Finnish top-flight league side SJK Seinäjoki have announced the signing of Ghanaian trio Emmanuel Akansase, Kwame Otu and Sayibu Yakubu from Division One League outfit Vision FC to strengthen their squad for this season's campaign.
The transfer of the three players solidifies the mutually beneficial partnership between Ghanaian second-tier side Vision FC and SJK Seinäjoki, which was signed between both clubs in 2022.
Terry Yegbe, who recently joined Swedish Allsvenskan side Elfsborg on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee is part of the SJK Seinäjoki and Vision FC cooperation. Young midfielder Salim Giabo Yussif was also acquired by SJK Seinäjoki through the partnership.
19-year-old striker Emmanuel Akansase and Sayibu Yakubu, 18, who operates a centre-back have already arrived in the European nation to begin a new chapter and have been drafted into the SJK Seinäjoki youth side where they participated in off-season tournaments.
Kwame Otu, who was part of the Black Galaxies team that played at the last year's Championship of African Nations (CHAN) in Algeria, has also signed on a multi-year contract and expected to be loaned out to a club as part of his development.
SJK Seinäjoki technical director Richard Dorman hailed the club's partnership with Vision FC and shared the visionary ambition of the cooperation.
“We are now starting the second official year of our cooperation with Vision FC. After last season, the cooperation already brought clear success when Terry Yegbe moved to Sweden. We want to continue to find similar excellent talents for our player path, while supporting the careers of talents from our own region and from other parts of Finland,” Richard Dorman told the club's official website.
“This cooperation with Vision FC has clearly proven to be the right way to do things in the future as well. We want to develop our player path in the long term, while developing young football players who can break into our representative team first, and who also serve as possible sales articles in the business sense going forward”
Earlier this year, Dorman visited Vision FC in Ghana and has also stressed that in the coming months there will be another exchange program to help strengthen the partnership.
“In the coming months, we will also deepen this cooperation between the clubs, by conducting an information exchange program between the coaching groups, where SJK's coaches and staff members will visit Ghana, at the same time developing different areas of Vision's operations in parallel with SJK's, says Dorma, who visited Ghana on site this winter as well,” he added.
