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CHI IVO, an asset for Cameroons Football Development.

Ivo Chi Contrary to many in his age group, Cameroonian born IVO Chi does not want to be seen as a football player but as a football developer. Talking to Bakahonline on Tuesday January 21, 2014 in an interview Ivo Chi authoritatively said “ I personally think with my qualifications and knowhow from the Bundesliga I can help develop football in Cameroon.” Based in Luxembourg , Ivo has made his intentions of contributing to Cameroon’s Football development known through the founding and sponsoring of a Second Division Team Grassland FC in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. According to him this team was created “ with the aim to help young talented players in the Nkwen community a village where my mother is from to develop and produce a football team in the Northwest Region that will practice standard football. The most talented players in Africa normally come from very poor families and they don't even have money to move around for trails with first division clubs i

Mr. Yong Francis, A Man of the People

Mr Yong Francis on a receptive mode Interpersonal relation has proven to be an indispensable asset in every successful business endeavor especially like education, sports and media whose success depends on a wide range of individuals cutting across generations. Being a man from humble beginnings Mr. Yong Francis did not limit his relationship to his employees nor his type. He understood that there are still many others wallowing in poverty where he was nearly half a century ago. With a clear cut understanding of the relationship between education and success, Mr. Yong Francis established a perfect universal relationship with everyone including the have and have not’s through an avalanche of schools.   Even though he placed at the head of these institutions professionals for efficient management, Mr. Yong Francis build a firm fatherly relationship with his students. Throughout the year almost on daily basis stories of Mr. Yong paying fee for students especially for the underpriv

Mr. Yong Francis the Football promotion Addict.

Created in 2004, Yong Sports Academy Bamenda is a combination of a sports training center and football team.   According to Mr Yong Francis, he founded the sports training center and club “to assist young footballers, who aspire to become professionals, to achieve their dreams in an environment specifically build in their interest”. Yong Sport Academy Training Center Situated in the outskirts of mile six Nkwen, The success of the training center has been overwhelming with young and burning football talents from within and without the country searching for the elite training facility right into the heart of Njenefor. According to many of the trainees their going into the center for professional football is not limited around the fact that they want to be footballers but anchored on the fact that the founder and proprietor Mr. Yong Francis decided to put education at the center of the professional football training. At the opening of the center Mr Yong Francis justified t

Grassland FC of Nkwen aiming for the Skies

Recently qualified Second division Teams in the Northwest Region have begun preparations ahead of the 2014 football season as 2013 sports season comes to a close in the country. Northwest third division champions Grassland FC of Nkwen have started training and recruitment in preparation for the regional second division championship. The training which is taking place under the supervision of the newly contracted Head Coach Nwela Ernest started Monday at the team’s home play ground in Niboung. Though the new season is expected to start sometime in January 2014, Talking to Fonkwa Louis Team manager, he told us that he is starting training this early to be able to meet the aspirations of his bosses (Team President General Chi Ivo based in Luxembourg in Europe. and Lesley Ndifor the executive President based in Douala) which is to produce a football team in the Northwest Region that will practice standard football. While adding that his team though with a firm origin in

The Man, Mr. Yong Francis.

Mr. Yong Francis 68. A towering colossus according to Colbert Nkwain a journalist was a professional secretary following his training sanctioned by a diploma in secretariat Duties at the government combined professional school in Buea. Employed in July 1964 by the Government Printing and stationary Department Buea as a clerical assistant, Mr. Yong did not satisfy himself with the job as in 1965 he applied and was admitted in the government combined clerical school Buea in October 1965. On completion he was posted to Bamenda in the Northwest his region of origin to serve as a Clerical and confidential secretary to the Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam. Following his transfer to the then Bamenda central subdivision as a clerical staff and later liquor licensing officer, Mr. Yong Francis in seeing a bigger vision and the need to be a true family head in 1985 requested to be placed on reserve for two years. At the expiration of his two years in 1987 he voluntarily took his retirement