WAFU seeks partnership with FC Johansen on youth tournament
Such is the growing high profile nature of the African International Youth Tournament (AIYT) that the West African Football Union (WAFU) has chosen to come on board. The AIY Tournament held for the first time last year in Freetown and hosted by FC Johansen saw an unprecedented tourney involving several teams from Europe and South America playing in a youth football competition in Sierra Leone has received accolades from variety of sources and WAFU is the most recent to come on board seeking direct partnership with FC Johansen in future partnership on hosting of the tournament which is now an annual event in the country. (Photo: The late ‘Madam’ sitting right at Read Madrid Bernabeu Stadium)
WAFU Secretary General Aka Malan based in Abidjan also lauds the AIY Tournament that is going to be named after Issa Koroma aka Madam, (FC Johansen player that died last year in a road accident) saying “That will help needless to say to improve the emergence of new talents in our West African zone,” writes Malan in a letter to FC Johansen CEO, Isha Johansen.
WAFU is made up of 16 affiliated nations in West Africa including Sierra Leone and it can be recalled when the present under-fire president Amos Adamu took over in 2008, he promised to help rejuvenate youth football in West Africa; “This is the beginning of good things to come. Youths from our region need a proper developmental stage and tournaments to thrive and that is what we want to provide them. West African countries have dominated youth tournaments in Africa before and we want to continue with that trend,” said the WAFU president.
Muctaru Wurie, Freetown
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