Be Just Football Club

Service has many names, many faces, many impacts, and many methods of success. My service project in Ghana was perhaps a bit more technical than usual, but the results are certainly positive.

On our second day in Cape Coast, just as we were deciding to pack up and depart for Kumasi, we met a new friend. Tony advised us that rather than traveling to Kumasi (which is larger than Accra and no less than 4 hours away), why not go to Winneba instead? Beaches, annual festival, and en route to Accra.

We learned that Tony is a football (soccer) coach in Cape Coast, and together with a few friends, began the “Be Just Football Club.” As a registered football club affiliated to the Central Regional Football Association, the Be Just Football Club seeks to participate in football to the highest level and produce quality footballers within the local and international football leagues as well as producing players to feed the national teams. The Be Just Football Club also works to use football as a means to assist the less privileged in the society (I.e. orphanages, prisons, and hospitals), and to keep teenagers engaged in positive and healthy activity.

Tony mentioned that he was anxious to have a website for his club; in fact, his players were pestering him relentlessly. He was trying to save money to hire a web designer.

I offered my paltry, but baseline, skills to help Tony create a free website using Blogger. We met at our hotel and typed up all of the content first, then spent an hour and a half at the internet café putting it all together.

You may visit the Be Just Football Club website to learn about their team! Tony and I included a Clustr visitor map to track the location of visitors to the website; please add your international location (achieved by simply visiting the Be Just Football Club website)!