Alhaji Mohamed Muftao, Technical Director of Sports in the Eastern Region is urging the Sports Ministry to resurrect colts football in Ghana by collaborating with Municipalities and Districts in the country.
The Director believes the return of Colts football league in Ghana will be a recreative venture for businessmen following the country's abysmal performance in international competitions. He also stressed that competing for honours in a sustainable league format would enhance clubs to unearth and groom talents for the national team.
“Football is now a huge business which can generate much revenue for Ghana, but colts clubs which used to be the nursing grounds for the premier league clubs are all defunct".
"This is because those who run such clubs do not have the requisite financial resources to continue running clubs at the youth level,” Alhaji Muftao bemoaned during an interview with Daily Graphic in Accra.
According to Alhaji Muftao, all the MMDAs had a budget for sports activities which were seldom invested for such purposes, hence the need for the Youth and Sports Ministry to take advantage to collaborate with the MMDAs to make good use of the sports budgets.
“With the collaboration between the Sports Ministry and the MMDAs, many colts clubs would not only spring up in their numbers, but the competitive spirit among the teams would surge for the benefit of the local clubs,” he added.
Alhaji opined that many of the retired football stars with knowledge in coaching should be encouraged to coach the Colts clubs if they were established to make them much competitive and formidable.
Story by Kolog Bonaventure