By: Sheikh Tophic Sienu @desheikh1
Football is not just about goal tallies and revenue figures but also inspiration and style! Sports and games offer useful lessons for entrepreneurs about the importance of teamwork, preparation, passion, attitude, definitions of success, dealing with failure and having a sense of humour at the end of the day.
This was exactly the picture when life was brought back to the lifeless Dawu Community. Young and old, male and female, big and small, visitors and indigenes, were some of the people who woke the sleeping Dawu Community with trumping sounds of their feet as they walked towards the park.
Yes, the long awaited DREAM has been fulfilled by Dreams FC.
If a prophet had prophesized that life will return to the silent Dawu Township after the mighty Dawu Youngster disappeared into thin air since 2002, many would have doubted him.
But young and enterprising Kurt Okraku and his team of passionate administrators and the President of the club Gigi Mohammed revived the mighty Dawu Township that was in comma.
When I arrived at the Madina lorry station to board a car to watch the much-publicized game between the Premier League newcomers, Dream FC and the sleeping giants of Ghana football, Accra Hearts of Oak, I was greeted with a massive crowd that was on their way to Dawu for the same reason I was travelling.
After a hour’s drive, I arrived safe in the silent Dawu Township. I took a stroll in town to see the atmosphere but I was disappointed. Everywhere was quiet. I met a woman in her sixties and I respectfully asked after greetings her, “Please why is the community so silent.”
She carefully looked at me, gazed at my heavy laptop bag at my back and saw the stranger in me and said, “They’ve all gone to the field.”
As I approached the field, about 200meters away, I was greeted with the aroma of football. The old Dawu club house was situated on my right while everybody was busily moving towards The Theater of Dreams. I said to myself, “Yes Dreams FC is really the DREAM of Dawu.”
Every activity in the entire township came to a standstill as everything was FOOTBALL.
I chanced upon a former player of the vanished Dawu Youngsters, Owusu Lawrence and he gave me cause to believe that Dawu is back to life.
“We are a football community but the absence of Dawu Youngsters has really rendered us lifeless. We are grateful to Dreams FC for bringing our community back to life,” Owusu told me.
The people demonstrated gratefulness to Kurt Okraku and his team of affable and industrious administrators with the numbers at the park.
Kurt Okraku and his men must really be commended for breathing life into a lifeless community.
The market women who were selling drinks were busily moving up and down making money and sellers of paraphernalia for both clubs were seriously making profit. Yes, life is back!
The commencement of the Premier League this weekend will obviously be the birthday of many marketing activities in the township.
It was therefore not surprising when the chiefs and people of Dawu accepted Dreams FC with both hands when they knocked at the door with the request to play their home matches there.
Yes life has been brought back to Dawu and Dreams FC will surely live the DREAM in making Dawu realize the DREAM.
Long Live Dreams FC!
Long Live Dawu!!
Long Live Ghana Football!!!