As part of efforts to support juvenile and women’s football at the grassroots level, Soccer For Dreamers will hold its annual donation exercise on Friday, July 12, at the office of the Ghana Football Association (GFA). The initiative, in partnership with the GFA, will include health talks for the footballers and the presentation of football equipment to their clubs.

This year’s event, the third since the initiative began in 2022, will feature five women’s teams from the Greater Accra Region, four male teams from the Eastern Region, and one disability team from Kumasi.

Rationale:

Explaining the rationale for selecting the beneficiary teams, the President of Soccer For Dreamers, Mrs. Sylvia Akwaboah, emphasized the initiative’s goal to support as many teams as possible. The inclusion of the disability team highlights its all-inclusive objective.

“The main aim of this initiative is to support all players everywhere, irrespective of where they are. For the first time, we will also have a disability team benefitting because we have been following the exploits in disability football and we are excited to provide our widow’s mite to support them,” Mrs. Akwaboah said.

Event:

Since its inception, the partnership has educated female footballers on menstrual hygiene, distributing menstrual cups to support and help the players. Male footballers have benefited from health talks on diet, injuries, and general well-being.

The initiative was started by three brothers, Baruch, Jed, and Kayden Akwaboah, who play school soccer in the USA. It is their way of supporting young footballers in Ghana who dream of making something meaningful out of the sport.

Participating Teams:

• Male Teams: Agenda FC (Shai Hills), Fiakonya FC (Somanya), Young Believers (Dodowa), D-shooters FC (Odumse)
• Female Teams: Teshie Constant Ladies, G.R.A Ladies, Halifax Queens, Immigration Ladies, Sissamba Ladies