Asante Kotoko Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nana Yaw Amponsah has set sights on building on a solid youth team for the future as he believes football is about the youth.
According to Amponsah, the Porcupine Warriors have got the fan base, but needs a squad of young players to enable the team live up to the expectation.
He wants to build a youth team that will be capable of churning out results and establish dominance over arch rivals Accra Hearts of Oak by overturning the historic 4-0 humiliation they suffered in their hands many years ago.
"We need a solid youth system; that we cannot compromise, football is about the youth. We need to develop youth players who have the Kotoko fabric in embedded in them right from the start”, Nana Yaw Amponsah said.
"Our medium and long term goal is to have a young team. Imagine a WAFA kind of team backed by Asante Kotoko supporters, you can imagine the things we can do. I know we cry that Hearts [of Oak] once beat us 4-0 but WAFA beat them 5-0, when we want to reverse that we need a WAFA kind of team."
He added, "I know that the supporters can be impatient and all that but look, recently, Borussia Dortmund have three players leading their attack and they are 20 years, 17 and 17, genuine age. So we need the young players to build a strong team, and that will only mean the supporters will have to be patient for us to build something solid; Rome was not built in a day."