Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku, president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), claims that the unadulterated investment and efforts that were directed on the growth of Women’s Football are producing the desired results.
On Wednesday, President Simeon-Okraku praised Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited for making a risky investment in the game during the launch of the 2022–23 Malta Guinness Women’s Premier League.
The global corporation joined as the Women’s Premier League’s lead sponsor and is committing a staggering ten million Ghana Cedis (GHc10,000,000) to the league for a three-year term.
‘’Our FA has invested and will continue to commit the right levels of investment to Women’s football’’ he said.
‘’As we speak, we are here talking about the Women’s Premier League but I am sure that soon we will also meet on similar platforms to speak about the Women’s Division One and perhaps lower Leagues where girls are encouraged to realize their dreams’’.
‘’The Ghana Football Association called on corporate Ghana to come along and to believe in our vision to give opportunities to our ladies, to realize their dreams and Malta Guinness responded to that call’’.
‘’The Football Association is very grateful for the trust, for the believe and for your undiluted desire to support Women’s football in this country’’.
‘’I remember in 2019, many people in Ghana didn’t believe me when I made a promise to make Women’s football attractive. But two and half years down the line, we can testify to this great work done so far’’.
‘’I continue to say that if we want a good tomorrow, we must sacrifice our today, so I am delighted that the effort we put into this work is yielding the needed result’’ he added.
26 goals were scored in 10 games when the Malta Guinness Women’s Premier League got underway last weekend in both the Northern and Southern Zones.
