Accra, Aug 4, GNA - A17 man contingent of the Ghana Karate Federation (GKF) including three officials will leave Accra on Sunday, August 6 to participate in the Eighth Union des Karate Federation (UFAK-zone 3) championship slated for Cotonou, the capital city of Benin
According to Sensei Meloin Brown, Technical Chairman of the Federation, the Federation, which had to abandon a proposed national talent hunt due to financial constraint, had no choice but to selected 17 of the most promising, Karatekas from the various clubs in Accra, Takoradi, Kumasi and the Volta Region through an emergency round robin exercise.
The Technical Chairman is optimististic, that though the Federation was posed with internal problems the selected players would show case the class that Ghanaian Karatakas are made of when Ghana joins seven other countries in Zone three.
Other countries in the Zone are Burkina Faso, Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria and Benin.
The Ghanaian team is made up of Bright Tetteh, Victor Ackom, Prince K. Wilson, Sylvester Davies, John Ansah, James Minkana, Alex Danquah.
Others are Matew Johnson, Abdul Waheb and Victor Lartey. Officials expected to lead the team are Senseis, Jude Adu-Amankwah, and Chairman of the Federation, Melvin Brown General Secretary and Patrick Anyidoho Couise.