OLY DADE!
VICTOR ARMAH, FORMERLY OF ACCRA GREAT OLYMPICS,
AND THE EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH, COLLEGE, PARK.
MARYLAND, USA

In their heydays, most of the football players of our premier Football Clubs in Ghana merely played to entertain the nation, club fans and the spectators. And they did it to professional standards. They only earned accolades, appreciation and fame both nationally and internationally. But unfortunately, not money! Today in America, if a soccer player, just puts on the jersey and appears on the field, his remunerations could be count substantially in heavy dollars!

But sadly, and gradually, the top pillars of those football clubs who created the fame and formidable image like that of the Accra Great Olympics Football Club, are being creamed
off the top. This time, it is the turn of our beloved Victor Nii Attoh-Armah. (Popularly
remembered as Victor Armah for short). The prowess of this ace right-wing schemer in the No. 7 jersey could be attested to by many. As could be remembered, Victor Armah was the most daring and most useful in the attack machinery that won the Accra Great Olympics many of its championship victories in the leagues in the late 70’s. Victor also proved himself very creditably when he played for the Swedru All Blacks Football Club. Famously. he and the versatile Afro Joe injected so much vim into the team, and made that football club such a force to reckon with in Ghana soccer.

Victor Armah, the soccer maestro, again proved his mettle in the Ghana national soccer team, the Black Stars. He will be keenly remembered for most of the victories of our national team in their international encounters.

Some of his contemporaries of Oly Dade whose presence on the field injected fear into the team’s opponents, included soccer giants like Joe Dakota Ankrah (Afro Joe), Bernard Ankrah, Vincent Tetteh (Amingo), Tettey Boogey, Jonas Adjei, Adjei Arku and many others. To many a soccer fan and radio commentator, these names became the magnets that pulled the spectators to the sports stadia.

Like every ambitious young man with proven skills to market, Victor Armah left the shores of Ghana in 1986 to seek more glory to his fame! He went to the United States where he and his team mate, Joe Dakota (Afro Joe), formed a soccer team called the Black Stars of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. Their aim was to play many substantive and exhibition matches to popularize the sport of football that is played with the foot, in order to capture the intense interests of Americans from their rugby-style American football which is played with the hand. That team also played in many local leagues. According to Joe Dakota, the team won a triple crown in the Washington area local league.

The family of the late Victor Nii Attoh-Armah, both in Ghana and in the U.S., with assistance from the Ebenezer Methodist Church of College Park, Maryland of which Victor was a staunch member, in collaboration with the family in Ghana, have planned to give friends and Ghanaian soccer fans the opportunity to pay their last respects to this great soccer giant.

The Funeral arrangements in the U.S. are as follows:
Friday, July 22, 2016 6.00 p.m – 8.00 p.m. Funeral Service
Millian Memorial United Methodist Church
13016 Parkland Drive, Rockville, MD 20853

Friday, July 22, 2016 9.00 p.m. – 2.00 am Celebration of Life
Sligo Adventist School Hall
8300 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park, MD. 20912

The body is expected to arrive in Ghana for wake-keeping on August 12th, 2016, followed by a funeral and burial service at the Grace Methodist Church, Latebiorkoshi, Accra on August 13h, 2016. Burial at the Awudome Cemetery on August 13th 2016

Thanksgiving and Memorial Service will be at the same venue on Sunday, August, 14, 2016.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.