ASHANTI REGION WINS INTER-REGIONALS FOOTBALL COMPETITION

3rd Of September, 2011

The 27th edition of the inter-regional schools sports competition ended today at the Tamale Sports stadium with the final of the boys football match won by Ashanti region in a 3-1 penalty shootout against central region after recording a goal apiece in regulation time. The all white Ashanti team dominated play in the first half and scored through a nicely converted free kick but got their goal canceled by a ten man Central regional team through a spot kick in the second half. Earlier Ashanti failed to grab their second goal from a spot kick after a player was brought down in the goal area. Refree A.A. Alhassan of Tamale whistled for the end of proceedings of a rather entertaining match that was witnessed by a large crowd and later led the teams into penalty shootout for Ashanti to emerge as the new boys national champions. Northern regional boy’s football team won bronze against the Greater Accra boys team. Three players of Tamale Utrecht FC namely Yussif Abdul Basit,Alidu Mohammed Awal and Zakariah Fusieni were involved in the one week sports competition for the Northern regional team.