Our investment in grassroots football will soon reflect in performance – President Simeon-Okraku

President Simeon-Okraku says the unprecedented investment into grassroots football and regional Leagues will soon reflect in performance across the football ecosystem.

The Ghana Football Association has for the past four years, invested heavily in the supply of free footballs and bibs, payment of officiating fees, the introduction of Game Centres and increased subventions for the ten regional football Associations with the singular aim of developing COLTS football and all Juvenile Leagues across the country.

This has resulted in an increased number of active COLTS clubs across the football ecosystem. The Executive Council has also taken a decision to use part of the proceeds from the FIFA Forward 2.0 to purchase pickups for the 10 regional Football Associations to aide their work.

With the support of KGL Foundation, the Ghana Football Association has consistently run the national U-17 and regional U-17 Championships within the last three seasons. Under this programme, the Ghana Football Association supplies plagues and trophies to regional champions, gold medals to the winning teams and silver medals to the runners up as well as plagues to the top scorers and best players in the various regions.

‘’Indeed, to support the work of our RFA’s, we introduced a yearly subvention of 120,000 Ghana cedis each to our 10 RFA’s to support their work and this work also affects COLTS Football’’ President Simeon-Okraku said.

‘’In the next few weeks we will also continue investing in our Regional Football Associations (RFA’s) with the purchase and supply of 10 pickups to support their work. Again, to ensure that our national teams continue to perform, whether from the U-15 level to the A-national team level, we need to continue our investment into grassroots football’’.

‘’We will continue to invest in the third Division, second Division and the Women Division One Leagues as we have already started. Last week, our purchase of a one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) worth of footballs arrived and have been distributed to all the 10 regions''.

‘’This is investment in grassroots football and the results of these investments will soon reflect in performances, whether at the club level or at the national level’’ he added.

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