{"id":194075,"date":"2024-06-27T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/27\/ghana-fa-confident-about-dominating-world-football-with-elite-talent-identification\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:53:31","slug":"ghana-fa-confident-about-dominating-world-football-with-elite-talent-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/27\/ghana-fa-confident-about-dominating-world-football-with-elite-talent-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana FA confident about dominating World Football with Elite Talent Identification \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association Technical Director, Prof. Joseph Kwame Mintah is confident about Ghana\u2019s chances of dominating world football through it\u2019s Elite Talent Identification project.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, which was launched in 2022, is to scout and nurture the brightest young talents across the nation, to form the backbone of the national teams.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are set to begin with the establishment of academies to ensure no talent goes unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe long-term goal or target is to unearth talent, develop talent and develop the youth so that we can feed into the senior national teams,\u201d Prof. Mintah told GhanaFAnews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe target is to get every region one academy so maybe in the next five, six, seven years, each region will have its academy and that\u2019s where you can assemble the best of talent for each region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur target is to be in the World Cup and if possible, conquer the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project includes young players between 11-14 years for both males and females.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a>Haruna Mubarak<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Football Association Technical Director, Prof. Joseph Kwame Mintah is confident about Ghana\u2019s chances of dominating world football through it\u2019s Elite Talent Identification project. 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