Glo Mobile, Africa’s fastest growing telecoms
operator, has unveiled in Ghana the Globacom Soccer Academy, a TV Reality show
organized to discover and train talented young footballers in West Africa.
According to organizers the concept of the Glo Soccer Academy has been
conceived to provide a once-in-a lifetime opportunity for young talented footballers
to kick-start their career in professional football.
At a brief ceremony in Ghana’s capital Accra,
the General Manager in-charge of Advertising at Glo Mobile Ghana, Mr. Tunde
Kaitell explained that the Academy is designed to scout through Ghana, the
Benin Republic and Nigeria over a period, to screen thousands of promising
youngsters out of which some 33 talented finalists will be camped in a soccer
academy based in Lagos, Nigeria and trained by celebrity coaches for five
weeks.
“From this lot, 16 participants will emerge
as the last of the pack who will earn mouth-watering pecks including cash
prizes, scholarships and a training tour with the Manchester United Soccer
Schools” he said.
Mr Kaitell
acknowledged that Glo Mobile has been in the forefront of football sponsorship
in Ghana even before the company commenced commercial operations in April this
year. He also noted that part from sponsoring the Glo Premiere League and the
Ghana Black Stars, Glo Ghana also sponsor the Ghana National Supporters Union
(GHANSU), and for the most sentimental reasons, Glo have chosen Ghana as the
venue for the prestigious Glo-CAF Awards on three unprecedented occasions – in
2007, 2010 and 2011.
According to
the Advertizing Boss, he foresee the Glo Soccer Academy as growing to become a
major turning point in the lives of youngsters with hidden talents in our
localities across West Africa.
“One of the final 16 players at the Academy
will win the ultimate prize of Sixty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC 60,000) for
being the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the competition, while the rest will
win Ten Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC 10,000) plus G BAM Scholarships worth Nine
Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy-five Ghana Cedis each” he added.
The Glo Soccer
Academy will be a gathering of talented future African footballers while the
Academy itself is a perfect recipe for the creative infusion of fun and
excitement into the sport and signal the arrival of a new dawn in football
entertainment not only in Ghana, Nigeria and the Benin Republic but across all
Africa.