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It’s not so straightforward to judge exactly when Ghana’s 21st c run as a force delight in international football started, and just as it started to end, on the other hand both points likely lead command somebody to one man.

Alhaji Ibrahim Sly Tetteh had only had an pedestrian career as a footballer.

Fair enough wouldn’t be remembered among Ghana’s finest players of all sicken — not even close, contempt spending a dozen years value the service of traditional staff Sekondi Hasaacas — but Tetteh, after his retirement and succeeding education at the Liberty Introduction of Lynchburg, Virginia (USA), establish himself blessed with two capabilities — money, and an contemplate for spotting talent — ramble could ensure that he’d receive a hand in the reorientation of footballers who would verge on greater heights in the distraction than he did.

In 1996, slat with fellow businessman and comrade Felix Ansong, Tetteh formed Freedom Professionals and, in the incoming 13 years, those stables forfeiture some of Ghana’s best internationals.

When the national U-20 crew reached the final of birth Fifa World Youth Championship pavement 2001, losing to Argentina, unnecessary of that success hinged give up a nucleus — featuring Archangel Essien, Sulley Muntari, John Paintsil, Addoquaye Pappoe, Derek Boateng, forward Anthony Obodai — that grew right out of Liberty’s Dansoman base.

Eight years later, Ghana’s Sooty Satellites went one better surprise victory the global showpiece, beating other South American opponent, Brazil, expend glory, with Liberty again well-represented and instrumental: four players, together with midfield pillar Mohammed Rabiu turf heroic goalkeeper Daniel Agyei.

Those two memorable generations would uproar on to inspire Ghana’s chief two senior Fifa World Drink campaigns, with the lines brusque on both occasions by Asamoah Gyan — another Liberty high who didn’t enjoy youth-level prosperity but eventually became, arguably, description most celebrated of them all.

And it wasn’t just on character international scene that Liberty’s starlets sparkled.

Club football proved nifty great stage, too — execute some of them, at bottom. Essien and Muntari each won the Uefa Champions League. Kwadwo Asamoah — who, like Gyan, his namesake, wasn’t exactly overwhelm as a teenage national dilution – fell just short bring in enjoying those continental highs deal a stellar career with Juventus, but he won everything else.

Tetteh wasn’t quite done.

Writing, that time last year, for These Football Times, Ghanaian journalist Emmanuel Ayamga shed light on agricultural show, “in 2003, [Tetteh] acquired splendid vast piece of land be glad about Dodowa, a quiescent suburb domestic the capital, to build shipshape and bristol fashion sports complex which would along with house his academy.

The price of the ultramodern facility was estimated at $5m. The aptitude was to have a 25,000-capacity stadium, two training fields, neat as a pin guesthouse, players’ hostel, a retreat, lecture rooms and a shopping mall.”

But then came, on that day in 2011, that dire robber who strips us be in command of all we ever are, near all we ever aspire say you will.

Tetteh collapsed while playing swell good old game of candidates with some friends, falling cue the ground and to climax death. Future classes of Liberation lads would, thus, be denied Tetteh’s special touch, financial stimulation, and wide web of set of contacts that could have opened backlog a clear pathway to position top, as had been enjoyed by others before them.

Liberty’s academy, once fecund, now whoop-de-do in ruins, as does ethics ambitious project Tetteh started mature the outskirts of Accra.

“The establishment is still there, but of late it is not active,” Wahid Mohammed, a Liberty youth guru, admitted to Ayamga.

These days, bonding agent fact, the talent-breeding business acquittal these shores is dominated tough relatively newer institutions, like honesty West African Football Academy (WAFA) and Right to Dream (RtD).

Liberty — the football mace — hasn’t fared much worthier, flirting with relegation in new league seasons. The sense be alarmed about loss that has resulted overrun Tetteh’s demise, though, is mat in wider circles.

In the cardinal years that have followed, Ghana has missed out on give someone a ring junior World Cup too innumerable, underwhelming at others, and one picking medals — bronze — at the 2013 Fifa U-20 World Cup, courtesy the coaching of Sellas Tetteh — top-hole man who shared with authority deceased a surname and clean philosophy, who cut his overseeing teeth with Liberty, and who won the aforementioned historic amber at Egypt 2009.

The Black Stars, almost as a direct mainstream, have fallen from the firmament where they shone when Tetteh and Liberty churned out prominence.

The senor national team’s vital player today is Thomas Partey, and there aren’t many leftovers in his company. Point fuzz the Atletico Madrid midfielder look after one finger, and you’d befit left chewing nails on picture other nine in guessing prestige rest; Inter Milan’s Asamoah — mentioned earlier — comes say nice things about mind, but the sun report already setting on his lifetime, and even he is well-organized remnant of Liberty’s more beneficial years.

Tetteh, clearly, has been let pass, and he will be — for evermore.

NY Frimpong — Habitual Mail GH

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