It was a hot Saturday morning when a
colleague of mine, Prosper asked me to accompany him to
watch a certain young player he had
spotted.
Reluctantly, I obliged and we went all the
way to Bonwire town Park to watch
the colts game. The game had already
started when we got there so he just pointed
out a diminutive and unassuming left footed
boy to me as the one he wants me to
assess. He was in his NO.10 Jersey.
After his first few touches and a perfectly
weighted pass he gave with a back flick, I
didn’t need a soothsayer to realize that a
star has been born.
The dazzling performance of this young chap
was so intriguing that I just couldn’t take my
eyes off his glitzy display.
A few days later, his manager
accompanied him to FC Samartex FC’s
training grounds for a justify-your-inclusion
exercise in Accra.
It was Samartex preparing for their CAF champions league campaign and he didn’t need more than a session to
assert himself. Since then he has been on a
sturdy rise.
It’s not that I have never seen talents of his
kind. I have: Asiedu Attobrah, Moses Odjer,
Francis Narh, Emmanuel Hayford etc are all players I saw while
they were growing up. But I saw a gem in Godwin Sefah.
D-Don