As a keen observer of Ghana’s sports history, I am probably more aware than many others of the heights to be scaled in order for our soccer/sports industry to attain genuine professional status. This book points in that direction. The ideas it contains have been shaped by my observations, intuitions, readings and researches, and things I’ve learned through shared experience over many years.
Although the subject is football, the underlying problem this book approaches and attempts to address is one of profound change, which is a larger topic. To truly achieve the goal of professionalism as a sustainable condition in sports is a large undertaking that will require a fundamental change in our thinking. Since it would be foolish to expect such a transformation to be a quick and easy process, the observations and lessons contained in this book might be better absorbed by the reading of individual sections in separate sittings.
This work has relevance not only to football or sports, but to our everyday lives, to our collective aspirations, and to the personal fulfillment and satisfaction that can be attained through a combination of teamwork and a serious commitment to achieving our goals. This, after all, is the essence of what soccer is all about, which may explain why it arouses such strong passions as an elegant metaphor for what we do in our families, in our jobs and in how we operate and interact as social beings. Soccer is a cooperative activity, a meshing together of individual aspirations into a larger project that accomplishes a common purpose bigger than we are as individuals. As such, it models the overall human project that is called by many names and that we are all part of.
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