Captain Dede Ayew mentioned this during the Calcio Trade Ball Award 2022 which he won.
The former under 20 World Cup winner echoed this when he won the award that seeks to honour players who have impressed during the season in Saudi Arabia League.
Ayew expressed, “If I want to be honest, I played colt football in Ghana. Asamoah Gyan, Stephen Appiah all the big names played colt football, so think we should acknowledge and realize that colts football is really important. It has to come back one way or the other,” he said.
He continued, “In the past, if a player plays in the colts, he was famous already; you knew him. Today, you don’t know them because they are in the academy but think is something we love.”
“For younger players to go out there and make money for themselves and their families, you need to start from somewhere and if you can’t start from the colts it is very difficult.”
Andrew Ayew believed that is the only way to unearthed great talents.
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