Right to Dream seek FA support

Youth football development receives a significant boost as Right to Dream, a support group that uses sports to help talented underprivileged African children to obtain first class education and develop them to achieve a better quality of life moves its operations into a new level.

Right to Dream, which has operations across the African continent is seeking the support of the Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Education and Sports to continue with their hunt for talents across the countryside and prepare them for the various sporting disciplines.

Already running its Four-Year Development Plan, the FA hopes the positive role of the project would ensure success of the game.

“This is what the Four Year Development Plan seeks to do; to unearth talents from the regions and down to the district levels,” Vice-President of the FA, Fred Pappoe, said at the launch of the Right to Dream Academy on Monday.

“We will not sit down till some few months to juvenile competitions before we look for players. “We want to unearth them through our regional and district coaches and make it easier to draft them into the national teams.”

Fred Pappoe gave Right to Dream, the FA's support, adding that the concept of soccer academies was very significant to the development of the game at the grassroot level.

But the FA Vice-President, however cautioned that the role and operations of such projects would be monitored by the sport body to prevent the abuse of their major objective.

Right to Dream, headed by Manchester United's African scout, Tom Venom, noted that the main aim of the academy was to provide a safe and supportive environment for children to develop their academic, sporting and key life skill and also to provide children with an educational programme that equips them with the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to enable them to pursue, upon graduation, further education and employment opportunities locally and internationally.