{"id":14823,"date":"2014-04-23T07:44:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=14823"},"modified":"2014-04-23T07:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T07:50:52","slug":"tigo-supports-1000-footballers-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=14823","title":{"rendered":"Tigo supports 1000 footballers in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accra will experience a soccer shake-up in the following four weeks when Ghana\u2019s biggest and most participatory football event, the Tigo Community Soccer invades the nation\u2019s capital beginning this weekend.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The coastal communities of Teshie, Bukom and Gbeigbeise in Dansoman will host three consecutive weeks of action-packed \u00a0community football competition\u00a0 while Ashaiman in Tema will host the fourth event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The national coordinator of Tigo Community Soccer Nana Yaw Osei Darkwa told newsmen in Accra: “The capital will experience a week on week stir in football \u00a0with the events we have planned. Community football rivalry is very healthy in Accra. At least 1000 footballers will take part in the four events.”<\/p>\n

“All these players will get jerseys, a pair of hose and the opportunity to display their craft before football scouts and accredited Fifa agents.”<\/p>\n

“This year is all about the World Cup which is perhaps the biggest stage in world football. For all these footballers, the opportunity to represent their communities is huge and it can change their lives as well. So we put them into a competition on the pitch to discover their abilities to be heroes just like all the players at the World Cup,\u201d said Nana Yaw Osei Darkwa.<\/p>\n

Tigo\u2019s Community Soccer has already been to three regions being Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. Everywhere the competition has gone, the format has included activities beyond football. A health screening campaign and a blood donation exercise has become integral to the appreciation of Tigo Community Soccer.<\/p>\n

“Tigo cares for the Community. We care about their health status of everyone in the community,”\u00a0said Public Relations and Advertising Manager of Tigo Community Soccer, Kwamena Buckman.<\/p>\n

“We realise there are many lifestyle diseases that can be managed or prevented if people knew about their status early enough. So wherever we go, we encourage people to come out \u00a0and do a glucose test to determine their vulnerability to diabetes and a high blood pressure test.”<\/p>\n

The LEKMA Hospital in Teshie will be the first beneficiary of the blood donation exercise as the first event in the Accra leg of the Tigo Community Soccer Competition will be held at the Teshie Estate Preparatory School Park.<\/p>\n

Some of the communities scheduled to take part in the competition are Teshie Zongo, Century, Sea lady, Teshie Camp 2, Tebibiano and Gornno school.\u00a0 The other communities are Nungua Zongo, First Junction, Coco Beach, Grada Estates, Teshie Estates, Annomantu Manna Mission, Las Cala, Nungua Adegon\u00a0 and Nungua C5. The health screening and blood donation exercise runs on the sidelines of the football activity.<\/p>\n

“These communities are already primed for action. They will have to confirm their involvement and get ready to become heroes for their community,” said Nana Yaw Osei Darkwa.<\/p>\n

“We also have the women\u2019s penalty shootout and the Azonto dance competitions which will bring the entire community out to have fun.”<\/p>\n

After Teshie, the Tigo Community Soccer competition will berth at Bukom for the Ga Mashie leg of the tourney. Dansoman and Ashaiman will then take their turn before Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region and Sekondi in the Western Region. The Central Region will host the final edition of this year\u2019s Tigo Community Soccer Competition on 7-8\u00a0June 2014.<\/p>\n

By: Citi Sports desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra will experience a soccer shake-up in the following four weeks when Ghana\u2019s biggest and most participatory football event, the Tigo Community Soccer invades the nation\u2019s capital beginning this weekend.\u00a0 The coastal communities of Teshie, Bukom and Gbeigbeise in Dansoman will host three consecutive weeks of action-packed \u00a0community football competition\u00a0 while Ashaiman in Tema will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-14823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}