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Ashanti Warriors win maiden Binatone Skate Football Fiesta

By GNA
Sports News Ashanti Warriors win maiden Binatone Skate Football Fiesta
JAN 19, 2017 LISTEN

Accra, Jan. 19, GNA - Ashanti Warriors won the maiden Binatone Skate football Fiesta, held at the La Pleasure beach after beating Accra Giants 2-0 in a penalty shootout at the La Pleasure Beach.

The game ended 4-4 in regulation time after Accra Giants made remarkable recovery, coming back four times to send the game into penalties.

The event, witnessed by hundreds of patrons, saw the Accra Giants play the Ashanti Warriors in the new sport.

Present were Sunil Lalvani the Group CEO of Binatone, Mr Venu Babu the MD for Binatone, Mr Amar from IPMC, Senior Journalists and President of Ghana Beach Soccer Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, the Executive Director of SYDO Alfred Frimpong representatives from the National Sports Authority.

The Beach skate soccer event is an innovation and precisely the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

This involves the building of a platform either a (Basketball or Law Tennis court size) on the shores of the beach.

The main target is the physically challenged members of society especially those who dangerously move swiftly on the streets begging for alms using locally made skateboards.

Mr Lalvani: 'We as a corporate organisation are organising this fiesta of skate soccer, a super sport created by SYDO.

'It's a sport for the physically challenged and we are very proud and confident to say that it is the nicest of all physically challenged sports round the world'.

Mr Babu said Government alone could not develop the sport and so there was the need to raise funds through sponsorship from corporate organisations and possibly set up some enterprises for the physically challenged members of the society who were willing to venture into productive businesses and also provide trading capital for others who want to trade.

He said these initiatives may potentially assist them to leave the streets and desist from begging and be integrated into normal society. This eventually will make them self-reliant.

Mr Babu said it was for these reasons Binatone was sponsoring the event and called on other corporate bodies to get on board.

Gariba Saani from Accra Giants won the most valuable/ best player/ goal king trophy as well as two swatch watches and blender from Binatone.

Billy Adamu from Ashanti Warriors won best goal keeper trophy and receives a swatch watch and a blender.

On top of it all the winning team received Binatone standing fans each whereas the losing team had rice cooker each.

The Director of Sports and Youth Development Organization Ghana (SYDO), an NGO, Albert Frimpong, said the event was the organisation's contribution to making life worthwhile for the physically challenged members of the society.

GNA

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