Right to Dream Girls Academy will help develop female role models – Coach Dramani
Kumasi Asante Kotoko coach, Masud Didi Dramani has welcomed Right to Dream’s (RtD) new Girls Academy saying it will help develop female role models capable of leading positive development in society.
The Academy is in the final phase of selecting its first generation of students to establish the first residential Girls Academy in Africa.
The graduates are expected to lead social change and become role models for others girls in the future, in a society that tends to give more opportunities to boys.
“I think that the idea of RTD is to support the deprived individual in order to assist to develop the person’s talent so she becomes an important figure in the society capable of leading positive development,” the head coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Masud Didi Dramani said.
The students will not only be given the chance to develop their football skills, but their academic and leadership skills in order to reach their true potential, and build a better life for themselves, their families and their communities in the future.
“The impact is going to be very broad considering the fact that this will produce girls playing football at school going ages with great football intelligence,”
“The criteria for recruitment is clearly outlined by an able Scouting Department of the Academy.”
Dramani, who led Ghana to win Africa’s first medal in a Fifa Women’s tournament in 2012, also added that the national team will also be a major beneficiary of the programme.
“It would basically serve as the Nucleus of the National Women U -17 team. This is a program that I would want to be deeply associated with.”
“RTD have over the years supported and developed many male footballers who have been some of my products in the academy plying their football and educational trades in foreign countries and also now members of the current national teams: Abu Mohammed, Abdul Majeed Waris, Yaw Yeboah, Kingsley Fobih and many more.”
Fourteen girls between the ages of 10 and 13 will be given 5-year full scholarships to the RtD Academy at the end of the two-week trial at the Academy, which is based in Old Akrade in the Eastern Region.