Tom Vernon, founding father of the well-known Pretty to Dream Academy in Ghana, is urging Ghanaian authorities to build a nationwide potential identification approach.
This cross goals to manufacture athletes in some unspecified time in the future of assorted sports activities and capitalise on the country’s wealth of younger potential.
Ghana’s most up-to-date decline in critical competitions, in conjunction with the Dark Stars’ failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Countries (AFCON) for the main time in 21 years, has highlighted the need for a structured machine to nurture younger potential.
Vernon emphasised the importance of every nationwide and world potential identification, citing the lack of younger Ghanaian athletes to other worldwide locations.
“We lose a ramification of our little kids to other worldwide locations, so we would perchance like to originate with the identification of our formative years and previous, be unparalleled extra proactive in recruiting essentially the most talented Ghanaians within the diaspora,” he said.
With 25 years of expertise leading the Pretty to Dream Academy, Vernon has expanded the institution correct into a world powerhouse with academies and professional clubs in Denmark, Egypt, and the USA.
His vision for Ghana’s sports activities trend is certain: to transition from a natural useful resource-primarily based financial system to a potential-primarily based financial system.
