Welcome To FFAF Ghana

Football is the largest sport in the world with over 400 million registered players world-wide. In Ghana, it is the largest participated sport both at the senior and junior level. Financing of football at the grassroot level (under 12, under 14, under 17 and to a large extent under 19) is a herculean task, since there is no income generation by way of gates proceeds. Matches are watched free of charge on mostly community pitches that are not fenced. Those who engage in financing at this level do so for a variety of reasons (love of the game, support for the youth and the hope of future gains from sale of the players to the premiership clubs and luckily outside the country).

The limited funds of these individuals has been detrimental to the development of the game and the youth who though playing for these clubs have to take care of their own logistics and welfare leading to the introduction of the so called “managers” who invariably exploit the situation. The players become invariably “slaves” to these managers who take all the decisions relating to the future of the player. Though FIFA does not legally recognise the role of these “managers”, in Ghana they play a crucial well known and acceptable role. At times the managers themselves are not literate to understand the long term ramifications of contracts they get their players to sign but are motivated by the opportunity to recoup their investments or the zeal to get them to sign up for particular clubs of their choice. The player really has little or no say in such matters. This is not healthy for the development of the youth in football. It is in this vein Future for All Foundation is positioning itself as a vehicle whereby the underprivileged and street children who have the sport of football as their career goal or talent can attend school and still have the opportunity to realize their career dreams.

FFAF believes that by eliminating the factors that calls for these youth players to have managers, they the youth would be in a better frame of mind to take informed decisions relating to their career development when they reach the age of majority and will be in a position to take control of their career development by taking informed decisions.

FFAF does also believe that working on this project on pilot basis will make monitoring and evaluation easy and cost effective before being replicated in other communities if successful.