Help the Academy!

The Academy needs your help to continue to support its teams and keep going.

Here's you can help:

Make A Donation
Right now, funds are needed urgently. No amount is too great or too small. The Academy needs roughly $4200 to keep running this year (budget details available on the website). Charles Tetteh and Stephen are currently supporting the Academy from their personal incomes, clearly an unsustainable situation. Going forward, we hope to bring money in to support it through local sponsorship, donations from economic development organizations, etc, but to keep its teams in the league for this season, the Academy needs money fast. We are trying to raise the amount of $4200 needed for the current year in the next month and a half.

Also since, much of the budget is for equipment and medical supplies, if you know a way to get some of these to the Academy they will be greatly appreciated.

Spread the word
The more people who know about this effort and participate, the quicker and easier it will be to reach our target. Please pass this message and the website information to anyone who knew beloved Coach and wants to see his legacy continue, or simply wants to get involved in a good cause.

Stay in touch
Check back on this website regularly for news and updates and more ways to help.
Also, if you have any questions or comments or have other suggestions on how to help, you can contact us tetteh.academy@gmail.com. We want to hear from you!

Each of us has our own personal memories of Coach, and how he touched our lives. Each of us has our own reason for trying to give back and to see the great love of Coach's life, soccer, continue flourishing among Ghanaian youth. Whatever your reason, let it drive you towards making a contribution to see his memory and work live on.

Fundraising total

Here is how much we have collected so far:



Fundraising Thermometer

Robert Tetteh Soccer Academy 2007 Budget

U17 Soccer Team

Players

1. Twum, Desmond
2. Asare, Prince Opoku
3. Annang, Shedmok
4. Baah, Justice Yaw
5. Afu, Gameli
6. Tetteh, Stephen
7. Sackey, Samuel
8. Addo, Emmanuel
9. Bekoe, Bernard
10. Talley, Sadiq
11. Donchibey, Obeida
12. Midekor, Ernest
13. Isaac Bribiti
14. Okunye, Uche
15. Schwarzgruber, Jurgen
16. Acquah, Samuel
17. Ofori, Petter
18. Abbey, Isaac
19. Adjei, Blessing
    

U14 Soccer Team

Players

1. Arthur, Patrick
2. Annan, Isaac
3. Akakpo, Solomon
4. Kofie, Peter
5. Kotei, Roger Nii Amon
6. Annan, Godfred
7. Adom, Enock
8. David, Joe
9. Gagadu, Victor
10. Nii Okai, Franic
11. Dotse, Albert
12. Quaye, Bernard
13. Klu, Jonathan
14. Quarshie, Ebenezer
15. Asare, Emmanuel
16. Osabutey, Tetteh
    

U12 Soccer Team

Players

1. Mikala, Mudasiru
2. Yaw, Eklu
3. Agbezugeh, Philip
4. Dogah, Martin
5. Dzaka, Dizfa
6. Dosu, Francis
7. Amu, Kwame
8. Sowah, Robertson Tetteh
9. Cudjoe, Andy
10. Ashe, Emmanuel Harrison
11. Kpadonu, David
12. Agbezugeh, Felix
13. Boateng, Prince
14. Asare, Martin
15. Otto, Daniel
16. Tetteh, Eric
17. Mudeka, Dennis
    

The Academy

The Robert Tetteh Academy currently consists of 54 players in three teams:

• U12 (18 players)
• U14 (18 players)
• U17 (18 players)

The Academy originally consisted of 95 players, including a 3rd division team. Hover, financial constraints resulted in the disoolution of the 3rd division team. Most of the 3rd division team players are currently on loan to various clubs in the Ghana Football Assocaion Leagues.

Academy players range in age from 8 to 16 yrs. The majority of them reside at Okponglo, Bawaleshie and East Legon, all suburbs of Accra. A number have moved to Achimota, Madina, Christian Village and Kisseman.

The Academy currently has two coaches: Mr Owusu and Adoney Stephen.

The players train at Robert Tetteh's park at Okponglo in East Legon.

The teams play in the Ga-East District Juvenile Soccer League uner the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the National Sport Council.

Tribute to Coach Tetteh by Ghana International School

"As for us, we are like grass; we grow and flourish like a wild flower. Then the wind blows on it, and it is gone. No one sees it again."
Psalm 103:15&16.

Eighteen years ago, Mr Robert Tetteh joined our family. He handled the training of both boys' and girls' soccer teams with remarkable enthusiasm and expertise.

He was on a part-time basis in terms of his employment standing at Ghana International School, but so close was his relationship with the school that he often represented us during events outside the school.

Mr Tetteh was a self-effacing, reliable and goal-oriented person. We, as his colleagues, loved him and will continue to hold on to the memory of him with hoops of steel.

