GOLDAS uses soccer to promote peace and unity in the world.
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| Cross section of teams |
Amidst rising tensions in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, Golden Age Soccer (GOLDAS) brings together over 500 youths and spectators to foster peace through soccer. Mainly sponsored by CAL - RT, GOLDAS believes that the world can use soccer to ignite human consciousness that would ensure good governance, unity in diversity, peace and development.
Speaking at the launching of the first GOLDAS confederacy Championship launch, Dr Ngiejung nabil founder, reiterated that GOLDAS is the brainchild of Peace Ushers Foundation. "we hold strong that soccer has an irresistible gravitational power that affects people emotionally and psychologically. From this perspective, we believe that if values are incarnated in this industry of talent and rationally used to uphold human values, we can use this industry to reconcile the world, integrate the world and pacify the world".
At the launching ceremony which took place this Saturday 16th February at the mile 3 field in Nkwen Bamenda, it was announced that a total of 8teams devided into different zones will take part in this maiden edition of the championship. 10million is the net amount for the entire competition for 2019 in the Northwest Region. 4million for the first position, 2million for the second and 1million for the third. The rest of the money shall be for individual trophies.
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| Trophies presented to the public. |
GOLDAS divides her management body into departments. One of them is the departments in charge of Education, according to the deputy vice president of this department, Gariba Abdulahi,
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| Gariba Abdulahi VP in charge of education |
"The concept of GOLDAS is a new concept that people need to be aware of. We are looking at football from a different perspective. For instance, in traditional soccer, we refer to those playing as players but here, we call them valiants. Cards are called tools because they are tools for discipline and peace. This is why there are counselors to talk to the valiant when the tool is used. In this 10million championship, we should be expecting something great because GOLDAS has a vision for Cameroon in particular and the world in general".
Elaborating on communication strategies to market this initiative. Mengnjo Idelle Limnyuy is the communication officer in the VP's office. "We are working closely with the media (radios, TVs and newspapers) in Cameroon. We even have partnerships with some radios eg (A moment with GOLDAS over Ndefcam Radio every Saturdays). We also acknowledge the strength of the social media, reason why we are using it. Above all, our members in the different departments do a one on one sensitisation from time to time."
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| Mengnjo Odell Comm officer VP's office |
GOLDAS has introduced a jersey of letters not numbers and a spherical pitch for the players. It is expected that the various teams to participate in the first championship will register in due course to enable the competition commence in appropriate time.
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