Ghana football hit another remarkable milestone after German Bundesliga side Broussia Dortmund touring in June
Ghana football embraces another milestone following its qualification to the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup taking place in November. This time, milestone walks through club football, and in more friendly and exhibition showpiece in June five months before World Cup kickoff.
The German Bundesliga will have profound root into the Ghanaian football soil having most Ghanaian Internationals featured for the European top side. Currently, Black Stars interim boss Otto Addo is airing as football scout for Broussia Dortmund and may welcome their legends to Ghana in two months time.
That is, his club Broussia Dortmund will be arriving in Ghana for a tour June this year. After guiding the Black Stars of Ghana to the FIFA World Cup, Addo returned to continue his scouting and coaching role at Dortmund. The Ghanaian International is currently with Dortmund and is ‘expected’ to join the German side to his country.
Dortmund made announcement of their coming to Ghana through Chief Marketing Officer, Carsten Cramer. The exercise will see Ghanaian Second Division side Shooting Stars FC host Borussia Dortmund legends.
Despite Shooting Stars FC being the hosts of the Germans’ trip to Ghana, Dortmund legends will play against an African Legend side instead, on June 11, 2022, at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The headline game of five days of activities involving the German side will be graced by the likes of African football great and former UEFA Champions League winner, Abedi Ayew Pele; Dortmund’s Top-talent Trainer and Black Stars’ coach, Otto Addo, former Wolfsburg captain Charles K. Akonnor, former Dortmund Champions League winner, Ibrahim Tanko and other football icons such as Jay-Jay Okocha, Samuel Osei Kuffour, Stephen Appiah, Asamoah Gyan and a host of other African Legends.
Shooting Stars FC will also engage an as yet to be named select side in a curtain-raiser for the Dortmund Legends versus African Legends game.
Advance sale of tickets to the Legends Match will start on May 7, 2022.
Other events that will be graced by the Dortmund team include a Youth Development Coaching Clinic, a visit to Chance for Children’s home and a Gala Dinner on June 9, 2022.
The team will also take part in a golf tournament on June 12, 2022.
In a statement, Dortmund’s CMO, Carsten Cramer, stated: “With over 160,000 registered club members, Borussia Dortmund is a uniquely intensive footballing experience. Over the past decades, BVB has enjoyed a vibrant and fruitful history with top talents from Africa, and attracted a number of excellent African players, such as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Otto Addo, Ibrahim Tanko, Mohamed Zidan and Sunday Oliseh. We are all excited that this first-ever BVB Legends Ghana tour will finally take place, and look forward to creating some unforgettable memories together with Shooting Stars FC this summer.”
“As we develop our presence in Africa, it is very important for us to demonstrate how close our relationship is with our fans in Ghana. This tour provides an excellent opportunity for us to show what ‘Echte Liebe’ truly means. Together with the powerful line-up of our Legend Team, our international main sponsor Evonik, as well as ROWE the presenter of BVB’s Legends Series, we will continue to create success on and off the pitch” said Benedikt Scholz, Director of Internationalization & Commercial Partnerships of BVB.
For the CEO of Shooting Stars, Randolph Rodrigues, the partnership between Shooting Stars and Borussia Dortmund would yield tremendous benefit on and off the field.
“There is a keen focus on player and coach development and we will jointly embark on some meaningful community development projects in the coming months,” he said.
Deniz Akay, Managing Director of Evonik Africa, further commented: “As the world’s leading specialty chemicals company, we go beyond just chemistry. Evonik has been BVB’s main partner and sponsor of the BVB Legends since the 2007/2008 seasons. For decades, we have been promoting sports with our innovations, establishing the BVB Evonik Football Academy to encourage and inspire young talents to be the best in football. Having the BVB Legends Match in Accra – home to a host of legendary names and aspiring football stars – is tremendously exciting for all of us.”
The match has the backing of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ghana Football Association, and the Ghana League Clubs Association.
Dortmund could be making the trip to Ghana with the likes of Lars Ricken, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Márcio Amoroso, Jan Koller, Dede and Stephane Chapuisat.
