A player from Ghana is on his way to join the Youngheart Manawatu
national league squad.
Bawa Adbulayi, a 19 year-old defender-midfielder, has been signed after two months of negotiations.
It has come about through contacts in Ghana of Wynton Rufer, brother of Manawatu coach Shane.
Parents of players like Adbulayi like their sons to experience life in stable environments like New Zealand's before being thrown into the hurly-burly of European professional soccer.
Youngheart Manawatu general manager Mark Cleaver said the family was paying Adbulayi's way and the franchise would find him somewhere to stay. "He will train with the team and if he is good enough, he will get to play," said Cleaver.
If not, he will probably stay and train anyway.
His arrival will mean the team has three Uruguayans, two Fijians and two Ghanaians. The other one is Prince Quansar although he has spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Cleaver said there were no channels in which to challenge or appeal the ordering-off of Manawatu's Osea Vakatalesau against Waitakere United last Saturday.
The videotape is inconclusive about whether Osea used an elbow deliberately. He's likely to get a one week stand-down.
MANAWATU STANDARD
The European league ambitions are well....ambitious but sounds like hes quite promising. Anyone by an off-chance heard of this guy?
Bawa Adbulayi, a 19 year-old defender-midfielder, has been signed after two months of negotiations.
It has come about through contacts in Ghana of Wynton Rufer, brother of Manawatu coach Shane.
Parents of players like Adbulayi like their sons to experience life in stable environments like New Zealand's before being thrown into the hurly-burly of European professional soccer.
Youngheart Manawatu general manager Mark Cleaver said the family was paying Adbulayi's way and the franchise would find him somewhere to stay. "He will train with the team and if he is good enough, he will get to play," said Cleaver.
If not, he will probably stay and train anyway.
His arrival will mean the team has three Uruguayans, two Fijians and two Ghanaians. The other one is Prince Quansar although he has spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Cleaver said there were no channels in which to challenge or appeal the ordering-off of Manawatu's Osea Vakatalesau against Waitakere United last Saturday.
The videotape is inconclusive about whether Osea used an elbow deliberately. He's likely to get a one week stand-down.
MANAWATU STANDARD
The European league ambitions are well....ambitious but sounds like hes quite promising. Anyone by an off-chance heard of this guy?
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Looks to have come from King Faisal Babes. Don't think there
would be to much of a problem if his CV is real.
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Yep played for Ghana U17 or something, and King Faisal Babes rings
a bell
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