Ghana’s Universities football team are celebrating success at the recent Africa Universities Games after returning from Kenya with gold medals in the football tournament.

Both athletics and badminton with other disciplines competed for by Ghana, also won several medals to boot.

Ghana’s football side however topped the Africa championships by emerging champions as the two goals of competition top scorer, Abel Manomey ensured a 2-0 success in the final over Uganda. The Ghanaians had earlier defeated hosts Kenya 5-4 on penalties after 2-2 draw during regulation time of their semi-finals.

Manomey of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) also netted in the game against Kenya to round off his tally for the tournament to 3 goals, enough to emerge the goal king, much to his excitement.

“Before we left Ghana, we were determined to win something because the last time Ghana went, they won silver for second place and we wanted to do better. Personally I was prepared to give off my best so I was very delighted that we did it,” Manomey told Allsports.com.gh on arrival in Accra.

In the event, goalkeeper Michael Akwetteh Lamptey, captain Edward Owusu Asare, Ebenezer Kisseh and Abel Manomey (all of UEW), Kamal Kokroko and Benjamin Jesse Chagli (University of Professional Studies), Saddick Ahmed, Seth Awidi and Atindane (University of Ghana), Jeffery Taylor and Alfred Ahene (KNUST), Emmanuel Baffour and Nicholas Acheampong (UCC) and Francis Yagah of U-MAT were some of the players who represented Ghana’s universities and won gold in Kenya.

In athletics, Team Ghana won a total of eleven medals comprising seven gold and four bronze whilst the badminton side also clinched four gold, three silver and one bronze to amass a total of 8 medals to help the country finish as overall runner-up of the entire competition.

Ghana’s contingent have since returned home.