Ghanaian football maestro Abedi Ayew Pele joined hundreds of upcoming Ghanaian footballers at the Decathlon Sports store in Nungua in an attempt to break the record for the most accurate football passes in the Guinness book of records.

The record breaking event is part of activities to mark the grand opening of West Africa’s largest sports store – Decathlon Ghana at the Junction Mall where the company has acquired a 1,250 square foot space.

Decathlon’s aim is to break the current world record of accurate football passes which stands at 596 accurate passes held by Qatar Petrochemical Company, (QAPCO). About 700 footballers are expected to assist in achieving this record.

The three time African best player, Abedi Pele, who was present at the event said the Decathlon Sports store was the finest in Africa.
He said, “Decathlon has brought Europe to Ghana, what am seeing there gives opportunity to our youth. If you look at the prices it give the opportunity to the youth and kids to afford.”


“Decathlon is giving us all the opportunity to do the sports we want to do. In Ghana we have only football that people are interested in, but this gives us a huge opportunity to do boxing, athletics, basketball and varieties of things,” Abedi Pele said.

He added, “I’m so glad that our kids are going to have the choice to really make a choice in the sports that they want to do.”

Decathlon is committed to making sports affordable for all and has launched the Sports for All Campaign (#sports4all), a campaign dedicated at encouraging every Ghanaian to pick up sports as a lifestyle.