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| Administrative Manager of PSL, Fauziatu Adam and one of the scouts from Serbia, Duro Ivanisevic |
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| Egyptian Super Agent - Mohammed Shiha |
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| After the match between Dreams FC and Local Black Stars |
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| 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 ‘3rd
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 15th to 21st 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.
