3RD BEST IN GHANA SOCCER FIESTA ENDS IN GRAND STYLE

Administrative Manager of PSL, Fauziatu Adam and one of the scouts from Serbia, Duro Ivanisevic

Egyptian Super Agent - Mohammed Shiha

After the match between Dreams FC and Local Black Stars

Group photograph of Dreams FC players

 By: Fauziatu Adam

The bi- annual soccer tournament, organized by Proton Sports Limited (PSL), that uniquely assembles all the best talents in the Ghanaian league in one colourful platform ended last week in grand style.

Dubbed ‘3^rd BEST OF GHANA SOCCER FIESTA 2012’, this year’s tourney which was mainly held at University of Ghana, Legon Ajax Park saw two phases.

The first phase started from 15^th to 21^st November featuring scouts like Mr Albert Martens, Chief African Scout for Anderlecht, Belgium, Mr Sasha Empacher , Former Marketing Manager of Bayern Munich , Germany, Mr Johannes Rupprechter, Scout from Greuther Furth, Germany, Mr. Ivanisevic Djuro, a FIFA licensed agent,  Serbia and , Mr. Carlmichael Bordogna from Italy.

The second phase also started from26th November - 3rd December and saw scouts like Mr Mohammed Shiha, FIFA Licenced Agent, Egypt, Mr Emam Mohamdeen, Egypt and Mr Aboutalep Mohammed, Egypt.

Participating teams for this year’s tourney included, defending Premier League Champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko , defending  FA Cup Champions, New Edubiase United, stalwart  Division two side,  Dreams Football Club and Inter Allies Football Club . Others were Division one Campaign, Tudu Mighty Jets, Peace Babies, Cheetah FC and the Local Black Stars.

The Managing Director of PSL, Mr Kurt Okraku said this strategy makes it easy for foreign clubs to always have the right of first refusal on budding Ghanaian talents.

“Recognising the opportunities football competitions offer in promoting the standards of football clubs and players, Proton Sports Services instituted this mini soccer tournament, which has seen its third year, to assemble all the best talents in the football industry under one platform to unearth and nurture them”, he added.

The previous tournaments discovered top notch footballers like Abdul Bashiru who is on the verge of joining Udinese Calcio SPA, John Entwi with Ismailly FC, Baba Abdul Rahman who was first discovered by Anderlecht, and courted by Arsenal, Chelsea, and Manchester City and now signed with Greuther Furth in Germany.

Proton Sports Services is a sports marketing and management consultancy firm which deals in Events Management, Sports Legal Services among others based in Accra Ghana with our operational divisions in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Established in 1999 with sole intention of injection professionalism in the way sports is run/promoted/managed in Africa, the company helps in developing varied targeted marketing programs and promotional events designed specifically for each client.

PSL’s Executive team holds over 30 years of cumulative experience in professional Football, Sports Marketing, Finance, Law and General Sports Management. We work as a team and deliver results from our joint efforts.