COSUA Unveils ‘Operation Top Spot’

on May 22 in FIFA, Football, In the News, Sports tagged COSUA, FIFA, Operation Top Spot by mindmaps

In its quest to rally a formidable support to ensure Black Stars’ second successive qualification to the 2010 World Cup, the Coalition of Supporters Unions of Africa (COSUA) has launched a campaign christened “Operation Top Spot.” The campaign is primarily aimed at mobilizing support for the senior national team, the Black Stars in the qualifiers of the 2010 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in South Africa. It is also to ensure that the Black Stars maintain the top spot of Group D of the World Cup qualifiers, ahead of countries like Mali, Sudan and Benin.

COSUA as part of the mobilization exercise will fly 1000 soccer fans to Bamako, Mali to support the Black Stars in their next World game against the West African counterparts on June 7, 2009.

Launching the campaign, Nii Nortey Dua, the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports said the government is committed to the cause of the Black Stars in their quest to secure another qualification to the World Cup.

He noted that the government will therefore support any group that has good intentions of supporting the cause of the Black Stars. The Deputy Minister said the Ministry will not gag any supporters’ body, but provide them with a level playing ground to function. “All supporters body are important and they must be allowed to operate, because the ordinary supporter can decide to stay away from matches but the supporters group will always be there. “That is why we must support the existence of supporters groups to promote the agenda 2010″. He stated.

He called on COSUA to extend their support to other sporting disciplines as part of efforts to promote the lesser known sports. Mr. Sarfo Abebrese, President of COSUA, said his outfit has also declared June 7, as “White Sunday” and all Ghanaians are expected to be in white attire as a sign of solidarity for the Black Stars.

He said, the day has been declared a White Sunday because Ghana and Mali share the same national colours and there was the need to show the difference between the two sides.

According to Mr. Abebrese, his outfit has made a special arrangement with an airline company Afrijet, to send supporters to Mali to cheer the team to victory.

He said, a special raffle has been initiated by COSUA for 50 lucky supporters to be part of the trip by participating in the raffle. Mr. Abebrese stated that the 2010 FIFA World Cup is so crucial to the nation and Ghana cannot afford to miss out of the celebration.

“We must do all that we can to see to our participation at the World, it is a must.

“And the only way to ensure this is to rally behind the team in both home and away matches”, he stated.

Kofi Owusu Aduonum
Chronicle

One Response to “COSUA Unveils ‘Operation Top Spot’”

1. Mens says:

   May 22, 2009 at 12:09 pm

   This is a brilliant idea to form a formidable supporters body to give morales to the Blackstar in aim of qualifying for the world cup. I hope everybody will join hands to support this body. It is good.