The Airtel Rising Stars competition ended last Sunday with Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions winning in the girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 divisions respectively.<\/p>\n
Fabulous ladies from the Ashanti region crushed Soccer Intellectuals from the Central region on a 4-2 penalty kick out, after their game ended goalless. The Brong Ahafo boys beat their counterparts from Upper East region by a lone goal.<\/p>\n
Airtel Rising Stars is a pan-African soccer talent programme that focuses on identifying and nurturing budding soccer talents from the grassroots onto a national stage.<\/p>\n
It also provides a platform for upcoming soccer talents under age seventeen to showcase their skills to leading scouts and coaches as well as having an opportunity to improve their football skills.<\/p>\n
The initiative, which kicked off in August this year targeted boys and girls in all ten regions of the country.<\/p>\n
Twelve male teams and six female teams engaged in a two-day national competition at the El-wak stadium on Saturday after which the four teams \u2013 two male and two female \u2013 qualified for the finals.<\/p>\n
A number of former national football stars – Yaw Preko, Willie Brown, Abdul Midjima, Kelvin Essien, Ben Owu, Emmanuel Duah, Ali Jahraa, Dan Addo, Samuel Osei-Kufuor and Nii Odartey Lamptey, [ambassadors of the ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ programme] \u2013 opened the final day of the tournament with a spectacular performance with the staff of Airtel Ghana.<\/p>\n
For their hardwork, Fabulous ladies were presented with a cheque of GHS 2,000. The overall best player award went to Priscilla Okyere. The Brong Ahafo boys also earned the same amount of money.<\/p>\n
Six individuals (4 Boys and 2 girls) will get a chance to attend the Airtel Rising Stars Football Camp in Capetown (South Africa).<\/p>\n
Commenting on the turn of events, Mr Minral Roy, Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Ghana noted that : \u201cOur next step is to fulfill our promise of sending them to a soccer clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, that will be run under the guidance of the South African Sports Science Institute.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are sure they will be in excellent hands and that the experience they will gain will be invaluable in their efforts to achieve world class standards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Education Minister Betty Mould-Iddrisu, who graced the occasion, said the government would support various initiatives aimed at widening the scope available for people to fully exploit their potentials.<\/p>\n
She urged other corporate organisations to imitate Airtel by supporting such initiatives.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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