The year 2024 has been one of the busiest years of football in the history of Ghanaian football, according to Sheikh Tophic Sienu.
Sheikh Tophic, the senior Communication Manager of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), reviewed football in Ghana in the year of 2024 on the Sportspack show on Max FM.
Juvenile football has seen a massive transformation under the current president of the GFA, Kurt Okraku.
The improved Ghanaman Soccer Center of Excellence hosted both the boys and girls KGL Foundation Inter-Regional Championships, which saw young under-17 footballers representing ten regions of Ghana. The Championship has been instrumental in the development of young talents in Ghana. One of whom is current Barcelona B left-back, David Oduro.
In the Greater Accra Region alone are 139 coast clubs, each of which receive free footballs and equipment every year from the GFA . This applies to all coast clubs scattered across the country.
The junior national teams of Ghana enjoyed remarkable success in 2024. Joe Nana Adarkwah’s Black Maidens recent capture of the WAFU B Girls Cup was the cherry on top.
The Black Satellites and Black Princesses won gold for Ghana at the 2023 Africa Games in March, led by Desmond Ofei and Yussif Bassigi, implementing the Ghana Football Philosophy, which identifies how Ghana plays football.
One of the most acknowledged successes of the GFA is the “Catch The Young” policy. The policy, launched four years ago, aims at unearthing young, talented referees between the ages of 13-16.
The focus for the GFA has always been and will continue to be the development of juvenile football, “fixing the fundamentals,” as they dearly refer to.
