Charles Yeboah, 41, and Philip Boamah, 49, to beef up the technical team headed by Suley. Yeboah has had a stint with some Nigerian teams including Julius Berger and he is said to have gone back to prepare to join the Okwawu boys.

Asked whether the new team would not face problem of cohesion, the medical doctor said, "these are players who have either played in the division one or two and as such I think they can easily adjust. Okwawu will perform 100 times better than last year and hopefully we shall represent Ghana in Africa after the season", he said apparently referring to the Champions League.

Meanwhile, Dansoman-based Liberty Professionals have approached Okwawu to "buy" two of their players -Alfred Nii Larbi Darko and Nii Aryee Tetteh.