Monetary establishment Common Service provider Financial institution (UMB) has signed an settlement to grow to be the official banking companion of the Ghana Soccer Affiliation (GFA).
The partnership settlement is legitimate for the following three years as UMB goals to advertise Ghanaian soccer and assist the Black Stars marketing campaign on the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
An occasion asserting the partnership was held on Friday, Might twenty ninth at UMB headquarters.
“The period of this partnership is three years and it isn’t only for the World Cup,” stated Edem Knight Tay, head of company communications at UMB.
“This can be a partnership with GFA, so all GFA actions, UMB occurs to be the official banking companion for the following three years from now, and we hope to proceed past the third yr.
“There are similarities between soccer and banking. Aside from being baking companions, this partnership additionally contains UMB helping GFA with coaching for soccer gamers, coaches, referees and every little thing that connects soccer, in addition to asset administration.”
On behalf of the GFA, Vice-President Mark Addo counseled UMB for his or her religion within the affiliation and referred to as on others to assist promote the game.
“This partnership represents our confidence within the GFA and likewise our perception within the energy of soccer to unite nations,” he stated.
“From the Ghana Soccer Affiliation, our imaginative and prescient is obvious: to construct a soccer ecosystem that’s aggressive, inclusive, sustainable and able to producing success on and off the sector. This imaginative and prescient, as we all know it, requires funding and partnerships, and requires organizations keen to assist not solely elite soccer however the complete improvement pathway of soccer.”
As a part of the partnership, GFA additionally offered signed jerseys and different memorabilia to UMB.
