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[caption id="attachment_966680" align="alignnone" width="300"] Kurt Okraku[/caption]
The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku has assured that his administration will continue to work to ensure the success of the various national teams.
According to him, success is not achieved overnight.
Kurt Okraku wants Ghanaians to support his administration in the quest to ensure Ghana returns to its glory days in football.
“..To help us identify talents at the right ages, at the right time, the technical directorate has identified five scouts in each of our ten regions. These five scouts have been trained by the technical directorate and they have been scouting players for our U-15 and our U-20 national teams. The first badge of talents that were scouted by this scout trained by our Technical Directorate where the players that represented Ghana in the international friendly tournaments in Serbia. The twinkle twinkle little starlets that were led by Laryea Kingston.
“So, you can see clearly my colleagues that we have stopped or changed the way we scout for our national teams, now the players are scouted early through the talent identification program, they will be enlisted into the boarding schools, the top ones will find themselves into the national teams plus the same scouts will go into the schools and into the districts to scout for the super talents for our national U-15 and U-17 national teams.
“Overtime we are going to deploy same scouts to also perform same responsibility for our domestic national teams which is the Black Galaxies. Gradually, we are making progress; this step needs patience and time. During this period, we will have good times and bad times. Glories do not come overnight; it needs patience and the support of everybody,” Kurt Okraku said as quoted on the website of the Ghana FA.
Meanwhile, the Ghana FA is reportedly close to appointing a new head coach for the Black Stars.
The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku has assured that his administration will continue to work to ensure the success of the various national teams.
According to him, success is not achieved overnight.
Kurt Okraku wants Ghanaians to support his administration in the quest to ensure Ghana returns to its glory days in football.
“..To help us identify talents at the right ages, at the right time, the technical directorate has identified five scouts in each of our ten regions. These five scouts have been trained by the technical directorate and they have been scouting players for our U-15 and our U-20 national teams. The first badge of talents that were scouted by this scout trained by our Technical Directorate where the players that represented Ghana in the international friendly tournaments in Serbia. The twinkle twinkle little starlets that were led by Laryea Kingston.
“So, you can see clearly my colleagues that we have stopped or changed the way we scout for our national teams, now the players are scouted early through the talent identification program, they will be enlisted into the boarding schools, the top ones will find themselves into the national teams plus the same scouts will go into the schools and into the districts to scout for the super talents for our national U-15 and U-17 national teams.
“Overtime we are going to deploy same scouts to also perform same responsibility for our domestic national teams which is the Black Galaxies. Gradually, we are making progress; this step needs patience and time. During this period, we will have good times and bad times. Glories do not come overnight; it needs patience and the support of everybody,” Kurt Okraku said as quoted on the website of the Ghana FA.
Meanwhile, the Ghana FA is reportedly close to appointing a new head coach for the Black Stars.