Liberty to build $5 million soccer academy at Dodowa

Accra, July 18 - GNA - Premier league giants, Liberty Professionals Sporting Club of Dansoman, Accra has acquired a piece of land at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region to build a Sports Complex which would also house a soccer academy. Alhaji Ibrahim Sly Tetteh, President of the Club said on Friday that the project, which would take three years to complete, would cost $5 million.

Addressing the media at a ceremony to outdoor the team's multi purpose Club House, the club president said he was talking to four foreign clubs which had indicated their willingness to be partners in the project. When completed, he said the Cpmplex would consist of a sports stadium with a 25,000 sitting capacity, two training fields, a guesthouse, players' hostel, lecture rooms, a shopping mall and a hospital among others.

Alhaji Tetteh said they at Liberty are committed to the provision of excellence so as to attract sponsorship as it is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain the standards they have set for themselves. He assured corporate organisations that would support their course of immense benefits from their branded jerseys and training kits, the clubhouse, a newsletter and the implementation of other merchandising concepts.

The President called on would be sponsors, to visit the teams facilities and acquaint themselves with the high standard they have attained so far to build up their conviction of copious benefits. In his contribution, Nii Lantey Vanderpuje, Media Manager of the club said the players would soon benefit from an insurance scheme that would guarantee them a comfortable retirement if their careers end abruptly due to injury.

He assured Ghanaians that the team would play in the African Clubs Championship if they won the league and corroborated the president's stance that they shied away from the CAF Cup competition in order to use the resources they would have committed into the non-profitable competition into the projects they had undertaken. The Club House consists of dormitories for players, administrative offices, technical rooms for tactical planning and match reviews from a giant television set, a state of the art gymnasium, a dining room and a recreational hall.