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Deon Recreational Center (DRC) Hosts Rollball Anniversary Cup

DRC hosted the 1st edition of the International Roll Ball Federation Anniversary Cup in Ghana at Lashibi on last Saturday. The competition brought together twelve (12) clubs battling for honors.

Litz RBC on Saturday beat Welts RBC 5-2 in an exciting and thrilling game at the Deon Recreational Center at Lashibi in Accra to claim the 18th Roll Ball Anniversary Cup. They also took home 2,000ghc and the bragging rights.

Ezekiel Annan of K2 RBC was declared the *CAB HOLDING LTD BEST PLAYER* of the tournament.

GHALCA Chairman, Kudjoe Fianoo who watched all the matches advised the players to train hard and push the game to become popular so that they would be recognized as stars and super stars.

Yours Truly also urged them to ensure that the sport is supported by the National Sports Authority and the Ghana Olympic Committee so that they represent and compete at the 2023 African Games.

The President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), Mr. Ben Nunoo Mensah in a message to the Roll Ball players supported the initiative of saying no to drugs and saying yes to sports. He urged them to be positive Ambassadors of sports.

Mr. Gameli Kportufe, President of the Roll Ball Federation of Ghana appealed to companies and individuals who love sports to develop the youth to sponsor and support the game. This year's event was supported by DRC, THE TIMES OF AFRICA, ATEP CONSULT, K.I SYSTEMS and CAB HOLDINGS LTD.

He said the discipline is in all the regions in Ghana and the Ashanti region promised to join in the next competition.

The Deon Recreational Center at Lashibi is also a facility with very fantastic and cool place for leisure, entertainment and sports. They have swimming, basketball, Go-kart racing, football, volleyball and other facilities for sports.

Our First thanks to God Almighty for granting us the grace to do all that we do and are still doing.

Secondly, thanks to all the dignitaries, Sammy Heywood Okine of GOC and GHALCA Chairman, Kudjoe Fianoo who were present to support the game, also to the  officials, team mates, coaches and team managers for their timeless effort and trainings to make this a huge success,last but not the least  to all executives members of RBFG for their support behind the scenes. Finally to the management of Deon Recreational Centre for their full support and promoting roll ball in so many other way. God bless us all.

Source Roll Ball Federation

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