Presidential aspirant for Saturday's General Elections, Nana Kwame Bediako has stated that when elected as the President of Ghana he will ensure there is going to be a combined modern football curriculum with a good structure of the current academic syllabus.
He believes a comprehensive teaching method will help academy players to develop their football talents combined with intellectual academic work.
Bediako, who doubles as the leader of The New Force on Tuesday night appeared on GTV's ''Presidential Encounters'', to reveal his enmity to private-owned football academies.
According to Bediako, establishing state-owned football academies in Ghana will be aimed at adding value to players before their transfers to Europe.
''What is happening is that somebody will form an academy and call it Right to dream and then when you have your right to dream now, you have to go through someone's country in Holland before they sell you. So you're just like a polished slave," he said.
''You know, he polishes you then he sends you to Holland before they give him a price and he will give you a portion of it.
''When we can actually have academies that will breed a lot of footballers and sell them to the world for millions of dollars and most of the money will circulate in our system and they will also feel entitled to where they got their skills from, where they got their breakthrough.
''So they are going to stay true to the country. I would rather do that. I would rather have a combined academy with a school so that we can breed them properly and after that, we can go and buy some Chelsea's and Manchester's just like the Arabs are doing and make our country stronger," he concluded.
By: Pascal Amoah
