TY - CHAP
T1 - The church and FIFA World Cup in Ghana
T2 - A gender perspective
AU - Amenga-Etego, Rose Mary
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Afe Adogame, Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Soccer, known in Ghana as football, is the most popular sporting activity, both locally and internationally. Introduced to Ghana (Gold Coast) at the latter part of the nineteenth century, football was one of the leisure sports of the European merchants and colonial administrators. However, in 1903, Mr Briton, a Jamaican-born Briton and Head Teacher of the Philip Quaicoe Government Boys School in Cape Coast, introduced the game to his pupils. This led to the formation of the first football club in Ghana. This club was known as Excelsior. Since its inception, first as a leisure-time game and second as an academic (school) sporting activity, football has developed into a comprehensive and structured national game, with various national teams and a national governing body, the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
AB - Soccer, known in Ghana as football, is the most popular sporting activity, both locally and internationally. Introduced to Ghana (Gold Coast) at the latter part of the nineteenth century, football was one of the leisure sports of the European merchants and colonial administrators. However, in 1903, Mr Briton, a Jamaican-born Briton and Head Teacher of the Philip Quaicoe Government Boys School in Cape Coast, introduced the game to his pupils. This led to the formation of the first football club in Ghana. This club was known as Excelsior. Since its inception, first as a leisure-time game and second as an academic (school) sporting activity, football has developed into a comprehensive and structured national game, with various national teams and a national governing body, the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315738352
DO - 10.4324/9781315738352
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85049934490
SN - 9781138828520
SP - 96
EP - 113
BT - Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -