Ada Youth showcase talent

Outstanding talents were on display at the Asafotu park in Big Ada on Saturday when former vice president of the Ghana Football Association, George Afriyie held a justify your inclusion exercise for the youth in the area.

Footballers from the four Ada communities namely Sege, Kasseh, Big Ada and Ada Foah took turns to exhibit their skills to George Afriyie and his host of scouts. The gala saw teams from the four communities take on each other after which the selected players played another match which served as the final justifier.

The exercise was organized with the purposes of recruiting talents from the area to Liberty Professionals and Okyeman Planners and also form a standing team made up of players from the four towns.

In a chat with the press after the programme, George Afriyie remarked that he was impressed with the level of talent and promised to create opportunities for the selected players to realize their dream of playing for some of the country’s top football clubs.

The Okyeman Planners chief explained that Saturday’s event is the first of many he will be organizing for the youth in the communities.

He cautioned the players against complacency and other vices that have the tendency of destroying their future.

“I’m not too surprised about the talents I saw here. During the 2017 AFCON in Gabon I had the opportunity to see some Ga-Adangbe youth in the Black Stars. I was bit surprised at their performance. I’m talking about the Christian Atsu, Jonathan Mensah, Thomas Partey, Tekpetey among others. My grandmother comes from here so I decided to come here and spot talents for both local and international clubs and I believe that it has paid off”.

“From what we have observed here today, I’m convinced that there are some fantastic talents here. We want to have a very strong Ada youth team and I’m going to be the brain behind it. I’m going to help a friend organize a very formidable team here”, he said.

The organizer of the competition who is also the General Manager of division two side Okor Nowomi FC made known his impression with the quality of talent he witnessed.

“I have tried over the years to convince my cousin (George Afriyie) to do this thing but his work at the FA does not allow so I’m happy we managed to stage it today. I think all of you have seen the talents here and they are good”, he said.