Mr. Abdul Hayye Yartey, former manager of Christian Atsu, has revealed that he would name Cheetah FC's home ground after the late Hatayspor and Black Stars winger.
Christian Atsu's remains were returned to Ghana from Turkey last Sunday after he perished in an earthquake two weeks ago.
Christian Atsu spent his youthful years with Cheetah FC before moving on to play in the Portuguese division for FC Porto.
“He was happy to see Cheetah move forward and too see our new astroturf. He came around to grace the occasion when we were commissioning it," he said.
"I had plans to surprise him when our grass pitch was ready and then eventually name it after him but my thoughts are not that of God as it my plans couldn’t bear fruits in his presence. With or without him, we will continue to honor him by naming the pitch after him,”
The Ghanaian had recently scored his first goal for Hatayaspor just hours before the natural disaster struck.
During his career, Atsu played 65 matches for Ghana, scoring nine goals. Two of his most famous goals came in the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Egypt and in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, quarter-finals clash against Guinea, where he scored an absolutely breathtaking goal.