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Former Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association, Oti Akenteng has stressed that it is still possible for Ghana to take over football on the continent to enjoy the recent success of Senegal.
According to him, that will, however, only be possible if the country can properly implement its youth policy.
“With proper planning, things will go on well. This is how the Senegal success story started, in 2015 we (GFA) and Senegal together with some other African countries started the youth development system from the scratch.
“They (Senegal) continued with the policy to carefully implement the youth development project with a blueprint starting from the juvenile level,” Oti Akenteng said in an interview with Akoma FM.
The former GFA Technical Director added, “But our own is not the same. We want to start from the top (Black Stars) and achieve all other success at a goal, the truth is that, it cannot happen like that.
“We must rather start with the colts before we get to the elite, and plan well as some other countries have done. We had a five-year development plan in the past (Ben Kofi era), and during my tenure as the technical director, we continued by reshaping them. The current FA has started something and they should strengthen it well, surely we shall achieve the same.”
Senegal in recent years has won everything there is to be won. Over the weekend, the U20 national team of Senegal won the U20 AFCON.
This follows successes for the CHAN team and the Beach Soccer team.
In addition, Senegal are the current Africa Cup of Nations tournament champions.
According to him, that will, however, only be possible if the country can properly implement its youth policy.
“With proper planning, things will go on well. This is how the Senegal success story started, in 2015 we (GFA) and Senegal together with some other African countries started the youth development system from the scratch.
“They (Senegal) continued with the policy to carefully implement the youth development project with a blueprint starting from the juvenile level,” Oti Akenteng said in an interview with Akoma FM.
The former GFA Technical Director added, “But our own is not the same. We want to start from the top (Black Stars) and achieve all other success at a goal, the truth is that, it cannot happen like that.
“We must rather start with the colts before we get to the elite, and plan well as some other countries have done. We had a five-year development plan in the past (Ben Kofi era), and during my tenure as the technical director, we continued by reshaping them. The current FA has started something and they should strengthen it well, surely we shall achieve the same.”
Senegal in recent years has won everything there is to be won. Over the weekend, the U20 national team of Senegal won the U20 AFCON.
This follows successes for the CHAN team and the Beach Soccer team.
In addition, Senegal are the current Africa Cup of Nations tournament champions.