The students saw in him several attribute so worth of emulation. His gentle, sympathetic and inspiring nature made him a role model and fatherly figure to most of his students.

So high was his sense of duty that was at post even on the day tha this illness manifested himself. That day he was his usual quiet and pensive self, until the need to take him to a hospital became too obvious.

The nearest hospital, in relation to us, was 37 Military Hospital, and he was accordingly sent there for treatment. We prayed and hoped for recovery and went on with our lives, taking for granted that he would be with us soon.

But days later, we received with great shock the news that our friend and brother, Robert, had passed away.

Robert, you passed away,
"As virtuous men pass mildly away
And whisper to their souls to go
As some of their friends do say,
The breath goes now and some say no."

Taken from the Program for Robert Tetteh's Burial, Memorial and Thanksgiving Service on 3rd December 2005 at Robert Tetteh Park, Okponglo in Accra Ghana.

Biography of the Late Ex-Corporal Robert Tetteh

The late Ex Corporal Robert Pitri Tetteh, whose mortal remains lie before us now, was born on 23rd November 1951. His father was Emmanuel Tetteh Quarcoo, a fisherman of Abola, Accra, and his mother was Madam Dina Dei Neequaye, a renowned fishmonger of Asere, Accra, all of blessed memory. He lost both parents at a very early age so he had to stay with his eldest brother who was a soldier at Burma Camp.

Robert Tetteh attended Gondar Primary and Middle School and completed in the year 1972. Pele, as he was affectionately called after the great Pele of Brazil, was a gifted footballer. He started playing for the school football team when he was in Primary Four. He assumed the captainship of the middle school team while in Form Two and became the Sports Prefect in Middle Form Four. Robert was a devoted Christian and worshipped with the Assemblies of God Church at Okponglo.

Barely two years after completing middle school, he was spotted exhibiting his skills in football at the Nicholson Park by a senior Army Officer who ensured his recruitment into the Ghana Army. He was stationed at the Supply Depot Unit after passing out from training in 1975. Football was the very air that the late Coach Robert Tetteh breathed. He played for the Famous SS 74 Stars Armed Forces Football Team which took part in the National League alongside Kunti Blankson and Abdula Chiesco, to mention a few. Later, when the Armed Force decided to discontinue with Association Football, Robert Tetteh played for Accra Hearts of Oak and later Accra Great Olympics.

Had it not been for injury during a training session, Robert Tetteh would have been part of the Black Stars team that won the African Cup of Nations Cup in 1978. He sustained a knee injury the very week his name and picture appeared in the National Dailies for his invitation to the Black Starts Camp. He never fully recovered from his knee injury to enable him maintain a consistent form in Association Football. Nevertheless, he was the Captain of the Ghana Armed Forces Team for the greater part of his life in the Army.

In 1989, Ghana International School gave him appointment as a part-time soccer coach, a job he undertook with all affection, commitment and dedication. The Late Coach Robert Tetteh just loved children and had a special way with them, so imparting something that he had cherished so much to them made his job so easy when you looked at it from the outside.

To sharpen his coaching skills, and be abreast with the times, he attended a coaching course organized by the Ghana Football Association at the Azumah Nelson Sports Complex in 1996. Later on in 1999, he attended another coaching course at the University College of Education, Winneba. A premier division Club, Kade Hotspurs, offered him appointment to coach their football team in the just ended league, but he declined the offer due to other coaching assignments and ill health.

The late coach Robert Tetteh plied his coaching at Feyenoord Soccer Academy under the technical directorship of Sam Ardey. He was the coach of the University of Ghana, Legon football team, Adenta United Football Club and East Legon Soccer Academy till his untimely death.

He had previously coached Nyakonton Football Club, Madina United Football Calub, Zebi Football Club, Auto Parts Football Club and the TOPS International Allies Football Club.

In the early days of October 2005, he complained of stomach pain and reported at 37 Military Hospital for treatment. He was given medication but that could not relieve him of the pain. He was admitted for operation and died a few days later on 26th October 2005. He left behind one son, three brothers and a sister, so many uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, and nieces and relatives to mourn him.

Bob Nestor Marley, the greatest Reggae Star of all time, said in one of his songs:
“O bright morning when my work is done, I will fly away home.”

You have done a lot of work and you will be greatly missed, especially by those you have ever trained those who have ever lived under your roof. You really fought hard to get well to continue with your good work, but death was so cruel to you and to us.

May the Almighty God keep your soul in His bosom and give the eternal rest.
Robert, Brother Pitri, Yaa Wo Ojogbaan.

This biography was read at Coach Tetteh's Burial, Memorial and Thanksgiving Service on 3rd December 2005 at Robert Tetteh Park, Okponglo in Accra Ghana.